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Florian Ph.S Fischmeister

@fphsfischmeister.bsky.social
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Head of Developmental & Intervention Neuroimaging Lab #DINLAB @meduniwien.ac.at. Guest Professor @uniklagenfurt.bsky.social. Interested in developmental and intervention-based plasticity of the brain and the gut-brain axis.

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Florian Ph.S Fischmeister @fphsfischmeister.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Happy Coffee Day, everyone! Good luck to all of us suffering from procaffeination like me — today is the perfect excuse. #InternationalCoffeeDay #procaffeination #espresso
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Florian Ph.S Fischmeister @fphsfischmeister.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
2 days ago the #LNF26 took place — I am still stoked about the response to our workshop “Watching the brain think”. Live fMRI, many thoughtful questions, and 5 fully booked tours. Thanks to @kkollndorfer.bsky.social , Franziska Fischer, Lena Nohava & the #HFMRC — #C3MNH for the “Hirni” sugar rush
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DrBreaky @drbreaky.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
People have been looking at "AI & brains" through the lens of LLMs/transformers. But what latent diffusion? (think text-to-image/video platforms such as Midjourney). **Class conditioned latent diffusion and semantically cued hippocampus share a remarkably similar computational architecture...**
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Alice Auersperg @auersperga.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Our new paper (with @biotay.bsky.social) is out and on the cover story of @currentbiology.bsky.social !!!! Veronika, a Carinthian mountain cow flexibly uses a “multi-purpose tool” to scratch herself. A video and more information will follow in the comments. www.cell.com/current-biol...
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Florian Ph.S Fischmeister @fphsfischmeister.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Smart read by Rachel Barr on how brain science reshapes the idea of free will, meaning, and the self.👇 open.substack.com/pub/bigthink...
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3 philosophical debates from the 20th century that neuroscience is reshaping
Neuroscience isn’t dissolving philosophy’s hardest problems — it’s forcing us to rethink where they live.
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Florian Ph.S Fischmeister @fphsfischmeister.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
🚀 EPICONN has launched! Towards Epileptomics: a connectome-based approach to predictive & personalized treatment for focal epilepsy. Together we are building an interdisciplinary team and will shape the future of network-based, personalized epilepsy care. #EPICONN #EpilepsyResearch #MedUniWien
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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
My Shiny app containing 3530 Open Science blog posts discussing the replication crisis is updated - you can now use the SEARCH box. I fixed it as my new PhD Julia wanted to know who had called open scientists 'Methodological Terrorists' :) shiny.ieis.tue.nl/open_science...
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Open Science Blog Browser
Open Science Blog Browser
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Andrew Reid @reid-lab.org · 06/11/2025
This is 🤯 All publicly available. Looks like an amazing new histology-based human probabilistic atlas and parcellation tool. #neuroskyence #mri #brainmapping A probabilistic histological atlas of the human brain for MRI segmentation | Nature share.google/5AD0iW7pxgb4...
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A probabilistic histological atlas of the human brain for MRI segmentation - Nature
NextBrain is an open source, probabilistic atlas of the entire human brain, assembled using artificial-intelligence-enabled registration and segmentation methods to reconstruct the multimodal serial h...
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Marc L Seal @parkvillegeek.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
skiftiTools: An R package for reading, writing, analysing, and visualising, tract-based spatial statistics (TBSS) derived diffusion MR images | bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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PessoaBrain @pessoabrain.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
𝗘𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗲𝗺𝗽𝗶𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗻𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻?? Astrocytes in the regulation of fear memories! www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroskyence h/t @claeneuro.bsky.social
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The astrocytic ensemble acts as a multiday trace to stabilize memory - Nature
Emotional experience evokes signalling in astrocytes, which form an ensemble that is reinforced by secondary astrocytic state changes resulting from repeated experience, leading to memory stabilizatio...
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OHBM Trainees @ohbmtrainees.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
OHBM Australia invites you to join our upcoming webinar: Artificial Intelligence in Neuroimaging: Methods, Opportunities, and Challenges Date: Thursday, 30th October, 2025 Time: 4:00-5:00 PM AEST Click here to register: unimelb.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Artificial Intelligence in Neuroimaging: Methods, Opportunities, and Challenges. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the ...
A Webinar hosted by the Webinar Committee of the Organisation for Human Brain Mapping, Australian Chapter.
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Michael W. Cole @mwcole.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Lab’s latest is out in Imaging Neuroscience, led by Kirsten Peterson: “Regularized partial correlation provides reliable functional connectivity estimates while correcting for widespread confounding”, where we demonstrate a major improvement to standard fMRI functional connectivity (correlation) 1/n
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Marc L Seal @parkvillegeek.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Functional connectivity heterogeneity and consequences for clinical and cognitive prediction: Stage 2 registered report | Imaging Neuroscience | MIT Press direct.mit.edu/imag/article...
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Functional connectivity heterogeneity and consequences for clinical and cognitive prediction: Stage 2 registered report
Abstract. Functional connectivity is frequently used to assess dynamic brain functioning and predict individual differences in behavioral outcomes, such as psychopathology. Inferences from functional ...
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Marc L Seal @parkvillegeek.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Interesting Editorial ... “From Connectivity to Care: Charting Individualized Maps of the Human Brain” | Brain Connectivity www.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10....
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“From Connectivity to Care: Charting Individualized Maps of the Human Brain” | Brain Connectivity
Brain Connectivity
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axel cleeremans @axc.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Applications will be processed until filled!
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Florian Ph.S Fischmeister @fphsfischmeister.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
The review process is already problematic, but with AI it seems to become even more problematic. Check out the latest newsletter of @medium.com : Reviewing is getting How peer review became so easy to exploit by AI by The Medium Newsletter medium.com/blog/how-pee...
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How peer review became so easy to exploit by AI
Poorly drawn cartoonists + “non-white” names (Issue #375)
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Data reuse represents an opportunity to accelerate science, reduce costs and increase the value of investments. But to date, the field hasn't placed equal emphasis on the reuse side of the data-sharing equation, writes @bendichter.com #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/open-neurosc...
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Data reuse represents an opportunity to accelerate the pace of science, reduce costs and increase the value of our collective research investments.
Data reuse represents an opportunity to accelerate the pace of science, reduce costs and increase the value of our collective research investments. New tools that make open data easier to use—and new…
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Florian Ph.S Fischmeister @fphsfischmeister.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Congratulations to all three new clinical research groups at @MedUniVienna! Especially excited about EPICONN led by Silvia Bonelli, where I’m grateful to join an excellent team advancing epilepsy network research. #Epilepsy #ClinicalResearch #MedUniVienna
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Florian Ph.S Fischmeister @fphsfischmeister.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Clear and engaging scientific figures are crucial to communicate complex data. Here you find a checklist that can help to improve data visualization, by focusing on clarity, accessibility and design best practice principles. rdcu.be/eq2ex
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A checklist for designing and improving the visualization of scientific data
Nature Cell Biology - Creating clear and engaging scientific figures is crucial to communicate complex data. In this Comment, I condense principles from design, visual perception and data...
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layerfmri.bsky.social @layerfmri.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
The latest cool developments from @ofgulban.bsky.social. This is going to help layer-fMRI researchers (and others) to get a closer look at their data.
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RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences @rcsi.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
The Brain and Climate Change, a powerful new short film from @futureneuro.bsky.social, RCSI and @ilae-epilepsy.bsky.social explores how rising temperatures impact brain function and why it matters for those living with neurological conditions. Watch the trailer below ahead of the 19 May launch ⬇️
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Dan Handwerker @danielhandwerker.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Next multi-echo fMRI users meeting scheduled for May 27th. Also tedana v25.0.0 released! More details & a form to give input about the users meeting is at: groups.google.com/g/tedana-new... #Neuroimaging
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May multi-echo fMRI users meeting and tedana v25.0.0
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Dan Levenstein @dlevenstein.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
as well as this paper with @glajoie.bsky.social @colin-bredenberg.bsky.social @nandahkrishna.bsky.social where we showed that through learning to correct its own noisy predictions, a network comes to correct spontaneous noise as erroneous “predictions”, thus sampling from task-space #neuroskyence
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Sufficient conditions for offline reactivation in recurrent neural...
During periods of quiescence, such as sleep, neural activity in many brain circuits resembles that observed during periods of task engagement. However, the precise conditions under which...
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PessoaBrain @pessoabrain.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 Interesting review on spontaneous activity and predictions. Idea of "predictions" is natural enough (how could it be otherwise?) but the emphasis on constructing models of the world is not persuasive. And the Bayesian motivation is way too vague imo. doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...
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Chiara Pepe @chiarapepe.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
🧠 🐭 Our new perspective paper is out! @gozziale.bsky.social Rodent functional neuroimaging is rapidly evolving — driven by recent breakthroughs and a shared vision for the future. We highlight key challenges, opportunities, and next steps for the field. 🔗 Check it out direct.mit.edu/imag/article...
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Charting the path in rodent functional neuroimaging
Abstract. Driven by a period of accelerated progress and recent technical breakthroughs, whole brain functional neuroimaging in rodents offers exciting new possibilities for addressing basic questions...
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Department of Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Don't miss our upcoming #SPM course for #EEG & #MEG online from 19-22 May 2025! 🧠 We'll cover preprocessing, source reconstruction, DCM & OPM analyses. Practicals will include SPM-Python! Programme: www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/spm/docs/cou... Register by May 11th 👇 onlinestore.ucl.ac.uk/conferences-...
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Course schedule - SPM Documentation
Documentation of the SPM Software for neuroimaging
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Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneurosci.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Britta U. Westner, Tim M. Tierney, et al: Cycling on the Freeway: The perilous state of open-source neuroscience software doi.org/10.1162/imag...
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Richard Van Noorden @richvn.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Evidence of US brain drain? US scientists submitted 32% more applications for jobs abroad Jan-Mar 2025 than during same period in 2024. US-based users browsing jobs abroad increased by 35%. Data from Nature Careers global science jobs platform. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Colton Casto @coltoncasto.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
New paper! 🧠 **The cerebellar components of the human language network** with: @hsmall.bsky.social @moshepoliak.bsky.social @gretatuckute.bsky.social @benlipkin.bsky.social @awolna.bsky.social @aniladmello.bsky.social and @evfedorenko.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/n 🧵
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The cerebellar components of the human language network
The cerebellum's capacity for neural computation is arguably unmatched. Yet despite evidence of cerebellar contributions to cognition, including language, its precise role remains debated. Here, we sy...
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Taking full advantage of new advances in brain imaging technology will require more collaboration between engineers and neuroscientists, writes @lauradata.bsky.social in the latest for our human neurotechnology series. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/human-neurot...
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fMRI can do more than you think
Advances in brain imaging technology provide new and different information about the brain.
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Olfactory neuroscientists have known for a while that their stimuli stink. A new analysis illuminates the extent of the problem. By @callimcflurry.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/olfaction/sm...
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Smell studies often use unnaturally high odor concentrations, analysis reveals
It’s time to fashion olfactory neuroscience stimuli based on odor concentrations in the wild, say study investigators Elizabeth Hong and Matt Wachowiak.
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Kempner Institute at Harvard University @kempnerinstitute.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
New in the Deeper Learning blog: The Kempner’s Demba Ba explains his team’s recent Neuron paper on DUNL, a deep learning framework that tames the complexity of brain data. bit.ly/KempnerDUNL #AI #neuroscience #neuroskyence #ML
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Mechanistic Interpretability: A Challenge Common to Both Artificial and Biological Intelligence - Kempner Institute
In neuroscience, the past decade has witnessed major advances in our ability to record activity from the brain at both larger and finer scales. And yet, a mechanistic theory linking […]
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Trey Avery @brainsandplanes.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
New HD-EEG microstate paper adding to the work recently presented at #CNS2025 100 Years of EEG showing the utility of these 4 common states in understanding a wide array of function & disorder. An important method for #EEG #researchers to be aware of #neuroskyence www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Self-related thought alterations associated with intrinsic brain dysfunction in mild cognitive impairment - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Self-related thought alterations associated with intrinsic brain dysfunction in mild cognitive impairment
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Epilepsia Journal @epilepsiajournal.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Key point: Gray matter atrophy of temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) is constrained primarily by structural connectivity rather than by functional connectivity. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #epilepsy #ILAE #connectome #diseaseepicenter #networkspreading #temporallobeepilepsy
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Annie G. Bryant @anniegbryant.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
📣🎉 Excited to share work co-led with @aditijh.bsky.social, developing a data-driven selection technique for overlapping community detection algorithms, applied to the human structural connectome! 📣🎉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
First figure of our preprint, depicting brain maps of seven identified structural connectivity communities bridged by fifteen overlapping nodes at the spatial interface between communities. Structural communities are depicted as nodes on a circular graph while the overlapping regions between the corresponding communities are highlighted along the edges. The seven communities are: (1) Dorsomedial cortex; (2) Limbic; (3) Visual; (4) Ventral attention and visual stream; (5) Somatomotor; (6) Insula; and (7) Frontal pole.
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Frederic Schaper @fredschaper.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Is generalized epilepsy a seizure of the whole brain or a specific brain network? In our new paper out now in @naturecomms.bsky.social, we investigate this by combining brain abnormalities and DBS with the human connectome. Paper: nature.com/articles/s41... A 🧵 below:
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A generalized epilepsy network derived from brain abnormalities and deep brain stimulation - Nature Communications
Ji et al. identify an idiopathic generalised epilepsy network that links heterogeneously distributed brain abnormalities to a common brain network and deep brain stimulation sites which reduce general...
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King's Perinatal Functional Imaging Group, Tomoki Arichi @kingspfig.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Very pleased to share the fMRI pipeline paper from the fetal release or the developing human connectome project, a true labour of love and incredible work from Slava Karolis #dhcp #connectome #fmri direct.mit.edu/imag/article...
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The developing Human Connectome Project fetal functional MRI release: Methods and data structures
Abstract. Recent advances in fetal fMRI present a new opportunity for neuroscience to study functional human brain connectivity at the time of its emergence. Progress in the field, however, has been h...
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Fetal, Infant, & Toddler Neuroimaging Group—FIT’NG @fitngin.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
🚨 Early bird registration is now open for #FITNG2025 happening on September 7 & 8, in Dublin, Ireland. 🌐 fitng.org/registration/
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Florian Ph.S Fischmeister @fphsfischmeister.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Open discussions of failure are so important and should be an essential part of every lab meeting. Really enjoyed reading the paper 👇
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Florian Ph.S Fischmeister @fphsfischmeister.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
⏰ One more day to contribute to the "Ultrasound meets MRI" meeting in #Vienna. Get ready to shape the future of combining fetal MRI and ultrasound to improve outcomes in fetal medicine. 👉 www.conventiongroup.at/events-en/ul... #meduniwien #usmeetsmri #fetal #radiology #ultrasound #mri #radsky
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allen institute @alleninstitute.org · 09/04/2025
The single-cell omics revolution is changing how we study the brain. 🧠📈 Brain Science leaders @hongkuizeng.bsky.social and Ed Lein share how these tools have changed neuroscience and what's next in a new perspective piece in @thetransmitter.bsky.social. www.thetransmitter.org/human-neurot...
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Single-cell genomics technologies and cell atlases have ushered in a new era of human neurobiology
Single-cell approaches are already shedding light on the human brain, identifying cell types that are most vulnerable in the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease, for example.
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Until recently, in-vivo brain imaging has largely been absent from… integrative efforts, limiting the opportunities to contribute our discoveries, theories or vision toward a comprehensive view of brain function, writes @avramholmes.bsky.social. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/future-of-fm...
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fMRI must break out of its silo
We need to develop research programs that link phenomena across levels, from genes and molecules to cells, circuits, networks and behavior.
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MedUni Wien @meduniwien.ac.at · 08/04/2025
Hello from MedUni Vienna 👋 We're excited to join the Bluesky community and share updates on research, education, and scientific breakthroughs. Stay tuned for exciting insights from one of Europe's leading medical institutions! 🌍💡 #MedUniWien #Research #Science
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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 27/03/2025
THREAD The numbers are in. @bsky.app research sharing volumes vs X Formerly Twitter In March 2024, on most days, Bluesky hosts more posts linked to research published in 2025 than X. By quite a lot. Release the Kraken... #AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics 1/11
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Florian Ph.S Fischmeister @fphsfischmeister.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Amazing keynote by Adriana Galván on the importance to study brain development in adolescence #CNS2025
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Elisabeth Bik @elisabethbik.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
‘Stamp out paper mills’ — science sleuths on how to fight fake research By Anna Abalkina, René Aquarius, Elisabeth Bik, David Bimler, Dorothy Bishop, Jennifer Byrne, Guillaume Cabanac, Adam Day, Cyril Labbé & Nick Wise @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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‘Stamp out paper mills’ — science sleuths on how to fight fake research
A group of scientists who are experts at spotting fraudulent research outline five essential steps to combat industrialized scientific misconduct.
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Alessandro Gozzi @gozziale.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Geometric influences on the regional organization of the mammalian brain (!) Great new work lead by James Pang, @alexfornito.bsky.social & star collaborators! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Todd Woodward @twoodward.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Delighted to share another cognitive mode detectable by task-based fMRI: Initiation (INIT). Anatomical patterns and how its BOLD changes are affected by 5 experiments: osf.io/preprints/ps... #fMRI @danjlurie.bsky.social @hritz.bsky.social @evalab.bsky.social
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neurodesk.org @neurodesk.org · 24/01/2025
The MRItogether 2024 videos are online :) 1. Neurodesk's development journey and lessons learned: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJh_... 2. Neurodesk overview and live demo: www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7Gm... 3. how data can be converted into BIDS using Neurodesk: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXrg...
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MRITogether2024-S3T3: Development journey of the Neurodesk platform
YouTube video by ESMRMB
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Todd Woodward @twoodward.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Cognitive Modes Detectable by fMRI: A series of manuscripts from the Woodward Lab at the University of British Columbia, which detail the anatomy and function of cognitive modes detectable by fMRI. www.theurlist.com/woodward-lab...
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The Urlist - Share the internet
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