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James Read-Tannock

@jrtannock.bsky.social
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PhD researcher in neuroscience at University of Nottingham

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Paul Taylor @afni-pt.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Have you ever felt like something was missing from your #fmri results? Have you been worried about potential reproducibility issues? Well, this new @natmethods.nature.com article with 40+ coauthors shows how the simple change to transparent thresholding helps both. Go Figure! rdcu.be/B4tikBETdQZa
A comparison of old and new thresholding approaches for fMRI data. The newer, transparent thresholding allows for interpreting context, more complete modeling, a reduction of biases and an increase in meaningful content. This all leads to more accurate interpretations and improved reproducibility evaluations.
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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
With Sir W. Warren to a Coffee House, and there sat two hours talking of office business and Mr. Wood’s knavery, which I verily believe.
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Roberto Toro @r3rt0.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Self-organisation on the web browser 🧫🦠
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Ewa Beldzik @ewa-beldzik.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
What happens when the brain slips into a microsleep? An example from a highly drowsy participant showing a brief loss of responsiveness (at time 0s). Details of the research: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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James Read-Tannock @jrtannock.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Making figures for your scientific publication? This website is great for checking if they are readable with various types of colour blindness: www.color-blindness.com/coblis-color... Highly recommend! #Science #AcademicSky
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Coblis — Color Blindness Simulator – Colblindor
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
The poorest 20% of UK population pay a higher proportion of income in direct and indirect taxes compared to the richest 20%. Dividends and capital gains, mainly accruing to the well-off, are taxed at lower marginal rates than wages. Progressive taxation wasn't part of the King's Speech.
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The King’s Speech wasn’t the transformative plan for the country we need
The government has some good policies, but not a transformative plan for society.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
One Special Boy with Hundreds of Thousands of Millions of Peanut Farms
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You People Made Me Give Up My Peanut Farm Before I Got To Be President
For generations, U.S. presidents have gone to great lengths to avoid potential conflicts of interest. When I was elected, I followed suit by placing my small business in a blind trust to assure our ci...
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Amrita Lamba @amritalamba.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Recent preprint with Oriel FeldmanHall and Matt Nassar, showing clear neural evidence that adolescent (13-15 yrs) social media and smartphones use are associated with blunted reward signaling in the ventral striatum, the brain's reward processing hub, and worse mental health. osf.io/preprints/ps...
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James Read-Tannock @jrtannock.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Amazing stuff!
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Demo of new Deep Learning Segmentation in ITK-SNAP 4.4
YouTube video by ITK-SNAP
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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Updated my textbook with a cleaner lay-out, better accessibility, and eight new interactive visualizations made completely in html (such as this illustration of the positive predictive value). lakens.github.io/statistical_...
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Gordon Hodson @gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
#AcademicSky @dingdingpeng.the100.ci (Julia Rohrer) is a true breath of fresh air that our field needs. www.the100.ci/2026/04/13/s... "Slipshod science should not be worthwhile." Worth a read. Worth seriously considering her proposal for restructuring reward initiatives in science.
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Science needs downvotes
A bug bounty module in grants would give criticism a leg up The Soviet Union was good at producing shoes. Factories made 800 million pairs a year, twice as many as Italy, three times as many as the...
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Lum @brokentoys.social · 13/04/2026
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Rudebeck Lab @rudebecklab.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Want a dataset to test ideas on neural basis of decision making or how areas interact as we make choices? Check out our data published today @rudebecklab.bsky.social. >16,000 single neurons from 22 anatomically confirmed areas in macaques performing a decision task. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Dataset of cortical and subcortical single neuron activity during value-based tasks in macaque monkey - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - Dataset of cortical and subcortical single neuron activity during value-based tasks in macaque monkey
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Q Magnetics @qmagnetics.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
125 MHz ¹H NMR of caffeine. Beyond its stimulant role, it provides key bitterness in beverages, making caffeine-free flavors hard to replicate. Its substituted xanthine core yields three N-methyl singlets and a characteristic aromatic proton.🧪 #NMRchat #Chemsky #Chemistry
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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 02/04/2026
NEW ANALYSIS: Record wind and solar generation saved UK from gas imports worth £1bn in March 2026 📈Wind+solar were up 22% year-on-year in March to a record high for the month ⛴️This avoided the need for gas imports worth £1bn at current high prices www.carbonbrief.org/...
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attila @haqistan.net · 15/03/2026
#FreePalestine 💕💸🍉 #GazaVoices #GazaAid #MutualAid #HelpSky #MutualAidBoost
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Baby octopus @mancalled.horse · 11/12/2025
Spot the point at which UK governments decided austerity was a good idea
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Jayson Jeganathan @jaysonjeg.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Do you work on surface MRI such as HCP data? Our paper is finally out in Imaging Neuroscience, showing biases in surface fMRI. The revised ms has many new insights! TLDR: Vertices are much closer to each other in sulci, resulting in (fake) high spatial autocorrelation. (1/5)
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Annie G. Bryant @anniegbryant.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
🎨🧑‍🎨 Looking for a tool to visualize subcortical/thalamic data in 2D? Check out this python-based package I put together (subcortex-visualization on PyPI), plus a guide for creating your own custom atlas meshes and vector graphics! All feedback/tips welcome 😊 anniegbryant.github.io/subcortex_vi...
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Taylor Bolt @tsbolt.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
First post on an exciting new manuscript online today @natneuro.nature.com - in collab with @lucinauddin.bsky.social and Catie Chang. We take a fresh look at the physiological dynamics associated with the global signal 🧠 ... www.nature.com/articles/s41... Read here: rdcu.be/ek01F
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Autonomic physiological coupling of the global fMRI signal
Nature Neuroscience - The brain and body are necessarily connected. Here the authors show that brain blood flow and electrical activity are coupled with systemic physiological changes in the body.
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Ben Fulcher @bendfulcher.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
New pre-print reviewing time-series analysis methods based on information theory, with an aim to be accessible, and with a broad focus on applications in neuroimaging. Congratulations @anniegbryant.bsky.social
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Carpe Jugulum @notinasituation.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
At present (to my knowledge) a 25kg bag of flour is anything from £436 ($580) in the south and £640 ($840) in the north. Vegetables per kilo are: Tomatoes/cucumbers £11 ($15) Aubergines £18 ($25) Potatoes £30 ($40) Please help our friends in Gaza!! Please share their stories!!
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Olivier Coulon @ocoulon.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
We are recruiting two PhD students on cortical folding variability and organisation before birth, using fetal MRI. Come and join a motivated and happy team with tons of great fetal data, in a sunny, friendly, and inclusive environment. tinyurl.com/foldsOrganis... tinyurl.com/foldingVaria...
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Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneurosci.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Kristofor E. Pas, Alexandru V. Avram, et al: Direct segmentation of cortical cytoarchitectonic domains using ultra-high-resolution whole-brain diffusion MRI doi.org/10.1162/imag...
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
We want to hear from you! Given recent changes to publicly available data, @thetransmitter.bsky.social wants to know what datasets are most important to the neuroscience community. What datasets do you use in your research? #neuroskyence thetransmitter.typeform.com/datasets?utm...
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The Transmitter datasets survey
What datasets do you mostly rely on? We want to hear from you.
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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
THIS IS ONE NEURON! Jaw dropping. It distributes a particular neurotransmitter (norepinephrine) across the mouse brain; it’s a locus coeruleus neuron. @jeremiahycohen.bsky.social and colleagues at the @alleninstitute.bsky.social are using new biotech to see things never seen before.
Jeremiah Cohen standing in front of a giant green neuron.
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Paul Taylor @afni-pt.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
The result of a large (42 authors!) collaboration: "Go Figure: Transparency in neuroscience images preserves context and clarifies interpretation" arxiv.org/abs/2504.07824 TL;DR: The FMRI world can (and should) improve results interpretation and reproducibility *today*, via transparent thresholding.
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PessoaBrain @pessoabrain.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
𝗕𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗺𝘂𝗹𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹 𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗻𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 Wait, that works with simple systems in physics where small scale signals ("details") average out. But how about more "interesting" complex systems? New approaches are breaking ground there. Great review paper. www.nature.com/articles/s42...
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Network renormalization - Nature Reviews Physics
The renormalization group (RG) is a theoretical framework to transform systems across scales and identify critical points of phase transitions. In recent years, efforts have extended RG to complex net...
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Donna Gift Cabalo @donnagift.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Our open-source multimodal precision MRI dataset is officially out! 🧲🧠🧲 www.nature.com/articles/s41... osf.io/mhq3f/ @borismontreal.bsky.social @jroyer.bsky.social @themindwanders.bsky.social @jordandekraker.bsky.social
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Multimodal precision MRI of the individual human brain at ultra-high fields - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - Multimodal precision MRI of the individual human brain at ultra-high fields
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Saskia Helbling @saskiahelbling.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Very happy to see this out! In this work I demonstrate the potential of OPMs for laminar MEG and investigate the impact of factors such as sensor counts, number of measurement axes, co-registration errors, misestimated forward models… Already looking forward to Imaging Neuroscience’s 2025 collage!
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Dr Daniel Jolley @drdanieljolley.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
A lot of fun was had representing @notts-psych.bsky.social in the gorgeous Nottingham Central Library 👌🏻.
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Amy Atkinson @amyatkinson.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
I had a great time visiting @notts-psych.bsky.social yesterday! Thanks to everyone for being so welcoming and for the really interesting chats!
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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Additionally, hippos - despite being massive - have almost no fat on them. All of that impressive bulk is muscle. 2% body fat. Compare that to Elephants, which are around 8-10%, or rhinos, which are 10-20%. The average human is around 20-40%, for reference. They're *all* muscle.
A comparison, showing a hippo standing in shallow water, and a see-through model of a hippo with an extremely thin layer of subcutaneous fat and skin over a body that's thick with muscle.
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Dirk Gütlin @gutlin.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
If you keep using #Twitter, be aware that the content pushed to your feed is extremely distorted towards right-wing/anti-immigrant ideology. This paper provides clear evidence for that: "Political Biases on X before the 2025 German Federal Election" arxiv.org/abs/2503.02888
Diagram showing Twitter activity data. It compares how much people have talked about different political parties in Germany versus how often were pushed to people's "for you" feed, indicating a clear bias towards the anti-immigration AfD and BSW parties.
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Other98 @other98.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Musk breaking stuff to sell a fix? That’s exploitation, not innovation.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
30%-40% of public money given to England's care homes vanishes in profits, little left for frontline services. Almost all care homes forcibly closed between 2011 and 2023 were operated by for-profit companies. Profits and care can't be combined. Watch the Minister's reply.
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House of Lords Care Homes 5 Feb 2025
YouTube video by Prem Sikka
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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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Robert leech @leechbrain.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Great work by @ravenwallace.bsky.social and @themindwanders.bsky.social.
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Mark D Humphries @markdhumphries.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Save the date! UK Neural Computation 2025 will be at Imperial College London 9 July: ECR day 10-11 July: main meeting 9 invited speakers, 4 talks from abstracts and many posters Abstract & registration opening soon Pls share! neuralcomputation.uk
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UKNC25 |
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Roger Beaty @roger-beaty.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Five years in the making: our meta-analysis of 10 fMRI datasets across Asia, Europe, and North America (N=2,433). We find creative ability emerges from dynamic switching between default and executive brain networks, with optimal creativity at a "sweet spot."
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Dynamic switching between brain networks predicts creative ability - Communications Biology
Robust evidence that creativity is tied to the capacity to dynamically switch between brain networks supporting spontaneous and controlled cognition.
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jab lung @mobute.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
A screenshot of Marge Simpson anxiously watching the TV during a meltdown at the power plant. Anchor Kent Brockman is on the screen, looking to his side at an onscreen still of plant owner C. Montgomery Burns. Burns is replying to Brockman's question. He says:

"Oh, 'meltdown.' That's one of those annoying buzz words. We prefer to call it an unrequested fission surplus."
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Tim Vickery @timmytimmytimmytim.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
We live in the ✨ world of tomorrow ✨
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