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Robert leech

@leechbrain.bsky.social
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Neuroscience/psychology/brain animations Some videos on Natural Philosophy: www.youtube.com/@naturalphilosopher…

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Deniz Vatansever @neurodenizen.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
How does the brain interpret artistic beauty? Here’s our new article in The Conversation, based on our recent study:
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Science uncovers how the brain interprets artistic beauty – new research
An MRI study zeroes in on the brain networks that underline collective appreciation of art.
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Romy Lorenz @romy-lorenz.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Please share widely! 🚀 I am recruiting a PhD student for an exciting cross-species collaborative project using layer fMRI to investigate how interoception shapes cognitive control - Application deadline is: 1.10.2026 - Start: Jan 2027 www.mpg.de/26934670/phd...
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PhD Position (m/f/d) | Ultra-High-Field Layer fMRI of Cognitive Control and Interoception
PhD Position in Ultra-High-Field Layer fMRI of Cognitive Control and Interoception
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Deniz Vatansever @neurodenizen.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
💡What makes some ideas spring to mind while others we have to reach for? We built an #NLP #fMRI #MachineLearning framework to find out. New study from our lab, led by @kaixiangzhuang.bsky.social out in @natcomms.nature.com 🧵 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #CognitiveNeuroscience #Fudan #ISTBI
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Roberto Toro @r3rt0.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Self-organisation on the web browser 🧫🦠
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Rodrigo Braga @rodbraga.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
We are hiring an Associate or Full Professor to lead the neuroimaging research program at Northwestern's Center for Translational Imaging in the Department of Radiology careers.northwestern.edu/psc/hrnu_er/...
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Rodrigo Braga @rodbraga.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Please RT - We are looking for someone who wants to establish and lead a cutting-edge neuroimaging center at Northwestern, working closely with multiple labs, including my own, in neuroscience research broadly construed. If you are curious, dm me and I'm happy to answer questions
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Hao-Ting Wang @haotingwang.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Cheers for the kind write up and I have happily joined @dmcbrainhealth.bsky.social and started my lab! Find out more about my research program on my lab website 👉 lab-coda.github.io Hiring a postdoc now!
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CODA Lab
CODA Lab investigates the neurocognitive processes underlying daily experience and mental health, using naturalistic neuroimaging, experience sampling, and transdiagnostic methods.
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Deniz Vatansever @neurodenizen.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
What if much of human thought is navigation? 🧠 New open-access review: I argue that the DMN + hippocampal–entorhinal system form a domain-general engine for "mental navigation" across physical and abstract spaces (e.g. social, conceptual, and value). www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Robert leech @leechbrain.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Updated some code from last summer: spatially predicting/interpolating a brain map. Take approx 30 randomly selected vertices from the 1st functional gradient and use them to predict the rest of the hemisphere. Takes about 30s and doesn't require any other training data. github.com/NeuroLeech/S...
Left, the original data; middle, the training data (0.1% of vertices, about 32); right, the prediction map across the whole brain.
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Jessica Royer @jroyer.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Very happy to see this last thesis paper in press @natcomms.nature.com! We combine intracranial EEG with multimodal MRI to study how interregional similarity in neurophysiology relates to different network scales ⚡ 🧠 Full story 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Robert leech @leechbrain.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
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David Haydock @davidghaydock.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
We collected ~4.7 hours of task data on 3 participants, listening to 10 different categories to create a functional gradient space in which we could situate category structure, and infer acoustic and semantic dimensions. Oh also, the data is open access! 👉 openneuro.org/datasets/ds0...
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David Haydock @davidghaydock.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
🧠🔊 New preprint! How does the brain organise natural sound categories? In our new fMRI study, we show that auditory cortex arranges sounds along continuous functional gradients, where acoustic and semantic structure are integrated into a shared representational space. doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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Auditory Cortical Gradients Integrate Bottom-Up and Top-Down Structure During Natural Sound Categorisation
Understanding how the brain organises natural categories is a central challenge in neuroscience. While prior work has shown that categories can be decoded from distributed activity patterns in auditor...
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Hao-Ting Wang @haotingwang.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
I worked with Jonny for 5 years during my formative years as a scientist. He influenced how I see life deeply. Although I won't hear him explain things to me again, his words and kindness will live through those whom he inspired. We were so lucky to have him in our lives. We miss you a lot, Jonny.
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Adam Turnbull @adamgturnbull.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
I was so lucky to have Jonny as my PhD supervisor. He was a one-of-a-kind scientist and person. He continues to be an inspiration to me and I will always be guided by the way he thought about science and life. He built an amazing network of wonderful people and we all miss you, Jonny.
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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 13/11/2025
Jonny Smallwood @themindwanders.bsky.social was a beloved friend and mentor. He was taken from us too soon. His was a beautiful mind who understood the beauty of minds. As ever before, his kind voice guides me and his work will continue. We miss you Jonny. www.cbs.mpg.de/news/obituar...
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Obituary – Jonathan Smallwood
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František Váša @frantisekvasa.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
More recent by Levi: Generalised-Hilbert Mamba for Super-resolution (GAMBAS), still for paediatric ultra-low-field MRI: arxiv.org/abs/2504.04523 | The updated multi-input GAMBAS+ recently won 1st place at the MICCAI ULF Enhancement Challenge: www.synapse.org/Synapse:syn6... (paper online soon) [4/n]
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František Váša @frantisekvasa.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Ultra-low-field brain MRI morphometry: T-RT reliability and correspondence to high-field MRI | doi.org/10.1162/IMAG... | w/ !! FREE DATA !! T1w & T2w scans of 23 healthy participants from 3T GE Premier & 2x 64mT Hyperfine Swoop in many resolutions, i.e. 390 scans! openneuro.org/datasets/ds0... [1/n]
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Austin Benn @neurabenn.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Fitting title for tonight 🥵
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Jonny Smallwood @themindwanders.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Hot Summer Nights the new album by the Natural Philosophers is out now. If you would like to help: Stream it a few times Post reply mentioning a track you like by name. Spotify: open.spotify.com/album/0Tju52... Apple Music music.apple.com/us/album/hot... Soundcloud soundcloud.com/npwa/sets/ho...
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UCL Centre for Consciousness Research @uccr.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Coming out @ www.psychedelicscience.org
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Austin Benn @neurabenn.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Precon_all is finally citeable! I’m relieved, pleased, thrilled and all other superlatives to present to you our preprint describing the inner workings of the precon_all pipeline for semi-automated non-human cortical surface reconstruction! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/10
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Masud Husain @masudhusain.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
I'm planning to write an editorial in @brain1878.bsky.social entitled "If patients only knew". It's about obstacles that slow down or prevent people from participating in clinical studies and the pace of initiating #ClinicalTrials. If you have experience or comments please message me and repost.
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Adam Turnbull @adamgturnbull.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Just to be clear this is not something we can tell from this study and any suggestion that it might be seems dangerous to me.
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Stephanie Rossit @stephanierossit.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
What an absolute pleasure it was to welcome the brilliant @f-geranmayeh.bsky.social for our seminar series at @psychologyuea.bsky.social. Fascinating and important work on using LLMs in stroke. Great speaker :)
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Toby Wise @tobywise.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
If anyone is interested in coming to London to work on interesting computational psychiatry questions feel free to get in touch! 👇
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
The end of the mass university era in England and Wales is now base case in my view after the last week. Much of Blue Labour, much of Britain's Right and a great number of voters will welcome that. But it's an interesting and arresting example of minoritarian state policy capture.
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Peter Tennant @pwgtennant.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
"UPFs affect health beyond the individual impact of high content of critical nutrients – sodium, trans fats and sugar" < This study does not show this. Food that's high in salt, trans fats, and sugar are bad for health. Whether the 'ultra processing' makes any difference to this is unknown.
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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
two points on EHRC advice on trans people's use of public toilets: 1) trans people are being required to out themselves when using loo in public 2) how is it enforceable? What about cis people who don't conform to stereotypical appearance? it's shit. www.equalityhumanrights.com/media-centre...
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Simon Dahan @dahansimon.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
[1/5] I'm very happy to share that our latest paper: “SIM: Surface-based fMRI Analysis for Inter-Subject Multimodal Decoding from Movie-Watching Experiments”, has been accepted to #ICLR2025! 🎉
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Emma Robinson @OHBM 2026 @metricsemma.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Come see our poster #61 at 3pm @iclr-conf.bsky.social #iclr2025 surface deep learning for generalising fMRI decoding across different human brains with @dahansimon.bsky.social @gabriben.bsky.social
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Mark H Johnson @markhjoh.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
From our 'infant sibs' cohorts we are finding increasing evidence for Chronogeneity as a way to view heterogeneity in autism. In other words, different ages of onset may reflect different types of neurodiversity. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Sofie Valk @sofievalk.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
www.zeit.de/digital/inte...
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Platform decay: The enshittification of everything
The enshittocene began in platforms like Facebook, but it spread to the analog world. Is everything just going to decay? Not necessarily.
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Takaki Komiyama @takakikomiyama.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Our new paper is out in Science. What is the synaptic plasticity rule in the brain, we asked. It turns out there are multiple, even within individual neurons. Congrats Jake! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Distinct synaptic plasticity rules operate across dendritic compartments in vivo during learning
Synaptic plasticity underlies learning by modifying specific synaptic inputs to reshape neural activity and behavior. However, the rules governing which synapses will undergo different forms of plasti...
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Saad Jbabdi @saadjbabdi.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Incredibly flexible simulator brought to you by the talented @michielcottaar.bsky.social. Can feed arbitrary sequences (e.g. with pulseq) and model lots of microstructure features (diffusion, permeability, susceptibility, MT). Allows multimodal simulations. Fully documented and open. :)
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PessoaBrain @pessoabrain.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
𝗕𝗲𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝗡𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀: 𝗧𝗼𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗔𝗱𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗕𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘅𝗶𝘁𝘆 How can network science tackle complex biological systems? Substantially reworked version Largely conceptual, would be happy to see others fill in details or collaborate if people find it of value osf.io/preprints/os... #complexity
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Jessica Royer @jroyer.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
open, multimodal, 7T MRI dataset led by @donnagift.bsky.social 🌟
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Kate Jeffery @katejj.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
OK here it is, the moment you have all been waiting for! Our advert for 5 posts here at Glasgow: Cognitive neuroscience/psychology. Closing date May 12 - please spread the word www.nature.com/naturecareer...
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Professor, Senior Lecturer/Lecturer and Lecturer posts - Glasgow City (GB) job with University of Glasgow | 12838283
University of Glasgow College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences  School of Psychology & Neuroscience Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience/Psy...
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Paresh Malhotra @pareshmalhotra.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
‘Exodus’ of clinical researchers sparks concern over future of UK healthcare in @financialtimes.com today. Lots of change needed.
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Marc L Seal @parkvillegeek.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
👇 Multimodal precision MRI of the individual human brain at ultra-high fields | bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Joana B Pereira @joana-b-pereira.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
🧠 I'm excited to share our latest publication in Nature Communications: www.nature.com/articles/s41... In this study, we explore the computational memory capacity of the brain & how it declines with aging. A big thanks to Mite Mijalkov, all other lab members for their help and amazing collaborators!
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Computational memory capacity predicts aging and cognitive decline - Nature Communications
The capacity of brain networks to retain information during aging is crucial but not yet known. This study shows that the brain’s memory capacity, modelled with reservoir computing, offers new insight...
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Scorpion and frog "the scorpion won't sting me if i grovel and beg enough"
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The LAB Lab 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @thelablab.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
The Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao. Lao Tzu
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Leor Roseman @leorroseman.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Come join us in Exeter :) Two new positions are now open in our growing Psychedelic crew, teaching in both the online and in person Masters. Lecturer: jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr... Associate Lecturer: jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...
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Yourong Guo @yrguo.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
I'm very excited to share my PhD work "Motifs of brain cortical folding from birth to adulthood: structural asymmetry and folding-functional links". We identified and characterised the lobe-wise folding patterns using both 1110 young adults (HCP) and 781 term-age neonates (dHCP & BIBS studies). 1/9
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Fatemeh Geranmayeh @f-geranmayeh.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Well worth a read .
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Robert leech @leechbrain.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
academic.oup.com/brain/articl...
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On the responsibilities of intellectuals and the rise of bullshit jobs in universities
You may never have considered yourself to be one. Why would you? But if you’re reading this, there is more than a likelihood that you are one. If you’re a
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
If you're wondering what happens when a democracy slides into authoritarianism, here it is! truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...
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Kevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
More terrible news from the UK higher education sector. This is what treating universities purely as businesses gets you.
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Romy Lorenz @romy-lorenz.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Really proud of this one - our lab’s first preregistered replication study using layer-fMRI VASO! Tremendous effort by @denischaimow.bsky.social!
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