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Andrea Luppi, PhD @loopyluppi.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Such an incredible feeling, knowing that the European Research Council believes in our work & and has decided to back my vision for the future of integrative neuroscience 🧠 Grateful beyond words to the collaborators & mentors who made this all possible: here's to doing more science together! 🎉

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Andrea Luppi, PhD @loopyluppi.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Wonderful cross-species work, comparing unimodal-transmodal information across evolution: the field needs more of this, and it's great to see it out!

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Andrea Luppi, PhD @loopyluppi.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

1/ What can resting-state neuroimaging offer cognitive and translational neuroscience🧠? Turns out: a lot! 🧵 Long in the making, short in the reading: “Unlocking spontaneous cognition in the age of data science" is out now in @natrevneuro.nature.com rdcu.be/ftWBh

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Unlocking spontaneous cognition in the age of data science

Nature Reviews Neuroscience - Spontaneous brain activity is experimentally unconstrained. Embracing this freedom unlocks rich opportunities beyond task-based and naturalistic paradigms, the...

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Andrea Luppi, PhD @loopyluppi.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Our work "Comprehensive profiling of anaesthetised brain dynamics across phylogeny" selected as Top 1% among 57,455 bioRxiv preprints by QED Science 🤩 Check out all top 1%: the-one-percent.qedscience.com Grateful to @misicbata.bsky.social & all co-authors for making this possible! #The1Percent

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QED — The most compelling preprints of 2025

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Andrea Luppi, PhD @loopyluppi.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Delighted that our paper about benchmarking gene expression 🧬 in macaque brain 🐒🧠(www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...) was selected for this year's Brain Star Award of the Canadian Neuroscience Association 🇨🇦 - what an honour to be named among such talented scientists!

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Helena Gellersen @helenagellersen.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

How does the brain rapidly distinguish similar memories? We use 7T fMRI to show dynamic shifts between pattern separation and reinstatement signals in hippocampal CA3 and DG with changing task demands: doi.org/10.64898/202...

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Andrea Luppi, PhD @loopyluppi.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Curious about our recent @natneuro.nature.com paper on 🧠 brain modelling (doi.org/10.1038/s415...) but low on time/not your field? We wrote a popular science summary in @uk.theconversation.com, explaining what we found & why you should care. Link: theconversation.com/how-to-build...

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How to build a digital ‘twin’ of the human brain – what existing models overlook

Existing digital models of the human brain risk missing out on what makes you ‘you’.

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Andrea Luppi, PhD @loopyluppi.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Just out in @natneuro.nature.com! 🧠 “Competitive interactions shape mammalian brain network dynamics and computation” www.nature.com/articles/s41... Is large-scale brain communication purely cooperative — or is competition a core organizing principle? We built 🧠 models to find out: read on🧵👇

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Competitive interactions shape mammalian brain network dynamics and computation - Nature Neuroscience

Brain network architecture may balance cooperation and competition across circuits. Here the authors use computational whole-brain modeling across three species to show that models with competition ar...

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Andrea Luppi, PhD @loopyluppi.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

🧠 Excited to share our latest preprint: Automated Brain Mapping with AI Experts!🤖 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Ever wanted to summarise the cognitive/systems neuroscience literature beyond MRI and PET? Ever wished we could do the same for macaque 🐒 and mouse 🐭 ? Read on! 🧵👇

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Cognitive cartography of mammalian brains using meta-analysis of AI experts

The complexity of the brain is increasingly mirrored by the complexity of the neuroscientific literature, yet no individual mind can fully grasp the diversity of scales, methodologies and model organi...

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Sander van Bree @sandervanbree.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

@loopyluppi.bsky.social & @frosas.bsky.social have written a reply. I recommend reading this as it clarifies their stance and advances the discussion: www.nature.com/articles/s41... I think this was a fruitful exchange. It was also a great experience to write this up w/ David in Amsterdam @ CCN2025

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Reply to ‘Top-down and bottom-up neuroscience as collections of practices’ - Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Nature Reviews Neuroscience - Reply to ‘Top-down and bottom-up neuroscience as collections of practices’

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Andrea Luppi, PhD @loopyluppi.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Just out in Nature Reviews Neuroscience! We've been studying information synergy within the brain for a few years now: here we explore how we can take this approach to the level of synergy *between* brains! 🧠🔄🧠 Thanks to @edoardochidichimo.bsky.social for making this inter-brain synergy possible!

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Andrea Luppi, PhD @loopyluppi.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Truly honored to be recognized among @thetransmitter.bsky.social's Rising Stars of Neuroscience for 2025 next to trailblazers like @valeriejsydnor.bsky.social, @lindenmp.bsky.social, @elimuller.bsky.social & more!🌟🧠Check out everyone's full contributions at www.thetransmitter.org/early-career...

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The Transmitter’s Rising Stars of Neuroscience 2025

We recognize the outstanding achievements of 25 neuroscientists who stand to shape the field for years to come.

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