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Luke Edwards

@lukejoeledwards.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor in diffusion MRI methods and data analysis at Maastricht University. Interested in MR physics, diffusion MRI, relaxometry, in vivo and postmortem human cortical imaging and spin dynamics simulation

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Mattan S. Ben-Shachar @mattansb.msbstats.info · 18/09/2026
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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
As both an academic and a writer, I am repelled by the "this looks like a long document. Would you like me to summarize it for you?" that seems to appear at the top of every pdf viewer now. NO. The *entire point* of good writing (either books or journal papers) is that every sentence has a purpose.
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Anna-Lena Stroh @lenastroh.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
New paper in Science Advances! We show that congenital blindness reduces myelination in the human visual cortex, challenging the long-standing idea that thicker visual cortex in blind people mainly reflects disrupted pruning. (1/4) doi.org/10.1126/scia...
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Congenital blindness reduces myelination in human visual cortex
Altered myelin and microstructure in congenital blindness illuminate how sensory experience guides human brain development.
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Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences @mpicbs.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
The #brains of #blind people reorganize differently than previously thought: a Polish-German team of researchers from the @jagiellonskiuni.bsky.social & @lenastroh.bsky.social @nikweiskopf.bsky.social shows how the lack of visual experience affects the maturation of the brain. tinyurl.com/yrfa7scv
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The brains of blind people reorganize differently than previously thought
The brains of blind people reorganize differently than previously thought
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M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
This gorgeous essay from the social-media-less Lily Hu is everything: on what it means to "do" philosophy amidst pressure to automate it (with lessons that travel much more broadly). Rhymes with brilliant insights from @biblioracle.bsky.social @janerosenzweig.bsky.social Ted Chiang & others
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Lily Hu · Un-Doing Philosophy
Analytic philosophers in the United States are increasingly embracing AI, both by taking advisory positions at tech companies and by using large language models for their own research and writing. Som...
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ISMRM @ismrm.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
The ISMRM Education Committee is launching the ISMRM Educational Lecture Series: a new educational platform designed to engage junior and early-career MRI researchers. Register for this FREE virtual meeting to learn more: ow.ly/No7I50Z5g6P #ISMRM #ISMRT #MagneticResonance #MedicalImaging
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Serge Dumoulin @sergedumoulin.net · 12/06/2026
🧠 PhD position: computational brain origami. Fully funded 4-year PhD on a new NWO-funded project combining 7T MRI, population receptive field mapping, and computational neuroscience to understand why human brains fold the way they do. 📢 vacatures.knaw.nl/job/Amsterda... #PhD #Neuroscience #Hiring
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PhD Student in Biologically Inspired Computational Visual Neuroscience
PhD Student in Biologically Inspired Computational Visual Neuroscience
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Ryszard Auksztulewicz @auksz.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
ANOTHER assistant professorship available in my department. Focus on contemporary neuroimaging applications to neuropsychology and psychopharmacology. #NeuroJobs vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...
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Assistant Professor Neuroimaging
Assistant Professor Neuroimaging
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Alina Studenova @studenova.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
How dynamics arise from the structure is my biggest interest. In this study, we started with a small step and asked how structure constrains dynamics. Spoiler: would that it were so simple… (1/6)
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Siawoosh Mohammadi @siawooshmr.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
🧠 New bioRxiv preprint from the Microstructure MRI lab (first author: Francisco J. Fritz): “Longitudinal whole-human-brain quantitative MRI study on autolysis, fixation, rehydration, and shrinkage effects.” www.biorxiv.org/content/bior... 1/8
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Ryszard Auksztulewicz @auksz.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Job alert 🚨 Fully funded PhD position available in our Maastricht lab! Are you interested in the relationship between memory and prediction, and have a track record of neuroimaging/decoding? Please apply! #NeuroJobs www.academictransfer.com/nl/jobs/3576...
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PhD Candidate: Cognitive Computational Neuroscience of Memory and Prediction
Welcome to Maastricht University! Are you fascinated by how the brain remembers and predicts information, and how it can tell apart representations of past and future? At Maastricht University, you wi...
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Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneurosci.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
2024 was the first full calendar year for Imaging Neuroscience @mitpress - 350 papers published. We're proud of how the brain imaging community enthusiastically embraced open access non-profit publishing. Our aim is to be *your* journal. Full size PDF: drive.google.com/file/d/1M170...
A collage of figures from the 350 papers published in Imaging Neuroscience in 2024.
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Luke Edwards @lukejoeledwards.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Congratulations Laurin!
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Janelle Shane @janelleshane.com · 17/12/2025
On this day of Christmas I bring to you: Christmas carols generated by a tiny vintage neural net. This is from 2017, when I trained the neural net from scratch on my laptop using just Christmas carols. In retrospect I can see the neural net got mixed signals www.aiweirdness.com/christmas-ca...
    The story of the chimney see
    Santa baby, and blood and joyous so world and joy and good will to see
    Santa baby bore sweet Jesus Christ
    Fa la la la la la la, la la la la la la la la.

    King of toys and hippopotamuses [sic] full of the light of that stood at the dear Son of Santa Claus
    He was born in a wonderful christmas tree

    Run, run Rudolph, run, run Rudolph, run, run Rudolph, run, run Rudolph, run, run Rudolph, run, run Rudolph, run, run Rudolph, run, run Rudolf the new born King.
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Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneurosci.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Laurin Mordhorst, Siawoosh Mohammadi, et al: MRI-scale histology validates spatial sensitivity of in-vivo MRI-based axon radius estimation doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
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Nikolaus Weiskopf @nikweiskopf.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
We are looking for “Data Scientist or ML/AI expert” who will work at the cutting edge of data science and neuromaging in a collaboration between @mpicbs.bsky.social and the Max Planck Computing and Data Facility (MPCDF). Deadline: 10th Nov. 2025. Apply here:
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Data Scientist or Machine Learning / AI expert (m/f/d)
Data Scientist or Machine Learning / AI expert (m/f/d) to join the AI and High-Performance Data Analytics division of MPCDF.
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The MIND Platform @ Western @mind-western.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
#fluorescencefriday special. Half marmoset 🧠 cleared and stained using SHIELD and imaged by lightsheet microscopy. Courtesy of Jesleen Saini @shahrzadbahrampour.bsky.social and @stefan-everling.bsky.social
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Matthias Nau @matthiasnau.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Nice demo by Mark Lescroart @neuromdl.bsky.social on EPI imaging of a single #fMRI slice. Great for teaching! :) vimeo.com/143701608?fl...
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fMRI_EPI_KspaceAcquisition_short
This is a demonstration of how a single slice of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data is collected. Before this makes any sense, you will need to understand…
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Milo Imbeni @pyramidalmilo.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Hi! If you or someone you know is looking for a PhD, look no further: a position just opened in my lab in Maastricht on cortical vasculature with advanced microscopy and tissue clearing. Very good salary, lively city, and super pretty brain data await!
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PhD on Investigating Human Cortical Angioarchitecture with 3D Histology
Welcome to Maastricht University! The Computational Brain Connectivity lab (CBClab) at Maastricht University is looking for a PhD to investigate Human Cortical Angioarchitecture with 3D Histology Meth...
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Luke Edwards @lukejoeledwards.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
A colleague of mine at the CBCLab at Maastricht University, Sven Hildebrand, is looking to hire a PhD student to investigate the arrangement of blood vessels in the human brain cortex using 3D postmortem histology: www.academictransfer.com/nl/jobs/3549... Application deadline the 31st of October.
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Luke Edwards @lukejoeledwards.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
A colleague of mine at the CBCLab at Maastricht University, Sven Hildebrand, is looking to hire a PhD student to investigate the arrangement of blood vessels in the human brain cortex using 3D postmortem histology: www.academictransfer.com/nl/jobs/3549... Application deadline the 31st of October.
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Ravi Menon @northernthrux.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Science is self correcting. Finally!
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Authors retract Science paper on controversial fMRI method
Several MRI artifacts contribute to the neuronal activity signal picked up by the method, according to a preprint the authors posted this month.
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Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · 16/09/2025
Proposal for how to fix family wise error rates. For every uncorrected p value you must add an extra letter to the claim. “Eating chocolate maaaaaaaaay be associated with lower rates of stroke”
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Jasmin Schreiber @schreibersnaturarium.de · 12/08/2025
Ein Plädoyer für Tauben: steady.page/de/db21f...
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Genies der Lüfte
🕊️Tauben erkennen Picassos, diagnostizieren Krebs und hören Infraschall. Warum wir eines der klügsten Tiere unserer Städte als "Ratten der Lüfte" verachten.
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Peter Kok @peterkok.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
We are recruiting a new PI at the FIL @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social, Associate or Full Professor. This is an amazing place to do cognitive neuroscience, in the heart of London. If you or someone you know might be interested, please pass it on. #neuroskyence www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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danielhaenelt.bsky.social @danielhaenelt.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
I’m happy to share that our manuscript on the cortical depth-dependency of the GE- and SE-BOLD point spread function at 7 Tesla is now available on bioRxiv! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Spatial specificity of the functional gradient echo and spin echo BOLD signal across cortical depth at 7 T
Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) at high magnetic field strengths (≥ 7 T) is a promising technique to study the functioning of the human brain at the spatial scale of cortical columns and ...
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Gareth Gaskell @mggaskell.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
We have two permanent lectureships currently available at York - home and overseas applicants are welcome! Please share: jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...
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Jobs - The University of York
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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 19/09/2024
If you hate statistics like I do, then you'll love my free lectures. Putting science before statistics, 20 lectures from basics of inference & causal modeling to multilevel models & dynamic state space models. It's all free, made with love and sympathy. 🧪 #stats www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
New Post: AI Is Here To Stay - www.possibilityspace.org/blog/posts/h... I wrote a new blog (on new blog software!) about how AI is here to stay. But what exactly does that mean, anyway?
A screenshot of part of an issue of High Technology magazine from July 1986. The article headline is "Artificial Intelligence enters the mainstream"
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Christophe Phillips @chphillips.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
- Poster 1832, "In vivo MRI histology revisited: en route to hMRI toolbox 1.0", cf. hdl.handle.net/2268/328894 and taking part in the "30 Years of SPM: Celebrating the Evolution of Neuroimaging Analysis" roundtable, cf. hdl.handle.net/2268/329963 Drop by if interested. 😃
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ORBi: Detailed Reference
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Christophe Phillips @chphillips.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
We are hiring a PhD candidate for a fully funded project on Chemical Exchange Saturation Transfer (CEST) MR imaging at the @giga-crc-hi.bsky.social! The project aims at applying CEST MRI to study ageing and detect AD-related biomarkers. All practical details on www.linkedin.com/posts/christ...
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PhD position in CEST MRI | Christophe Phillips
We are hiring a PhD candidate for a fully funded project on CEST MR imaging at the GIGA CRC human imaging ! The project aims at applying Chemical Exchange Saturation Transfer (CEST) MR imaging to stud...
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Peter Manseau @petermanseau.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Star Wars Intro Scroll

Episode IV
It Was All So Stupid

Seriously, you would not believe how stupid it was. Every day, unrelentingly, just the dumbest stuff by the absolute worst people. And what made it worse was knowing that we’d brought this on ourselves.
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Jamie Cummins @jamiecummins.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
I am once again asking: if you or someone you know (i) knows the SAS programming language, (ii) has some degree of familiarity with social psychology, and (iii) wants to be paid to review a paper as part of @error.reviews, please get in touch with me!
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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
I am hiring a PhD student on the meaningful interpretation of effect sizes as part of my VICI funded project. This is a 4 year paid position in a welcoming and collaborative environment. Find out more or apply at www.tue.nl/werken-bij-t...
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PhD on Metascience
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layerfmri.bsky.social @layerfmri.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
New mesoscale manuscript looking at functional connectivity of ocular dominance columns during resting state. By Schmidt et al., doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences @mpicbs.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Do you want to work as a #postdoc on #MRI-based in vivo histology with a special focus on risk factors for and disease progression in early-stage #Parkinson’s Disease? 🧠Please send in your application #neuroscience #neurophysics recruitingapp-5218.de.umantis.com/Vacancies/42...?
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Postdoctoral Position in Advanced MRI Analysis Methods | Karriereportal Max-Planck-Institut für Kognitions- und Neurowissenschaften
Postdoctoral Position in Advanced MRI Analysis Methods | Karriereportal Max-Planck-Institut für Kognitions- und Neurowissenschaften
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Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneurosci.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Fakhereh Movahedian Attar, Nikolaus Weiskopf, et al: Short association fibres form topographic sheets in the human V1–V2 processing stream doi.org/10.1162/imag...
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Sarah Garfinkel @sarahgarf.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
The Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience is the most wonderful place to work. Supportive, bright colleagues doing incredible research in beautiful Queen Square. Do get in touch if you have any questions. Come join us! www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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José P. Marques @josepmarques.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Time for my first contribution in this space... I'm afraid it won't be an inspirational one, rather a cry for help. Does one of you under this beautiful bluesky have a Skyra 3T system on VE11C or XA30 software platforms? And do you have some time to do me a favour? Drop me a private message :)
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Peter Kok @peterkok.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
We have an opening for a 12 month Research Assistant post, funded by an ERC grant. The postholder would help with several neuroimaging projects, including MEG and 7T fMRI. Please repost and share with anyone who may be interested. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... #neuroskyence #Neuroimaging
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UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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Antoine Lutti @antoinelutti.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Hey #MRI folks! New preprint from the group about the prospective correction of cardiac-induced noise in brain #relaxometry data!! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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ISME - Incoherent Sampling of Multi-Echo data to minimize cardiac-induced noise in brain maps of R2* and magnetic susceptibility
Purpose: Brain maps of the MRI parameters R2* and magnetic susceptibility enable the investigation of microscopic tissue changes associated with brain disease in patient populations. However, maps of ...
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Sarah Garfinkel @sarahgarf.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
** We are hiring ** Associate Prof / Full Prof position in Cognitive Neuroscience. Amazing department, rated top in the UK for research power in Psychology, Psychiatry and Neuroscience. Can hire internationally, so flagging for USA colleagues (all countries welcome). Come join us in London
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Nikolaus Weiskopf @nikweiskopf.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Great job opportunity: Important Head of IT leadership position at our @mpicbs.bsky.social is open.
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Brendan @chemscrapes.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
More from the ChemScrapes classic chemistry album collection #chemsky #nmrchat
A parody of public enemy's "Fear of a Black Planet" album. Instead of Public Enemy, the name of the group is Public NMR. The album title is "Fear of a quenched magnet".  The original cover had a space view of the earth and the public enemy logo (a rifle scope on a person).  The parody cover has replaces the picture of the earth with a quenching NMR spectrometer.  And instead of the public enemy logo, a rotating frame showing a polarization vector is drawn.
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neurodesk.org @neurodesk.org · 11/12/2024
We have a fully funded PhD position available, application deadline is 8th Jan 2025: study.uq.edu.au/study-option... This project will develop methodologies and standards for defining reproducible, benchmarked analysis pipelines and integrating them in Neurodesk.org and Brainlife.io
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