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Martin Wilson

@martinw3141.bsky.social
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MR Physicist @thechbh.bsky.social, University of Birmingham. Brain #MRS / #MRI researcher. Metabolite botherer. #RStats addict. wilsonlab.co.uk

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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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Andy Bagshaw @bagshaap.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Ever wondered about the variety and depth of neuroscience research at the University of Birmingham (if not, why not?)? Seek no further: www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/pro... @thechbh.bsky.social @uob-sop.bsky.social @imh-uob.bsky.social
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Birmingham Neuroscience - University of Birmingham
Driving innovation in brain and mental health research to transform care and improve lives through pioneering interdisciplinary science.
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Andy Bagshaw @bagshaap.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Are you interested in the thalamus, or are you still waiting to discover that you are (these are the only two options)? It is a great pleasure to announce our workshop on the 12-13th January 2026. uobevents.eventsair.com/emerging-tec... @thechbh.bsky.social #neuroscience
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Homepage - Emerging Techniques and Technologies to Understand the Thalamus
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Martin Wilson @martinw3141.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Great initiative : gofund.me/fcbed60d8 but a bit sad this sort of message needs to be promoted at the moment
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Donate to 'Brummies United Against Racism and Hate' Poster Campaign, organized by Brummies United
Help Us Flood Birmingham with a Message of Unity and Hope … Brummies United needs your support for 'Brummies United Against Racism and Hate' Poster Campaign
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layerfmri.bsky.social @layerfmri.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
New layer-fMRI preprint using simultaneous layer-fMRI with EEG at 7T. Establishing an acquisition and analysis setup to capture layer-fMRI correlates of spontaneous alpha power variations. By Marsh et al. doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
OBAMA: It's fair to say that 80% of the world's problems involve old men hanging on who are afraid of death and insignificance, and they won't let go. They build pyramids, and they put their names on everything. They get very anxious about it.
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Andy Bagshaw @bagshaap.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Sleep EEG-fMRI finally starting @thechbh.bsky.social!
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Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneurosci.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Launched in 2023, Imaging Neuroscience is now firmly established, with full indexing (PubMed, etc.) and 700 papers to date. We're very happy to announce that we are able to reduce the APC to $1400. Huge thanks to all authors, reviewers, editorial team+board, and MIT Press.
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Stirchley Wines & Spirits @stirchleywines.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
So this happened, it's wonderful to get local recognition for the work we put into our little shop, it's been a crazy 2025 so far and we're not done yet! #VivaStirchley #VivaBrum #ShopIndependent #MadeInBirmingham🐂
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Martin Wilson @martinw3141.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Jeff Stanley kicking off the methodology session at fMRS symposium in Bangor. @pgmm03.bsky.social
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pgmm03.bsky.social @pgmm03.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Good to see everyone is still able to maintain there attention towards the end of the first day of the fMRS symposium at Bangor Uni.
Scientists paying attention to a talk at the Bangor fMRS symposium. Scientists paying attention to a talk at the Bangor fMRS symposium. Scientists paying attention to a talk at the Bangor fMRS symposium.
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pgmm03.bsky.social @pgmm03.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
The 2nd Bangor fMRS symposium kicked off tonight, with a welcome dinner in Bwyd da Bangor. A good start I think.
Scientists seated at a welcome dinner. Scientists seated at a welcome dinner. Scientists seated at a welcome dinner. Scientists seated at a welcome dinner.
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Andrew Quinn @ajquinn.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Check out our latest paper.. - A simple view of the ageing effect across the full spectrum and the whole head - Spectra of effect sizes - Covariates can change effect size - Replication! We hope this facilitates synthesis of results across a rich and varied literature of age effects #neuroskyence
Four segments summarising the paper, the first contains an image of a 'full frequency age effect' and leads into the other three which contain images for 'replication across datasets', 'robustness to covariate modelling' and 'framework for future sample planning'
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Selma Lugtmeijer @selmalugtmeijer.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Our new study shows that accelerated long-term forgetting occurs more often in stroke patients than in age-matched controls. After one week, 35% showed marked forgetting despite normal recall after 30 min. Important for neuropsychological diagnostics. Open access: doi.org/10.1111/jnp....
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The Women In Science Archive @wisarchive.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Mildred Cohn was born 112 years ago today. In the middle of the 20th century she pioneered the use of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance to probe the chemical processes governing the storage and release of energy in ATP. Here is her story! tinyurl.com/3xn9hhs2 #WomenInSTEM #ChemSky #HistSci 🧪
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From ATP to MRI: Mildred Cohn's Pioneering Work in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
ATP is the stuff of life.  Without it, cell communication shuts down, muscles freeze, and anything requiring ready energy (which is to say, darn near everything) stops.  For biologists, it's a critica...
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Anastasia Christakou 💙 @christakou.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
#fMRS Symposium II 31 Aug - 2 Sep Bangor, UK Wrap up the summer in gorgeous North Wales, with the nicest scientific community. Submit NOW! Any topic re functional MRS (neuro, physio, methods) pgmm03.uk/functional-m... Followed by: 9th GABA/Advanced Edited MRS Symposium pgmm03.uk/edited-spect...
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Functional Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Symposium II: 31st August – 2nd September 2025
To be held in Bangor Gwynedd, in lovely North Wales. This year the fMRS symposium will be held jointly (one after the other) with the 9th GABA and Edited MRS symposium. We therefore invite all inte…
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Selma Lugtmeijer @selmalugtmeijer.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Feeling honoured to have been awarded first prize (jointly) in the Excellence in Enhancing Research Culture Award for an Early-Career Researcher at the School of Psychology Awards 2025, University of Birmingham.
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Bangor Imaging Unit @bangorimagingunit.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
We are pleased to share the Bangor Imaging Unit (BIU) Annual Report for 2024/2025, which shines a light on recent updates and achievements, and to unveil our renewed BIU website (where the report can be found): www.bangor.ac.uk/bangorimagin... #research #wales @bangoruniversity.bsky.social
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Matthew Apps @brainapps.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
I am delighted to announce registration and abstract submission is open for "The Mechanistic Basis of Foraging 2025" to be held at the Edgbaston Park Hotel, University of Birmingham, UK on 3-5th November 2025. uobevents.eventsair.com/the-mechanis...
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Homepage - The Mechanistic Basis of Foraging
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Matthew B @matthewbroome.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Superb inaugural tonight from @brainapps.bsky.social Can I be bothered? Impressive work and lots of top jokes
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Caroline (Lindy) Rae @brainmetabolism.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Super pleased to have finally published our latest neurochemistry review on the many and varied roles of aspartate in brain. rdcu.be/eqMHd
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Caroline (Lindy) Rae @brainmetabolism.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
New paper showing a key component of the glutamate-glutamine cycle. NTT4 (SLC6A17) supplies Gln for the presynaptic production of Glu. Needed to sustain rapid ongoing excitatory synaptic transmission and has roles in memory formation and other behaviours. doi.org/10.1016/j.pneurobio.2025.102785
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Martin Wilson @martinw3141.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Abstract submissions are now open for the fMRS symposium in Bangor, Wales, Sept 2025 : shorturl.at/Q1A5p come present your latest functional MR spectroscopy neuroscientific findings, method development or anything else related to fMRS.
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Functional Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Symposium II: 31st August – 2nd September 2025
To be held in Bangor Gwynedd, in lovely North Wales. This year the fMRS symposium will be held jointly (one after the other) with the 9th GABA and Edited MRS symposium. We therefore invite all inte…
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Hadley Wickham @hadley.nz · 03/06/2025
At Posit, we love @typst.app: ⚡ Make PDFs in milliseconds, not minutes ✨ The power of LaTeX with today's technologies ✍️ Modern typography (including emojis!) 🧠 Clear mental model So I'm thrilled to announce that we're now supporting its development: posit.co/blog/posit-a... #rstats
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We’re happy to announce that we’re supporting Typst by funding one of their full-time engineers.
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Pete Lally @peterjlally.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
I’m very excited to share our latest paper, out today! TL;DR: we measure all images of a multi-echo gradient echo acquisition *simultaneously* and in *every readout* Interested? Read on below… 👀👇 doi.org/10.1002/mrm....
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Steady‐state free precession for T2* relaxometry: All echoes in every readout with k‐space aliasing
Purpose Multi-echo gradient echo imaging is useful for a range of applications including relaxometry, susceptibility mapping, and quantifying relative proportions of fat and water. This relies prima...
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Martin Wilson @martinw3141.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
The second fMRS symposium (Sept 2025) is now open for early registration and abstract submission. Hosted at Bangor Uni, situated in beautiful north Wales, not to be missed if you're into measuring dynamic neurophysiology/neurotransmitters and cutting-edge MR spectroscopy methods. shorturl.at/Q1A5p
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Functional Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Symposium II: 31st August – 2nd September 2025
To be held in Bangor Gwynedd, in lovely North Wales. This year the fMRS symposium will be held jointly (one after the other) with the 9th GABA and Edited MRS symposium. We therefore invite all inte…
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Katja Kornysheva @katjakornysheva.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Final call to UK and international candidates (Closing date: 2nd March 2025)! Join us as Full Professor in Human/Cognitive/Translational Neuroscience with the opportunity to step in as (Co-)Director at the @thechbh.bsky.social 👇 edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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Matthew B @matthewbroome.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
A wonderful opportunity to work with us @unibirmingham.bsky.social - the @thechbh.bsky.social is a key partner to the @imh-uob.bsky.social and lots of opportunites to work together. A fantastic team of great people
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Andy Bagshaw @bagshaap.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
#neurojobs Looking for a new role as Professor in Human/Cognitive/Translational Neuroscience? @thechbh.bsky.social has great facilities, lovely people...and an open position: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLW735/p...
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DeeKayJay @deekayjay.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
At @CUBRICCardiff, we are thrilled to announce the release of the Welsh Advanced Neuroimaging Database (WAND)! Multiscale multi-modal data from 170 volunteers incl. 3T Connectom; 3T & 7T; MEG; TMS & comprehensive trait questionnaire & cognitive data Thanks @wellcometrust.bsky.social rdcu.be/d8QOu
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Martin Wilson @martinw3141.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
New paper showing how regularisation improves the accuracy of 1H MRS spectral fitting. Using simulated data, we show our new approach (ABfit-reg) offers improved accuracy (~ %10) over the "gold-standard" LCModel method. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @thechbh.bsky.social #ISMRM #MRI #MRS
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Chemical shift and relaxation regularization improve the accuracy of 1H MR spectroscopy analysis
Purpose Accurate analysis of metabolite levels from 1H MRS data is a significant challenge, typically requiring the estimation of approximately 100 parameters from a single spectrum. Signal overlap,...
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 31/01/2025
‘Groundbreaking’ potential cure for sickle cell in England approved for NHS use
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‘Groundbreaking’ potential cure for sickle cell in England approved for NHS use
Clinical trials find one-time gene therapy exa-cel offers ‘functional cure’ in 96.6% of patients A “groundbreaking” £1.65m treatment offering a potential cure for people in England living with sickle cell disease has been approved for use on the NHS, the…
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Selma Lugtmeijer @selmalugtmeijer.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
🧠 Excited to share our new preprint! 🧠 Check it out and let us know what you think! 👀✨
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Caroline Reid @reidfineartaus.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
The fact that Deepseek R1 was released three days /before/ Stargate means these guys stood in front of Trump and said they needed half a trillion dollars while they knew R1 was open source and trained for $5M. Beautiful.
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pgmm03.bsky.social @pgmm03.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Happy to have been involved with this really cool paper, and a new way to investigate fMRS data from Maria Morelli and Martin Wilson. With @martinw3141.bsky.social, @kdudzikowska.bsky.social, @ajquinn.bsky.social, and @brainapps.bsky.social
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Martin Wilson @martinw3141.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Proud to have our first fMRS study from @thechbh.bsky.social published with Maria, @kdudzikowska.bsky.social, Dinesh, @ajquinn.bsky.social, @pgmm03.bsky.social, @brainapps.bsky.social :) Looking forward to making further developments towards fMRS becoming a popular tool for measuring brain activity.
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Matthew B @matthewbroome.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
please follow our @imh-uob.bsky.social at @unibirmingham.bsky.social
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Martin Wilson @martinw3141.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Amazing opportunity to direct a flourishing brain research centre in the UK.
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Stephanie Rossit @stephanierossit.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
I am looking for a post-doc on neuroimaging analysis. Come & join my team at UEA (Norwich, UK). The post is for 32 months starting from April. Norwich is a wonderful & affordable city. ➡Apply: vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/13... ⏰Deadline: 13 February 2025 Questions: s.rossit@uea.ac.uk
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ALT: a black and white image of a person 's brain with the letters p and s visible
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Spinoza Centre for Neuroimaging @spinozacentre.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Amsterdam UMC has certified the Spinoza 7T MRI for clinical use, the first in the Netherlands. Used for years to guide deep brain stimulation in Parkinson’s disease, 7T MRI is now standard care and available for applications like MS, epilepsy, and other brain disorders. 🧠 🧪 nin.nl/news/first-c...
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Martin Wilson @martinw3141.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Any tips on adding margin notes or other annotation to highlight reviewer revisions in LaTeX for MRM? I used to use marginnote, but it does not play well with the latest (two-column style) template. @ismrm.org
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Siawoosh Mohammadi @siawooshmr.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
1/ Drawing on 13+ yrs of research & development, finally the ACID toolbox paper out: direct.mit.edu/imag/article... #Neuroscience #MRI #DiffusionImaging #OpenSource #Neuroimaging #DataScience #SPM
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Mohamed Sabba @sabba.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
In other news: today I was granted indefinite leave to remain in the UK aka job freedom. I am looking for a UK-based (or remote) job after a looong stint in the Levitt group. You might find me useful if you want a pulse sequence guru. #nmrchat My CV: sabba.me/nmr/cv/
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CV – Sabba’s NMR Blog
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Meaghan Perdue @mvperduephd.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Now published open access - we found that total choline and glutamate+glutamine were elevated in children exposed to alcohol prenatally during early childhood. doi.org/10.1007/s110... with @catherinealebel.bsky.social
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Altered markers of brain metabolism and excitability are associated with executive functioning in young children exposed to alcohol in utero - Metabolic Brain Disease
Prenatal alcohol exposure (PAE) is the leading known cause of birth defects and cognitive disabilities, with impacts on brain development and executive functioning. Abnormalities in structural and fun...
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Charlotte Reese Marshall @tomrhysmarshall.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
So... hey everyone. I'm Tom. I study neuronal oscillations and their role in attention and decision-making, mainly using MEG and brain stimulation in human volunteers. I'm a relatively new assistant prof at @thechbh.bsky.social, Birmingham, UK. Birmingham is a lovely place. Come visit 🙂
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Francesco Santini - ESMRMB2025 Program Chair @mrifranz.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Thanks to a nice crowd effort, the starter pack is now much larger! So great to see a fantastic network of #MRI researchers! Share and suggest people to add here below! go.bsky.app/EVqd6pe
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Francesco Santini - ESMRMB2025 Program Chair @mrifranz.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Let's create an #MRI researcher starter pack! There are a couple that are neuroimaging-based, but not really the method development community. I started putting together a few profiles, but please spread the word and tell me who else to add. If there is already one, let me know! go.bsky.app/EVqd6pe
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ISMRM @ismrm.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Hello there! #ismrm
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Alt: Old Ben Kenobi removing his hood and saying, "Hello there."
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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Word of this morning is ‘procaffeinate’: to put everything on hold until you’ve had sufficient amounts of coffee.
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