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Dennis Nestvogel @neuralnestbird.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

On my way to Frankfurt for this year’s #BernsteinConference! 🚆✨ Especially excited to dive into this workshop on neural signatures — looking forward to insightful, fun discussions and connecting with awesome folks in neuroscience! 💡🧠🤓 #Neuroscience #BrainScience

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Natalie Schaworonkow @nschawor.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

currently preparing for a Bernstein pre-conference workshop that I co-organized with @neuralnestbird.bsky.social. we will be looking at different electrophysiological signatures (= 〰️〰️〰️) across species. come by and say hi if you are there. 🙂 bernstein-network.de/bernstein-co...

Bernstein Workshop 2026
Bridging the species divide:   comparative approaches to study neural signatures

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Melek Öyküm Yalçın @melekyalcin.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

together with @AnyaDietrich and a great team, we're organizing the Frankfurt hub of this year's 🌱CuttingGardens🌱, a distributed conference on cutting-edge methods for M/EEG data analysis, hosted by CoBIC! Sept 21–25, 2026🧵

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Natalie Schaworonkow @nschawor.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

back in the MEG after a break, doing the very last measurements. 🌟 surrounded by retrofuturistic objects, e.g., the MEG phantom: in the usual physics fashion, the human head is approximated by a water-filled sphere. electric fields can be generated inside the sphere to test source localization.

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Natalie Schaworonkow @nschawor.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

old school cool figure: Georgopoulous et al. (1988), example of population coding of movement direction. (or a retro space simulator? 🙃)

Figure 1: An example of population coding of movement direction. The blue lines represent the vectorial contributions of individual cells in the population (N = 475). The movement direction is in yellow and the direction of the population vector in red.

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feed-discovery.bsky.social @feed-discovery.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

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Natalie Schaworonkow @nschawor.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

sometimes I am asked which is the best book/resource for starting out with EEG/MEG. I think my pick would be this one! 'MEG-EEG primer' academic.oup.com/book/46874 beautiful illustrations throughout & the side-by-side discussion of EEG & MEG makes a lot of sense.

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Natalie Schaworonkow @nschawor.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

weekend project: built an LED action potential 💡

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Natalie Schaworonkow @nschawor.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Friday @ MEG lab diary entry: new high score in this head position deviation game, <0.8mm ➡️ a good day! 🟢🌟🟢

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Natalie Schaworonkow @nschawor.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

very useful to see work in this direction, trying to figure out the cellular contributions to 1/f-activity. at the moment, it's sometimes frustrating to read studies in the vein of: 'we found differences in this 1 number and it means this 1 thing', there's not enough evidence for that. 🙃

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Natalie Schaworonkow @nschawor.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

intracranial EEG artifact: if an electrode is located over a blood vessel, you can occasionally see some nice rhythms. sadly, these are not neural rhythms, but reflect the pulsation of the blood vessel, which moves the electrode around slightly. can also be seen in non-invasive EEG occasionally.

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Natalie Schaworonkow @nschawor.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

we have a themed bathroom on the ground floor of the institute 🙂 (designed by our fantastic graphic designer Claudia Kernberger)

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Natalie Schaworonkow @nschawor.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Really happy for my awesome colleague Jiajie Zou! He is now leaving us for a postdoc at the MPI for Biological Cybernetics. Tübingen folks, please give him a warm welcome, aka invites for talks and such. 🙂

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Natalie Schaworonkow @nschawor.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Mon-Thu: reformat figure legends for the 17th time and other equally exciting tasks, mild questioning of life choices. Friday!: look at the brain in real time! 🤩🙂

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Natalie Schaworonkow @nschawor.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

the median number of authors on a research paper who are familiar with the underlying code: 1 it generally feels like that number will decrease even further, honestly a quite scary development. 😕⬇️

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Natalie Schaworonkow @nschawor.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

"delta" activity across species 🙃

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Natalie Schaworonkow @nschawor.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

more MEG artefacts: the tram runs in ~200 meter distance from the MEG lab here. even though the MEG sensors are shielded by a few tons of metal, they still pick up the railway traction power signal (at 16.67 Hz in Germany), a demo of their high sensitivity.

component isolated from resting state MEG data

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Natalie Schaworonkow @nschawor.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

my face when reviewing a paper and the authors have descended into the supplementary material of one of my papers for method specifics. 🌟

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a man with a mustache is saying `` i 'm really proud of you ''

ALT: a man with a mustache is saying `` i 'm really proud of you ''

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Natalie Schaworonkow @nschawor.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

BIDS is definitely one of the absolute best things that happened to human neuroscience in the last years! extremely cool to see more and more expansions.

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Natalie Schaworonkow @nschawor.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

a while ago, I made this feed for neuroscience/cognitive science summer schools. after some tuning, it generally manages to find cool events. 🙂 bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Natalie Schaworonkow @nschawor.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

artefacts in MEG: here, the participant forgot to remove a belt with a metal buckle. the buckle moves when breathing, introducing low frequency artefacts. taking off the belt solves resolves this. 🙂

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Natalie Schaworonkow @nschawor.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

I honestly didn't expect it, but all MEG experiments after the winter break went super smoothly so far. spending every Friday looking at traces & 90s-style interfaces. 🙂

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Natalie Schaworonkow @nschawor.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

George Opie did the actual hard work on this, but I am happy to have contributed with some opinions from my oscillation armchair. 🙂〰️ the broader question is whether macroscale electrophysiological signals allow inference about underlying physiology & I am definitely optimistic about that.

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Natalie Schaworonkow @nschawor.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

I am interested in network effects in social media & post activity related to recent conferences may be an indicator of this. therefore, I counted bluesky vs. X/twitter posts mentioning #cosyne2026 hashtags, with more bluesky posts this time around.

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Natalie Schaworonkow @nschawor.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

time-frequency representation of human electrocorticography data. 🌊 one axis shows frequency, the other time. the high peaks correspond to a prominent alpha rhythm at 10 Hz which appears and subsides during the experiment.

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Natalie Schaworonkow @nschawor.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

booked the MEG again to do some final data collection after winter break, always very fun to be there. 🙂 (also: my last MEG experiment ever? 🥲) & love our pretty recruitment poster (designed by Claudia Kernberger)

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Natalie Schaworonkow @nschawor.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

always very cool to see developmental transitions! reminds me of the large-scale burst type signals of human preterm babies; which become decorrelated after a while. interesting to see this general type of dynamics in young rats. 🙂

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Natalie Schaworonkow @nschawor.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

woodcut illustration of the brain. 🧶 artist: Aoki Shukuya book: Kaishi Hen, anatomical atlas published in Kyoto in 1772.

source:
Kaishi Hen, 1772.
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/kaishi-hen-an-18th-century-japanese-anatomical-atlas/

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Natalie Schaworonkow @nschawor.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

I learned a lot from Christoph & Paolo when doing TMS-EEG experiments back then. all this methods knowledge now condensed here! 🌟 thanks to TMS-EEG, I feel that phase effects for sensorimotor mu-rhythms are now nicely established. (in contrast to visual alpha, which imho still needs work)

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Natalie Schaworonkow @nschawor.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

brain prize recipients over the years. I remembered that I made this plot last year for a bias watch project (yes, because of that 2013–2018 period 🙃). the prize for this year will be announced later this afternoon, let's see. 🔮

dot plot of brain prize recipients by year, 2011–2025. each dot represents one winner, blue indicates male and red indicates female.

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Natalie Schaworonkow @nschawor.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

oscillatory bursts in unexpected places 🙃 (even with harmonics!)

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Natalie Schaworonkow @nschawor.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

beautiful plots! & structural changes clearly have implications for the strong changes in electrophysiological activity across development. one aspect that I find tricky: in the HBN dataset, ~70% of participants have a neurodevelopmental disorder, which is not discussed here.

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Natalie Schaworonkow @nschawor.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

wow! @ data analysis archaeology I want to see the LFP for this. 🙃

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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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Natalie Schaworonkow @nschawor.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

now all researchers associated with a label get added to a method starter pack. these are created automatically once a label reaches 10 people or so; updated in intervals; randomized order every time for democracy. 💫 for example, 〰️MEG starter pack bsky.app/starter-pack...

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Natalie Schaworonkow @nschawor.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

I built a bluesky labeler for neuroscience methods. 1️⃣ follow/subscribe to: @neuromethods.bsky.social 2️⃣ like the post with your favorite method ➡️ get a shiny methods label in your profile/posts. 🌟

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Natalie Schaworonkow @nschawor.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

I played around with building a bluesky labeler for neuroscience methods. subscribe to: neuromethods.bsky.social and like the corresponding post to have a shiny methods label appear in your profile.

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Natalie Schaworonkow @nschawor.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

sometimes you need to see objects in 3D to appreciate their structure more: the human brain as always with great folding & curvature. 🌟

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Natalie Schaworonkow @nschawor.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

I was wondering for ages why posts from some people never show up in the bluesky timeline. finally figured it out, it was: Settings > Languages > Content Languages set to only English. this filters out many posts, e.g. ones with the wrong language set. maybe it's useful for somebody else. 🙂

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Natalie Schaworonkow @nschawor.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

underappreciated concept 🙂 for more dipoles: neighboring dipoles have different orientations & can have different stimulus preferences. so even though topographies look similar, subtle differences remain. maybe that's why it is possible to decode information from relatively few sensors?

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Natalie Schaworonkow @nschawor.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

neuroscience data often has a many-to-many data structure, e.g relationships across regions, which is hard to visualize. (connected edge graphs = chaotic & not that useful honestly 🙃) treating time as an extra dimension like here looks pretty cool! @ this 'crawling seed' movie #VisualizationInspo

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Natalie Schaworonkow @nschawor.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

💯 there's definitely a big divide between human and animal neuroscience. e.g., there are few training courses that take a unified approach, it feels highly separated. a big missed opportunity...

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Natalie Schaworonkow @nschawor.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

oscillations & 1/f-activity in Fragile X syndrome, human & for a mouse model. some differences in alpha, but what sticks out to me is that the second frequency peak (~30 Hz) is looks so unusual in the human clinical phenotype, cool. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

nature.com

A human electrophysiological signature of Fragile X pathophysiology is shared in V1 of Fmr1-/y mice - Nature Communications

Kornfeld-Sylla et al reveal how alpha brainwaves are altered in children and adults with Fragile X Syndrome (FXS) and find parallel changes in alpha-like rhythms in juvenile and adult FXS model mice, ...

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Adrian Duszkiewicz @adrian-du.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

I don't think I'll ever get bored of looking at raster plots of head-direction cells 🤩

Spiking of head-direction cells in the postsubiculum during movement (top) and during the transition from non-REM to REM sleep (bottom). Cells are sorted and colour-coded according to their preferred directions.

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Natalie Schaworonkow @nschawor.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

the cutoff scores for #MSCA postdoc fellowships are very high this year. has the score distribution shifted compared to previous years? I made a plot with scores from past years. if scores are at ceiling level, the process becomes essentially a lottery, because minor issues can lead to deductions.

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Natalie Schaworonkow @nschawor.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

interesting oscillation peak frequency shifts under LSD compared to placebo, with power vs. frequency dissociation: regions that attenuated a lot in power, shifted relatively little in frequency & vice versa. 1/f-fits appear worse for LSD condition, implications of this would be interesting. 🤔

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Miah Pitcher @miah-pitcher.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Before mice open their eyes at two weeks old, the retina exhibits spontaneous retinal waves. Waves at the start of the second postnatal week show a bias to propagate in the nasal direction (or right to left in the movie below). (2/11)

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Natalie Schaworonkow @nschawor.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

"Nested spatiotemporal theta–gamma waves organize hierarchical processing across the mouse visual cortex" www.nature.com/articles/s41... traveling waves-related, supershiny looking figures, apparently made in Julia: github.com/brendanjohnh... makes me want to learn it 🙂 #VisualizationInspo

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Natalie Schaworonkow @nschawor.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

it's easy to create custom feeds for bluesky based on regular expressions, here's an attempt for rhythms in the brain: bsky.app/profile/did:... feeds with a curated user list amplify often the same high-profile posters, I feel this maybe has a better chance of catching more obscure content.

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