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Paul Taylor @afni-pt.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Have you ever felt like something was missing from your #fmri results? Have you been worried about potential reproducibility issues? Well, this new @natmethods.nature.com article with 40+ coauthors shows how the simple change to transparent thresholding helps both. Go Figure! rdcu.be/B4tikBETdQZa

A comparison of old and new thresholding approaches for fMRI data. The newer, transparent thresholding allows for interpreting context, more complete modeling, a reduction of biases and an increase in meaningful content. This all leads to more accurate interpretations and improved reproducibility evaluations.

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Faruk Gulban @ofgulban.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

New preprint: We’ve mapped the first whole-cortex record of human mesoscopic vessel density. The mesoscopic intracortical angioarchitecture is a heterogeneous landscape with area-specific links to traditional cortical boundaries, not a uniform backdrop. PDF: doi.org/10.64898/202...

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Paul Prudence @mrprudence.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

A History of Astronomy - Charles-Albert Reichen [1964]

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Paul Prudence @mrprudence.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Lao Tongli / 劳同丽 The Desire of Libido · Winter Silence, 2017-2019

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Paul Prudence @mrprudence.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Illustration from Lambert's Pictorial Anatomy - T. S Lambert, 1851

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Faruk Gulban @ofgulban.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

If you are setting up the meso-veins protocol for the first time at your 7T (doi.org/10.1126/scia...), you should watch this video where I am providing the most up to date pointers. As well as the tips on quality controlling your images: youtu.be/57URvSjUYRY

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layerfmri.bsky.social @layerfmri.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Interested in understanding your high-res data better? @ofgulban.bsky.social enhanced LayNii IDA with some very useful QA and interactive viewing tools. In the last LayNii release. youtu.be/ipzCT57C7NE

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LayNii IDA Devlog #002 – Quality controls and multi-image synchrony

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Faruk Gulban @ofgulban.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

New LayNii v2.10.0 is out! github.com/layerfMRI/LA... 🚀 LN2_FRISGO: This program mitigates the Fuzzy Ripple artifacts in dual polarity 3D-EPI fMRI data. 💾 Big data ready: Now handling >5GB NIFTIs to support the mesoscopic shift toward high-res, whole-brain images. @layerfmri.bsky.social

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New programs LN2_FRISGO: This program corrects/mitigates the Fuzzy Ripple artifacts in dual polarity 3D-EPI fMRI data. LN2_ZSCORE: Simple z-scoring for time series data. LN2_DESPIKE: Developed mai...

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Marvellous 3,500 year-old Minoan clay flask decorated with a wide-eyed octopus 🐙❤️ Excavated in 1903 from a Bronze Age settlement site at Palaikastro, Crete. Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me #Archaeology

My photo shows the front of a warm-yellow coloured Minoan clay flask, hand painted in black with a frontally depicted octopus. The flask measures 27 cm (about 10.5 inches) in height. It has a short spout at the top with a small loop handle at either side. The octopus is swimming diagonally with its eight writhing, sucker-lined arms covering the whole surface of the flask. It stares out at the viewer with wide, almost cartoon-like eyes. Additional motifs include sea urchins, tritons, small rocks and seaweed. Minoan decoration depicting sea motifs is known by scholars as the ‘Marine Style’. The flask was excavated in 1903 at a Bronze Age settlement site at Palaikastro. The Palaikastro excavations, carried out between 1902 and 1906, were run by R. Bosanquet and R.M. Dawkins from the British School of Athens. The flask is part of the collections at Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Heraklion, Crete.

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Faruk Gulban @ofgulban.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Our 7-minute venous mapping study is featured in the UMN Medical School news! I’m especially grateful for our international collaboration with Kendrick Kay from CMRR UMN. That partnership was vital in helping our ideas mature and refining the tools we built. med.umn.edu/news/seven-m...

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Seven-minute MRI reveals human brain’s fine-scale venous network in unprecedented detail

A collaborative research team, including the University of Minnesota Medical School, have developed a fast, non-invasive MRI method that can map the brain’s venous network in unprecedented detail acro...

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Nikos Priovoulos @nikospriovoulos.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

🎓🧠 It's finally out in @pnas.org 📄 doi.org/10.1073/pnas... We reconstruct the cerebellar cortex and vasculature in-vivo by combining motion-corrected, pTX-enabled #7T MRI with a new segmentation approach.

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

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Faruk Gulban @ofgulban.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

A new MRI protocol can scan the human brain and its venous network in under 7 minutes at 0.35 mm iso. resolution, marking it as a potential tool for diagnosing cerebrovascular diseases and monitoring neurodegeneration. scim.ag/3LkRfRY

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Esther Kuehn @estherkuehn.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Christmas is over and you start wondering what 2026 may bring? 🎁 Perhaps this #PhD position in Tübingen on the Neural Mechanisms of #Body #Memories in #women & #men is for you 👇 Starting date 01.03.2026 or earlier #fMRI #mentalhealth #sexdifferences

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The Organization for Human Brain Mapping @ohbmofficial.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

📢 We’ve received several questions about the character count for OHBM 2026 submissions in our new platform, Oxford Abstracts. To help clear things up, we’ve put together a brief blog post explaining the updated limits and what they mean for you. 📝 Read more here: 👉 www.ohbm-com.com/blog/new-abs...

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Faruk Gulban @ofgulban.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Scientific publishing norms were built for a world that no longer exists. In this commentary, I argue that the future of scientific exchange may benefit from new channels of interaction and dissemination.

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layerfmri.bsky.social @layerfmri.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Yesterday, @ofgulban.bsky.social gave a great talk about efficient imaging of small veins. It was inspiring. Impressive how much information is there waiting to be harvested. youtu.be/7wStzJNUXic?...

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Faruk Gulban: Meso-Vessel Imaging with 7 T MRI

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Peter Bandettini @fmri-today.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

A new season of OHBM Neurosalience has started. Here's our kickoff episode where I talk with Lead Producer, Michelle Li about highlights from the past season, reaching our 100th episode, the controversial DIANA paper from last year, and what to expect. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFcq...

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Neurosalience #S6E1 - Highlights of season 5 and looking ahead to season 6

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Joel Reithler @joelreithler.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

We have an exciting 4-year PhD position available @maastrichtu.bsky.social focusing on intracranial EEG recordings to investigate how hippocampal ripples contribute to human memory processing. For more info: tinyurl.com/r5c49zuy (closing date Nov 2nd) Please help spread the word! #neurojobs

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PhD Candidate: Neurophysiological mechanisms underlying human memory

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Marvellous Minoan clay vessels made by creative potters on the island of Crete during the Aegean Bronze Age around 3,500 years ago! 🤩 Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me #Archaeology

From the Aegean Bronze Age, Minoan clay vessels with black handpainted decoration.on a pale biscuity-coloured slip

Top left - clay flask decorated in Minoan ‘Marine Style’’ with an octopus with tentacles writhing around the body of the vase. Additional motifs such as seaweed and rocks represent the seabed. From Palaikastro, 1500-1450 BC

Top right - clay rhyton in the shape of a bull’s head. A rhyton is a type of pouring vessel used for filling cups or making liquid offerings. There is a pouring hole at the bull’s mouth. From Knossos Little Palace, 1450-1375 BC

Bottom left - Nautilus vessel - clay rhyton depicting the seabed with nautili, corals and seaweed. From Phaistos Palace, 1500-1450 BC

Bottom right - Basket shaped rhyton decorated with double-axe motif. There is a small pouring hole in one of the bottom corners. From Pseira, 1500-1450 BC

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Paul Prudence @mrprudence.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

'In 1953, while working a hotel switchboard, a college graduate named Shea Zellweger began a journey of wonder and obsession that would eventually lead to the invention of a radically new notation for logic' @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/18/we...

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Paul Prudence @mrprudence.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Mapping the dynamics of phyllotaxis in Palms. Illustration from Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius’s Historia naturalis palmarum, issued in 10 parts, 1823-50

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Faruk Gulban @ofgulban.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

One reason I developed LayNii IDA was to more easily explore my 0.35 mm multi echo human brain data. Here I’m observing blood motion artifacts across echos. The arterial signal *appear* to move across several millimeters. Best captured in short readout windows (e.g. ~3 ms readout windows in GRE).

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Paul Prudence @mrprudence.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

The most primal generative experiences may be ones created by the visual cortex alone, or at least those involving the visual cortex in close collaboration with entheogenic triggers or light stimulation. Subjective Visual Phenomena – Johann Purkinje, 1819

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Faruk Gulban @ofgulban.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

I've always wanted to explore fMRI time series as a smooth, real-time movie. Now I can with LayNii IDA. Plus, with voxel-wise correlations on the fly. Fast, intuitive, and surprisingly insightful. 40 ms TR fMRI data from @practicalfmri.bsky.social ! @layerfmri.bsky.social @afni-pt.bsky.social

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Kevin Sitek @sitek.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

One more: Marshall Xu is presenting our latest updates in mapping brainstem vasculature at poster #1759, where he did some nifty image transformations + VesselBoost segmentation to get our best results yet. Take a look! @sbollmann.bsky.social @ofgulban.bsky.social ww6.aievolution.com/hbm2501/Abst...

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Faruk Gulban @ofgulban.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Demonstrating anatomy-functional data registration of 11.7 T (!) partial-coverage human fMRI data at 0.7 × 0.7 × 0.8 mm resolution to help my colleague Alejandro Monreal-Madrigal. Who did a great work with this spiral readout acquisition. The data quality looks quite good 👏 youtu.be/Cgf8i-Lqrac

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Let's Analyze E006 - Register 11.7 T human fMRI data

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Faruk Gulban @ofgulban.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Devlog #1 for LayNii IDA, a GUI for meso-(f)MRI data Featuring whole human brain MRI datasets at: • 0.8 mm functional data • 0.35 mm in vivo multi-echo anatomical data • 0.075 mm ex vivo anatomical data Chronicling the development journey of neuroimaging software. youtu.be/ZFsBljNOcyw?...

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LayNii IDA Devlog #001 – A Meso-MRI GUI Is Born (Sort Of)

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xkcd title text @xkcd-titletext.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Title text: "If you think curiosity without rigor is bad, you should see rigor without curiosity." Alt text: explainxkcd.com/3101#Transcript

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Faruk Gulban @ofgulban.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

In this blog post I am exploring the strange tension between rigor, reach, and recognition in modern science. What we gain (and lose) by just publishing the PDFs: thingsonthings.org/just-publish...

Throughout history, people have shared ideas through the dominant communication tools of their time, cave paintings, handwritten letters, printed pamphlets, digital journals, blogs... What once seemed informal became formal. What once didn’t “count” eventually did. Today’s citation-worthy PDF may be tomorrow’s quaint artifact.

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layerfmri.bsky.social @layerfmri.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

At today's layer-fMRI seminar, @ofgulban.bsky.social presented stunning high resolution vein mapping tools. It left me quite excited. youtu.be/0V8fSjo2T2w?...

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Faruk Gulban: Meso Veins Meet Layer fMRI in High-Speed Data Exploration for the New Mesoscopic Era

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Faruk Gulban @ofgulban.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

New in LayNii v2.9.0: Introducing *LayNii IDA*, a high-performance tool for real-time interaction with ultra–high resolution MRI data. Built for speed, designed for discovery. Still early, but a big step toward the next era of 7T fMRI: higher resolution, larger datasets. github.com/layerfMRI/La...

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Faruk Gulban @ofgulban.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

In neuroimaging, we do skull stripping, but not brain stripping. Feels like favoritism.

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Faruk Gulban @ofgulban.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

[Field Note, Entry 05] - Refrain from repeating k-space experiment [Explosion_05]. What began as signal amplification now resembles an awakening. Frequencies folded in on themselves—revealing geometries that should not exist. - Proceeding further may breach more than spatial coherence...

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Paul Taylor @afni-pt.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

The result of a large (42 authors!) collaboration: "Go Figure: Transparency in neuroscience images preserves context and clarifies interpretation" arxiv.org/abs/2504.07824 TL;DR: The FMRI world can (and should) improve results interpretation and reproducibility *today*, via transparent thresholding.

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Faruk Gulban @ofgulban.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

I think ultra-high field MRI will be shifting toward ~0.35 mm voxels, even in routine use. This isn't just sharper images. We now directly see cortical layers, veins... It’s a leap, not a tweak. A few already crossed this threshold, but now it's becoming practical. More: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

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layerfmri.bsky.social @layerfmri.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

New layer-fMRI paper discussing an omnipresent artifact in layer-fMRI EPI data: Fuzzy Ripples. This artifact comes from short term gradient imperfections and represents the biggest limitation of layer-fMRI acquisition (wrt TRs, resolution, lower brain areas). doi.org/10.1002/mrm....

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Faruk Gulban @ofgulban.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Mesoscopic veins appear as dark dots peppered across the middle gray matter surface—captured in living humans. High-precision cortex segmentation + T2*-weighted MRI at 0.35 mm isotropic resolution makes this possible. More at: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

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Faruk Gulban @ofgulban.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

In vivo reconstruction of Duvernoy's postmortem vasculature images - Fast, high-res imaging: Whole-brain 0.35 mm MRI in <7 min at 7 T - Vessel-type specific podt-processing: Capturing large leptomeningeal, pial, and intracortical meso-veins PDF: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

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Paul Prudence @mrprudence.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Dieter Appelt Partitur No. 39, 2018 At the Galerie Thomas Schulte www.galeriethomasschulte.com/artists/34-d...

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layerfmri.bsky.social @layerfmri.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

New Layer-fMRI paper: T1234. A sequence that gets structural reference data, in 3-4 minutes. While also being optimized for applications in layer-fMRI studies. doi.org/10.1002/mrm.... Here a the MRM highlights video with practical tricks: youtu.be/9GBP9i1V3c4 By Kenny at al.

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Michelle Moerel @mmoerel.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

🚨 PhD opportunity alert! 🚨 Passionate about neuroscience? Want to work with cutting-edge tech like ultra-high field MRI and intracranial EEG to study the human brain? Join us and push the boundaries of neuroscience 🧠✨ 📍 @macsbio.bsky.social 📆 2 March 🔗 tinyurl.com/bfjwpmt9 #neurojobs #PhD

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PhD candidate in Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience

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layerfmri.bsky.social @layerfmri.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

The layer-fMRI field has changed since the pandemic: -> studies are larger -> majority uses 3D readouts -> a bit more sharing -> majority uses non-BOLD contrasts

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Peter Bandettini @fmri-today.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Dr. Seiji Ogawa discovered and coined "Blood Oxygenation Level Dependent" BOLD contrast - used in almost all fMRI today. It was my great honor to interview him over two days on the very beginnings of fMRI, and so much more. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gBK...

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Neurosalience #S5E7 with Seiji Ogawa - The discoverer of the BOLD contrast and fMRI

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layerfmri.bsky.social @layerfmri.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

This was a fun discussion! talking about the unique value of layer-fMRI and how I got there. Thanks Ben for having me at the BJKS Podcast.

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Peter Bandettini @fmri-today.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

I had a great discussion with Vesa Kiviniemi, from Oulu University. He described his latest work using high speed whole brain acquisition (MREG) to characterize brain pulsations - and perhaps hints of the glymphatic system. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...

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Neurosalience #S5E6 with Vesa Kiviniemi - Pulsations Matter: Imaging Glymphatic System using MREG

Podcast Episode · OHBM Neurosalience · 01/08/2025 · 1h 31m

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