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Matthias Nau @matthiasnau.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Thrilled to share our new #preprint, and super proud of @zednud.bsky.social and our work on eye–brain dynamics during eyes-closed rest and sleep! Also excited to share that Zach started his PhD with me recently! 🎉 Lots of ideas and cool work ahead. Follow him on Bluesky and check out his thread! 🧵

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Serge Dumoulin @sergedumoulin.net · 21/07/2026

👁️🧠🧪 Vision takes time. But how does visual information flow through the human brain? Our new PLOS Computational Biology paper uses population receptive field (pRF) modelling to bring the spatial precision of fMRI to MEG, revealing the temporal dynamics of visual areas. 📖 doi.org/10.1371/jour...

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Non-invasive mapping of the temporal processing hierarchy in the human visual cortex

Author summary Vision doesn’t happen instantaneously, but unfolds over time. While we understand a lot about how the brain processes visual space, understanding how the brain processes information ove...

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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

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Matthias Nau @matthiasnau.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

I’ve been leading a few discussions on #AgenticAI in research lately. Honestly, every department should organize a colloquium on this ASAP. It's evolving so fast, students are using it, and many don't understand risks like prompt injections. Many opportunities too. Put this on your agenda! 1/2

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Serge Dumoulin @sergedumoulin.net · 12/02/2026

In sports, we celebrate 1st, 2nd, 3rd. Everyone else gets lumped together. Why? Using 7T MRI, pRF modelling, and artificial neural networks, we show that tuning underlies ordinality perception, with most neural populations preferring early ordinalities. doi.org/10.1523/JNEU... 🧪🧠

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Neural tuning for ordinal processing: convergent patterns in human brains and artificial networks

Processing ordinality, i.e., the rank of an item in a series such as 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc., is a fundamental skill shared by humans and animals. While humans often use symbolic sequences like numbers or...

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Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience (NIN) @nin-knaw.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Publication alert: Vicarious body maps bridge vision and touch in the human brain. 🧠 Read the full article here: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Congratulation @tknapen.bsky.social and all researchers involved!

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Matthias Nau @matthiasnau.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Honored to receive the Early Career Award by @brain-cognition-nl.bsky.social (NVP) and to give a prize lecture on the general principles of active vision, memory, and imagination. Huge thanks to the NVP community, my mentors, collaborators, and students that shaped this work over the years! 1/2

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Serge Dumoulin @sergedumoulin.net · 04/02/2026

🎓 15 fully funded #PhD positions in EU-funded Doctoral Network. 🧪🧠 We lead Project 7 (@spinozacentre.bsky.social & @nin-knaw.bsky.social): 4-year PhD combining 7T MRI + MEG with computational modelling of vision & individual differences. Apply: indibrain.eu #AcademicJobs

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Characterizing individual brain differences to advance personalized diagnosis, treatment, and sustainable healthcare

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Serge Dumoulin @sergedumoulin.net · 19/01/2026

15 fully funded PhD positions in EU-funded Doctoral Network (IndiBrain). We lead Project 7 (@spinozacentre.bsky.social, @nin-knaw.bsky.social): biologically inspired models of individual observers combining 7T MRI + MEG, focusing on vision and recurrent processing. 4-year PhD. Apply: indibrain.eu

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Characterizing individual brain differences to advance personalized diagnosis, treatment, and sustainable healthcare

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Spinoza Centre for Neuroimaging @spinozacentre.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Happy New Year! Rare images of snowy Spinoza in MRI chill mode. ❄️

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Spinoza Centre for Neuroimaging @spinozacentre.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Our team's new publications cover the Nature portfolio! 🧪🧠 - Vision & touch (Nature, rdcu.be/eSsZR) - Psychedelics (Nat Commun, rdcu.be/eSsZ2) - Binocular rivalry (Nat Hum Behav, rdcu.be/eSsYW) - CSF mobility (Nat Neurosci, rdcu.be/eSs0c) - Numerical cognition (Commun Biol, rdcu.be/eSs0p)

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scienceartnews.bsky.social @scienceartnews.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Research paper of neuroscientists and radiologists, Nicholas Hedger ( @uniofreading.bsky.social ) Thomas Naselaris & Kendric Kay (University of Minnesota) @tknapen ( @vuamsterdam.bsky.social, @spinozacentre.bsky.social ), is gepubliceerd in @nature.com 2/2

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Tomas Knapen @tknapen.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

New today in @Nature: your visual cortex contains touch-based body maps. bit.ly/VisualBodyMaps Your brain transforms what you see into first-person, body-referenced codes: A previously unknown bridge between vision and touch.

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Marco Aqil @marcoaqil.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Our new paper is out in Nature Communications! nature.com/articles/s41... We combined psychophysics, 7T fMRI, and computational modeling of vision with placebo, 5mg, and 10mg psilocybin, in the same group of participants, to clarify the computational mechanisms of psychedelics. 🧵

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Liangyou Zhang @liangyouzhang.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Excited to share that my first article is now published in Communications Biology! Humans and many animals have an innate ability to rapidly perceive numerosity—the number of objects in a visual scene. But how does our brain process this fundamental capability? Read the full paper: rdcu.be/eRxMi

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Numerosity adaptation suppresses early visual responses

Communications Biology - Numerosity adaptation suppresses monotonic neural responses to numerosity displays in the early visual cortex, with more suppression for higher numerosity adaptors....

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Matthias Nau @matthiasnau.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Datasets like NSD & THINGS offer rich stimuli but often test a single task. After great conversations at #CCN2025 on multi-task studies & generalization in brains & models, I thought I would repost our perspective for those interested in this topic. We need multiple tasks!👉 doi.org/10.1038/s415...

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Centering cognitive neuroscience on task demands and generalization - Nature Neuroscience

Task demands are a primary determiner of behavior and neurophysiology. Here the authors discuss how understanding their influence through multitask studies and tests of generalization is the key to ar...

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Marcus Daghlian @dagnsci.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Don’t miss our upcoming CCN satellite event, Applying Computational Models to Clinical Disorders (August 11th). This session will showcase how computational methods are transforming our understanding and treatment of sensory disorders dlwiki.nin.nl/ccn_2025 #CCN2025 #CompNeuro #VisionScience

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Computational insights into clinical disorders (August 11, 2025)

Cognitive Computational Neuroscience conference satellite event on computational models and clinical disorders

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Carlien Roelofzen @carlienroelofzen.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Voor onze fMRI studie zijn wij nog steeds op zoek naar volwassenen met amblyopie (‘lui oog’) of glaucoom! Meer informatie en aanmelden: dlwiki.nin.nl/Participate

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Deelnemen aan hersenonderzoek

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Serge Dumoulin @sergedumoulin.net · 03/07/2025

#Newpaper showing that contextual responses drive a unique laminar signature in human V1. Using line-scanning #fMRI at #7T, we show how stimulus-driven and contextual inputs target distinct layers. Contextual input targeted superficial and deep cortical depths. 🧪 🧠 www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

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Contextual responses drive a unique laminar signature in human V1

Natural sciences; Biological sciences; Neuroscience; Systems neuroscience

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Nikos Priovoulos @nikospriovoulos.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

New paper from the amazing Emma Brouwer: humble, group-optimized B1+ shims at 7T can boost or destroy signal where it matters—no subject-specific calibration needed. in MRM doi.org/10.1002/mrm.... @spinozacentre.bsky.social🎓🧠 #MRI #fMRI #Neuroimaging #7T

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Easy‐to‐use B1+ shims for human brain imaging at 7 T

Purpose B1+$$ {B}_1^{+} $$ field inhomogeneity is a common problem in high field brain MRI (>3$$ >3 $$ T). Parallel-transmit methods that adjust the B1+$$ {B}_1^{+} $$ field channelwise often requi.....

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Open Science Community Amsterdam @oscamsterdam.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

#OSCAwards2025 | open access, data, materials & software: OpenMReye: camera-free magnetic resonance-based eye tracking for research and clinical applications 👀🩻 by @matthiasnau.bsky.social Find out more: github.com/DeepMReye/

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DeepMReye

DeepMReye is a software package for magnetic resonance-based eye tracking for (f)MRI experiments. Contact: m.nau[at]vu.nl & markus.frey1[at]gmail.com - DeepMReye

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Matthias Nau @matthiasnau.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Honored to receive the #OSCAward2025. Thank you to the #OpenScience community @oscamsterdam.bsky.social for this recognition and for the inspiring work you do! And congrats to the other prize winners! 🎉 1/2

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Serge Dumoulin @sergedumoulin.net · 12/06/2025

Great symposium on #neuroscience of mathematical cognition with talks by Yuxuan Cai, @liangyouzhang.bsky.social , Ben Harvey and @jacobmpaul.bsky.social

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Liangyou Zhang @liangyouzhang.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

I'm really glad to have this chance to share our numerosity adaptation work at #MCLS2025. Thanks for our organizers.

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Spinoza Centre for Neuroimaging @spinozacentre.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

New pod available at Spinoza Centre: a private space in our open office for phone calls, meetings, or videoconferencing!

Pod in office space perfectly blending in

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Serge Dumoulin @sergedumoulin.net · 27/05/2025

Writing a scientific paper or thesis? Over the years, I’ve gathered my favorite practical writing tips. I hope you find them helpful! Check them out: dlwiki.nin.nl/Writing_and_... #AcademicWriting #SciComm #WritingTips 🖊️🧪 🧠

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Scientific writing tips

In scientific writing clarity is of utmost importance. Thoughts on writing, including figures, to get your results published - and reach your audience!

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Carlien Roelofzen @carlienroelofzen.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Gezocht: volwassenen met amblyopie (‘lui oog’) of glaucoom Heb je amblyopie of glaucoom? En ben je benieuwd hoe jouw visuele aandoening invloed heeft op de hersenen? Doe dan mee aan ons fMRI onderzoek in Amsterdam en help de wetenschap vooruit! Meer info en aanmelden: dlwiki.nin.nl/Participate

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Mel Goodale @action-brain.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Come to Coimbra, Portugal, this September for SAW (Seeing and Acting Workshop). A wonderful meeting in a beautiful place. Submit your poster abstracts by July 31. Registration deadline is Aug 31. Check out the great lineup of speakers. Website here: www.uc.pt/cogbooster/s... Please re-post.🧪🧠

Poster describing the upcoming Seeing and Acting Workshop, September 25-27, 2025 at the University of Coimbra: Speakers: Cristina Becchio, Marlene Behrmann, Katja Doerschner, Russell Epstein, François Osiurak, Marco Tamietto, and Wim Vanduffel.

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Serge Dumoulin @sergedumoulin.net · 19/05/2025

Finished reading "Co-intelligence" by @emollick.bsky.social Refreshingly practical on human-AI collaboration with concrete examples. Cuts through the doomsaying and hype. Worth your time if you want to learn about AI or how to integrate AI tools in your workflow. #bookreviews #AI

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Nicolás Sánchez-Fuenzalida @n41c0.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

To celebrate the defence of my PhD, and thanks to @ibbamsterdam.bsky.social, I will host a symposium titled "Vision as prediction: learning, action, and biases" on June 6. Program, registration and more information here: bit.ly/43reOgR

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Tomas Knapen @tknapen.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Hey everyone at @vssmtg.bsky.social! If you’re interested in pRF fitting, go visit Garikoitz Lerma-Usabiaga’s poster on pRF fitting methods! For our development of these tools, we’re very interested to hear you want in these tools. Please fill out our questionnaire: forms.gle/fx5UMs1362jv...

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pRF fitting toolbox wish list

With this form we are taking stock of the field's wishes when it comes to pRF fitting software implementations. We will be presenting the results from this form in our kick-off meeting, and will use t...

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KNAW - Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen @knaw-nl.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Academische vrijheid staat onder druk en moet beter worden beschermd. Die conclusie lees je vandaag in dit KNAW-rapport: www.knaw.nl/nieuws/knaw-... Aanbevelingen o.m.: meer vrijheid van onderzoek, bescherming tegen intimidatie en minder inhoudelijke overheidsbemoeienis.

Rapport KNAW: Academische vrijheid in Nederland

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Biozentrum, University of Basel @biozentrum.unibas.ch · 12/05/2025

Deadline for the #BiozentrumPhDFellowships Summer Call: May 18, 2025 Don’t miss your chance — submit your application now and start your scientific journey @biozentrum.unibas.ch! 👉 Learn more and apply here: bit.ly/4caiqqX

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Serge Dumoulin @sergedumoulin.net · 12/05/2025

Great news for postdocs! The EU launches 404M€ call (±1650 fellowships). Open to ALL nationalities willing to do research in Europe. 🧪 #MSCA #PostdocFunding

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Oxford University Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging (OxCIN) @oxcin.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Registration Open! FSL Course 2025 will be held fully online, 15th – 26th September. Details & registration info here: open.win.ox.ac.uk/pages/fslcou... The course covers lectures & hands-on practicals on structural, functional, diffusion and resting state brain image analysis.

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Stanislas Dehaene @standehaene.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

A great position opening at NeuroSpin— with access to the world’s strongest human MRI, the Iseult 11.7 Tesla magnet!

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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

An open letter supporting the international bachelor’s psychology programs threatened for cuts. Proceeding with these cuts would damage some of the most important and impactful psychology departments globally. #supportdutchpsychology openletter.earth/against-lang...

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Against Language Barriers: A Call to Protect International Education in Dutch Academia

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Serge Dumoulin @sergedumoulin.net · 21/04/2025

With a heavy heart, postponing my USA travels due to the current political situation. Still deeply value and support USA science, the brilliant researchers and their important work. I will miss my colleagues and hope to reunite when times change. Science transcends borders, even when we cannot. 🧪 🌎

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Serge Dumoulin @sergedumoulin.net · 25/04/2025

Statistical power depends on number of participants AND number of datapoints per participant. This simple point is so often forgotten, especially in #neuroimaging. 🧪🧠 See also: doi.org/10.1037/met0...

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Matthias Nau @matthiasnau.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Excellent tutorial on fitting voxel-wise encoding models to #fMRI data by Dupré La Tour & @gallantlab.org! Check out their step by step walk through! Paper: osf.io/preprints/ps... Code: github.com/gallantlab/v...

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Spinoza Centre for Neuroimaging @spinozacentre.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Can understanding the brain bring meaningful changes to society? Exciting collaboration between artists and scientists, including Maartje de Jong from @spinozacentre.bsky.social and @nin-knaw.bsky.social neuro-narratives.com

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Art-Science Residency

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Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience (NIN) @nin-knaw.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

How can art and neuroscience help us reflect on our own perception and experience of the world? To explore that question, NeuroNarratives has paired eight neuroscientists and artists together so they can create thought-provoking artworks that will be presented in the centre of Amsterdam in 2026.

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Matthias Nau @matthiasnau.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

New #preprint! Proud to be part of this great study led by @jadynpark.bsky.social & @ycleong.bsky.social linking emotional arousal to enhanced memory encoding—using graph-based measures of large-scale brain dynamics.👇

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Steven Scholte @neurosteven.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

📢 CALL FOR SATELLITE EVENT PROPOSALS: CCN 2025 @ University of Amsterdam Submit your workshop, tutorial or special session proposal for Aug 11, 2025 to complement the main CCN conference program. Deadline: April 10, 2025 Details in thread 👇 #CCN2025 #CogNeuro

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Serge Dumoulin @sergedumoulin.net · 14/03/2025

!!!Psychedelic study participants wanted!!! For our neuroimaging study with psilocybin, we are looking for healthy participants between 21 and 55 years living near Amsterdam that have experience with psychedelics! For more info and signing up: tinyurl.com/4puse22z

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The effects of psilocybin on perceptual processing: a 7T fMRI study – PRiSM Lab

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

New layer-fMRI paper investigating whether the depth-dependent HRF is different across age groups. They find that its not different. By Luisa Raimondo et al. doi.org/10.1162/0898...

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Stanislas Dehaene @standehaene.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Call for new research group leaders… literally 50 meters from NeuroSpin and its 6 MRI magnets and MEG! Come work with us !

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