storrisi.bsky.social @storrisi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026mrisimlab.com/simulator.htmlmrisimlab.comMRISim — interactive MRI physics in your browserAn interactive MRI physics simulator running entirely in your browser via Pyodide — no install. 000
storrisi.bsky.social @storrisi.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Universities must stop protecting bullies — or more people will leave science www.nature.com/articles/d41... 000
storrisi.bsky.social @storrisi.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Someone tried to "clean up" parts of voxel-wise activations with AI and the results were HORRENDOUS. Cluster shapes changed, some crosshairs moved outside the clusters, the brain underlay grew new sulci and underwent some affine skewing, etc. Goes without saying but please don't ever do this. 010
Reposted by @storrisi.bsky.socialAuditory-Visual Speech Association (AVISA) @avsp.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Simultaneous speech and gesture decoding for multimodal communication in paralysis www.nature.com/articles/s41... Shows neural signals recorded with a single high-density electrocorticography implant can support simultaneous decoding of speech & gestures Commentary www.nature.com/articles/d41...nature.comSimultaneous speech and gesture decoding for multimodal communication in paralysis - Nature NeuroscienceBrosler et al. develop a brain–computer interface that simultaneously decodes speech and gestures from a single cortical implant to animate a virtual avatar, providing a step toward more flexible comm... 061
storrisi.bsky.social @storrisi.bsky.social · 21/09/2026the Delta DIY MRI Workshop (building an ultra-low field scanner) at JHU in Baltimore was super fun and educational last week. highly recommended. 000
storrisi.bsky.social @storrisi.bsky.social · 18/09/2026www.cestworkshop.comcestworkshop.comHome | CEST Workshop 2027 000
Reposted by @storrisi.bsky.socialMatt Wall @mattwall.bsky.social · 04/09/2026First report on fMRI data from the absolute monster 11.7T Iseult MRI scanner at the NeuroSpin centre in France. Cool stuff. direct.mit.edu/imag/article...direct.mit.eduHuman fMRI at 11.7T: Assessing Feasibility, Stability, and Reliability on the Iseult ScannerAbstract. Ultra-high-field MRI promises major gains in BOLD sensitivity but introduces severe challenges such as RF field inhomogeneity, B0 field inhomogeneity, motion and vibration-induced field vari... 22611
Reposted by @storrisi.bsky.socialtor @torwager.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Launching scienceofplacebo.org: a living bibliography of placebo and nocebo research. New papers screened & tagged daily by design, population, outcome and findings, with a searchable database (currently about 5,000 papers), an interactive researcher map, events, news and discussion.scienceofplacebo.orgScience of PlaceboA research hub for the science of placebo and nocebo effects: a daily-updated feed of new papers, a searchable tagged database, bibliometrics, events, resources and discussion. 22410
storrisi.bsky.social @storrisi.bsky.social · 05/09/2026AI watermarking is more clever and complex than i had imagined youtu.be/BFksx2M93sw?...youtu.beGoogle has secretly been watermarking your text for years.YouTube video by Alberta Tech 000
Reposted by @storrisi.bsky.socialPaul Taylor @afni-pt.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Have 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 19151
Reposted by @storrisi.bsky.socialEliza Bliss-Moreau @eblissmoreau.bsky.social · 29/08/2026We're currently hiring a new director for the renowned UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain. The director will be appointed as a Professor in our psychology department: recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07814recruit.ucdavis.eduDirector of the Center for Mind and Brain & Professor of PsychologyUniversity of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now! 05740
Reposted by @storrisi.bsky.socialAperture Neuro @apertureohbm.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Can real-time brain feedback be combined with targeted brain stimulation? Beynel et al. demonstrate the feasibility of integrating real-time #fMRI neurofeedback with #rTMS—and share valuable technical lessons for future studies. 🔗 apertureneuro.org/article/1655... 041
storrisi.bsky.social @storrisi.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Longitudinal Precision Functional Mapping in Psychiatry jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...jamanetwork.comLongitudinal Precision Functional Mapping in PsychiatryThis Viewpoint discusses longitudinal precision functional mapping in psychiatry. 031
Reposted by @storrisi.bsky.socialRichard D. Morey @richarddmorey.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Nothing in my experimental-cognitive/math-psych background could have prepared me for the unique horror of large-scale routinely-collected medical and educational data 810313
Reposted by @storrisi.bsky.socialBWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Just had my daily reminder of how wonderful the NIH peeps are who handle all of the work involved in managing grants for those of us out here in extramural land. The NIH staff really are the best humans, working so hard to ensure that the science can continue in incredibly challenging times. 27718
storrisi.bsky.social @storrisi.bsky.social · 15/08/2026they have some exciting things cooking: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...biorxiv.orgDeep Computational Anatomy via Latent-Aligned Multiview Normalizing FlowsIn modeling complex probability distributions, normalizing flows provide exact-likelihood, bijective mappings between empirical data and tractable latent spaces. Building on this foundation, latent-al... 000
storrisi.bsky.social @storrisi.bsky.social · 08/08/2026my abstract "Functional MRI comparisons of a motor task at 3T, 5T and 7T" was accepted at @asfnr.bsky.social. hope to you see you down in Newport Beach in October! 010
Reposted by @storrisi.bsky.socialAbraham Zelalem Vollan @azvollan.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Now in Science: How does the brain’s navigation system allocate its limited representational resources during behavior? We found that grid cells sweep toward locations of interest, providing a potential mechanism for allocating spatial attention in the cognitive map.🧵 science.org/doi/10.1126/... 512150
storrisi.bsky.social @storrisi.bsky.social · 01/08/2026www.linkedin.com/posts/dipy_d...linkedin.com#dipy #dmrizerotohero #diffusionmri #neuroimaging #tractography #brainmapping #python #neuroscience | Diffusion Imaging in Python🍃 Welcome to Week 30 of our Diffusion MRI Zero To Hero series! Over the past 29 weeks, we have walked through the entire diffusion MRI pipeline - from what diffusion MRI even is, all the way to mappi... 010
storrisi.bsky.social @storrisi.bsky.social · 28/07/2026www.jneurosci.org/content/46/2...jneurosci.orgMy Fifty Years Thinking about Emotional Consciousness in the BrainThis piece provides an overview of my fifty-year career as a neuroscientist. I spent much of this time trying to understand what emotions are and how they relate to human behavior and consciousness. I... 020
storrisi.bsky.social @storrisi.bsky.social · 27/07/2026wanted to learn @nilearn.bsky.social GLM-ing at NeuroHackademy, so as part of a group project I analyzed the open dataset "Study Forrest" localizers at the group level (n=15), visualized with alpha thresholding (also nilearn). here's the body localizer, corrected at p<0.001 via permutation testing: 010
storrisi.bsky.social @storrisi.bsky.social · 26/07/2026had an absolute blast in the 2 week NeuroHackademy workshop up at University of Washington 010
Reposted by @storrisi.bsky.socialRik Henson @rhens.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Thanks to Kshipra Guranandan, my notebook on how to design efficient fMRI experiments (for activity, connectivity and pattern analysis) is now available in Python as a Jupyter notebook (as well as previous Matlab): github.com/RikHenson/fM...github.comGitHub - RikHenson/fMRIefficiencyContribute to RikHenson/fMRIefficiency development by creating an account on GitHub. 06226
Reposted by @storrisi.bsky.socialNature Reviews Psychology @natrevpsychol.nature.com · 13/07/2026Proprietary LLMs impede scientific transparency and reproducibility Comment by Killian L. McLoughlin, Alexis Palmer, J. Nathan Matias & M. J. Crockett Web: go.nature.com/4wDYqGI PDF: rdcu.be/ftzkM 12714
Reposted by @storrisi.bsky.socialDan Handwerker @danielhandwerker.bsky.social · 10/07/2026The 2026 fMRI Summer Course with @fmri-today.bsky.social has begun and the recordings and slides are shared here: fmrif.nimh.nih.gov/SummerCoursefmrif.nimh.nih.govFMRIF Summer Course 02415
storrisi.bsky.social @storrisi.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Why paying peer reviewers works, according to a journal’s editor-in-chief www.nature.com/articles/d41...nature.comWhy paying peer reviewers works, according to a journal’s editor-in-chiefA biology journal that paid peer reviewers found that the approach cut the time to a first editorial decision by 85% and maintained high-quality reviews. 000
storrisi.bsky.social @storrisi.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Multiscale characterization of the human claustrum from histology to MRI www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 000
Reposted by @storrisi.bsky.socialBlaise Frederick @blaisefrederick.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Dr. Tianye Zhai’s careful and exhaustive new paper evaluating the effects of numerous fMRI denoising pipeline components, alone and in combination, just came out in HBM - check it out! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...onlinelibrary.wiley.comBenchmarking fMRI Denoising PipelinesThis paper benchmarked fMRI denoising pipelines on task- and resting-state, single- and multi-echo fMRI datasets, in a modern 1-step regression framework, with pre-whitening and time-shifted physiolo... 1118
Reposted by @storrisi.bsky.socialNeuroskeptic @neuroskeptic.bsky.social · 28/06/2026In-scanner thoughts contribute to resting-state functional connectivity pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42365014/ I've long thought that this is the "elephant in the room" of resting state #fMRI esp. for comparing groups. If two groups think & feel differently in the scanner, of course rsfMRI will differ! 65916
Reposted by @storrisi.bsky.socialImaging Neuroscience @imagingneurosci.bsky.social · 18/06/2026New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Andrea Brandstetter, Katrin Amunts, et al: Organization, fine structure, and stereotaxic maps of the human Bed nucleus of the Stria terminalis doi.org/10.1162/IMAG... 031
storrisi.bsky.social @storrisi.bsky.social · 18/06/2026youtu.be/ML3q7Ok4hJg?...youtu.beI read every major CS paper of the last 100 years...YouTube video by Fireship 000
storrisi.bsky.social @storrisi.bsky.social · 15/06/2026afni.nimh.nih.gov/pub/dist/doc...afni.nimh.nih.gov14. Codex: AFNI Code Examples from publications — AFNI, SUMA and FATCAT: v25.2.00 010
Reposted by @storrisi.bsky.socialPaul Taylor @afni-pt.bsky.social · 09/06/2026Job ad (2/2): data scientist in the AFNI group (SSCC, NIMH, NIH, USA). FMRI/MRI methods dev, software design, statistics, analysis, data viz, quality control, machine learning and more! Please see: discuss.afni.nimh.nih.gov/t/job-ad-dat... I am happy to chat at OHBM+Brainhack. Please share! 0119
Reposted by @storrisi.bsky.socialPaul Taylor @afni-pt.bsky.social · 09/06/2026Job ad (1/2): Postdoc fellowship in the AFNI group (SSCC, NIMH, NIH, USA). FMRI/MRI methods dev, software design, statistics, analysis, data viz, quality control, machine learning and more! Please see: discuss.afni.nimh.nih.gov/t/job-ad-pos... I am happy to chat at OHBM+Brainhack. Please share! 22625
Reposted by @storrisi.bsky.socialAlexander Rauscher 🖇️ @rauschermri.bsky.social · 05/06/2026You can track respiration during fMRI using the phase images of your EPI scan; the fMRI respiration tracking toolbox got an update. github.com/alexjaffray/...github.comGitHub - alexjaffray/fMRI-phase-toolbox: Toolbox for processing and analysis of spatiotemporal image phase fluctuations during fMRI scans.Toolbox for processing and analysis of spatiotemporal image phase fluctuations during fMRI scans. - alexjaffray/fMRI-phase-toolbox 053
Reposted by @storrisi.bsky.socialMarc L Seal @parkvillegeek.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Did you know? State-of-the-art preprocessing diffusion MRI data can improve tractography | Brain Structure and Function | Springer Nature Link link.springer.com/article/10.1...link.springer.comDid you know? State-of-the-art preprocessing diffusion MRI data can improve tractography - Brain Structure and FunctionBrain Structure and Function - Diffusion MRI fiber tractography is sensitive to noise and artifacts in diffusion-weighted images, and these challenges can propagate into fiber-orientation... 081
Reposted by @storrisi.bsky.socialJosh Johansen @jojolab.bsky.social · 07/05/2026I’m very sad to share that Howard Fields has died. He made seminal discoveries in pain modulation, placebo, and addiction. He was also a wonderful mentor and friend who taught me how to think about the brain and the joy of scientific discovery. www.iasp-pain.org/publications...iasp-pain.orgIn Memory of Howard L. Fields - International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP)IASP is deeply saddened to hear of the recent death of Honorary IASP Member, Prof Howard Fields, and we offer our condolences to his family, friends and colleagues. We are […] 35815
Reposted by @storrisi.bsky.socialThe Journal of Pain @thejournalofpain.bsky.social · 24/04/2026Original: Drs. Strigo, Simmons, @storrisi.bsky.social, @benalter.bsky.social, et al. identified distinct neural phenotypes of pain anticipation in chronic low back pain (cLBP) and examined their clinical and physiological correlates in 43 cLBP patients. FULL:jpain.orgBrain mechanisms of pain anticipation in chronic low back pain: Insights into phenotypical responses to mind-body therapyPain perception and emotional processing share common predictive mechanisms influenced by anticipation, expectation, and uncertainty. This study identifies distinct neural phenotypes of pain… 012
storrisi.bsky.social @storrisi.bsky.social · 07/05/2026youtu.be/MtxP2pyCvYA?...youtu.beEvery operating system concept in one video…YouTube video by Fireship 000
Reposted by @storrisi.bsky.socialPessoaBrain @pessoabrain.bsky.social · 07/05/2026𝗠𝗮𝗷𝗼𝗿 𝗱𝗲𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗲𝗻𝘀 𝗼𝗳 circuit 𝗱𝘆𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀 Finally research is considering the functional/ anatomical complexity of the brain. It's not about regions, but how circuits function dynamically. www.cell.com/neuron/abstr... #neuroskyence 511330
Reposted by @storrisi.bsky.socialDan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Selecting an effect size for power analysis is hard. Many researchers fall back on Cohen's thresholds, but they have no empirical basis and vary wildly by field. Our new paper offers a better option: field-specific effect size distributions built from meta-analytic data doi.org/10.3758/s134... 316175
Reposted by @storrisi.bsky.socialKonrad Kording @kordinglab.bsky.social · 28/04/2026After rereading the cool hidden brain paper (www.frontiersin.org/journals/sys...) I decided to make a new version. Code and everything available here: github.com/koerding/neu... Most popular: hippocampus. Why are diagonal band, medial geniculate nucleus, and interposed nucleus so unpopular? 46520
Reposted by @storrisi.bsky.socialpractiCal fMRI @practicalfmri.bsky.social · 27/04/2026BOLD response delays represent local cortical processing pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42015405/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.govBOLD response delays represent local cortical processing - PubMedA number of studies showed that stimulus or task conditions can alter the shape of the hemodynamic response (HR). Contrary to variations across brains and brain regions, vascular factors alone cannot ... 011
Reposted by @storrisi.bsky.socialAntje Hellwich @antjehellwich.bsky.social · 24/04/2026Deep Learning Reconstruction to Support Clinical Adoption of Submillimeter #Neuroimaging at #7T. Piotr Radojewski, MD (inselbruppe.bsky.social), et al. 📄 marketing.webassets.siemens-healthineers.com/d101b2500100... #MRI #UHF #NeuroSky #RadSky #DeepLearning @tomhilbertmri.bsky.social 052
storrisi.bsky.social @storrisi.bsky.social · 10/04/2026The world’s supply of helium is being threatened by the Iran war theconversation.com/the-worlds-s...theconversation.comThe world’s supply of helium is being threatened by the Iran warHelium, a critical material, could be in short-supply due to Qatar’s suspension of gas production. 000
storrisi.bsky.social @storrisi.bsky.social · 02/04/2026so i guess dcm2bids died because they made breaking changes multiple times? codebase hasn't been updated in years. what are people using now? 110
Reposted by @storrisi.bsky.socialDan Handwerker @danielhandwerker.bsky.social · 30/03/2026How do we define "good" fMRI data? Especially with resting state, there are circularity risks if we evaluate data quality as showing the networks we expect to see. Javier Gonzalez-Castillo (& me & others) developed pBOLD, a new metric that uses multi-echo info. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/8biorxiv.org 13419
Reposted by @storrisi.bsky.socialJörn Diedrichsen @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social · 24/03/2026For nearly two decades resting-state fMRI has ruled supreme. And resting-state is suprisingly powerful. But we can do so much better by using broad batteries of tasks with the right design. Here a double-punch delivered by two papers from @carobellum.bsky.social and @basselarafat.bsky.social! 1218
storrisi.bsky.social @storrisi.bsky.social · 18/03/2026Thanks so much @tknapen.bsky.social and Gilles de Hollander for their @openneuro.bsky.social upload of a special ODC dataset. Was able to replicate the ODC findings from your subject 6 using my afni_proc + SUMA-based pipeline. i'll post the LH below. 221
