Kevin Aquino 🧠🔑
(PhD, BSc) Chief Scientific Officer at http://brainkey.ai.
Fatherhood, Science, Gaming & BrainKey news. My thoughts are my own.
- Reposted by Kevin Aquino 🧠🔑OHBM Oz rego + abstracts now open. Get amongst it!
- ✨✨ We are excited to announce the OHBM Australian Chapter 2025 Annual Meeting! 🧠🇦🇺 📢 Abstract submissions & registration now OPEN (abstract submission closes September 15th at 5pm) 📍 Melbourne 🏙️☕ 📅 Wednesday, November 12, 2025 ohbm-aus.github.io/posts/2025-a... We hope to see you there! 🤩
- Reposted by Kevin Aquino 🧠🔑✨✨ We are excited to announce the OHBM Australian Chapter 2025 Annual Meeting! 🧠🇦🇺 📢 Abstract submissions & registration now OPEN (abstract submission closes September 15th at 5pm) 📍 Melbourne 🏙️☕ 📅 Wednesday, November 12, 2025 ohbm-aus.github.io/posts/2025-a... We hope to see you there! 🤩
- Reposted by Kevin Aquino 🧠🔑New 2 year position as an Imaging Data Infrastructure Specialist Located a the Hunter Medical Research Institute (HMRI) & the University of Newcastle (UoN), in partnership with the National Imaging Facility (NIF), Apply here: www.seek.com.au/job/85537666
- Reposted by Kevin Aquino 🧠🔑Very much forward to this @ohbmofficial.bsky.social
- ⭐ Speaker Spotlight: Adeel Razi 🗓️ June 25 | 🕥 10:30 – 11:15 We’re excited to feature Adeel Razi at OHBM 2025. More information about Adeel in comments! #OHBM2025
- Reposted by Kevin Aquino 🧠🔑Have recent changes led to uncertainty in your future scientific career? Wonder it's like in Australia? Good news! Monash's is seeking to hire talented EMCRs from other countries. Come join a wonderful community of brain mappers & modellers! www.monash.edu/research/eme...
- How is BlueSky feeling compared to how Twitter used to be for scientific discourse? For me, I feel like the crowd has moved to here and LinkedIn. To my surprise LinkedIn has become a lot better since Science Twitter's downfall... (or is it all on Twitter again?)
- I'll be there giving my angle from an Ac->Industry perspective!
- Please join us for our upcoming webinar: "Navigating Academia and Parenthood" Hosted by our incoming Chair @drerynnchristensen.bsky.social Register today: forms.gle/BmiznE6bzL3Y... Speakers: @kevinaquino.bsky.social @saadjbabdi.bsky.social Dr. Michele Veldsman Dr. Isabella Breukelaar
- Two weeks ago, I had ticked off a life time goal: to give the occasional address at the University of Sydney faculty of Science graduation. It was an incredible honour to be standing in front of these graduates - a position I was first in ~20 years ago. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFRk...
- Reposted by Kevin Aquino 🧠🔑Info theory offers powerful measures for capturing complexity & interaction among elements of a complex system, like the brain! 🧠 Here's our new unified reference for key info-theoretic time series measures ft. 📊 visuals, ➗equations, & 💬descriptions: arxiv.org/abs/2505.13080
- Reposted by Kevin Aquino 🧠🔑🎨🧑🎨 Looking for a tool to visualize subcortical/thalamic data in 2D? Check out this python-based package I put together (subcortex-visualization on PyPI), plus a guide for creating your own custom atlas meshes and vector graphics! All feedback/tips welcome 😊 anniegbryant.github.io/subcortex_vi...
- Great stuff @goneill.bsky.social !
- New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by George C. O’Neill, Gareth R. Barnes, et al: Combining video telemetry and wearable MEG for naturalistic imaging doi.org/10.1162/imag...
- I have had other papers pass this mile stone, but this one is special as it was my 1st, first-author paper, and was the output from my PhD many moons ago! @drbreaky.bsky.social @mschira.bsky.social
- Reposted by Kevin Aquino 🧠🔑📣 First three years of my PhD have culminated in this work now published at PLoS Computational Biology! 🥳 We take a deep dive into all the many ways we can slice n dice fMRI dynamics to quantify biologically relevant properties 🧠🧮 doi.org/10.1371/jour...
- Happy @ohbmofficial.bsky.social submission day for all those that celebrate! 😆
- Well deserved!
- Don’t miss the new blogpost in our OHBM award winner series! Prof. Alex Fornito (@alexfornito.bsky.social), 2024 OHBM Mentor Award winner, shares his insights on mentorship, neuroscience, and more. Read it here: bit.ly/4f8Cdr9 Thanks to authors @audreycluo.bsky.social, @ashleytyrer.bsky.social
- I think this is worth a read, but it also highlights how hard it is to get the grant just right. Why can't it just be a series of dot points? So much time and money is wasted/spent in getting the prose and phrasing right.
- Reposted by Kevin Aquino 🧠🔑Our latest PP led by @kanepav.bsky.social looking at how rsfMRI denoising affects data quality and BWAS effect sizes
- New pre-print from @alexfornito.bsky.social, James Pang, and myself, looking at the effects of rs-fMRI pre-processing pipelines on FC quality and behavioural predictions. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Not sure if I shared this on my here, but @brainkey.bsky.social was featured in an ageing documentary in the BBC earlier this year 🧠🔑 www.bbc.com/reel/video/p...
- Giving a talk here about my experience from AC->(MedBioTech) Industry
- #MRITogether Day 2 (1/2) program is now out! There are so many amazing talks, but I'm especially looking forward to hearing more about transferable skills and career transitions from these amazing speakers! Register here: mritogether.esmrmb.org/24m/registra...
- Reposted by Kevin Aquino 🧠🔑We're attempting to make short explainer videos to accompany our main published research papers. Here is the first, by Brendan, on our recent paper on tracking the distance to a critical point from a noisy time series. #criticality #complexsystems www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_rI...
- Interesting article, for me the controversy is just that dynamic FC is noisier than FC (which has its own problems) and possibly more susceptible to preprocessing. We had a look at this in our study www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/2
- 1 of 4 linked commentaries on dynamic connectivity in Imaging Neuroscience, by Diego Vidaurre: Dynamic functional connectivity: Why the controversy? doi.org/10.1162/imag...
- and found in the context of model fitting a model using the global signal and node degree could replicate dynamic FC. 2/2
- Reposted by Kevin Aquino 🧠🔑I will never forget watching this morning tv show segment live in 2006 and seeing this moment. They were talking about a drug trial where some people died and some didn’t. It has been seared into my brain since and I had to find it
- One of my favourite things to do to my kids is to extend the “high 5” to “high foot”, I have added this greeting to their friends and they always loose it when I do it 😅
- Reposted by Kevin Aquino 🧠🔑Physics art 1 - Coming back to work post-pandemic we decided to decorate our building with some #physics #art, created by our academics. I'm sharing one each day to explain our research at Sydney Physics 🙂 First up "Detecting structure in diverse scientific signals" by @bendfulcher.bsky.social
- Reposted by Kevin Aquino 🧠🔑Hi new followers 🙋♀️ I’m Saige from Ann Arbor, MI but currently living in Tübingen 🇩🇪 I just finished my PhD in computational psychiatry/neuroscience and am looking for a postdoc. I’m interested in fairness, causality & healthcare. Google scholar: scholar.google.com/citations?us...
- I joined up a while ago, but I feel like it's time to start posting on here! I still have presence on the other sites (twitter, Mastodon, threads) but this is starting to feel like the real successor...
