DrBreaky
Michael Breakspear
Neuroscientist, Psychiatrist, Physicist.
systemsneurosciencegroup.com
- Artificial intelligence (AI) holds transformative potential for the care of people with mental health illnesses. This review explores key domains, applications & challenges that must be addressed to ensure safe, effective, & sustainable clinical integration. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- People have been looking at "AI & brains" through the lens of LLMs/transformers. But what latent diffusion? (think text-to-image/video platforms such as Midjourney). **Class conditioned latent diffusion and semantically cued hippocampus share a remarkably similar computational architecture...**
- Reposted by DrBreakyWho is planning to go to the @ohbmofficial.bsky.social Australia chapter meeting? I'm leaving Australia soon so want to meet as many lovely Aussies as possible on my conference tour 😀
- Reposted by DrBreakyIt was a great pleasure presenting preliminary results from my ongoing study on social-affective inference and constricted affect at the @newybrains.bsky.social lunch symposium series. We found some interesting first effects of positive affective surprise and bodily responses. 🙂
- Interested in hippocampal dynamics and their interactions with cortical rhythms? Our physically constrained model of cortico-hippocampal interactions - complete with fast geometrically informed numerical simulation (available at embedded github repo) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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- Reposted by DrBreaky🔥ATTENTION!🔥 Registration for the 2026 Noosa Brain Workshop is now open! Join us for some amazing science, sun, and surf in one of Australia's most beautiful beach towns. Details: tinyurl.com/arbc5pp6 Check out or incredible list of confirmed speakers. More to come...
- Reposted by DrBreakyThe keynote speaker for the OHBM Virtual Satellite Meeting is Dr. Michael Breakspear, @drbreaky.bsky.social! You won’t want to miss his talk – your only chance will be to register and catch it live at 12:00-13:00 UTC on September 11! 🔗 humanbrainmapping.org/25SEASIG #OHBM #SEASIG
- 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
- New paper in Imaging Neuroscience, Generation of surrogate brain maps preserving spatial autocorrelation through random rotation of geometric eigenmodes direct.mit.edu/imag/article... Produces surrogates for null hypothesis testing of nonlinear effects within and correlations between brain maps
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- On this auspicious day, I finally bit the bullet & asked my super post-doc @annabhlr.bsky.social to teach me how to code & run Python (today!) Coding lifeline now goes: BASIC (1982); FORTRAN (1990); MAPLE (1992); MATLAB (1999); PYTHON (2025) (a bit of a gap between the last two!)
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- Looking forward to presenting our work on cortico-hippocampal coupling and wave-wave interactions as a basis for some core human cognitions 5pm May 6th EST (US) 8am May 7th AEST (Sydney) Zoom link: columbiacuimc.zoom.us/j/92736430185 Thanks to WaveClub conveners Erfan Zabeh & Uma Mohan
- We can't wait to hear from from Dr. Michael Breakspear in two weeks in our monthly online seminar series on traveling waves of neural oscillations. Join us on May 6th at 5-6p ET! Please note the change in time to accommodate our Aussie friend @drbreaky.bsky.social
- Reposted by DrBreakyWhat does parenthood, depression, and psychedelics do to your brain? Very proud to see Winnie Orchard joining this stellar grp of Aussie neuros @lenaedibrainz.bsky.social @lucacocchineuro.bsky.social ky.social & @drbreaky.bsky.social for a FREE public lecture in June. @ohbmofficial.bsky.social
- Reposted by DrBreakyWe can't wait to hear from from Dr. Michael Breakspear in two weeks in our monthly online seminar series on traveling waves of neural oscillations. Join us on May 6th at 5-6p ET! Please note the change in time to accommodate our Aussie friend @drbreaky.bsky.social
- Reposted by DrBreakyWe are hiring! @aurinaarn.bsky.social and I are jointly looking for a talented Postdoc in Systems and Comp Neuro at Monash (AUS). If you like neuroimaging 🧠, comp models 💻, genetics 🧬, brain disorders 🤕, and/or evolution 🐵🐭, this could be the job for you!! careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...
- Reposted by DrBreakyAn opportunity to *join our group* as a postdoc researcher analyzing complex physical systems, and the time-varying data they produce (with applications to sleep)! Join us @sydneyphysics.bsky.social on a great campus in a beautiful city! Please share 🙂 usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/USYD_EXTERNA...
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- New preprint: "Temperature matters: Insights into brain thermoregulation and its impact on neural activity and health" osf.io/preprints/os...
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- I feel ill watching this storm build and approach the communities of northern NSW and Brisbane
- Important caveats of working in surface space with off-the-shelf cortical meshes by @jaysonjeg.bsky.social
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Do you work on surface MRI such as HCP data? Our paper is finally out in Imaging Neuroscience, showing biases in surface fMRI. The revised ms has many new insights! TLDR: Vertices are much closer to each other in sulci, resulting in (fake) high spatial autocorrelation. (1/5) - It was bangin' work by you too Kevo, waaaay before hemodynamic travelling waves got their time in the sun ...
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- New group photo taken by the talented media team at @hmriaustralia.bsky.social
- Summary of the disastrous situation for science in the US & by collaboration, globally ".. leaders hostile to science & unqualified for their roles; executive orders that restrict meetings, publications, travel & grant making; censoring ideas & even certain words" www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/o...
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- Reposted by DrBreakyCheck out the schedule of events linked with OHBM 2025 - Brain connectivity workshop, June 20-22 - Hackathon, June 21-23 - Neurodesk, June 21 - Brain gradients, June 23 - Precision network therapeutics, June 29 Register now! We look forward to welcoming you to Brisbane! @ohbmofficial.bsky.social
- Amazing work from @jchrispang.bsky.social plus @alexfornito.bsky.social and team!!
- For my first-ever bluesky post, I'm really excited to share our new preprint "Geometric influences on the regional organization of the mammalian brain" with @alexfornito.bsky.social and a superstar 17-person team! (1/n) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Saying farewell to @jaysonjeg.bsky.social who just completed a lovely PhD (plus his training in psychiatry) ... he is off to join the @macshine.bsky.social lab & no doubt achieve great things
- Early bird registrations for the 2025 Brain Connectivity Meeting now open June 20 (arrive) until June 22 on the beautiful North Stradbroke Island (Minjerribah), near Brisbane (location of OHBM) qimrberghofer.eventsair.com/brain-connec...
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- With advance of LLMs, its inevitable they are going to be used to prepare manuscripts. I haven't (yet) but I see a role even as an experienced author. It's surprising that most journals don't yet have formal policies. The minimum should be a checklist on submission & a verbal statement in the paper
- This sounds catastrophic: " a wide range of restrictions, including the abrupt cancellation of meetings such as grant review panels ... a communications pause, a freeze on hiring, and an indefinite ban on travel." www.science.org/content/arti...
- Brains minimize energy consumption while maximizing computation. In humans, this trade-off is reconciled towards complex behaviors & hence relatively high energy use Review & synthesis with @sharnajamadar.bsky.social @annabhlr.bsky.social & Hamish Deery tinyurl.com/47c9n65w osf.io/preprints/os...
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- Reposted by DrBreakyI used VVD Viewer for this #FluorescenceFriday video: 141 volumes from the #HHMIJanelia FlyLight Split-GAL4 #Drosophila driver collection. The animation comes from a high-level description processed by neuVid. Such a rapid tour of the data has questionable scientific value, but it's fun to watch!
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- The Brain Connectivity Workshop 2025 will be held just before #OHBM2025 on the paradise that is Minjerribah (North Stradbroke Island) a one hour ferry ride from Brisbane Registration will open shortly (cost to be <$600 for travel registration & accomodation) so please plan your flights accordingly
- This year's Rolf Kötter Lecture will be delivered by the brilliant Petra Ritter from the Charitè, Berlin www.bihealth.org/en/research/...
- A Timeline in Whole Brain Modelling: John Griffiths, Sorenza Bastiaens & Neda Kaboodvand link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
- Metastability demystified — the foundational past, the pragmatic present and the promising future Dynamic systems theory review paper with Fran Hancock, Fernando Rosas & friends rdcu.be/d3bh9
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- Morning ride and surf
- Looking forward to presenting our new "two sheet" cortico-hippocampal neural field and neural mass models
- Here's another sample of the amazing speaker lineup for Whistler Brain 2025. @drbreaky.bsky.social @anastasiayendiki.bsky.social Register here: medicine.yale.edu/mrrc/about/s... Abstract submission is open - get yours in!
- Reposted by DrBreakyHere's another sample of the amazing speaker lineup for Whistler Brain 2025. @drbreaky.bsky.social @anastasiayendiki.bsky.social Register here: medicine.yale.edu/mrrc/about/s... Abstract submission is open - get yours in!
- "Describe your contributions to science in less than 1200 characters"
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- Very happy to participate in this years Rising Tide blockade of the world's largest coal port - making international headlines for an end to coal and a just transition www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11...
- The brain expresses activity in complex patterns, reflecting the influence of cytoarchitectural, biochemical & genetic properties. Eigenstrapping is our method for inferring the similarity between two such brain maps while excluding spurious (chance) relationships www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- A few days before Rising Tide 2024 - protest on world’s largest coal port. State Govt taking a draconian approach to try and shut down legitimate public protest this year despite local council approval for what’s been a peaceful and fun event over last 12 years
