Fernanda Ribeiro
🇧🇷 🇦🇺 Marie Curie Fellow at JLU Giessen 🇩🇪 | Vision | Neuroscience | Deep learning
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- Reposted by Fernanda Ribeiro📢Maths in the Brain Workshop 2026 in Melbourne. We will bring together researchers across Australia with a shared interest in understanding the brain from a quantitative perspective. This year's keynote is delivered by Professor James Cole, University College London. 1/4🧵
- Reposted by Fernanda Ribeiro🚨 New paper out in Science Advances 🚨 With @suryagayet.bsky.social and @peelen.bsky.social, in two fMRI studies we investigate mental object rotations that are driven by the scene context, rather than purely by cognitive operations. 🧵 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- Reposted by Fernanda RibeiroThe OHBM OSSIG has been operating since 2016, hosting and promoting open science education for the OHBM community and beyond. SIGs must be renewed every 5 years. Please sign the following petition by Mon, Jan 26 to help us continue operating. Thank you! docs.google.com/document/d/1...
- Reposted by Fernanda RibeiroThe ARC’s processes are back to being farcical, @jasonclaremp.bsky.social You advocated for a streamlined, efficient, faster ARC, but all that progress has been undone. How can they claim to fund “innovation” with more than a year between initial proposal & outcomes? It should be 6 months, not 16!
- Reposted by Fernanda RibeiroRenauld et al. present scilpy, an open-source #Python library for diffusion magnetic resonance imaging and tractography: doi.org/10.52294/001... @ohbmofficial.bsky.social
- Reposted by Fernanda RibeiroThis is your brain on Ritalin. Got your attention? Stimulant medications like Ritalin (methylphenidate) do, but not in the way you might think. They don't act directly on the brain’s attention systems! Find out what's really happening in @cellpress.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...
- Reposted by Fernanda Ribeiro🧠New preprint! What if cortical geometry alone already encodes much of white-matter organization? We introduce a subject-specific, reversible cortical folding model that unfolds and refolds the brain from a single T1w MRI; no diffusion, no ML. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
- Reposted by Fernanda RibeirofMRI signals “up,” but neural metabolism might be going “down.” In our @natneuro.nature.com paper, we demonstrate that about 40% of voxels with robust BOLD responses exhibit opposite oxygen metabolism, revealing two distinct hemodynamic modes. rdcu.be/eUPO8 funds @erc.europa.eu #neuroskyence 🧵:
- Reposted by Fernanda RibeiroExciting announcement! Our Institute is calling for applications for a EMCR 2-year fellowship . Come and join a great team @turnerinstitute! Details here: careers.pageuppeople.com/513/ci/en/jo...
- Reposted by Fernanda RibeiroThanks @insidehighered.com for publishing our OpEd w Annie K. Lamar #publicvoices of The Oped Project @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social ! 🤖Open source software & infra accelerates scientific discoveries by removing financial & technical barriers. It's about time we start treating it as a public good👇
- Reposted by Fernanda RibeiroNew preprint w/ Malin Styrnal & @martinhebart.bsky.social Have you ever computed noise ceilings to understand how well a model performs? We wrote a clarifying note on a subtle and common misapplication that can make models appear quite a lot better than they are. osf.io/preprints/ps...
- Reposted by Fernanda RibeiroNew Correspondence with @davidpoeppel.bsky.social in Nat Rev Neurosci. www.nature.com/articles/s41... Here, we critique a recent paper by Rosas et al. We argue that "Bottom-up" and "Top-down" neuroscience have various meanings in the literature. PDF: rdcu.be/eSKYI
- Reposted by Fernanda RibeiroReally excited to see this preprint out! Fernanda did an amazing job at demonstrating how you can accurately predict retinotopy from T1w scans alone. This is important for several reasons: 1/4
- Investigating individual-specific topographic organization has traditionally been a resource-intensive and time-consuming process. But what if we could map visual cortex organization in thousands of brains? Here we offer the community with a toolbox that can do just that! tinyurl.com/deepretinotopy
- Investigating individual-specific topographic organization has traditionally been a resource-intensive and time-consuming process. But what if we could map visual cortex organization in thousands of brains? Here we offer the community with a toolbox that can do just that! tinyurl.com/deepretinotopy
- 2 We introduce deepRetinotopy toolbox, a general and dataset-agnostic framework that exploits the structure-function relationship of the visual cortex to predict retinotopic organization from cortical folds, requiring only a T1w image!
- 3 In contrast to our previous proof-of-concept work, deepRetinotopy toolbox requires only a T1w image, making it readily applicable to historical datasets. It also provides an easy-to-use command-line interface that is compatible with common neuroimaging pipelines and BIDS.
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- Really amazing work 🤩
- 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.
- Why science cannot be this fun always? 😂 ‘These results speak for themselves. However, in this digital age many scientists cannot believe results without inferential statistics. We therefore compared for each of the six stimulus locations …’ love that 😂
- Let me present the Spoon Illusion 🙂🥄 This has been in the works for over a decade when we were just goofing around testing sound localisation in my in-laws' kitchen... But we finally managed to do some reasonably controlled experiments on this. #psychscisky #neuroskyence doi.org/10.1177/0301...
- Reposted by Fernanda RibeiroIn this preprint, we concurrently fit the HRF alongside pRF parameters doi.org/10.1101/2025... - HRF varies between visual areas - HRF also varies with pRF stimulus designs (due to nonlinearities?) - Esp. when fitting complex models this can skew results a lot! #visionscience #neuroskyence
- Reposted by Fernanda RibeiroPlease sign. This stupid decision needs reversing actionnetwork.org/petitions/cs...
- Reposted by Fernanda Ribeiro“CSIRO has announced it will slash up to 350 jobs as the national science agency grapples with long-term financial challenges … with current funding failing to keep pace with the rising costs of running a modern science agency.” Not “challenges”. They’re choices. 😡
- Very happy to see this work from Thuy and the Neurodesk team published! We provide 4 example use cases to highlight the versatility of Neurodesk for open, reproducible, and scalable workflows 🙌🏽
- Extending their earlier work, Dao et al. showcase Neurodesk applications for open neuroimaging data sharing and usage: doi.org/10.52294/001... @neurodesk.org @sbollmann.bsky.social #OpenDatasets #SpecialIssue
- Reposted by Fernanda RibeiroA nice shift in perceived colour between central and peripheral vision. The fixated disc looks purple while the others look blue. The effect presumably comes from the absence of S-cones in the fovea. From Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.115...
- To wake up with such great news! Wow, as a Brazilian it was hard to see justice coming, but there is hope for true accountability! www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
- Reposted by Fernanda Ribeiro🌟🚀 Want to boost your MRI Together 2025 experience? Join our Mentor Matching Session! Submit your poster idea by Sept 15 and connect with experts worldwide. 🌍✨ #MRITogether2025 #MentorMatching
- Reposted by Fernanda RibeiroIf anyone fancies moving to NZ, the @universityofotago.bsky.social are advertising for up to SIX faculty positions in their School of Psychology 👀 www.seek.co.nz/psychology-j...
- Reposted by Fernanda Ribeiro1 To predict the behaviour of a primate, would you rather base your guess on a closely related species or one with a similar brain shape? We looked at brains & behaviours of 70 species, you’ll be surprised! 🧵Thread on our new preprint with @r3rt0.bsky.social , doi.org/10.1101/2025...
- 🧠✨ Excited to share that our literature review on retinotopic mapping in the human visual cortex is now published! tinyurl.com/5d9ne68b Amazing collab with Noah Benson and Alex Puckett! We hope this will be a helpful resource for pRF modellers and visual neuroscientists!
- Our brain's visual cortex creates detailed 2D maps of what we see, much like how a cartographer maps the world around us 🗺️.
- While these retinotopic maps follow consistent patterns across people, there's fascinating variability in how each individual's visual cortex is organized. Here we focus on exploring recent advances in modeling the retinotopic organization of the human visual cortex...
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View full threadWe have had great help from reviewers to make it clearer, which is not a simple task when you aim for wide coverage of the field (>150 references!). Enjoy and please cite our work 😅
- Reposted by Fernanda RibeiroExciting new preprint from the lab: “Adopting a human developmental visual diet yields robust, shape-based AI vision”. A most wonderful case where brain inspiration massively improved AI solutions. Work with @zejinlu.bsky.social @sushrutthorat.bsky.social and Radek Cichy arxiv.org/abs/2507.03168
- Reposted by Fernanda RibeiroIf you have 10-20 minutes (depends on how fast you are), would you please consider doing this online study on #mentalimagery? It contains a survey & an experiment where you look at pictures and you respond what you see: #psychscisky #neuroskyence #visionscience tstbl.co/820-917
- I think I have a logo for deepRetinotopy! Little eyes are the cutest thing and were my husband's idea xD
- SciComm done right 🤣
- Today we had the first “First Nations People in Neuroimaging Research” at OHBM and it was beautiful to see and hear of the pioneering work from New Zealand and Australia #OHBM2025
- Good to be back home with great people 😍🥰 #OHBM2025
- Reposted by Fernanda RibeiroWhat makes humans similar or different to AI? In a paper out in @natmachintell.nature.com led by @florianmahner.bsky.social & @lukasmut.bsky.social, w/ Umut Güclü, we took a deep look at the factors underlying their representational alignment, with surprising results. www.nature.com/articles/s42...
- Reposted by Fernanda RibeiroHow is high-level visual cortex organized? In a new preprint with @martinhebart.bsky.social & @kathadobs.bsky.social, we show that category-selective areas encode a rich, multidimensional feature space 🌈 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #neuroskyence 🧵 1/n
- @neurodesk.org workshop at BrainHack #OHBM2025 is about to start 🙌🏽
- Reposted by Fernanda RibeiroRetinotopic mapping Fans Just finished my poster for OHBM. The results blow the discussion about V2 & V3 layout wide open. We find hemispheric asymmetry! Fantastic work by my student Ruby Barahona, collaboration with the also fantastic @felenitaribeiro.bsky.social and Noah Benson.
- #OHBM2025 is around the corner, and I will be there to share the latest development on deepRetinotopy, our toolkit for predicting retinotopic maps from brain anatomy! Please come by poster #1531 on Friday and Saturday!
- Reposted by Fernanda Ribeiro🧠 Did you know Neurodesk can run a full neuroimaging workflow in your browser — no installs, no setup? Just open, click, and compute. Join us at Brainhack 2025 to learn how! #Neurodesk #OpenScience
- Reposted by Fernanda Ribeiro🧠 Join us at Brainhack 2025 in Brisbane! We’re running a Neurodesk workshop on reproducible, portable neuroimaging workflows. 📅 21 June 🌐 Learn, hack, and contribute! 💻🌏 🔗 ohbm.github.io/hackathon202... #Neurodesk #Brainhack2025 #Neuroimaging #OpenScience
- Reposted by Fernanda RibeiroIn 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...
- Reposted by Fernanda RibeiroPlease read this and share widely, especially with people outside of science. Things are BAD in American bioscience right now and everyone needs to know just how bad - and dangerous - it is. apnews.com/article/nih-...
- Reposted by Fernanda RibeiroHey 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...
- Reposted by Fernanda RibeiroOur lab is present at #VSS2025, so let me highlight some of the things we have been up to with a talk and three posters. Would love to see you around! 🧵
- Reposted by Fernanda Ribeiro🎉 FINALLY PUBLISHED! 🎉 We outline how to capture the #emergent dynamical structure in #biophysical neural models. coauthored with a team dear to my heart; @thomasandrillon.bsky.social, @anilseth.bsky.social, Lionel Barnett, and Olivia Carter. journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
- 🚨 New Open Dataset Alert! 👅 We've just published a data descriptor in Scientific Data introducing the first open, annotated MRI dataset of tongue musculature, including T1- and T2-weighted images from 47 non-neurodegenerative "healthy" participants across 3 studies! 📄 Check it out: rdcu.be/el0hW
- 🔍 Includes: ✅ Multi-site, multi-contrast MRI data ✅ Manually corrected segmentations of 5 key tongue muscles ✅ Phenotypic data (age, sex, height, weight, muscle volumes) This resource is perfect for researchers in imaging, ML, speech, and more!
- Thanks to all co-authors, especially Tom Shaw and Steffen @sbollmann.bsky.social, for the teamwork and support. It has been fun to leverage the skills I developed during my PhD into more applied research!
- Reposted by Fernanda RibeiroNew #neuroskyence #visionscience by my excellent colleague Ecem Altan: We study higher-level processes in Ponzo-like illusions. In brief, inversion reduces the illusion & V1 activity reflects that difference, suggesting the V1 effect isn't just from feedforward processing: doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
- Reposted by Fernanda RibeiroI'm happy to announce that our Primer on coding in psychology / neuroscience received the CMBB Replication award! 🏆 www.nature.com/articles/s44...
- Reposted by Fernanda RibeiroReposting this - still looking for more participants! Especially if you (think you) have #aphantasia or #hyperphantasia, we are very interested in hearing from you... Also if you have experience of #prophantasia (cc @kerblooee.bsky.social) #mentalimagery #visionscience #psychscisky
- Here is a new, shorter version of our mental imagery survey. Please if you can spare a few minutes we would appreciate if you could take this & pass it along to others who might be interested. Thanks! tstbl.co/763-452 #neuroskyence #visionscience #psychscisky #aphantasia #mentalimagery
- Reposted by Fernanda Ribeiro📅 SAVE THE DATE! Your favorite open-science MRI meeting is BACK! Join MRI Together from 9 to 12 December 2025! 🌍 💡 If you have any ideas/suggestions/presentations/workshops/tutorials you want to share with the MRI Together community, e-mail us! 📧 More information soon on mritogether.esmrmb.org
- That is really amazing! Looking forward to catching up with the new developments 😍
- Reposted by Fernanda RibeiroOur @nature.com paper is out! Bringing together 2 major theories of consciousness - Integrated Information Theory (IIT) and Global Neuronal Workspace Theory (GNWT) - in an unprecedented collaboration. Here’s the story of how we advanced theory testing in neuroscience www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Fernanda RibeiroWhat 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 Fernanda RibeiroI've made my submission to the review of the ARC grant system. Have you? 5 more days, people.
- The ARC Board has proposed a major shake-up of the National Competitive Grants Program ▶️ www.arc.gov.au/engage-us/co... I've only skimmed so far, but they propose reducing 13 grant schemes to 6, with intent & scope in the table👇 Submissions are being accepted in response until 13 April. Get to it!
- Reposted by Fernanda RibeiroOHBM Brainhack 2025 – Register today! Exactly three months from now, we at OSSIG will bring you the OHBM Brainhack, and this time we will be joined by the @neurodesk.bsky.social and the Neuroimaging Statistics Workshops ! 🙂🧠 @ohbmofficial.bsky.social
- Reposted by Fernanda RibeiroYes, now! Most of us will make self-interested decisions under pressure, and so will institutions. We need organization across institutions to stand firm. Media companies, law firms, universities, med research companies, each area needs to band together now!
- Reposted by Fernanda RibeiroNew paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Fakhereh Movahedian Attar, Nikolaus Weiskopf, et al: Short association fibres form topographic sheets in the human V1–V2 processing stream doi.org/10.1162/imag...
- Reposted by Fernanda RibeiroI wrote a commentary on a very nice paper that just appeared in @brain1878.bsky.social by @selmalugtmeijer.bsky.social, Sobolewska, de Haan & @neurosteven.bsky.social. Spoiler: It's about modularity in mid-level vision. 🤓 Original paper: doi.org/10.1093/brai... Commentary: doi.org/10.1093/brai...
- Reposted by Fernanda RibeiroIf you have spent time in German academia you might find the video triggering... This problem is bigger than Max-Planck-Institutes and it's important to speak openly about it. There is sadly a reason why most of the scientists preferred to stay anonymous though.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5nE... Important and painful
- Clima de copa do mundo 😮
- This is Brazil celebrating the Oscar for Best International Feature Film for I’m Still Here 🎉 #Oscars
- Reposted by Fernanda RibeiroNew paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Jayson Jeganathan, Michael Breakspear, et al: Spurious correlations in surface-based functional brain imaging doi.org/10.1162/imag...
- Reposted by Fernanda RibeiroHere is a new, shorter version of our mental imagery survey. Please if you can spare a few minutes we would appreciate if you could take this & pass it along to others who might be interested. Thanks! tstbl.co/763-452 #neuroskyence #visionscience #psychscisky #aphantasia #mentalimagery
- Reposted by Fernanda RibeiroHow important are your #postdoc years in the likelihood of you staying & succeeding in #academia? In our newly published paper in @pnas.org, "Postdoc Publications and Citations Link to Academic Retention and Faculty Success," we study the journey of #CareerSuccess of ~45,000 #postdocs. 🧵1/7
- Reposted by Fernanda RibeiroI wrote about the concept of agency (both human and artificial) in the year 2025. gracewlindsay.com/2025/01/24/2...
- Reposted by Fernanda RibeiroExtremely proud to see our (@carlienroelofzen.bsky.social & myself) work published! Here we explore how the contrast sensitivity function can be measured, using fMRI! We are able to see effects of eccentricity and polar angle on CS doi.org/10.1162/imag... #VisionScience
- Reposted by Fernanda RibeiroThe MRItogether 2024 videos are online :) 1. Neurodesk's development journey and lessons learned: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJh_... 2. Neurodesk overview and live demo: www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7Gm... 3. how data can be converted into BIDS using Neurodesk: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXrg...
