Alessandro Gozzi
Senior scientist at Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (Rovereto, Italy)
🧠 🐁 Functional Neuroimaging, Brain (dys)connectivity and Autism
ERC Grantee
www.gozzilab.it
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- Reposted by Alessandro GozziExcited to share a new preprint, led by the inimitable @colleenhughes.bsky.social! Individualized Mapping of Functional Brain Networks in Older Adulthood www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... A short 🧵 1/
- Reposted by Alessandro GozziFor Spanish researchers interested in postdoc positions: my lab at Amsterdam is looking for candidates to apply for a Ramon Areces postdoctoral fellowship, to work for 2 years on compneuro and digital brains. Deadline Feb 23. Please spread the word! More info: www.fundacionareces.es/fundacionare...
- Reposted by Alessandro GozziLuppi et al. identify transcriptomic and connectomic controllers of information integration and its breakdown induced by anaesthesia across species
- Reposted by Alessandro Gozzi🚨 I'm searching for a full-time research coordinator to join my group & work on precision brain 🧠 network and cognitive control projects at both 3T and 7T. Please rt 🙌 Applications due: Feb. 26 Start date: flexible, as early as June More 👇 #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky
- Reposted by Alessandro GozziHow does superficial white matter contribute to large-scale #brain function? @borismontreal.bsky.social &co use an approach based on 3D histology & 7-Tesla MRI to reveal associations between superficial #WhiteMatter microstructure & diverse cortical properties @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/460WNIz
- Reposted by Alessandro Gozzi📢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 Alessandro GozziNow in press one of my last PhD projects! We traced the neurobiological profile of fMRI BOLD signal variability, a measure that has been related to age, behaviour, disease status, but had not yet been fully contextualised within the brain's multiscale architecture. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Alessandro GozziNew tour de force from @giuliaabaracc.bsky.social. Everything you ever wanted to know about brain signal variability! 🧠 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Alessandro GozziThe extended version of my thesis procrastination project/subcortex visualization package is out now in both Python and R, now that I’ve graduated 🤠 This figure shows the 9 atlases included (and counting)! Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Website: anniegbryant.github.io/subcortex_vi...
- Reposted by Alessandro GozziOur latest preprint on how regional cellular, molecular, and other forms of heterogeneity shape macroscopic wave dynamics is now out: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... For a full thread, see: x.com/_victorbarne...
- Reposted by Alessandro Gozzi🧵1/12 What if the DMN, limbic system, hippocampus, neural oscillations, gradients, dementia syndromes, mixed pathology, and aphantasia all fall out of the same generative brain computation? 🤯#endalz Introducing #SLOD (preprint): a new #NeuroAI framework w/ @drbreaky.bsky.social
- Reposted by Alessandro GozziPeople 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...**
- 🧵1/12 What if the DMN, limbic system, hippocampus, neural oscillations, gradients, dementia syndromes, mixed pathology, and aphantasia all fall out of the same generative brain computation? 🤯#endalz Introducing #SLOD (preprint): a new #NeuroAI framework w/ @drbreaky.bsky.social
- Reposted by Alessandro GozziOne of my concerns with AI-assisted research in biology is that we're already looking only in the lamplight and AI incentivizes us to narrow the beam. Seems like it's happening... www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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- Reposted by Alessandro GozziPreprint on PANDORA by Aslan Abivardi: A massive archive of UK Biobank brain imaging from 82K subjects. For each of 98 sub-modalities (e.g., FA from dMRI), the images are collated into a convenient subjectsXvoxels HDF5 file. pages.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/pandora/web/ www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...
- Reposted by Alessandro GozziFor decades, imaging has forced the same trade-off: Set a frame rate → sacrifice resolution or field of view to go fast. We break that rule Using an EVENT-BASED CAMERA, we record neural activity without frames. Signals are captured only where and when they occur: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
- Reposted by Alessandro GozziI'm very excited to finally see this one out in @natneuro.nature.com ! It has been an incredible journey alongside extremely talented people! Thanks to everyone involved and enjoy the reading! 1/n www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Alessandro GozziThis paper had a pretty shocking headline result (40% of voxels!), so I dug into it, and I think it is wrong. Essentially: they compare two noisy measures and find that about 40% of voxels have different sign between the two. I think this is just noise!
- Would love to hear expert views on this paper. It appears to show that the operationalization of brain activity the field has relied on for 3 decades—the BOLD response—is not actually a sensible measure of brain activity. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Alessandro GozziRecent review about long-range axons rdcu.be/eXeDG
- Reposted by Alessandro GozziVery happy to see this great study by @skrohn.bsky.social @carstenfinke.bsky.social @engra.me @sofievalk.bsky.social on brain shape & human brain development, out in @natneuro.nature.com 🧪🧠 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Alessandro Gozzi𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 Annual reminder that the book is open access. How do we think of the brain as a deeply interconnected system with highly distributed, non hierarchical processing. Want to learn about the brain from a fresh perspective? #neuroskyence mitpress.mit.edu/978026254460...
- Reposted by Alessandro GozziPostdoctoral fellowship available in structure guided drug discovery in @RothLabUNC Please RT
- Reposted by Alessandro GozziNew Perspective from myself, Sarah Heilbronner and @myoo.bsky.social . “Rethinking the centrality of brain areas in understanding functional organization” in Nature Neuroscience. 🧵 rdcu.be/eVZ1A
- Wrapping up 2025 with the lab. Proud moments (including some I once thought impossible) and so many failures, living side by side, as science does. We stuck with it together. Grateful for the shared effort, trust, and fun that shaped this year. Wishing everyone a peaceful holiday break!
- Reposted by Alessandro GozziJust provisionally accepted -- preprint updated | The dual interpretation of edge time series: Time-varying connectivity versus statistical interaction | www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by Alessandro Gozzi𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗻𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀, 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆? @lucinauddin.bsky.social explains many of the challenges and controversies! Great discussion too. Check out the latest Neuroscience & Philosophy Salon. youtu.be/pP5swFPR0Ns
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- Reposted by Alessandro GozziCome and join our team! We are looking for a Research Officer to help with recruitment and assessment on a large-scale human brain imaging study: careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...
- Reposted by Alessandro Gozzi🧠 Excited to share our latest preprint: Automated Brain Mapping with AI Experts!🤖 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Ever wanted to summarise the cognitive/systems neuroscience literature beyond MRI and PET? Ever wished we could do the same for macaque 🐒 and mouse 🐭 ? Read on! 🧵👇
- As we chase whole-brain signatures of cognition with fMRI, this fascinating perspective argues that cognitive signals are broadly distributed...but far from everywhere! For those of us using whole-brain neuroimaging lots to think about.. 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Alessandro GozziEach year we have the pleasure of interviewing the OHBM Award Winners 🏆 First up is Prof Mac Shine, winner of the 2025 Early Career Investigator Award! 🌟 @macshine.bsky.social Watch the interview here: www.ohbm-com.com/blog/intervi...
- Reposted by Alessandro GozziExciting new work from @lindenmp.bsky.social and friends! Inferring intrinsic neural timescales using optimal control theory www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Alessandro GozziPlease repost: another kind of Black-Friday deal!
- Reposted by Alessandro Gozzi"The inevitability and superfluousness of cell types in spatial cognition". Intuitive cell types are found in random artificial networks using the same selection criteria neuroscientists use with actual data. elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre... 1/2
- Reposted by Alessandro Gozzi#PenNLINC is recruiting a clinical coordinator / lab manager!!! Looking for someone who is good with both people + code, wants to learn to acquire + analyze imaging data. Alumni in this role have written 1st author papers + gone to top grad programs. Website: www.pennlinc.io Job: bit.ly/4ojvCir
- Reposted by Alessandro GozziMind over matter, matter over mind? Check out our fine mini-special (mini by our standards) special issue on how #brain and #body interact. 🧠🕺 www.cell.com/current-biol...
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- Reposted by Alessandro GozziOur paper on improving statistical reporting in psychology is now online 🎉 As a part of this paper, we also created the Transparent Statistical Reporting in Psychology checklist, which researchers can use to improve their statistical reporting practices www.nature.com/articles/s44...
- Reposted by Alessandro GozziNew paper with @statsepi.bsky.social and @deevybee.bsky.social in which we show there's really no evidence for a link between the gut microbiome and autism www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
- Reposted by Alessandro Gozzi🚨New review paper ! Lovely to reconnect with Sheraz Khan around what we think is a timely review of the state of knowledge about brain electrophysiological markers of early/late Alzheimer’s disease pathophysiology, and what's left to discover. alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
- Reposted by Alessandro Gozzi14 months after submission, our article “Stimulus-modulated approach to steady state (SASS): a flexible paradigm for event-related fMRI" is now out in @natmethods.nature.com . You can read it here rdcu.be/ePJo6 It is the first first author paper from my student @renilmathew.bsky.social 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 …1/N
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- Reposted by Alessandro GozziNew paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Chirag Mehra, Jonathan O’Muircheartaigh, et al: Zero-phase-delay synchrony between interacting neural populations: implications for functional connectivity-derived biomarkers doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
- Reposted by Alessandro GozziConnectome datasets alone are generally not sufficient to predict neural activity. However, pairing connectivity information with neural recordings can produce accurate predictions of activity in unrecorded neurons www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Alessandro GozziICYMI @ohbmofficial.bsky.social 2025 keynotes are now online! Here's mine: "Towards a universal taxonomy of functional brain networks" 🧠 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZW9J...
- Great coverage by @thetransmissions.bsky.social of our latest preprint: adding new evidence (and a hint of controversy 🙂) to the E/I imbalance debate in autism 👇👇 www.thetransmitter.org/spectrum/ram...
- Reposted by Alessandro GozziOur School is recruiting! Come and join a great team @MonashUni careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo... careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo... careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...
- Reposted by Alessandro GozziPreprint is now published: doi.org/10.1002/hbm.... Special thanks to co-authors @twktan.bsky.social @kimnganngt.bsky.social @csabaorban.bsky.social
- 🚨 Brain Age vs Direct Models in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) 🚨 A thread 🧵 1/ Brain age is a powerful indicator of general brain health, trained on massive datasets. But does this translate to better prediction for specific outcomes, like AD? Preprint by @twktan.bsky.social : doi.org/10.1101/2024...
- Reposted by Alessandro GozziEurope's MSCA postdoctoral fellowships are now attracting many researchers who would have gone to the US. So the payline has dropped below 10% (~1,600 fellowships to 17k applicants). Super tough situation. One more reason to double the next Horizon budget, as proposed by the EU Commission.
- Applications for MCSA are up 64%! 50% now come from outside the EU. Trump effect? The European Research market just got a hell of a lot more crowded. EU should turn on the tap marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/news/msca-po...
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- Reposted by Alessandro Gozzi🆕 New open neuroimaging dataset released! I’m happy to share that our Naturalistic Neuroimaging Database (NNDb3T+) is now publicly available! NNDb3T+ captures rich, multimodal brain activity in a naturalistic setting with 40 participants and over 160 hours of scanning!
