Robert leech
Neuroscience/psychology/brain animations
Some videos on Natural Philosophy: youtube.com/@naturalphilosopherstv
- @bsky.app Why have you allowed a verified ICE account. What's wrong with you? Why give credence to a fascist, paramilitary organisation?
- Reposted by Robert leechVery happy to see this last thesis paper in press @natcomms.nature.com! We combine intracranial EEG with multimodal MRI to study how interregional similarity in neurophysiology relates to different network scales ⚡ 🧠 Full story 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Robert leechWe collected ~4.7 hours of task data on 3 participants, listening to 10 different categories to create a functional gradient space in which we could situate category structure, and infer acoustic and semantic dimensions. Oh also, the data is open access! 👉 openneuro.org/datasets/ds0...
- Reposted by Robert leech🧠🔊 New preprint! How does the brain organise natural sound categories? In our new fMRI study, we show that auditory cortex arranges sounds along continuous functional gradients, where acoustic and semantic structure are integrated into a shared representational space. doi.org/10.1101/2025...
- Reposted by Robert leechI worked with Jonny for 5 years during my formative years as a scientist. He influenced how I see life deeply. Although I won't hear him explain things to me again, his words and kindness will live through those whom he inspired. We were so lucky to have him in our lives. We miss you a lot, Jonny.
- Jonny Smallwood @themindwanders.bsky.social was a beloved friend and mentor. He was taken from us too soon. His was a beautiful mind who understood the beauty of minds. As ever before, his kind voice guides me and his work will continue. We miss you Jonny. www.cbs.mpg.de/news/obituar...
- Reposted by Robert leechI was so lucky to have Jonny as my PhD supervisor. He was a one-of-a-kind scientist and person. He continues to be an inspiration to me and I will always be guided by the way he thought about science and life. He built an amazing network of wonderful people and we all miss you, Jonny.
- Jonny Smallwood @themindwanders.bsky.social was a beloved friend and mentor. He was taken from us too soon. His was a beautiful mind who understood the beauty of minds. As ever before, his kind voice guides me and his work will continue. We miss you Jonny. www.cbs.mpg.de/news/obituar...
- Reposted by Robert leechJonny Smallwood @themindwanders.bsky.social was a beloved friend and mentor. He was taken from us too soon. His was a beautiful mind who understood the beauty of minds. As ever before, his kind voice guides me and his work will continue. We miss you Jonny. www.cbs.mpg.de/news/obituar...
- Reposted by Robert leechMore recent by Levi: Generalised-Hilbert Mamba for Super-resolution (GAMBAS), still for paediatric ultra-low-field MRI: arxiv.org/abs/2504.04523 | The updated multi-input GAMBAS+ recently won 1st place at the MICCAI ULF Enhancement Challenge: www.synapse.org/Synapse:syn6... (paper online soon) [4/n]
- Reposted by Robert leechUltra-low-field brain MRI morphometry: T-RT reliability and correspondence to high-field MRI | doi.org/10.1162/IMAG... | w/ !! FREE DATA !! T1w & T2w scans of 23 healthy participants from 3T GE Premier & 2x 64mT Hyperfine Swoop in many resolutions, i.e. 390 scans! openneuro.org/datasets/ds0... [1/n]
- Reposted by Robert leechFitting title for tonight 🥵
- Hot Summer Nights the new album by the Natural Philosophers is out now. If you would like to help: Stream it a few times Post reply mentioning a track you like by name. Spotify: open.spotify.com/album/0Tju52... Apple Music music.apple.com/us/album/hot... Soundcloud soundcloud.com/npwa/sets/ho...
- Reposted by Robert leechHot Summer Nights the new album by the Natural Philosophers is out now. If you would like to help: Stream it a few times Post reply mentioning a track you like by name. Spotify: open.spotify.com/album/0Tju52... Apple Music music.apple.com/us/album/hot... Soundcloud soundcloud.com/npwa/sets/ho...
- Reposted by Robert leechComing out @ www.psychedelicscience.org
- Reposted by Robert leechPrecon_all is finally citeable! I’m relieved, pleased, thrilled and all other superlatives to present to you our preprint describing the inner workings of the precon_all pipeline for semi-automated non-human cortical surface reconstruction! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/10
- Reposted by Robert leechI'm planning to write an editorial in @brain1878.bsky.social entitled "If patients only knew". It's about obstacles that slow down or prevent people from participating in clinical studies and the pace of initiating #ClinicalTrials. If you have experience or comments please message me and repost.
- Reposted by Robert leechJust to be clear this is not something we can tell from this study and any suggestion that it might be seems dangerous to me.
- Stimulants rescue cognition and brain functional architecture if you didn’t sleep enough … short term: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Is it possible that this is a true rescue, or is it just a temporary cover up and there will be a price to pay … maybe decades later? Asking for a friend.
- This accumulating process has been obvious since at least 2021. I assumed Labour would reluctantly intervene to help. That they won't almost guarantees that UK academia will become an even more cruel/anti-intellectual place to work, even for those in RG universities. So I'm leaving.
- Reposted by Robert leechWhat an absolute pleasure it was to welcome the brilliant @f-geranmayeh.bsky.social for our seminar series at @psychologyuea.bsky.social. Fascinating and important work on using LLMs in stroke. Great speaker :)
- Reposted by Robert leechIf anyone is interested in coming to London to work on interesting computational psychiatry questions feel free to get in touch! 👇
- Choose Science. Choose Europe. A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open. With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond. Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF
- Reposted by Robert leechThe end of the mass university era in England and Wales is now base case in my view after the last week. Much of Blue Labour, much of Britain's Right and a great number of voters will welcome that. But it's an interesting and arresting example of minoritarian state policy capture.
- Reposted by Robert leech"UPFs affect health beyond the individual impact of high content of critical nutrients – sodium, trans fats and sugar" < This study does not show this. Food that's high in salt, trans fats, and sugar are bad for health. Whether the 'ultra processing' makes any difference to this is unknown.
- Reposted by Robert leechtwo points on EHRC advice on trans people's use of public toilets: 1) trans people are being required to out themselves when using loo in public 2) how is it enforceable? What about cis people who don't conform to stereotypical appearance? it's shit. www.equalityhumanrights.com/media-centre...
- Reposted by Robert leech[1/5] I'm very happy to share that our latest paper: “SIM: Surface-based fMRI Analysis for Inter-Subject Multimodal Decoding from Movie-Watching Experiments”, has been accepted to #ICLR2025! 🎉
- Reposted by Robert leechCome see our poster #61 at 3pm @iclr-conf.bsky.social #iclr2025 surface deep learning for generalising fMRI decoding across different human brains with @dahansimon.bsky.social @gabriben.bsky.social
- [1/5] I'm very happy to share that our latest paper: “SIM: Surface-based fMRI Analysis for Inter-Subject Multimodal Decoding from Movie-Watching Experiments”, has been accepted to #ICLR2025! 🎉
- Reposted by Robert leechFuck the EHRC. Inhumane Trumpian bullshit
- Reposted by Robert leechFrom our 'infant sibs' cohorts we are finding increasing evidence for Chronogeneity as a way to view heterogeneity in autism. In other words, different ages of onset may reflect different types of neurodiversity. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
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- Reposted by Robert leechOur new paper is out in Science. What is the synaptic plasticity rule in the brain, we asked. It turns out there are multiple, even within individual neurons. Congrats Jake! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- Reposted by Robert leechIncredibly flexible simulator brought to you by the talented @michielcottaar.bsky.social. Can feed arbitrary sequences (e.g. with pulseq) and model lots of microstructure features (diffusion, permeability, susceptibility, MT). Allows multimodal simulations. Fully documented and open. :)
- Reposted by Robert leech𝗕𝗲𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝗡𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀: 𝗧𝗼𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗔𝗱𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗕𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘅𝗶𝘁𝘆 How can network science tackle complex biological systems? Substantially reworked version Largely conceptual, would be happy to see others fill in details or collaborate if people find it of value osf.io/preprints/os... #complexity
- Reposted by Robert leechopen, multimodal, 7T MRI dataset led by @donnagift.bsky.social 🌟
- Our open-source multimodal precision MRI dataset is officially out! 🧲🧠🧲 www.nature.com/articles/s41... osf.io/mhq3f/ @borismontreal.bsky.social @jroyer.bsky.social @themindwanders.bsky.social @jordandekraker.bsky.social
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[This post could not be retrieved] - Reposted by Robert leech‘Exodus’ of clinical researchers sparks concern over future of UK healthcare in @financialtimes.com today. Lots of change needed.
- Reposted by Robert leech👇 Multimodal precision MRI of the individual human brain at ultra-high fields | bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by Robert leech🧠 I'm excited to share our latest publication in Nature Communications: www.nature.com/articles/s41... In this study, we explore the computational memory capacity of the brain & how it declines with aging. A big thanks to Mite Mijalkov, all other lab members for their help and amazing collaborators!
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- Reposted by Robert leechThe Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao. Lao Tzu
- Reposted by Robert leechCome join us in Exeter :) Two new positions are now open in our growing Psychedelic crew, teaching in both the online and in person Masters. Lecturer: jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr... Associate Lecturer: jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...
- Reposted by Robert leechI'm very excited to share my PhD work "Motifs of brain cortical folding from birth to adulthood: structural asymmetry and folding-functional links". We identified and characterised the lobe-wise folding patterns using both 1110 young adults (HCP) and 781 term-age neonates (dHCP & BIBS studies). 1/9
- Reposted by Robert leechWell worth a read .
- Why academia is sleepwalking into self-destruction. My editorial @brain1878.bsky.social If you agree with the sentiments please repost. It's important for all our sakes to stop the madness academic.oup.com/brain/articl...
- Reposted by Robert leechIf you're wondering what happens when a democracy slides into authoritarianism, here it is! truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...
- Reposted by Robert leechMore terrible news from the UK higher education sector. This is what treating universities purely as businesses gets you.
- “Last week, the University of Edinburgh added its name to the long list of higher education institutions announcing staffing cuts, as universities respond to huge pressures on their bottom lines.” 🔒 ‘Most of us won’t find jobs in academia’ 🖊️ @fionamcintyre.bsky.social via @resprofnews.bsky.social
- Reposted by Robert leechReally proud of this one - our lab’s first preregistered replication study using layer-fMRI VASO! Tremendous effort by @denischaimow.bsky.social!
- Excited to share our latest preprint: "Challenges in replicating layer-specificity of working memory processes in the human prefrontal cortex.”, where we attempted to replicate layer-specific fMRI findings in the human dlPFC during a working memory task. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by Robert leech🚨 🧠 We have a new preprint out where we studied which brain networks are engaged during mental imagery and self-generated thought. We used a precision fMRI approach along with multidimensional experience sampling (mDES) to get trialwise self-reports from each participant about what they imagined.
- Reposted by Robert leechThis looks great! Excellent work by @davidghaydock.bsky.social et al.
- If you work with EEG (and especially microstates) give it a look! 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Reposted by Robert leechIf you work with EEG (and especially microstates) give it a look! 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Reposted by Robert leechWe argue that this common criticism can be investigated without throwing away microstate analysis by studying microstates in a continuous space (such as a t-SNE embedding, or similar). Note the information lost in the microstate representation!
- Reposted by Robert leechEver heard of EEG microstates? Usually defined as cluster centres of topography, the dynamics of MS sequences are referred to as "syntaxes". Our new review discusses syntax methods and show how they could be better associated with the underlying EEG signal: 🧵👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Reposted by Robert leech#neurojobs Looking for a new role as Professor in Human/Cognitive/Translational Neuroscience? @thechbh.bsky.social has great facilities, lovely people...and an open position: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLW735/p...
- Come and work with us at @thechbh.bsky.social, we have a position for a full Professor in Human/Cognitive/Translational Neuroscience. Please circulate and get in touch for an informal chat. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLE056/p...
- Reposted by Robert leechDo psychiatric GWASs find drug targets? Excited to see our work linking GWAS and pharmacological treatments in psychiatric disorders now published in JAMA Psychiatry jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... 🧬💊🎯 Big thanks to @bendfulcher.bsky.social @alexfornito.bsky.social Mark Bellgrove 🧵👇
- Reposted by Robert leechNice work @hardigirl.bsky.social - who would've thought, traits do influence our behaviour 🤩
- Cool study by @ndosenbach.bsky.social et al. looking at individual prediction of traits in tasks 👇 www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... Nice addition to our work looking at the same problem using our state space method in the HCP Led by the amazing @hardigirl.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s42...
- Reposted by Robert leechCool study by @ndosenbach.bsky.social et al. looking at individual prediction of traits in tasks 👇 www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... Nice addition to our work looking at the same problem using our state space method in the HCP Led by the amazing @hardigirl.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s42...
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View full threadReposted by Robert leechIn the future we think that #bwas will become more efficient (stable and cheaper) by using tasks and optimising their capacity to seperate trait variance using approaches like this by @leechbrain.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
