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Here’s how I’ve been utilising the excessive amounts of coffee I’m consuming at @westernu.bsky.social lately.

THIS FRIDAY 👇⚡️🧠🧲

The next TMSMultiLab meeting: 30th October, 16h UK time (GMT, after clocks go back): Dr Antonio Capozio "Who is Afraid of Brain Stimulation? Acoustic Startle Contributes to Variability in Motor Evoked Potentials" Meeting link is available via our Slack channel & github page #TMS #Brainstim ⚡️🧠🧲

To all of you celebrating, happy international 10/20 day. This year, we celebrated with Walter Mellow, our lab’s EEGenius.

Accepting to review a paper after complaining the whole day to everybody about my to do list & backlog, because “oh, this looks cool”.

We are all busy and taking time off often causes stress & guilt. I’m grateful I have friends that take me away from the computer and force me to go stargazing sometimes. Photo taken close to Pyramid Lake in the Nevada desert.

Had an incredible time @dukemedschool.bsky.social where I got a chance to share some insight on eliciting TMS phosphenes with the Wuwei Feng lab. See you again soon?

TMS Friday returns! - this Friday at 14h UK time, with Dr Robert Hardwick presenting his lab's work on "RMT-Finder" - an automated threshold-finding tool for CED/Spike & Magstim TMS setups. Zoom link via our github pages or Slack 🧠🧲⚡️ #TMS #BrainStim doi.org/10.1016/j.jn...

Fun times! Thanks @tmsmultilab.bsky.social Well done 🦔 🐿️ 🐺 🐍!

Starting in 25 minutes - all are welcome :-) Zoom link is in our github page: github.com/TMSMultiLab/...

The first TMSMultiLab #Hackathon starts in 15 minutes! Not much preparation has gone into it - because we need YOU to create the event you deserve :-) Good luck, hackers... #TMS #BrainStim 🧠🧲⚡️

📣 Our KeyNote speaker at the inaugural #Hackathon 2026 is: Dr Sara Hussain @sarahussain.bsky.social on their recent work: "Debunking the myth of excitatory and inhibitory repetitive TMS" Tuesday 11th August 16h UTC+2 (Paris) (15h London, 10h New York) Zoom link on our GitHub & Slack channel!

This graph took me 3 years to make. It's perhaps the largest-ever #metaanalysis of #TMS #BrainStim data. It includes my first real scientific discovery 🧵: When you stimulate the hand with a brief electric pulse, your brain and spinal cord are momentarily less excitable: muscle output decreases 1/n

here's how the claustrum might be involved in pain (short article!) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

An Integrated EEG, TMS-EEG and Behavioural Dataset for Investigating the Neural Correlates of Working Memory https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.12.738085v1

The GYA 2026 call for new members is now open! Applications are sought from young, independent scholars who combine the highest level of research excellence with a demonstrated passion for delivering impact. More information, and our online application form: globalyoungacademy.net/call-for-new...

We are hiring an assistant professor in Metascience! Join our lovely department of Human-Technology Interaction, with a very active Metascience group, at Eindhoven University of Technology. Apply here before August 14, or share the vacancy in your network! www.tue.nl/en/working-a...

In case you missed the first day of @wmsymposium.bsky.social, I had the chance to share for the first time our psychophysical TMS approach for studying cognition. With @thehandlab.bsky.social, @nkonstantinou.bsky.social, & @eester.bsky.social Very excited for this one! More soon.

WMS2026 will kick off tomorrow at 9am CDT! If you are interested in cutting-edge working memory research and ECR-promoting vibrant community of scientists, come check it out! Don't forget to check out the program (www.wmsymposium.org) and join the slack!

The TMS-RAT is finally out in Brain Stimulation. Check it out here: www.brainstimjrnl.com/article/S193...

My brain while packing to check out: “Maybe you forgot something in that drawer that you never once opened.”

Introducing our new Executive Committee members! globalyoungacademy.net/gya-members-...

ATTENTION!!! The program of Working Memory Symposium (WMS) 2026 (July 14-17) is out! sites.google.com/view/wmsympo... This year, WMS will feature a single stream presentation of 52 talks (39 talks and 13 blitz) + 1 panel discussion across 4 days. Looking forward to seeing you all!!!

Honoured to be officially joining the @globalyacademy.bsky.social family!

Every month, ~25 researchers from ~10 countries join our presentations & discussions on #TMS methods & results It's the BrainStim World Cup ⚽ But Free. And no knockouts You can join us too! Find meeting links on our Github/Slack. Get in touch if you can't find the link github.com/TMSMultiLab/...

Tomorrow's TMSMultiLab Meeting #17: "Re-assessing the effects of rTMS: A meta-analysis" With Dr Emir Yassi Come to find out: Does rTMS work? 14h UTC+1, zoom link in the usual places! ⚡️🧠🧲 doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...

Happy to share that StimulEYE found its home at the TMS journal: doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...

Watch out for this rising star!

Working Memory Early-career Researchers all around the world! A reminder that it’s 3 more days until WMS abstract submission deadline (May 31st).  If you have cool WM research that you want to share to the vibrant community of WM researchers, please submit your abstract (forms.gle/MccRLJC1xXQ3...)

It was AWESOME to see lots of EXCITING WM research spearheaded by early career researchers at @vssmtg.bsky.social!!! WMS community would LOVE to see your cool research in a form of talks and blitz! Abstract deadline is May 31st! (forms.gle/MccRLJC1xXQ3...)

Back from a week long conference. It only took me 45 minutes to sign back in using 2FA to all my accounts on my work PC.

New #EEGManyLabs paper out in Cortex! We asked whether contralateral delay activity, or CDA, can serve as a reliable EEG marker of visual working memory capacity. doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

What an incredible achievement for this rising star, coming out of the @daspainbrain.bsky.social lab :) Stay tuned for some exciting research coming out of this.

Announcing the TMS Multi-Lab Hackathon 2026! We will work collaboratively to solve problems in TMS, EMG & data analysis Matlab / Python / GitHub support 10th to 12th August 2026, Online only, FREE, Multiple timezones Register/more information here: forms.gle/JVCiZCWbFCRX... #TMS #BrainStim ⚡🧠🧲

Happening today! Invite your #BrainStim & #TMS friends :-) meeting link via our github (or just get in touch!) github.com/TMSMultiLab/...

This Friday: designing & building software to analyse #TMS & EMG data, with Gleb Perevoznyuk. 14:00 GMT+1, ZOOM See you there!

TMSMultiLab is an international network for researchers using #TMS - transcranial magnetic stimulation. There are about 85 of us, over 14 countries. We've written a few papers so far (under review / in prep), but more importantly we hold monthly Meetings: Free to all! github.com/TMSMultiLab/...

🌟 Claustrum and cognitive control This study explores the claustrum activation across during highly demanding cognitive tasks and how this might be related to how cognitive processes are compromised in neuropsychiatric disorders. 🔗 buff.ly/RKEoGKa

It is a great honour & a dream come true becoming a member of the @globalyacademy.bsky.social. Looking forward to becoming a small part of this amazing community. Congrats to all incoming members (globalyoungacademy.net/gya-new-memb...) & see you all very soon!

We'd also like to congratulate our Best Poster & Presenter winners, Madison Henderson and Joshua Hoddinott, as well as our People's Choice Poster & Presenter winners, Taamir Nanji and Thu Pham!

Our 2026 kNOw-PAIN Conference is coming up this Thursday, March 26 from 8 AM - 5 PM at the Great Hall, Western University. Registration is still open using this link: www.knowpain.ca/2026conference Registration is $35, but free for trainees and patient partners.

Meeting #14: March 27th, 12h GMT Tahnée Engelen @tahnee-engelen.bsky.social will tell us how: "Cardiac, respiratory & gastric rhythms independently modulate motor corticospinal excitability in humans" you can also read about it here: doi.org/10.1371/jour... meeting link via Slack/GitHub: ask! 🧠⚡

This Friday at 14:00 GMT, if you've got nothing better to do, but talk about #TMS #BrainStim theory & methods 👇