Andrew Reid

www.reid-lab.org/blog/22 My (interactive) blog post focused on how #EEG #MEG signals are generated. Aimed at anyone interested in learning about these methods on a biophysical level. Let know what you think -- and share if you think it may interest your followers! #neuroscience #Neuroskyence

Infants move. Head motion is the biggest obstacle to fMRI in the first years of life. We're hiring an MRI physicist to join FreezeMotion at Trinity College Dublin and rethink how we acquire data on a research-dedicated 3T Prisma. 2-year postdoc, closes 15 Nov. Details below 🧵

BREAKING NEWS The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel “for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.”

created a website to convert any DOI to a elegant banner for presentations robertodf.github.io/doi-banner/

📖 New review out today in @natrevneuro.nature.com: Towards an integrative neuroscience of metacognition 🧠🧪 Full-text link to the paper is here: rdcu.be/9YK3mF7dYhFa

⚡ A brain implant delivers a microsecond pulse to cortex, and the textbook answer is that the neuron fires. The biology turns out to be far richer, which matters for every patient feeling through a prosthetic hand, suppressing a seizure, or treating depression by stimulation.

Drawing ROIs on cortical surfaces just got a lot easier! 😍 SurfAnnotate is a free, browser-based tool I have been co-developing with Claude Code (@dlinhardt.bsky.social, @sbollmann.bsky.social, and @sampendu.bsky.social ), leveraging the @neurodesk.org infrastructure!

The most sensitive green and red #norepinephrine #sensors engineered to date are out in #naturemethods! Deeply grateful to all our funders and contributors who made this work possible. A true team effort. @erc.europa.eu @snsf.ch doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Topographic structure and function of #locuscoeruleus #noradrenaline neurons www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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I am not a mathematician, so I am not sure if I can formally sign this, but I wholeheartedly concur and would argue that the same is true for all of science. Yes, we want scientific discovery. But -- like flipping to the back of the textbook to look at the answer key --

Not sure who decided I was grown-up enough to be first author on anything, much less a paper, and in @plos.org #CompBio - nevertheless, our paper and toolbox on circular permutation testing for #BrainBody interactions are out now! 🫶🏻 @eliobalestrieri.eurosky.social & @danlikesbrains.bsky.social

Substantial improvements in research interpretability & reproducibility are often hard. Sometimes the improvements are easy. (The underlying idea is older & easy, but convincing people is sometimes the hard part) I'm happy to have contributed to this easy and now widely accessible improvement.

Come work as a postdoc at the Donders Institute at the Radboud University, with prof. Sabine Hunnius @sabinehunnius.bsky.social and myself, on a model-based approach for understanding cognitive development in early childhood! More info here: www.ru.nl/en/working-a...

The brain may compare its predictions to actual sensory input by having different brainwave frequencies interact with each other (fast waves nested in slow waves). It acts like a built-in error-detector. doi.org/10.1162/NECO... #neuroscience

People should actually read this short article in the Economist if they can. Not included in this image is data showing if you control for how long students spend studying, then students using AI actually perform equal or better. So, it's the obvious: Skip the homework and you don't learn!

Super excited to see our review out in TiCS! Here me & @cogsci.nl present the first comprehensive framework of the mechanisms driving relationships between spontaneous pupil-size fluctuations, neural activity, and behavior 👀🧠👩🏻‍💻 Spoiler: arousal is only one of at least four 😶‍🌫️ doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...

Strong and localized recurrence controls the dimensionality of neural activity across brain areas www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Cover reveal for the paperback of Elusive Cures! Quite appropriate for a book emphasizing that the brain is full of feedback loops. Once again, @princetonupress.bsky.social did a terrific job. Out Feb 2027. press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

Healthcare is suicide prevention. Housing is suicide prevention. Childcare is suicide prevention. Universal basic income is suicide prevention. When we ensure people have their basic needs met, mental health improves.

"The central challenge is no longer building models that reproduce biological behavior, but building models from which causal structure can be inferred." Very sensible paper about not just throwing everything into your simulation or model. arxiv.org/abs/2608.06998

Happy to be serving as editor for MMB. Excited about what is to come.

🔭JOB ALERT🔬 Fully-funded PhD (+ soon postdoc) openings in my lab @cimecunitrento.bsky.social in Italy, as part of an Italian FIS3 starting grant. TOPIC: Investigating predictive neural representations in naturalistic settings using MEG-based dynamic RSA

New Yorker cartoon feels about right

Excited to share our work: Subtype-resolved norepinephrine imaging with an engineered α1D-adrenergic receptor indicator: Cell Reports Methods www.cell.com/cell-reports...

🧠💡 Inter-individual variability of neurotransmitter receptor and transporter density in the human brain. Explore how this #OpenAccess study from 'Brain Structure and Function' maps variation across neurotransmitter systems and what it means for understanding the human brain. bit.ly/4bGuJgb

Dimensionality reduction is how the brain acquires knowledge. Cool new paper from the late, great, Mark Stokes. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroscience

THIS. WAS. NOT. MISALIGNED. unintended yes. but this is a model that they trained for "red teaming", i.e. THEY LITERALLY TRAINED THE MODEL TO BE A HACKER AND WERE EVALUATING ITS HACKING ABILITIES. why is everyone acting surprised it acted like a hacker when that's what they told it to do?

Three new lectureship positions available at the School of Psychology, University of Leeds: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSE550/l...

New paper in which we compare resting state networks based on fNIRS and fMRI data doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...

#Aging drives changes in the #brain and #metabolism, but how independent are these effects? This study by @asafarahani.bsky.social, @misicbata.bsky.social &co identifies two axes of brain-body associations, each primarily related to age or metabolic health. 🧪#AcademicSky plos.io/4eoIu3L

1/ A deep brain region known as the A13 plays a central role across a diverse range of behavioural functions (in rodents). To our knowledge, no human homologue has been identified to date. In this #preprint, we map the human A13!🎯 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Seeking two Postdoctoral Fellows in (i) Biophysical Modeling (thevirtualbrain.org) in People at Risk of Alzheimer Disease; (ii) Network Neuroscience of Naturalistic Language in Aging Risk Factors. We seek computationally sophisticated highly motivated PhD's: labs.utdallas.edu/braincircuit....

Join us at the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig as a fully funded 4-year postdoc position (m/f/d) in Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience (Area: Social Cognition). Excellent infrastructure with a leading scientific network. Apply by 13 July: recruitingapp-5218.de.umantis.com/Vacancies/44...?

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⚡ The brain has a thermostat that matches blood flow to neural activity in real time. Chronic electrical stimulation breaks it. The therapeutic stimulation BCIs deliver may be undermining the metabolic environment those devices depend on. 🧵

TL;DR: We've identified more than 100 cases of apparent manipulation in Thermo Fisher Scientific's antibody verification data. @sholtodavid.bsky.social @johanduchene.bsky.social reeserichardson.blog/2026/05/28/h...

Brain-wide distributed processing underlying natural vision and audition www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... "prefrontal cortex coordinated brain dynamics through synergistic interactions independently of sensory modality and previous sensory experience"

New preprint (doi.org/10.64898/202...) shows that where you look next is an economic decision. Saccades trade off effort-costs (measured via pupil) against monetary rewards. 1) By default, participants have strong saccade direction preferences (e.g., cardinal over diagonal, up over down) (1/4)

Fixation duration on natural scenes is explained by memory encoding not processing demand | Nature Neuroscience www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Estonian contribution to worls economy is hard to oversell

New preprint as my first post! "Monosynaptic connections link functionally similar regions in human cortex." We use electrical stimulation + fMRI in epilepsy patients to map whole-brain monosynaptic connectivity at 42 cortical sites. doi.org/10.64898/202... 1/n

Many of you asked how we create those pretty whole-brain plots with the cortical outline. We just made it available as a Python package: pni-lab.github.io/quickbrain/

(1/5) Our paper is out now in Neuron! bsky.app/profile/cp-n... The LPFC has fine-scale organization that gets missed in group-averaged data because of inter-individual variability. It is visible in individuals in both resting-state and task data.

📢PhD job alert! A exciting PhD project that involves using MEG and biophysical modelling to try to predict effects of a glutamatergic treatment for psychosis... plus you can develop your own side project. Join our great team! www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

I'm proud to say we are releasing LAION-fMRI, a densely sampled 7T fMRI dataset of natural images, with very broad stimulus sampling for testing countless hypotheses and for deeply exploring brain representations. The dataset is now available at laion-fmri.hebartlab.com What does LAION-fMRI offer? 🧵

Surface-based image reconstruction optimization for high-density functional near-infrared spectroscopy, new in #Neurophotonics. 🧠💡 Read the open-access article here: https://bit.ly/47yKd3M #fNIRS #optics