Florian Ph.S Fischmeister

People 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...**

Our new paper (with @biotay.bsky.social) is out and on the cover story of @currentbiology.bsky.social !!!! Veronika, a Carinthian mountain cow flexibly uses a “multi-purpose tool” to scratch herself. A video and more information will follow in the comments.
www.cell.com/current-biol...

3 philosophical debates from the 20th century that neuroscience is reshaping Neuroscience isn’t dissolving philosophy’s hardest problems — it’s forcing us to rethink where they live.

Smart read by Rachel Barr on how brain science reshapes the idea of free will, meaning, and the self.👇

open.substack.com/pub/bigthink...

The PostDoc will play a central role in:

• multimodal data management (MRI, EEG, genomics, clinical data),
• development of reproducible, AI-ready data pipelines,
• and translation of machine-learning models into clinical decision support tools.

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🔬 We are also hiring!

We are looking for a PostDoc interested in translating machine learning to clinical neuroscience & data integration.

📍 Vienna | 🕒 Full-time | 🗓 Start: February 2026
📨 Apply until 20.01.2026: epiconn@meduniwien.ac.at

#ScienceJobs #EpilepsyResearch #ClinicalNeuroscience

💡 Funding

Funded by Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft @lbg.ac.at & Bundesministerium für Forschung, DINLAB will contribute advanced multimodal neuroimaging, connectomics & data integration to uncover biomarkers for disease progression and treatment response.

#MLSky #Neuroimaging #neuroskyence

🚀 EPICONN has launched!

Towards Epileptomics: a connectome-based approach to predictive & personalized treatment for focal epilepsy. Together we are building an interdisciplinary team and will shape the future of network-based, personalized epilepsy care.
#EPICONN #EpilepsyResearch #MedUniWien

My Shiny app containing 3530 Open Science blog posts discussing the replication crisis is updated - you can now use the SEARCH box. I fixed it as my new PhD Julia wanted to know who had called open scientists 'Methodological Terrorists' :) shiny.ieis.tue.nl/open_science...

A probabilistic histological atlas of the human brain for MRI segmentation - Nature NextBrain is an open source, probabilistic atlas of the entire human brain, assembled using artificial-intelligence-enabled registration and segmentation methods to reconstruct the multimodal serial h...

This is 🤯

All publicly available. Looks like an amazing new histology-based human probabilistic atlas and parcellation tool.

#neuroskyence #mri #brainmapping

A probabilistic histological atlas of the human brain for MRI segmentation | Nature share.google/5AD0iW7pxgb4...

skiftiTools: An R package for reading, writing, analysing, and visualising, tract-based spatial statistics (TBSS) derived diffusion MR images | bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The astrocytic ensemble acts as a multiday trace to stabilize memory - Nature Emotional experience evokes signalling in astrocytes, which form an ensemble that is reinforced by secondary astrocytic state changes resulting from repeated experience, leading to memory stabilizatio...

𝗘𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗲𝗺𝗽𝗶𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗻𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻??
Astrocytes in the regulation of fear memories!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#neuroskyence
h/t @claeneuro.bsky.social

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Artificial Intelligence in Neuroimaging: Methods, Opportunities, and Challenges. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the ... A Webinar hosted by the Webinar Committee of the Organisation for Human Brain Mapping, Australian Chapter.

OHBM Australia invites you to join our upcoming webinar:

Artificial Intelligence in Neuroimaging: Methods, Opportunities, and Challenges

Date: Thursday, 30th October, 2025
Time: 4:00-5:00 PM AEST

Click here to register: unimelb.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Lab’s latest is out in Imaging Neuroscience, led by Kirsten Peterson: “Regularized partial correlation provides reliable functional connectivity estimates while correcting for widespread confounding”, where we demonstrate a major improvement to standard fMRI functional connectivity (correlation) 1/n

Functional connectivity heterogeneity and consequences for clinical and cognitive prediction: Stage 2 registered report Abstract. Functional connectivity is frequently used to assess dynamic brain functioning and predict individual differences in behavioral outcomes, such as psychopathology. Inferences from functional ...

Functional connectivity heterogeneity and consequences for clinical and cognitive prediction: Stage 2 registered report | Imaging Neuroscience | MIT Press direct.mit.edu/imag/article...

“From Connectivity to Care: Charting Individualized Maps of the Human Brain” | Brain Connectivity Brain Connectivity

Interesting Editorial ...

“From Connectivity to Care: Charting Individualized Maps of the Human Brain” | Brain Connectivity www.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10....

Applications will be processed until filled!

The review process is already problematic, but with AI it seems to become even more problematic. Check out the latest newsletter
of @medium.com :

Reviewing is getting How peer review became so easy to exploit by AI by The Medium Newsletter medium.com/blog/how-pee...

Data reuse represents an opportunity to accelerate the pace of science, reduce costs and increase the value of our collective research investments. Data reuse represents an opportunity to accelerate the pace of science, reduce costs and increase the value of our collective research investments. New tools that make open data easier to use—and new…

Data reuse represents an opportunity to accelerate science, reduce costs and increase the value of investments. But to date, the field hasn't placed equal emphasis on the reuse side of the data-sharing equation, writes @bendichter.com

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/open-neurosc...

Three new clinical research groups at MedUni Vienna presented | MedUni Vienna

...and here the English version of the announcment👇

In Short: EPICONN will advance predictive & personalized care for focal #epilepsy by identifying network-based biomarkers. This will improve treatment and quality of life for patients nor responding to medication. #Neuroscience #ClinicalResearch

Congratulations to all three new clinical research groups at @MedUniVienna! Especially excited about EPICONN led by Silvia Bonelli, where I’m grateful to join an excellent team advancing epilepsy network research. #Epilepsy #ClinicalResearch #MedUniVienna

A checklist for designing and improving the visualization of scientific data Nature Cell Biology - Creating clear and engaging scientific figures is crucial to communicate complex data. In this Comment, I condense principles from design, visual perception and data...

Clear and engaging scientific figures are crucial to communicate complex data. Here you find a checklist that can help to improve data visualization, by focusing on clarity, accessibility and design best practice principles.

rdcu.be/eq2ex

The latest cool developments from @ofgulban.bsky.social. This is going to help layer-fMRI researchers (and others) to get a closer look at their data.

The Brain and Climate Change, a powerful new short film from @futureneuro.bsky.social, RCSI and @ilae-epilepsy.bsky.social explores how rising temperatures impact brain function and why it matters for those living with neurological conditions.

Watch the trailer below ahead of the 19 May launch ⬇️

Next multi-echo fMRI users meeting scheduled for May 27th. Also tedana v25.0.0 released! More details & a form to give input about the users meeting is at: groups.google.com/g/tedana-new... #Neuroimaging

Sufficient conditions for offline reactivation in recurrent neural... During periods of quiescence, such as sleep, neural activity in many brain circuits resembles that observed during periods of task engagement. However, the precise conditions under which...

as well as this paper with @glajoie.bsky.social @colin-bredenberg.bsky.social @nandahkrishna.bsky.social where we showed that through learning to correct its own noisy predictions, a network comes to correct spontaneous noise as erroneous “predictions”, thus sampling from task-space

#neuroskyence

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻
Interesting review on spontaneous activity and predictions.
Idea of "predictions" is natural enough (how could it be otherwise?) but the emphasis on constructing models of the world is not persuasive. And the Bayesian motivation is way too vague imo.
doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...

Charting the path in rodent functional neuroimaging Abstract. Driven by a period of accelerated progress and recent technical breakthroughs, whole brain functional neuroimaging in rodents offers exciting new possibilities for addressing basic questions...

🧠 🐭 Our new perspective paper is out! @gozziale.bsky.social
Rodent functional neuroimaging is rapidly evolving — driven by recent breakthroughs and a shared vision for the future.
We highlight key challenges, opportunities, and next steps for the field.
🔗 Check it out direct.mit.edu/imag/article...

Don't miss our upcoming #SPM course for #EEG & #MEG online from 19-22 May 2025! 🧠

We'll cover preprocessing, source reconstruction, DCM & OPM analyses. Practicals will include SPM-Python!

Programme: www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/spm/docs/cou...

Register by May 11th 👇 onlinestore.ucl.ac.uk/conferences-...

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Britta U. Westner, Tim M. Tierney, et al:

Cycling on the Freeway: The perilous state of open-source neuroscience software

doi.org/10.1162/imag...

Evidence of US brain drain?

US scientists submitted 32% more applications for jobs abroad Jan-Mar 2025 than during same period in 2024.

US-based users browsing jobs abroad increased by 35%.

Data from Nature Careers global science jobs platform.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...