Peter Zeidman
@corticalpete.bsky.social
Neuroscientist at the FIL, University College London 🔬🧠 Neurovascular coupling, ageing and dementia, and imaging analysis methods (SPM) http://www.peterzeidman.co.uk
Do you like RSA analysis, M/EEG and Bayes? Then you'll love Variational RSA for M/EEG, by recently completed PhD student @alexlepauvre.bsky.social from Lucia Melloni's group. It's a method and SPM toolbox for multivariate analysis of M/EEG data. arxiv.org/pdf/2511.01784 . 🧵 [1/4]
November 6, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Do you like RSA analysis, M/EEG and Bayes? Then you'll love Variational RSA for M/EEG, by recently completed PhD student @alexlepauvre.bsky.social from Lucia Melloni's group. It's a method and SPM toolbox for multivariate analysis of M/EEG data. arxiv.org/pdf/2511.01784 . 🧵 [1/4]
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🗞️ Front page news of The Express today: @uclqsion.bsky.social scientists have developed a method for producing “ultra-fast” MRI scans, slashing the time patients need to spend in the machine from 20-30 minutes to less than 7 minutes. @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social
Major dementia breakthrough could turbocharge UK diagnosis rates
EXCLUSIVE: Scientists have found a way to dramatically accelerate one of the key tests used to diagnose the condition.
www.express.co.uk
October 13, 2025 at 10:08 AM
🗞️ Front page news of The Express today: @uclqsion.bsky.social scientists have developed a method for producing “ultra-fast” MRI scans, slashing the time patients need to spend in the machine from 20-30 minutes to less than 7 minutes. @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social
It was such a pleasure to chat to Andy Jahn (of Andy's Brain Book fame) about SPM25, together with Olivia Kowalczyk (@liviasimela.bsky.social) and Johan Medrano (@johmedr.bsky.social) from the SPM team
In this video, Andy Jahn discusses the latest developments in #SPM, the latest release #SPM25 and our recent #SPM Homecoming with the wonderful @corticalpete.bsky.social, @liviasimela.bsky.social and @johmedr.bsky.social.
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SPM Homecoming & SPM25 | Prof. Peter Zeidman, Dr. Olivia Kowalczyk & Dr. Johan Medrano
YouTube video by Andy's Brain Tube
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September 26, 2025 at 10:14 AM
It was such a pleasure to chat to Andy Jahn (of Andy's Brain Book fame) about SPM25, together with Olivia Kowalczyk (@liviasimela.bsky.social) and Johan Medrano (@johmedr.bsky.social) from the SPM team
I am delighted to welcome Josie Linnell @jlinnell.bsky.social as a new PhD student in the Neurovascular Modelling Group at the FIL! Josie will investigate the earliest stages of Alzheimer's using fMRI, together with Natalie Ryan's team at the UCL Dementia Research Centre @uclqsion.bsky.social
Congratulations to PhD student @jlinnell.bsky.social and supervisor @corticalpete.bsky.social! Their project will use MRI scans to detect cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA). #ARUKfunded
September 25, 2025 at 9:16 AM
I am delighted to welcome Josie Linnell @jlinnell.bsky.social as a new PhD student in the Neurovascular Modelling Group at the FIL! Josie will investigate the earliest stages of Alzheimer's using fMRI, together with Natalie Ryan's team at the UCL Dementia Research Centre @uclqsion.bsky.social
A birthday is a good time to reflect! To mark SPM @ 30, this month's issue of Cerebral Cortex features deeply insightful commentaries on neuroimaging analysis from Ed Bullmore, Peter Bandettini, Peter Fox, Pedro Valdes-Sosa, Klaas Enno Stephan, Viktor Jirsa, et al [1/2] academic.oup.com/cercor/issue
Issues | Cerebral Cortex | Oxford Academic
Publishes papers on the development, organization, plasticity, and function of the cerebral cortex, including the hippocampus.
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September 16, 2025 at 8:16 AM
A birthday is a good time to reflect! To mark SPM @ 30, this month's issue of Cerebral Cortex features deeply insightful commentaries on neuroimaging analysis from Ed Bullmore, Peter Bandettini, Peter Fox, Pedro Valdes-Sosa, Klaas Enno Stephan, Viktor Jirsa, et al [1/2] academic.oup.com/cercor/issue
We're marking 30 years* of SPM this year, a milestone we share with the journal Cerebral Cortex! Just out:
A very nice commentary on SPM's impact by Ed Bullmore - doi.org/10.1093/cerc...
...accompanying a review by SPM's devs on what went well and what could be done better doi.org/10.1093/cerc...
A very nice commentary on SPM's impact by Ed Bullmore - doi.org/10.1093/cerc...
...accompanying a review by SPM's devs on what went well and what could be done better doi.org/10.1093/cerc...
From mapping to explaining brain function: the generative theoretical ambition of SPM
Abstract. Statistical Parametric Mapping is a widely used package of software for brain image analysis. It has also been the vehicle for sustained theoreti
doi.org
September 11, 2025 at 9:48 AM
We're marking 30 years* of SPM this year, a milestone we share with the journal Cerebral Cortex! Just out:
A very nice commentary on SPM's impact by Ed Bullmore - doi.org/10.1093/cerc...
...accompanying a review by SPM's devs on what went well and what could be done better doi.org/10.1093/cerc...
A very nice commentary on SPM's impact by Ed Bullmore - doi.org/10.1093/cerc...
...accompanying a review by SPM's devs on what went well and what could be done better doi.org/10.1093/cerc...
And huge thanks to James Bonaiuto of @danclab.bsky.social - their fantastic laminar MEG toolbox laMEG paved the way to SPM-Python! github.com/danclab/laMEG
So cool to see this taking off! Soon laMEG won't have to support our own compiled version of SPM
Drumroll... The SPM team will announce that SPM is now fully accessible from Python! 🐍 Learn more about SPM-Python at the SPM roundtable event (Friday, 1pm) and poster number 1841 at #OHBM2025. Try the beta for yourself at github.com/spm/spm-python [2/7]
June 23, 2025 at 8:49 PM
And huge thanks to James Bonaiuto of @danclab.bsky.social - their fantastic laminar MEG toolbox laMEG paved the way to SPM-Python! github.com/danclab/laMEG
The beta release of SPM-Python is out now! Amazing work by Johan Medrano @johmedr.bsky.social , Yael Balbastre, Yulia Bezsudnova @ybezs.bsky.social and other members of their team. A new era for SPM! #OHBM2025
Drumroll... The SPM team will announce that SPM is now fully accessible from Python! 🐍 Learn more about SPM-Python at the SPM roundtable event (Friday, 1pm) and poster number 1841 at #OHBM2025. Try the beta for yourself at github.com/spm/spm-python [2/7]
GitHub - spm/spm-python: The Python interface to SPM
The Python interface to SPM. Contribute to spm/spm-python development by creating an account on GitHub.
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June 23, 2025 at 8:22 AM
The beta release of SPM-Python is out now! Amazing work by Johan Medrano @johmedr.bsky.social , Yael Balbastre, Yulia Bezsudnova @ybezs.bsky.social and other members of their team. A new era for SPM! #OHBM2025
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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-...
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-...
Course schedule - SPM Documentation
Documentation of the SPM Software for neuroimaging
www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk
May 9, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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-...
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-...
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🎺🎺🎺 We will be hosting #MEGUKI2025 this July and hope that lots of you will be able to join us, including for the kick off day focusing on #naturalistic neuroscience.
More details and info on how to submit abstracts below 👇
More details and info on how to submit abstracts below 👇
Drumroll please... 🥁
Abstract submission for MEG-UKI 2025 is now open!!!
All the details can be found meguk.ac.uk/meg-uki-2025/
We are looking forward to welcoming you to London!
Abstract submission for MEG-UKI 2025 is now open!!!
All the details can be found meguk.ac.uk/meg-uki-2025/
We are looking forward to welcoming you to London!
May 6, 2025 at 2:28 PM
🎺🎺🎺 We will be hosting #MEGUKI2025 this July and hope that lots of you will be able to join us, including for the kick off day focusing on #naturalistic neuroscience.
More details and info on how to submit abstracts below 👇
More details and info on how to submit abstracts below 👇
Excited to share a new PhD studentship, using fMRI and MEG to detect early changes in Alzheimer's disease, fully funded for a UK student by @alzheimersresearchuk.org . Situated at UCL in Queen Square, London. Join us! tinyurl.com/nvmgroupphd
Detecting early neurovascular dysfunction in Alzheimer’s Disease and Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy (CAA) at University College London on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Detecting early neurovascular dysfunction in Alzheimer’s Disease and Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy (CAA) at University College London, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
April 2, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Excited to share a new PhD studentship, using fMRI and MEG to detect early changes in Alzheimer's disease, fully funded for a UK student by @alzheimersresearchuk.org . Situated at UCL in Queen Square, London. Join us! tinyurl.com/nvmgroupphd
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Don't miss out on securing your spot for our upcoming #SPM course for #fMRI and #MRI/#VBM!
Join us in London 23-25 April! Reserve your place now! 🧠⬇️
onlinestore.ucl.ac.uk/conferences-...
Join us in London 23-25 April! Reserve your place now! 🧠⬇️
onlinestore.ucl.ac.uk/conferences-...
March 13, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Don't miss out on securing your spot for our upcoming #SPM course for #fMRI and #MRI/#VBM!
Join us in London 23-25 April! Reserve your place now! 🧠⬇️
onlinestore.ucl.ac.uk/conferences-...
Join us in London 23-25 April! Reserve your place now! 🧠⬇️
onlinestore.ucl.ac.uk/conferences-...
Brilliant work from the FIL OPM-MEG team!
HOT OFF THE PRESS - Back in 2019 we started asking ourselves what could you to demonstrate where werable, OPM-MEG technology could fit into naturalistic #neuroskyence.
One snag, we'd have to build the system from scratch first...
Anyway its 2025, read the paper here -> doi.org/10.1162/imag...
One snag, we'd have to build the system from scratch first...
Anyway its 2025, read the paper here -> doi.org/10.1162/imag...
February 18, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Brilliant work from the FIL OPM-MEG team!
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We have an opening for a 12 month Research Assistant post, funded by an ERC grant. The postholder would help with several neuroimaging projects, including MEG and 7T fMRI. Please repost and share with anyone who may be interested. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... #neuroskyence #Neuroimaging
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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February 14, 2025 at 11:26 AM
We have an opening for a 12 month Research Assistant post, funded by an ERC grant. The postholder would help with several neuroimaging projects, including MEG and 7T fMRI. Please repost and share with anyone who may be interested. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... #neuroskyence #Neuroimaging
Can we find the earliest adopters of SPM on Bluesky? Full marks to @jonsimons.bsky.social for SPM96!
Happy birthday! SPM96 was the first version I used. Any earlier adopters out there?
Happy 30th birthday year to SPM!! 🎈🍰
To get the party started, we are delighted to announce SPM 25.01, a major new version of the open-source neuroimaging software.
Read the preprint to discover what's new arxiv.org/pdf/2501.12081 and download SPM for free from Github github.com/spm/spm/rele...
To get the party started, we are delighted to announce SPM 25.01, a major new version of the open-source neuroimaging software.
Read the preprint to discover what's new arxiv.org/pdf/2501.12081 and download SPM for free from Github github.com/spm/spm/rele...
January 24, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Can we find the earliest adopters of SPM on Bluesky? Full marks to @jonsimons.bsky.social for SPM96!
Reposted by Peter Zeidman
Happy 30th birthday year to SPM!! 🎈🍰
To get the party started, we are delighted to announce SPM 25.01, a major new version of the open-source neuroimaging software.
Read the preprint to discover what's new arxiv.org/pdf/2501.12081 and download SPM for free from Github github.com/spm/spm/rele...
To get the party started, we are delighted to announce SPM 25.01, a major new version of the open-source neuroimaging software.
Read the preprint to discover what's new arxiv.org/pdf/2501.12081 and download SPM for free from Github github.com/spm/spm/rele...
arxiv.org
January 24, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Happy 30th birthday year to SPM!! 🎈🍰
To get the party started, we are delighted to announce SPM 25.01, a major new version of the open-source neuroimaging software.
Read the preprint to discover what's new arxiv.org/pdf/2501.12081 and download SPM for free from Github github.com/spm/spm/rele...
To get the party started, we are delighted to announce SPM 25.01, a major new version of the open-source neuroimaging software.
Read the preprint to discover what's new arxiv.org/pdf/2501.12081 and download SPM for free from Github github.com/spm/spm/rele...
I am so grateful to Eleanor Maguire for being such an amazing teacher and mentor. We have set up a web page for sharing memories of Eleanor, via the link below.
It is with profound sadness that we share the devastating news that Eleanor Maguire passed away on January 4th. She was a phenomenally brilliant neuroscientist, with immense passion for her work and many remarkable accomplishments. We will miss her terribly.
www.online-tribute.com/EleanorMaguire
www.online-tribute.com/EleanorMaguire
Eleanor Maguire | 1970 - 2025 | Online-Tribute.com
Learning and memory are so fundamental to us, so enmeshed throughout cognition, that ‘solving’ memory, unpacking its neural mechanisms and being able to conceptualise it fully will, I believe, res…
www.online-tribute.com
January 6, 2025 at 11:31 AM
I am so grateful to Eleanor Maguire for being such an amazing teacher and mentor. We have set up a web page for sharing memories of Eleanor, via the link below.
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🌟 Rare Opportunity Alert 🌟
The Department of Imaging Neuroscience has a lectureship position available! 🎺
Lead a research programme in Cognition and Perception, and shape the future of the Institute's new BSc in Human Neuroscience. 🧠
#AcademicJobs #Neuroscience #UCL
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
The Department of Imaging Neuroscience has a lectureship position available! 🎺
Lead a research programme in Cognition and Perception, and shape the future of the Institute's new BSc in Human Neuroscience. 🧠
#AcademicJobs #Neuroscience #UCL
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
www.ucl.ac.uk
December 2, 2024 at 5:20 PM
🌟 Rare Opportunity Alert 🌟
The Department of Imaging Neuroscience has a lectureship position available! 🎺
Lead a research programme in Cognition and Perception, and shape the future of the Institute's new BSc in Human Neuroscience. 🧠
#AcademicJobs #Neuroscience #UCL
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
The Department of Imaging Neuroscience has a lectureship position available! 🎺
Lead a research programme in Cognition and Perception, and shape the future of the Institute's new BSc in Human Neuroscience. 🧠
#AcademicJobs #Neuroscience #UCL
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
Out now, our new paper evaluating the suitability of common haemodynamic models for use with older participants' fMRI scans. Always a pleasure to collaborate with Rik Henson and the Cam-CAN team!
Our paper finally appeared on modelling the effect of age on the BOLD fMRI response, one implication of which is that many age effects previously reported may be vascular rather than neural… onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Evaluating Models of the Ageing BOLD Response
Linear and nonlinear methods for estimating the BOLD response in the sensorimotor task from a large dataset show important effects of adult age on response features and biophysical parameters, some o....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 30, 2024 at 12:20 PM
Out now, our new paper evaluating the suitability of common haemodynamic models for use with older participants' fMRI scans. Always a pleasure to collaborate with Rik Henson and the Cam-CAN team!
Reposted by Peter Zeidman
I am recruiting a postdoc at imaginerealitylab.org! Are you interested in mental imagery and reality monitoring and do you have a background in cognitive neuroscience? Check out the ad at: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
Welcome
Visit the post for more.
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October 23, 2024 at 5:07 PM
I am recruiting a postdoc at imaginerealitylab.org! Are you interested in mental imagery and reality monitoring and do you have a background in cognitive neuroscience? Check out the ad at: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
Don't miss out on securing your spot for our upcoming
#SPM course for #fMRI and #MRI / #VBM ! Join us online 14-16 October! Reserve your place now! onlinestore.ucl.ac.uk/conferences-...
#SPM course for #fMRI and #MRI / #VBM ! Join us online 14-16 October! Reserve your place now! onlinestore.ucl.ac.uk/conferences-...
D07 Statistical Parametric Mapping for fMRI & MRI/VBM Oct 2024 | UCL Online Store
This three-day online course introduces the analysis of neuroimaging data, including Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and functional MRI (fMRI). It covers:
onlinestore.ucl.ac.uk
September 11, 2024 at 1:36 PM
Don't miss out on securing your spot for our upcoming
#SPM course for #fMRI and #MRI / #VBM ! Join us online 14-16 October! Reserve your place now! onlinestore.ucl.ac.uk/conferences-...
#SPM course for #fMRI and #MRI / #VBM ! Join us online 14-16 October! Reserve your place now! onlinestore.ucl.ac.uk/conferences-...
Introducing a new method by Johan Medrano from the FIL Methods Group, for inferring gradual changes in synaptic gain, using M/EEG data and DCM. Find out more at #OHBM2024 poster 1935 on Weds/Thurs with @johmedr.bsky.social . ww6.aievolution.com/hbm2401/inde...
June 25, 2024 at 3:13 PM
Introducing a new method by Johan Medrano from the FIL Methods Group, for inferring gradual changes in synaptic gain, using M/EEG data and DCM. Find out more at #OHBM2024 poster 1935 on Weds/Thurs with @johmedr.bsky.social . ww6.aievolution.com/hbm2401/inde...
The new Google Scholar PDF reader plugin for Chrome seems very good indeed. You can click a link to a reference and then press back to return to the text 🤯 Hope it lasts.
March 22, 2024 at 9:00 AM
The new Google Scholar PDF reader plugin for Chrome seems very good indeed. You can click a link to a reference and then press back to return to the text 🤯 Hope it lasts.
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Three new vacancies are available in our department to work on the development of cutting-edge wearable MEG (aka OPM) technology. Please share with anyone who might be interested.
www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/about/vacanc...
www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/about/vacanc...
Vacancies - Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging | FIL | UCL %
Careers and vacancies in neuroimaging research and support at the Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging at University College London (UCL).
www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk
December 20, 2023 at 3:00 PM
Three new vacancies are available in our department to work on the development of cutting-edge wearable MEG (aka OPM) technology. Please share with anyone who might be interested.
www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/about/vacanc...
www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/about/vacanc...