#fMRI Analysis courses with @fMRIstats free on @coursera, now rolling enrollment! coursera.org/learn/functiona… coursera.org/learn/functiona…

This is a super exciting release - Claude Fable 5 is the same underlying model as Mythos but with added safeguards. The benchmarks are great and it's SOTA on everything by a margin but I'll add that *qualitatively* also, this is a major-version-bump-deserving step change forward (imo of the same order as Claude 4.5 was in November), peaking especially for long problem-solving sessions on very difficult problems. You can give it a lot more ambitious tasks than what you're used to, the model "gets it" and it will just go, and it's never felt this tempting to stop looking at the code at all (but don't do this in prod!). The model still has quirks that people will run into and the safeguards are configured to be a little too trigger happy for launch, which can hopefully be tuned over time. I feel a lot of things changing as working software increasingly comes out on a tap. The Jevon's paradox kicks in and I feel my own demand for software growing substantially. You can ask for anything - explainers, visualizers, dashboards, bespoke single-use apps (e.g. a full wandb that is hyper-specific just for your project), you can 10X your test suite, auto-optimize code, run giant research projects with custom HTML for the results, anything! "Free your mind" (Matrix ref). Really looking forward to all the things people build!

Really delighted to get copies of our new book, Elements of Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging. A labor of love over the past 10 years, along with @fmristats. mitpress.mit.edu/97802620450…

Artificial intelligence is not replacing human intuition in maths and physics, but reimagining how questions are asked, explored and understood go.nature.com/4vG4Vsl

“In the next 10 years we are going to be entering what I feel like is a new renaissance.” Nobel Prize laureate Demis Hassabis was awarded the Nobel Prize for using AI to predict the structure of proteins. For him, AI is a tool that will help scientists make even more discoveries in the years to come. Hassabis took part in our Nobel Prize Dialogue ‘The Future of Science With AI’ which discussed how AI might transform science in the future. Watch the full event at nobelprize.org/events/nobel-…

Our latest, out now in @NatMentHealth led by @IvaIlioska using normative modelling to understand the heterogeneity of atypical FC in autism across different resolution scales: nature.com/articles/s44220-0…

New results! The prefrontal cortex uses a low-dimensional “coding space”. Info can be captured in just 3–6 dimensions. The brain compresses what we remember. Low-dimensional prefrontal representations of objects during working memory doi.org/10.64898/2026.06.03.… #neuroscience

Scientists at the Keck School of Medicine of USC @USCLONI built a brain "growth chart" from 54,583 MRI scans. It detected Alzheimer's and schizophrenia-linked changes before symptoms. Published in Nature Communications today. keck.usc.edu/news/new-refere… Photo/Stevens INI

Today I am proud to announce the launch of the Brain Health Accelerator, a global initiative to transform our understanding of brain disease and accelerate the development of new treatments. For more than 20 years, the @AllenInstitute has built foundational data, tools, technologies, and knowledge that have helped reshape neuroscience. Today, we are taking the next step: bringing together scientists, clinicians, technologists, AI experts, patient advocates, philanthropists, and industry partners around a shared mission to tackle some of the world’s most devastating brain diseases. #BrainHealth will initially focus on Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, Huntington’s disease, ALS, and Lewy body disease, while building a radically open and collaborative framework designed to accelerate progress across many neurological disorders. This effort launches with a total commitment of more than $400 million, including $200 million from the Allen Institute (supported by the Fund for Science and Technology), $100 million from the Bezos family, and an additional $100 million from @awscloud, @NIH-supported programs, and @Everything_ALS. We believe the future of brain health will be built through unprecedented collaboration, cutting-edge biology, advanced AI, and open science. Science unites us. Together, we can go farther and create a healthier world. #BrainHealth #Neuroscience #OpenScience #AI #BrainInitiative #NIH #Neurodegeneration #Alzheimers #LewyBodyDisease #Parkinsons #ALS #HuntingtonsDisease

Abstraction is insufficient for consciousness.

NEW RELEASE: Today we're releasing CortexMAE: a family of fMRI foundation models trained on 2.1K hours of open fMRI data. We're also releasing Brainmarks: an open benchmark suite for evaluating fMRI foundation models. Full paper is on arXiv (accepted to ICML 2026) A thread:

Recent studies have revealed the synchronization of neuromodulators including norepinephrine, serotonin, acetylcholine, dopamine, and histamine during sleep. A new #ScienceReview explores what potential role the synchronization of these oscillations may play in health. scim.ag/4ve9ObR

Brains seem to be wired so that signals are “just right”. This paper argues that there is a special “sweet spot” in how the brain is organized that keeps activity balanced. nature.com/articles/s41586-0… #neuroscience

Long-term editing of brain circuits with engineered electrical synapses! I still remember years ago when @KafuiDzirasa from @DukeU @hhmi_science called me beaming with excitement about this new technology. Here it is today @Nature. nature.com/articles/s41586-0…

(1/5) Out today in @Nature! We all know pediatric growth charts for height and weight, but what about the brain's wiring? Excited to share our new work establishing comprehensive lifespan reference charts for human brain white matter pathways. nature.com/articles/s41586-0…

ANTHROPIC JUST DROPPED 13 FREE CLAUDE CERTIFICATIONS AND ALMOST NOBODY IS TALKING ABOUT IT. Not a YouTube playlist. Not a third-party course. Official certifications from the team that built Claude. Free. Forever. Here is the full list with links: START HERE 01. Claude 101 — Learn Claude for everyday work anthropic.skilljar.com/claud… 02. AI Fluency: Frameworks and Foundations anthropic.skilljar.com/ai-fl… 03. Introduction to Agent Skills anthropic.skilljar.com/intro… FOR DEVELOPERS 04. Building with the Claude API anthropic.skilljar.com/claud… 05. Claude Code in Action anthropic.skilljar.com/claud… 06. Intro to Model Context Protocol anthropic.skilljar.com/mcp 07. MCP Advanced Topics anthropic.skilljar.com/mcp-a… FOR EDUCATION AND NONPROFITS 08. AI Fluency for Students 09. AI Fluency for Educators 10. Teaching AI Fluency 11. AI Fluency for Nonprofits FOR ENTERPRISE 12. Claude with Amazon Bedrock 13. Claude with Google Cloud Vertex AI 13 courses. 6 skill levels. 5 audiences. 100% free forever. The engineers getting hired at $150,000 to $300,000 to work with Claude at the highest level are learning exactly this material. Anthropic's team just made it available to everyone. Pro tip: Start with Claude 101 then go straight to Claude Code in Action. That is the fastest path from beginner to builder. Bookmark this before you pay for another AI course. Follow @cyrilXBT for every Anthropic resource that compounds your skills the moment it drops.

Large-scale electrophysiology at single-spike resolution — a Review by Joshua H. Siegle & Nicholas A. Steinmetz nature.com/articles/s41583-0…

All 22 members of the board that advises and oversees the US National Science Foundation (NSF), a leading funder of basic science, were fired on 24 April without explanation. go.nature.com/42tkCX1

All code and data are publicly available. Maps in Figures 5-6 are available at neurovault.org/collections/2…. The public fMRI dataset includes this narrative task plus five other tasks and resting-state scans, detailed in nature.com/articles/s41597-0…. (10/11)

Excited to share my first-author paper now out in @natcomms (nature.com/articles/s41467-0…)! Here, we asked whether verbal narratives about social interactions engage the same brain areas as audiovisual presentations, and whether they overlap with theory of mind (ToM). (1/11)

New paper: @zakijam and I integrate theories of empathy emotion regulation to describe how therapists have to regulate a "therapeutic emotional circuit" in each session. Lots of applications and avenues for new research. Just published in CPS! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…