Maria Pope

PhD student in networks and neuroscience at Indiana University
Personal website:

[Maria Pope @MariaEPope1]

New preprint out! We look at how synergy/redundancy dominated interactions in the brain vary in time. (spoiler: it's not what you think!) https://t.co/RImdaKEXsM

If you're at NetSci, come hear more about it at my talk on Wednesday at noon in Session 1A or at my poster on Tues.!

[Maria Pope @MariaEPope1]

Detecting modules is so important to doing network neuroscience-- here's a novel way to do it for the brave new higher order world.

So glad to have been a part of this project!

[Maria Grazia @mgpuxeddu]

📢 we have a new preprint!! 🧠🕸️🤓 we describe a modular organization of functional brain networks that accounts for higher-order interactions, where modules are made of brain regions with maximally redundant brain activity
https://t.co/pHvdaXaupa

[Laia Barjuan @LBarjuan]

Very happy to announce that my first paper has been published in NeuroImage!🧠 
“Optimal navigability of weighted human brain connectomes in physical space”https://t.co/5QwIgJDGYX

📈Combining BOTH weights and distances to guide information transfer leads to maximum navigability!

[Maria Pope @MariaEPope1]

I am so lucky to work with Olaf and was absolutely thrilled to get to be here to celebrate him. Thank you @spornslab for working to create the field, the lab, and the community that I love so much

[NetSci 2026 @NetSciConf]

Congratulations to Olaf Sporns for the #NetSci2024 Euler Award for pioneering contributions to network neuroscience!

[Alexandre Bovet @BovetAlexandre]

The Signed networks and quantum networks session started with @branmorrighan presenting her work on a Dynamical model of signed networks #NetSci2024 @NetSciConf

[Maria Pope @MariaEPope1]

Thanks so much @branmorrighan so glad you liked it!!!

[Sofia Teixeira @branmorrighan]

Great talk of @MariaEPope1 at @NetSciConf about Time-varying synergy/redundancy dominance in the human cerebral cortex 🙌🏼

[Sofia Teixeira @branmorrighan]

@JacobCTanner1 @ImagingNeurosci 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼

[Maria Pope @MariaEPope1]

Congrats on this work @GaticaMarilyn!! So cool to see experiments leveraging O info!

[Marilyn Gatica @GaticaMarilyn]

Is there a brain's high-order reorganization after transcranial ultrasound stimulation (TUS)?

Check out our latest preprint in collaboration with @ConnectomeLab @jerome_sallet @PedroMediano @MohammadKhawash Cyril Atkinson-Clement and James Ross
https://t.co/e3AYTBV8ui
🧵1/N

[Thomas F. Varley @ThosVarley]

🚨New pre-print!🚨

Can we generalize the partial information decomposition in a way that relaxes the requirement to partition a system into "inputs" and "targets" while still retaining the intuitions about information?

Yes! 1/N

https://t.co/izxa5nP4n9

[Maria Pope @MariaEPope1]

@Con_McShaff sent you a message!

[Felix Scholkmann @FScholkmann]

Partial entropy decomposition reveals higher-order informationstructures in human brain activity
-> https://t.co/zzDUxWLIO7
"We find that synergistic information is very widespread and is invisible to standard network-based approaches."

[josh @joshfasky]

Ahh it’s impossible to describe all the ways Olaf deserves this recognition!! 🥳One overarching theme tho is generosity: of time, attention, ideas, resources…!📚⏳🔬Also, checkout the spornlab website visitors page — I feel so happy to be part the network 🕸️ of brilliant people

[Maria Pope @MariaEPope1]

I also cold-emailed Olaf to ask if I could spend a summer during my undergrad doing research with him. He took me on, and of course I decided to come back. There's no other place I could imagine working on my PhD. Olaf curates a community and invests everything in our success

[Jenya Chumin @NeuroJenya]

Warms my heart to see @spornslab recognized for his mentorship at #OHBM2023. From a cold email 4yrs ago, he took me into his lab, and it has been a blast learning about/working with networks!
The time and effort that he dedicates to his students and postdocs in unparalleled.🎉🎉

[Maria Pope @MariaEPope1]

Agreed-- no award has been so well-deserved.

[Jenya Chumin @NeuroJenya]

Warms my heart to see @spornslab recognized for his mentorship at #OHBM2023. From a cold email 4yrs ago, he took me into his lab, and it has been a blast learning about/working with networks!
The time and effort that he dedicates to his students and postdocs in unparalleled.🎉🎉

[Maria Pope @MariaEPope1]

Thank you so much-- this was so exciting to receive!! (and it was my first conference oral presentation ever 😁)And thank you to the organizers for such a great workshop- I had a blast!! Lots of new things to think about

[Joseph Lizier @jlizier]

Congrats to @MariaEPope1 for the Best ECR Presentation at our Workshop on Methods of Information Theory in Computational Neuroscience at CNS*2023 @CNSorg in Leipzig last week, sponsored by @Entropy_MDPI (thank you)! Maria here w organisers @PedroMediano M Wibral & @AbdullahMakkeh

[Thomas F. Varley @ThosVarley]

Our paper on applying partial entropy decomposition to the question of higher-order structures in human brain activity is now live in PNAS!

Big thanks to @MariaEPope1, @mgpuxeddu, @joshfasky, and @spornslab for making this project possible. 1/n
https://t.co/kfhhFWUARG

[Nature Rev Neurosci @NatRevNeurosci]

Brain network communication: concepts, models and applications — a Review by Caio Seguin, Olaf Sporns & Andrew Zalesky

https://t.co/6lFkn7zVGa

@caioseguin @spornslab @AndrewZalesky

[Maria Pope @MariaEPope1]

This is a very thoughtful review and a pleasure to read, 11/10 would recommend

[Zsofi Zador @ZadorZsofi]

@WiNS_Society social gathering yesterday. We had the best time connecting, discussing the importance of organising ourselves. Thanks all for joining us!