Yohan Wards

Neuroscientist. fMRI, DTI, tES.
Science 🔬 music 🎧 waves 🌊〰️

[Yohan Wards @YohanWards]

🧠⚡️ New results from our n=178 brain stim dataset using 7T MRS and fMRI! ⚡️🧠

1. Baseline glutamate levels predict the gains from stimulation.

2. Brain stimulation modifies learning-related changes in patterns of activity.

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https://t.co/YBxRnDaNuO
https://t.co/JB4m0VNlPB

[Yohan Wards @YohanWards]

@andrewwhite01 This looks like it will be super useful! How can we access the 650 free credit as a .edu user? I've signed up + verified but only 10 credits appear on my profile

[Annie G. Bryant @AnnieGBryant]

#OHBM2025 was a blast -- the perfect way to celebrate submitting my PhD thesis with y'all 🎉

It was an honor to represent the Aussie imaging community alongside a fab panel in the LOC Symposium, sharing my final thesis work on homotopic connectivity:

https://t.co/aY2tEfCuWk

[Explore Science @ExScienceAI]

We’re Explore Science, stepping out of stealth with something we think is pretty cool: Embodied AI Scientists running human experiments and publishing their own paper. We're excited to share our work - check it out! https://t.co/gXMHKbQgu3
#AI #Science

[Yohan Wards @YohanWards]

So AI can design/run/analyse/write up a full psych experiment now... with actual data it collected itself, proper stats, prereg and everything. This is pretty insane.
https://t.co/1XQIesLqis

[Niko McCarty. @NikoMcCarty]

We just published this great essay at @AsimovPress. I think it persuasively argues that biologists should think of mitochondria as actual, living organisms (and not just as the "powerhouse" of the cell.)

This is my favorite passage:

[Itai Yanai @ItaiYanai]

If you think the next big idea in your field will come from inside the field, you're probably wrong.

[Yohan Wards @YohanWards]

@MitoPsychoBio The brain is probably also using fatty acids, so ketones alone might not explain the downstream effects of a shift to lower glucose:
https://t.co/EjXfdeqOBD

[Dr Merja Joensuu 🇫🇮🇦🇺 @joensuumerja]

Our findings indicate that neurons may also use fatty acids, not just sugars, as their energy source, supporting recent findings https://t.co/aIFsrzmOjK

[Montana Samantzis @MSamantzis]

If you’re a QLD student or ECR interested in learning more about @AusNeuroSoc and careers in neuroscience come along to our event on September 20! Register using the link below👇

Please share with your networks! 🧠

[sweiler @SimonWeiler3]

Are you working with in vivo optogenetics? Ever wondered what the impact of shining laser light within the brain in the absence of exogenous opsins has on neuronal activity? PLEASE SEE https://t.co/XS4TV867KE & READ 🧵👇
work done @SWC_Neuro, thx Mateo Velez-Fort & Troy Margrie

[Paula Gómez Sotres @Neurocuriously]

My PhD is out in @NatureComms! We showed that social transmission of stress in male mice impairs memory retrieval through a mitoCB1 mechanism in olfactory bulb astrocytes. Special thanks to @MarsicanoLab and @stressynomics, and to all the people involved! https://t.co/W01CgmoypI

[Yohan Wards @YohanWards]

@R_Graph_Gallery @PacificDataviz Nice work Yan!

[Hannah Filmer @HannahFilmer1]

Excited to present some work from the lab at this years BrainBox conference

[Will Harrison @willjharrison]

🚨New paper alert!🚨
We make a lot of eye movements. Several per second. Eye movements change the retinal image. A long-debated question in visual neuroscience is how do we track objects across eye movements?! We think it could be relatively simple… 🧵
https://t.co/1Ph6cNHRbf

[Dr. Svetlina Vasileva @sunsvet23]

The second study of my PhD is out in
@BBI_Health
! We found no association between maternal adverse events during pregnancy and microbiome composition in children and adolescents. 🧬💩 👧🏼

[Yohan Wards @YohanWards]

@willjharrison We used Bayesian stats here, so especially considering the relatively small number of tests here we believe that the estimates are conservative enough to not require multiple comparisons corrections. See this blog post by Andrew Gelman: https://t.co/KGwMsp1mqq

[Yohan Wards @YohanWards]

🧠⚡️ New results from our n=178 brain stim dataset using 7T MRS and fMRI! ⚡️🧠

1. Baseline glutamate levels predict the gains from stimulation.

2. Brain stimulation modifies learning-related changes in patterns of activity.

1/9
https://t.co/YBxRnDaNuO
https://t.co/JB4m0VNlPB

[Yan Holtz @R_Graph_Gallery]

Looking for the best color palette? 😔

Check the tool we just created with @joseph_barbier:

🎨 2500+ palettes
🐍 Python Library to get them
🔍 Easy-to-use application to find your perfect match

https://t.co/fRyxx7KKqw

Feedback welcome, we're working hard on this right now!

[kasra @kasratweets]

there is a revolution taking place in biology before our eyes

I spent the past month reading the papers & interviews of @drmichaellevin, and wrote a long-form essay explaining his work and why it's important

https://t.co/Jzq1uPBf2P

[Yohan Wards @YohanWards]

And thanks to those I couldn't find on X:
Małgorzata Marjańska, Jin Jin, Martijn Cloos, Dinesh Deelchand, Helge Zöllner, Muhammad Saleh, Steve Hui

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https://t.co/JB4m0VNlPB
https://t.co/YBxRnDaNuO

@OxUniPress @SfNtweets @SfNJournals @leafs_s @UQ_News @UQPsych @QldBrainInst

[Yohan Wards @YohanWards]

Check out the papers, and let me know what you think!

Finally, thanks to everyone involved in these massive projects 🙏🙏🙏🙏
@shaneehrhardt @HannahFilmer1 @jbmattingley @garner_theory @PaulEDux @ReubenRideaux
@MarkusBarth2 @AliTonima @thomcat992

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