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Eric Earl @ericearl.bsky.social · Aug 11

Congratulations on the culmination of all this hard work! You missed @roberthermosillo.bsky.social , one of the folks responsible for calculating his precision brain map to estimate the placement of the electrodes, and lead author of this related paper:

doi.org/10.1038/s415...

A precision functional atlas of personalized network topography and probabilities - Nature Neuroscience

The Masonic Institute for the Developing Brain (MIDB) Precision Brain Atlas is a resource of personalized brain network topographies (n = 9,900). It also provides a probabilistic atlas and integration...

doi.org

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BIDS (Brain Imaging Data Structure) @bidsstandard.bsky.social · Jul 3

Join us for the BIDS virtual Town Hall Wednesday, July 16 at 11:00 AM EDT — on the OSSIG Crowdcast at crowdcast.io/ossig2025

We’ll present updates from BIDS, extension proposals, and the community. We hope to see you there and hear your thoughts.

@ohbmossig.bsky.social

Crowdcast

Where the world gathers

crowdcast.io

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Lucina Uddin @lucinauddin.bsky.social · Jun 26

The ABCD Study 6.0 release is finally here! 🧠 Apply for data access here @theabcdstudy.bsky.social www.nbdc-datahub.org

NBDC Data Hub

NIH Brain Development Cohorts (NBDC) Data Sharing Platform: Unifying ABCD and HBCD data management in one powerful platform.

www.nbdc-datahub.org

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Eric Earl @ericearl.bsky.social · Jun 17

Hey #neuroskyence, if you value and want to support the Open Science Special Interest Group's Open Science Room #OSSIG #OSR programming at #OHBM, they need our signatures right now on a petition. Please visit and sign and share anything else you can with them. Even a testimonial.

chng.it/4hxrPQdxBq

Sign the Petition

Preserve the Open Science Room at the Organization for Human Brain Mapping Annual Meeting

chng.it

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Eric Earl @ericearl.bsky.social · Jun 13

@mgreenephd.bsky.social This is so fantastic. I just skimmed all the chapters and they all appear to have most of the context needed to learn or introduce each of these topics. I will be sending self-learners to this book from now on for new skills! And the "Further Reading" sections? Perfection.

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Michelle Greene @mgreenephd.bsky.social · Jun 9

I'm excited to announce that my lab's open textbook on Scientific Computing for Cognitive Neuroscience (v1.0) has just gone live! Our goal is to help mend the gap between the computational skills needed by cognitive neuroscience, and typical curricula that don't yet include it. 1/3

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Eric Earl @ericearl.bsky.social · Jun 3

Sneak preview title:

"Consensus guidelines for tabular data representation in BIDS data sets, a Brain Imaging Data Structure extension proposal"

And the community review period for our BEP036 is now!
github.com/bids-standar...

[ENH] BEP036 - Phenotypic Data Guidelines by ericearl · Pull Request #2123 · bids-standard/bids-specification

The BEP leads can meet as-needed to discuss this BEP PR Coordinate a meeting by emailing Eric Earl: [email protected]. Communicate on this PR to provide feedback otherwise. HTML preview of this BEP...

github.com

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Eric Earl @ericearl.bsky.social · Jun 3

I submitted my abstract for SfN's Neuroscience 2025 conference! 🤞Looking forward to seeing friendly faces in November.

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Gary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social · May 8

You can’t cut funding to universities, signal to kids that using ChatGPT to write the papers is ok, and expect professors to save the day and the educational system without financial support to completely overhaul the curriculum.

You can’t just wave your hands and hope for the best.

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Rebel Moon [They/Xi] @xy-moon.bsky.social · Apr 28

Thank you, @marisakabas.bsky.social, for helping us tell our story. Today starts my 3rd month of unemployment for daring to be trans/non-binary in federal spaces.
@cnn.com @apnews.com @nytimes.com @washingtonpost.com @wusa9.com.web.brid.gy @metroweekly.bsky.social @maddow.msnbc.com

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · Apr 28

NEW—In late Feb, Chris Rufo published leaked chats between queer/trans employees at US intel agencies. Then Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said she’d fire all involved.

I spoke to chat members who were fired, are on admin leave, and who kept their jobs about the new lavender scare:

Queer intel officers targeted by top secret chat leak get their chance to speak

Chris Rufo published the chats. Staffers say a new "lavender scare" is upon us.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Amstat-American Statistical Association @amstatnews.bsky.social · Apr 28

Big news from the ASA! We’ve partnered with Instats to offer free access to courses in stats, data science, and research methods for US gov employees with a .gov email. Learn more: www.instats.org.

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · Apr 29

Please highlight this story.

ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago.

kfor.com/news/local/w...

'We're citizens!': Oklahoma City family traumatized after ICE raids home, but they weren't suspects

A woman says her family’s fresh start in Oklahoma turned into a nightmare after federal immigration agents raided their home, taking their phones, laptops, and life savings – even though they were …

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Chris Markiewicz @markiewicz.bsky.social · Apr 16

Last week I started a little project to archive the NIMH Data Archive (NDA) data dictionaries: codeberg.org/effigies/nda...

A first diff is now available to view changes: codeberg.org/effigies/nda...

A view of Codeberg's diff interface showing changed files and lines added in the baes_01.csv file. The diff is helpfully formatted as a table.

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Matthew B. Jané @matthewbjane.bsky.social · Apr 8

The meta-analysis on the relationship between Fluoride and IQ by Taylor et al. (2025) that RFK Jr. has cited contains major methodological flaws and data integrity issues that we describe in the following pre-print (submitted to meta-psychology): osf.io/preprints/os...

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Hilary Mason @hmason.bsky.social · Apr 5

This Github ticket is the kind of proposal that inexperienced engineers tend to make, because they think it's about code, and not about the humans who use the system.

In any competent organization, these junior folks would get some very direct feedback and it would be a growth moment.

Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · Apr 5

This is profoundly ignorant stuff. www.wired.com/story/doge-d...

In a GitHub ticket viewed by WIRED, Lavingia also suggested abandoning Drupal, a content management system (CMS) that the VA uses for publishing updates and information about the agency and the services it provides on VA facility websites. “I think we should consider removing Drupal as part of our workflow, and all content should just live in the codebase,” he wrote.

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Gary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social · Apr 7

this looks really dirty.

Bob E Hayes @bobehayes.bsky.social · Apr 7

BREAKING: Bill that would have blocked OpenAI’s conversion to a for-profit has mysteriously been gutted. @garymarcus.bsky.social

garymarcus.substack....

BREAKING: Bill that would have blocked OpenAI’s conversion to a for-profit has mysteriously been gutted.

I hope the media will look into this

garymarcus.substack.com

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Elizabeth Warren @elizabeth-warren.bsky.social · Feb 27

Understand this: by trying to gut Medicaid, the House GOP is targeting seniors in nursing homes, kids with disabilities, and low-income workers who can’t get health coverage from their jobs.

All so the GOP can slash taxes for millionaires, billionaires, and billionaire corporations.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · Feb 22

Republicans=Nazis

Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · Feb 22

This meme?

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · Feb 22

It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office.

Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc.

Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · Feb 22

this is the crux of it!!!

slow twitch @slowtwitch.bsky.social · Feb 22

OPM is not my fucking boss.

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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · Feb 15

Anyone know of an an opportunity for Katie?

Katie Sandlin @kmsandlin.bsky.social · Feb 14

I maxed out my credit card, emptied my savings account, and took out a loan to move from Alabama to Bethesda, MD. I don’t even qualify for unemployment since I’ve only worked at NIH for a month. I will be financially and medically devastated.

Seeking suggestions for anywhere that’s hiring!!

Katie Sandlin @kmsandlin.bsky.social · Feb 14

Today, along with 2,000 other NIH employees, I had to clear out my office 😭

It was truly the honor of my life to work with such incredibly passionate people focused on improving human health. I’ve never experienced a more positive culture where *everyone* cared about their job and serving others.

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Elvisha Dhamala @elvisha.bsky.social · Feb 15

“assess the prevalence of and threat posed by the prescription of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, antipsychotics, mood stabilizers, stimulants, and weight-loss drugs”

These medications save lives. This is not ok.

🧪

Establishing the President's Make America Healthy Again Commission

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.

www.whitehouse.gov

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Sylvia Perry @sylviapperry.bsky.social · Jan 22

I don't even know what to say. I knew this was coming, but it's still a lot to process.

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Amy Feldman @amyfeldman7.bsky.social · Jan 22

If you’ve been directly impacted by a pause or cancellation of an NIH study session, we @forbes.com would like to talk to you

Jane Liebschutz, MD MPH (she/her) @liebschutz.bsky.social · Jan 22

All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.

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Ilan Schwartz @germhuntermd.bsky.social · Jan 22

Scientific advancements aside, this is economically irresponsible

Every $1 spent by NIH generates $2.46

For example, in 2023, $47B in NIH spending generated ~$93B

Halting NIH spending will LOSE the US a lot of money (and talent)

An image of NIH campus. Text says : With annual budget of more than $47 billion, NIH is the largest single public funder of biomedical and behavioural research in the world. In fiscal year 2023, NIH funding generated an estimated $92.89 billion in economic activity

Every state and almost every congressional district received a share of NIH investment
Each year, NIH awards over 60,000 grants that directly support more than 300,000 researchers at more than 2,500 different institutions
In fiscal year 2023, every $1 of NIH funding generated approximately $2.46 of economic activity

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