Every system that was regulated, either explicitly or implicitly, by the fact that they were effortful for humans (letters of recommendation, government filings, essays, or, as this paper finds, lawsuits) will break under a wave of AI.
We are pleased to announce that BIDS Extension Proposal 28 - Provenance is open for community review!
github.com/bids-standar...
The review period is open from April 20 - May 1.
#bids #neuroimaging #provenance
We are pleased to announce that BIDS Extension Proposal 32 - Microelectrode Electrophysiology is open for community review!
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The review period is open from April 20 - May 1.
#bids #neuroimaging #electrophysiology
When you add it all up, the collapse in immigration looks like this: a decline of roughly 50K for illegal (even including the people arrested and not released) and a decline of about 132K for legal. Over 70% of the cut in immigration has come from LEGAL immigration.
Announcing Evidentron, coming soon to a scientific publication near you!
Agah Karakuzu got academic papers to talk to each other, bringing his vision of woven literature to life via AI-driven @mystmd.org articles
With Evidentron you can:
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Our PhD student Kennedy Orwa, who studies applications of AI to health care, was hastily deported today to Kenya along with his 13-year-old son without opportunity to speak to legal counsel.
King 5 reports that he held a valid visa that was rescinded without explanation.
Boston University’s removal of Pride flags and other peaceful displays is not a minor policy issue. Censoring these expressions sets a dangerous precedent for the entire community.
Whether you are a BU alum or an ally, please add your name now: alumni.standforcampusfreedom.org/petitions/te...
How do we define "good" fMRI data? Especially with resting state, there are circularity risks if we evaluate data quality as showing the networks we expect to see. Javier Gonzalez-Castillo (& me & others) developed pBOLD, a new metric that uses multi-echo info. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/8
The lack of timely information has become a tradition at this point. I generally book flights with the backup plan of having an ad-hoc brainhack in a cafe, with the first day's project being putting together a website with an agenda.
A new data-sharing policy proposed by the NIH would result in “substantial harm to scientific progress,” a neuroimaging consortium says.
By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/data-sharing...
1) participants' metadata, in particular demographics, are a bigger risk for privacy 2) we have created a new metric k-global that gives you the relative importance of each variable for anonymity and 3) BIDS compliant little python package to help everyone with data curation.
17 years ago, so memory is sketchy, but a friend in Ireland who was studying this topic said that the bow-handling conventions do most of the work here. IIRC he said you could have an Irish or Appalachian fiddler play the same music and hear the difference.
And the Lancet's editorial that goes with it
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
This week's cover @thelancet.com
I'd prefer it not have taken decades but personally I like blows being struck against elite impunity and would like that for us in the US very much
I've had almost identical discussions about Modi with Indian colleagues. There are deep differences in what people think the job of a leader is, and the real consequences of politics seem hard for many to grasp until they're next door.
Around 2010, I worked with two Russians that I talked to about Putin. One was angry about human rights abuses, the other liked that he made the world take Russia seriously again. I don't think the latter was anti-human rights, it just wasn't the criteria he was judging by.
Everyone here has had to decide what they will and won’t do. Will you take someone in your house? Will you bring them groceries? Will you patrol streets with a whistle? Will you do some other kind of work, of which there are many. And how many of these types.
They're building concentration camps with my tax money Chuck. They're torturing children. They're murdering innocent people on the street. What are you doing.
Spain remains a welcome contrast to the rightward lurch happening across Europe. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
MINNESOTA — Mom goes outside to warm up her car, ICE grabs her: "Please, my car kids are all alone in the house!”
So nothing has changed and Homan was just to put a new face on the cruelty, got it
(H/T longtimehistory)
One of the hardest things to explain to people who aren’t here is the very real feeling that we are in a war against the federal government. Not only are we occupied by unaccountable armed, masked paramilitaries, but we are constantly aware our neighbors might be abducted in the blink of an eye.
Yeah not only are these terrible, they bear little resemblance to other asks that party caucuses are making. I just got a Hispanic Caucus list of "non-negotiables" that has like 20 other things on it.
The Senate Dems are squandering the moment in real time.
Applications for NeuroHackademy 2026 are now open! This is a two-week NIH-funded summer experience that combines neuroimaging and data science in a summer school / experiential hackathon: neurohackademy.org/apply/
@uwpsychology.bsky.social @uwescience.bsky.social
It appears that this legend owns a little bookstore — and you can order books from him instead of Bezos. Link in next post.
Don’t come here for a conference.
Don’t host a conference here.
Don’t come here on vacation.
Don’t normalize fascism for one minute.
State terror has arrived..gifted article…
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/o...
These days are making for odd traveling companions. Would not have expected a face turn from Bill Kristol.
Dems should introduce lots of such legislation, demand hearings and debate, make a huge fuss, use paid media to call out GOP members who are blocking their consideration--and make clear this GOP Congress is enabling the madness.
