Article spotlight! BIBSNet: A Deep Learning Baby Image Brain Segmentation Network for MRI Scans. BIBSNet provides a viable alternative for segmenting the brain in the earliest stages of development. buff.ly/w4HHx7h
This is so cool. I often find myself wondering and worrying about my kids’ eyesight and whether they will inherit mine or their father’s (annoyingly perfect 20/20 vision). A solution is within reach! And another round of applause for SCIENCE 👁️
Sadly, I already knew that my eye was also shaped like an egg (apparently my stretchy sclera is to blame)! But a common cause between both is inadequate copper. So they decided to “science the crap out of this problem.” iVeena eyedrops can deliver copper & slow down the rate of eyeball elongation.
TEDx PDX 14 speaker @uoregon.bsky.social Knight Campus faculty Dr. Bala Ambati talks about myopia - what causes it, why it’s increasing. I was most fascinated that the retina has insufficient dopamine in childhood myopia. ambati.uoregon.edu
Disability is still coded as fragility, and that’s wrong. (I can relate to this: my mom, who was disabled for a quarter century with MS, was the strongest person I will probably ever know.) Keely asks: what if building for interdependence actually makes everything stronger?
Disabled people’s need to innovate “curve cuts” benefits us all (think about voice to text, as just one example). She presented hard data on benefits of employing disabled people, like 28% higher revenue and 13% higher net profits. She was told to come back with a non-disabled, male co-founder.
TEDx PDX 14: Keely Cat-Wells at shares her journey from dance to medical challenges illustrating the disability employment gap, and creating her own “option C” - C Talent, and Making Space, a talent and learning platform of opportunities and education for disabled professionals. www.making-space.com
TEDx PDX year 14 here we goooo! John Branam of Get Schooled leads off with a powerful idea to fight the disparities in support and resources launching late adolescents into careers and adulthood. Solution: closed-universe, agentic AI coaches in partnership with real human counselors. getschooled.com
A line graph showing awards over time at NSF's SBE. The line for this year, 2026, is extremely FLAT compared to prior years. By this time in 2025, 179 grants had been awarded. In 2021, it was 243. This year... 16.
NSF's Social, Behavioral and Economic Directorate has awarded only 16 grants since October.
No big budget cuts went through. No freeze. The courts have acted to keep funds flowing at every turn. The money just isn't going out.
Why...?
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source: grant-witness.us/funding_curv...
🟦🧠 #academicsky
Hot tip thanks to @candiceodgers.bsky.social - check out Roadtrip Nation's innovative approach to mine all their (8000+!) cross-country career path interviews into an LLM that young people can use to find their own path into careers. roadtripnation.com 5/
Career-connected learning is a special focus right now in higher postsecondary education, and this is a real opportunity. Let's move to a new normal about how we think about the involvement of young people in their education. Not a perfunctory voice, but trust and co-designing with young people. 4/
Vicki Phillips from the National Center for Education & Economy (NCEE) shared when you think about the fact that everyone is living longer, must consider what that whole learning ecosystem looks like across a lifetime.
Youth will need to upskill and reskill many times over their lifetime! 3/
@candiceodgers.bsky.social reminds us when a new technology comes on the scene it will amplify inequalities unless we design for that. Example: Gemini released SAT prep. What would happen if that was free?!? And find the Navigators to facilitate this. 2/
Next up: a panel on navigating uncertainty in the future of work for young people @cda-adolescence.bsky.social including @candiceodgers.bsky.social, Mimi Haley + Jaime Jimenez from NYEC, Vicki Phillips from NCEE. Core message here is let young people lead. 1/
How do you signal respect for young people?
LISTEN! and, find a way to incorporate youth engagement. When you make opportunities for young people to engage in finding solutions to problems they face, we all benefit from the enormous creativity fueled by adolescent brain development. 4/
One thing that's different (in a good way!) about today's youth is their need to understand why. Aren’t you going to do a better job if you understand the reasoning behind something? We held our why inside. They put theirs out there. 3/
A few gems from Lisa's outstanding talk: Who gets young people back on track: it's never a program, etc. It’s a PERSON!! We need more mentors and navigators, people walking with youth and supporting their transition through systems.
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Incredible opening keynote for @cda-adolescence.bsky.social summit on supporting youth and economic opportunities in the transition to adulthood! Lisa Lawson, CEO @annieecaseyfdn.bsky.social, spoke about their initiatives to help all young people thrive. 1/ www.aecf.org/series/thriv...
This is a gutting visual. The effect is staggering already, but the losses will escalate exponentially.
Ever wonder how much your fMRI preprocessing choices shape your results? 🤔
Register now for the #SANS2026 pre-conference workshop: Navigating the fMRI Multiverse
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My lab at UW Madison is hiring a new lab manager! I’m looking for a motivated and detail-oriented person to help run the lab’s day-to-day, including our ongoing neuroimaging and behavioral studies. This is especially well suited for graduating undergrads thinking about grad school. Link below
I'm looking for a postdoc to work on our NIH-funded R01 which is a longitudinal cohort of adolescents (13-20) doing EMA and passive text sensing! Please apply, especially if you have experience in the analysis OR collection of these data.
PLEASE SHARE!!
indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/32132
we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad
"This is Mia, 7 years old -- 'I don't want to be in this place. I want to be in my school'" -- Walkinshaw confronts Lyons with letters written by kids being detained by ICE
I am escorting the Crespo-Gonzalez family, including their seven year old daughter, back to Oregon now.
Out of respect for the family, additional information is not being shared at this time.
happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.
Please stop saying the bill allows "no more multi-year funding" - or at least be clear the 'more' is in reference to disastrous FY25 levels.
The bill allows 39% MYF, same as in FY25, which contributed substantially to a 24% drop in new research.
The bill has some wins. MYF is not one of them.
Changing Norms Following the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election: The Trump Effect on Prejudice Redux Samuel E. Arnold, Jenniffer Wong Chavez, Kelly S. Swanson, and Christian S. Crandall Abstract Following the 2016 U.S. Presidential election of Donald Trump, prejudice toward groups targeted during his campaign (e.g., Asian Americans, Mexicans) become more acceptable. By contrast, both Trump and Clinton voters reported less prejudice of their own. We conducted a 2024 conceptual replication, measuring perceived norms of prejudice and own-prejudice toward 128 groups, both before (N = 362) and after (N = 261) the U.S. election. We separately measured the negativity of Trump's campaign rhetoric toward these groups (N = 188). Levels of prejudice and perceived norms of prejudice acceptability were mostly stable pre-/post-election, but Trump's negative rhetoric predicted an increase in perceived acceptability of prejudice among targeted groups (replicating the 2016 results), and a rise in selt-reported prejudice in the same groups post-election (reversing the 2016 results). Despite changes in the sociopolitical context between elections, the election of a leading politician who campaigned on prejudice was again associated with increases in the acceptability of prejudice.
Did Trump’s 2024 re-election make it okay to be openly prejudiced? New work from @chriscrandall.bsky.social suggests it did. The more negatively Trump spoke about a group, the more okay it became to express prejudice (and the more prejudiced people were) towards that group after the election.
