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
I agree with your reasoning. Still deciding which Dem I will vote for, but I do know it won’t be Steyer.
Nice comprehensive science spending site from @jdworkin.bsky.social
sciencespending.org#methods
ACNP Travel Award Applications open TODAY for the ACNP 65th Annual Meeting: January 10-13, 2027, San Diego, California. Deadline to Submit is May 14, 2026, at 5:00 pm Central. tinyurl.com/5bzaz8va #ACNP2027 #travelawards
If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.
That appears to be the thinking behind the 2027 budget request to Congress that President Donald Trump unveiled today. https://scim.ag/4sRnw3x
Calling all students in NIDDK relevant disease research fields! 🔬📊 Ready to explore data management, #FAIR data, rigor and reproducibility, and #datascience? The dkNET Summer of Data program offers training to boost your research skills.
Apply now! ✨ dknet.org/about/Summer...
🚨Two weeks away!🚨
Reminder that our first workshop of the year will happen in two weeks featuring @russpoldrack.org.
🧠 Better Code, Better Science
📅22 April 2026
🔗Register: forms.gle/WRUdGQEpd5is...
#OHBM #OpenScience
If Trump signs an unconstitutional Executive Order to take over voting, we will sue. I don't bluff and I usually win.
Some totally awesome updates from grant-witness.us
All of my funding curves and more in an easily useful form!
grant-witness.us/funding_curv...
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Sketch of a frazzled black cat with text that says “It’s fine. I’m fine. Everything is fine’”
Back of mug says “The horrors persist, but so do I”
My colleague gave me a new mug and I am so in love with it #academia
Action Item...Action Item...Action Item
Time to comment on the Framework for the NIH-Wide Strategic Plan
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
Comments due by May 16, 2026
"I Wrote Research Funding Announcements for NIH for 22 Years. This Year They’ve Published 14. How NIH went from 756 funding announcements to 14 in two years — and what it means for every disease that depends on federal research" elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/i-wrote-re...
Holy cow, our R01 got 4th percentile 😳
Hooleee
A line graph of the number of projects funded by NIH for fiscal years 2020-2026. The fiscal year 2026 curve lies below the other curves but appears to be increasing at close to the normal pace.
My weekly NIH update...
The fiscal year 2026 curve still lies below the other curves but appears to be increasing at close to the normal pace.
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Ha, I call it that too but soooo much better than Riverdale
Good observations from @drugmonkey.bsky.social about early stage investigators (or at least Director Bhattacharya's comments on a podcast about them).
drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2026/02/26/n...
Congress rejected massive cuts to US science budgets for 2026, but much of the money still isn’t flowing to researchers.
The culprit? The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is quietly slow-walking the release of funds. 🧵👇
A line graph showing NSF grant awards made through 2/27/26 for fiscal year 2026 compared with grant awards for fiscal years 2021-2025.
NSF Update (Awards through 2/27/26)
Directorates to follow
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College son calls me late one night with questions about a coding assignment.
Me: When was this assigned?
Son: Last week.
Me: And you’re doing it now at the last minute?!?!?!
Son: It’s not last minute, it’s not due until tomorrow.
Americans do not want this. They do not want another war in pursuit of regime change. They want relief from the affordability crisis. They want peace.
Indeed. New grants are not getting funded, already funded grants are not getting paid, and non-competitive renewals are being held up.
Focusing on the top line budget, instead of looking at what is really happening on “the ground” is deeply misguided.
Gotta admit, I’m somewhat heartened by this recent post (not WHAT it is reporting but that it IS reporting):
grants.nih.gov/news-events/...
Yes! I’m more of a dark chocolate and caramel gal, but TJ’s dark chocolate peanut butter cups are pretty amazing
Two tabby cats lying on green blanket. One is snoozing but the other is looks a little concerned
Lucy isn’t sure she likes the sound of the wind and rain
Tabby cat snoozing
Trapped
I just applied for a passport renewal. The cost was $149 including postage. Requiring a passport or similar proof of citizenship to vote is thus a poll tax. The SAVE Act before the Senate asks to do just that.
Call your Senators at 202-224-3121 and tell them NO SAVE ACT
For those of you who are interested, I just pushed a draft of the final chapter of Better Code, Better Science: bettercodebetterscience.github.io/book/ - now I just have to go back and rewrite the AI coding chapter which is already outdated just five months after writing it!
Looking to recruit a postdoc for a June 1 or later start date. Details below. Familiarity/experience in PET imaging and quantification is most desired.
