📣 BIDS seeks a volunteer Communications Maintainer to keep our community informed, connected, and engaged. Learn more: bids.neuroimaging.io/blog/2026/07... #BIDS #OpenScience #Neuroimaging

Thanks to Kshipra Guranandan, my notebook on how to design efficient fMRI experiments (for activity, connectivity and pattern analysis) is now available in Python as a Jupyter notebook (as well as previous Matlab): github.com/RikHenson/fM...

GitHub - RikHenson/fMRIefficiency

Contribute to RikHenson/fMRIefficiency development by creating an account on GitHub.

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New dataset out in Data in Brief 🧠 We're releasing an open, test-retest neuroimaging dataset built for directly comparing single-echo vs. multi-echo fMRI, head-to-head, in the same people. 1/

A single-echo/multi-echo BOLD fMRI test-retest dataset

Functional MRI (fMRI) remains one of the primary tools for non-invasive studies of brain activity and organization in humans. Recently, multi-echo ima…

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It’s truly astonishing to see how comprehensively the US government is tearing down every part of the system that has made it up until now a world-leading power in science, research, and technological development. The entire world will suffer from this wanton destruction.

Dan Vergano@danvergano.bsky.social · 2mo ago

White House proposes new rules giving political appointees final approval of research grants These proposed Office of Management and Budget regulations would render the federal research grant review process opaque www.scientificamerican.com/article/whit...

Tired of changing your list of publications for each new grant application? fetch and order as you want, customise fields, etc. I made this self-contained HTML app github.com/CPernet/Acad... You are welcome 😁 you can see what it looks like for me here cpernet.github.io/publications...

OSS burnout claims another project. On 2 Apr, an entitled user angrily asked the burned-out maintainer of nvim-treesitter to “go switch to something that doesn't require interacting with people”. The maintainer replied “OK” — and archived the repo, stopping development of nvim-treesitter.

Open Source Burnout Claims Another Project

Yet another OSS maintainer quits because of burnout. To fix this, we need better mental health resources for maintainers.

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Very excited to play with the @ohbmofficial.bsky.social 2026 abstract browser by Satra Ghosh & Mario Senden abstractatlas.brainkb.org/ohbm2026 - it allows flexible searching, by abstract text, methods used, or 'claims', as mined by different LLMs, and exploring by semantic similarity in 2D and 3D

Posting on behalf of Brendan: Common feature selection practices may capture only the “tip of the iceberg” of distributed brain–behavior relationships Specifically, typically discarded features can predict behavior just as well as top-ranked ones, yet produce diverging interpretations

Nature Human Behaviour@nathumbehav.nature.com · 4mo ago

Feature selection leads to divergent neurobiological interpretations of brain-based machine learning biomarkers

The BIDS workshop at BrainHack 2026 is coming together, and we want your help! Full announcement here: neurostars.org/t/bids-brain... #ohbm26 #brainhack

BIDS @ BrainHack 2026

Dear BIDS Community, We are excited to announce that BIDS will be at this year’s BrainHack in Bordeaux, June 11-13! If you’ll be at BrainHack, please get involved! There are a few things planned: W...

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Join us June 11-13 in Bordeaux at the OHBM Brainhack (ohbm.github.io/hackathon2026/). We’ll be hosting BIDS workshops for both novice and experienced users, answering BIDS questions, and providing support (BIDS or otherwise) to any projects that might need it.

"And so I watch the South to keep my eyes on the central casting of the American democratic imagination and to know where the script our country is writing is going. " www.nytimes.com/2023/04/11/o...

Opinion | Why I Keep My Eyes — and My Mind — on the South (Published 2023)

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How fast agentic AI has changed our work is head-spinning and there's been a lot of debate in our lab. So we drafted guidelines to help navigate this new reality. Sharing here in the hope it’s useful for others & curious to hear thoughts schucklab.gitlab.io/ai-policy.html #AcademicSky #compneurosky

📣 New #OpenSource fund for #science! Building on the impact of EOSS led by @dartar.bsky.social , this new @renphil21.bsky.social program will help scientific communities continue building our computational foundations as an open, public good. os4science.org/news/os4scie...

Open Source for Science Fund Launches to Power AI-Driven Discovery

A new multi-donor fund by Renaissance Philanthropy seeded by Biohub and Wellcome opens its first call for proposals.

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Open Source for Science Fund@os4science.org · 3mo ago

Today we're launching the Open Source for Science Fund, a new multi-donor philanthropic fund by Renaissance Philanthropy, seeded by @biohub.org and @wellcometrust.bsky.social, with support from @kavlifoundation.org and @researchsoftware.bsky.social 🧵 os4science.org/news/open-so...

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

Community Review: BEP028 - Provenance · bids-standard bids-specification · Discussion #2405

We are pleased to announce the community review period for BIDS Extension Proposal (BEP) 028! BEP028 extends the BIDS standard to describe the provenance of BIDS datasets. It introduces new organiz...

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We are pleased to announce that BIDS Extension Proposal 32 - Microelectrode Electrophysiology is open for community review! github.com/bids-standar... The review period is open from April 20 - May 1. #bids #neuroimaging #electrophysiology

Community Review: BEP032 - Microelectrode Electrophysiology · bids-standard bids-specification · Discussion #2406

We are pleased to announce the community review period for BIDS Extension Proposal (BEP) 032! BEP032 extends the BIDS standard to describe microelectrode electrophysiology data. The draft specifica...

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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: 1/n

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.

UW graduate student deported through SEA as protesters demand answers

A union representing University of Washington graduate student workers says Kennedy Orwa’s student visa was rescinded without explanation.

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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...

Boston University: Protect free speech for faculty, students, and staff

Boston University’s removal of Pride flags and other peaceful displays is not a minor policy issue. When a university that claims to support free speech starts policing what faculty, students, and sta...

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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

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...

Neuroscientists challenge NIH’s proposed data-access policy

The changes would restrict the sharing of human neuroimaging, transcriptomic and genetic data.

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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.

Imaging Neuroscience@imagingneurosci.bsky.social · 6mo ago

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Emilie Kibsgaard, Cyril R. Pernet, et al: Assessing metadata privacy in neuroimaging doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

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

Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com · 6mo ago

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, the brother of the UK’s King Charles, has been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office. It comes after further details of his relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein emerged, the BBC said. Get the latest: bloom.bg/4rqF1ah

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.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌@chanda.blacksky.app · 6mo ago

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

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.

Chuck Schumer@schumer.senate.gov · 6mo ago

Our DHS reform demands are exceedingly reasonable. We're asking ICE to do nothing more than follow the standards that the vast majority of law enforcement agencies already follow. Republicans, the ball is in your court. The clock is ticking.

Spain remains a welcome contrast to the rightward lurch happening across Europe. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I was once an undocumented migrant in Spain – this new decree will change lives | Francheska Melendez

Yes, migrants are key to Spain’s economic boom. But Pedro Sánchez’s decision to regularise 500,000 people should rather be applauded for its humanity, says journalist Francheska Melendez

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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)