About an hour ago at Austin City Council, the Rosedale school re-zoning was delayed a second time, not to the next council meeting like last time, but to SEPTEMBER But hey, that’s okay, it’s only money right? What does that greedy school district need it for anyway

I am begging “environmentalists” to understand that building dense infill housing is one of the most environmentally friendly policies possible

The Federal Transit Administration released its annual report on new transit projects to fund. The report recommends a total of just $1.2 b for existing & new projects, a massive reduction from previous years. The federal role in funding new transit projects is being decimated.

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You can check this out now: compose.neurosynth.org We're continuing to add even more features to streamline and automate meta-analysis-- making it a key part of every scientist's toolkit!

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by James D. Kent, Alejandro de la Vega, et al: Neurosynth Compose: A web-based platform for flexible and reproducible neuroimaging meta-analysis doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

Our paper is published! doi.org/10.1162/IMAG... Take a look at the previous post where I described the preprint, I'm too lazy (or efficient?) to re-write it. Besides it was perfect. #neuroscience #openscience #metaanalysis

The following phrases are approved for use during our town hall: "Wow!" "Interesting!" "I've never seen that before!" Those same phrases are discouraged when describing someone's MRI results. Choose the right context, join our town hall: bit.ly/ns-townhall #openscience #neuroskyence

As the year comes to a close, we are taking stock of what we've done and what we are looking forward to in 2026. (One thing we are looking forward to is our January 22nd TownHall! Register here: bit.ly/ns-townhall). Keep reading for some fun stats! ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️

💡🎥🎭 We have a short video series to help you get a jump-start on your Meta-Analyses! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Our latest paper outlining our ecosystem of tools for mining the neuroimaging literature, is finally officially published in eLife! doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

Vinay Prasad, a former adult oncologist, has moved to disrupt the childhood vaccine schedule by asserting - against all evidence - that administering multiple vaccines at the same time “could blunt their efficacy.” The added burden/delay of separating shots would sharply reduce US vaccination rates.

KASIE HUNT: Over the summer you said, “There’s no vaccine that’s safe and effective”. Do you still believe that? RFK JR: “I never said that.” KASIE HUNT: “Play the clip.” RFK JR (clip): “There’s no vaccine that is safe and effective.” (March 2024) ht: @cwebbonline.com

🚀 New in Neurosynth Compose: AI-Assisted Curation Curating studies for a neuroimaging meta-analysis usually takes hundreds of hours. Our new feature uses LLMs + zero-shot learning to extract study details directly from full-text articles. Try it now: 👉 compose.neurosynth.org

1. We interrupt this programming for some LEGITIMATELY GOOD NEWS Violent crime in Baltimore has PLUMMETED to historic lows How did the city do it? Baltimore adopted a comprehensive set of "woke" policies, treating violence as a public health issue

I officially made my last student loan payment (of my life hopefully??). I'm 38, and graduated from college 16 years ago...

The 14th Street Busway has been a smashing success: faster commutes, fewer crashes, calmer streets. So why is Eric Adams blocking a similar plan for 34th Street?

Texas can't adequately warn people about deadly floods, but it can immediately let me know that a cop got hurt 250 miles away from me.

Excited to share our latest preprint: "Neurosynth Compose: A Web-Based Platform for Flexible and Reproducible Neuroimaging Meta-Analysis" Here, we cover the why, what, and how of the next generation Neurosynth ecosystem for reproducible neuroimaging meta-analysis. osf.io/preprints/os...

Happy to see Julio Peraza's lastest posted, "NiCLIP", using a CLIP model to improve 'reverse inference' prediction of task fMRI results based on peak coordinate data www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... w/ @angielaird.bsky.social @neurozorro.bsky.social James Kent & JB Poline

American scientists are **incredibly** expensive in the global context American science has, historically, been **incredibly** well funded American innovation has been the product of a level of financial investment that is unparalleled globally.

New NIH Guide Notice about foreign subawards grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

The way most NIH funded scientists and federal staff are behaving right now is a real world prisioner's dillema.

In 100 days in office, US President Donald Trump has destabilized eight decades of government support for science. This has included terminating more than 1,000 grants in areas such as climate change, cancer, and HIV prevention. Will US science survive Trump 2.0? www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I hate to admit but I'm mostly on here to check politics but for that same reason I'm also not here as much as I'd like...

Columbia's Alzheimers Disease Research Center has been crippled, as a result. No one voted to kill research to help stem the tide on rising dementia prevalence. arstechnica.com/science/2025...

Our office received a petition advocating to keep the Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Councils separate. I fully agree - bicyclists deserve a focused, citizen-led voice at City Hall. We always appreciate hearing from constituents, and your input is always important to me.

From 2010 to 2016 (latest data I have ), NIH research contributed to EVERY drug approved by the FDA

E-bikes are car-replacers. Authors of a new paper that examined 10 e-bike studies across Northern Europe: "E-bikes can substitute for all other modes of transport, but car use appears to be the most affected." www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New report shows that NIH grants fueled $95 billion in economic activity and 407,782 jobs in 2024. That's not to mention the countless lives that biomedical research has saved. Show me a better investment than that. www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

The thing about scientific research is that it’s one of the few national investments that’s a clear public good even if you entirely discount the actual ostensible point of it.

Signal rocks

Sci-friends. Should you accept an invitation to review NIH grants if you are very angry about what the Administration is doing to NIH? Can you fairly evaluate applications?

I know this is going to sound naive or earnest, but I genuinely find myself shocked by how little people seem to be upset by the levels of corruption we're seeing. Is that the median voter assumes everyone is corrupt already? Or isn't actually getting stories about the corruption?

ATTENTION If anyone from Columbia is interested in communicating with reporters and/or can share documents to help reporters cover this nightmare and cover it accurately, PLEASE reach out to me (or have them do so) on signal (jeremymberg.78). 1/n

From the other site... (from EVP at Columbia to a training grant director)

Last year, I was overjoyed to receive an NIH NRSA fellowship to study toddler brains and caregiving effects on memory at Columbia. Last night, my grant was terminated.

With his permission, I'm sharing Dean Treanor's response to Ed Martin's letter:

🧪The Alzheimer's Disease Research Center program is a crown jewel in the NIA's funding portfolio. 35 centers in red, blue and purple states put data in a single repository working towards a shared goal of curing AD. Funding for center renewals is on hold. tinyurl.com/yc2pr626 #standupforscience2025

Love what Mike Eisen did at eLife, but he could not be more wrong here. The Republican base doesn’t hate NIH because of “loss of trust,” they hate NIH and Fauci because rightwingers have run a coordinated funded attack on science for decades. Has Eisen watched Fox since 2019???

Please forward this thread on Bhattacharya’s terrible recent writing to as many people as you can. Jay Bhattacharya has his Senate hearing today, and the NYT publishes a fawning opinion essay about him (just as happened during the Kavanaugh and Gorsuch hearings). People are trying to whitewash him.

Trump claimed the Biden administration spent $8 million "making mice transgender." The White House tried to back up this number with records of funding for research into cancer, asthma, and HIV, some of which used *transgenic* (genetically modified) mice.

Quick request: Please do contact us if you're a scientist at a university or outside NIH, and you serve on an #NIH council or advisory board, including the intramural Board of Scientific Counselor review boards (the reviews that impose high standards on NIH!) We'd love to be in touch.

@utpsychology.bsky.social is searching for a Director of the Clinical Services and Training Center. Looking for a dynamic person who can help our clinic better serve the greater Austin community while providing excellent training for our graduate students. Apply here - apply.interfolio.com/164324

NEWS: The USAID official put on leave for disseminating two memos about Rubio's failure to push through life-saving foreign aid was in the process of writing a THIRD memo when fired. We obtained it. It's far more alarming than the first two. www.thebulwark.com/p/what-a-wee...

Thank you! I, too, am shocked that so many are so quiet as if they think it will protect them from the worst of this. I don't think it will.

Interesting day to watch Civil War (movie) on an international flight out of the US

ATTENTION: If you have received a NoA from NIH within the last 10 days, please let me know the grant number and award date. I am trying to characterize the time lag between awards and NIH Reporter. DM me if you wish or just reply