Happy Monday. Are you listening to Tyler’s latest album on your way to work too?

1/3 🔥 Postdoc opportunity! 🌟 Excited to share that Prof. Mert Sabuncu @msabuncu.bsky.social and I are recruiting postdocs for new research projects in AI for MRI. They will be co-mentored by us and work at the CornellTech campus on Roosevelt Island, NYC.✨

We are looking for postdocs in the areas listed below. Please spread the word.

🚨 New publication alert: 📢 “BrainMorph: A Foundational Keypoint Model for Robust and Flexible Brain MRI Registration.” 🖊️ A Q Wang, R Saluja, H Kim, X He, @adriandalca.bsky.social , @msabuncu.bsky.social. ⬇️

Introducing the Krakencoder: a tool to translate between structural and functional connectivity in the brain, as applied to data from the Human Connectome Project. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Uncertainty is at the core of everything. Our understanding and our ability to predict and control is fundamentally limited - often by resource constraints, but also by the complexities of nature. 1/n

I want to see NYK v OKC

as i was watching the highlights of inter-barcelona, i was thinking about how sports/entertainment is a good distraction from all the political issues we are constantly faced with... and then i see this 😂

I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.

If Putin wanted to destroy America, how would it be different than what's happening now?

NSF just revised its indirect cost policy—15%. When NIH tried the same, it led to lawsuits, layoffs, and a federal court injunction. Changes like this can wreak havoc on research. MORE ACTION ITEMS TO COME SOON. Stay tuned. www.nsf.gov/policies/doc... #NSFFreeze #WithoutNSF

Donald Trump and Elon Musk have left Houston, Tampa, New York and other major cities without head meteorologists just ahead of what will be another busy hurricane season This is straight-up life-threatening malpractice (h/t @lisamjarvis.bsky.social ) www.cnn.com/2025/05/02/w...

I know that some people might not understand the gravity of what's going on with all the federal funding cuts in the US. Not just top academic institutions, like Harvard, MIT, Stanford, and Cornell, but all of US academia is under existential threat. 1/n

This is such a turbulent time for US academia and science, a world leader and engine of progress for the last 75+ years. And the news keeps getting worse... www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Here’s the show. Please watch! It’s all about HHS and the first segment is about NIH. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8H34...

Loved this read!

ironically we now need the opposte of a turning test for much of digital contnt.

TARIFF is a fantastic tool that lets you impose import tariffs on Python packages 😂 h/t @leomlck.bsky.social github.com/hxu296/tariff

Killing the goose that lays golden eggs because it's too woke

Do you hear that? The R&D engine of the US and the world is grinding to halt...

Dark times like these can bring out the worst of people. Resist that urge. Lift each other up. Be generous. Be open.

If you're a billionaire, then you'll barely notice a few thousand dollars a year in higher prices at the store from these Trump tariffs - plus you can count on him to get you another big tax break for the wealthy. But for everyone else, this is a big deal, and a bad one.

Just before Trump announced the pause on tarrifs he posted "This is a great time to buy." Tump is enriching himself and his billionaire buddies by trashing the US economy.

This morning I wanted to show my class how data poisoning works with a silly example so I added a little bit of white text on my personal website. By lunch, ChatGPT had made me a professional futsal player (even if with a bit of a leading question)

Here's the only post you should read today.

USA led the world in expertise stopping HIV, incl preventing mother to child transmission. But DOGE has now dismissed every global prevention expert at USAID, CDC, & State Dept. The risk is insane: Resurgent HIV & 500K child deaths by 2030. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/h...

The content I came here for:

Transformer is the deep leaning architecture that solves everything with only attention, trained on massive scale multi-modal data without human labels and offers generative capabilities thanks to its decoder. Get it now?

This, from my colleague Brent Neiman says it all. Trump admin used the results from his paper to justify tariff rates. Except they used the completely wrong number. Staggering 🤯 www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/o...

Oh it’s Monday. Brace for impact…

Wtf is krill?

I always look for nuance and try to poke holes from all sides. Life is never black or white. It’s shades of gray… But sometimes the shade is so extreme that it is ok to call it black or white.

Donald Trump has committed the most profound, harmful and unnecessary economic error in the modern era. Almost everything he said—on history, economics and the technicalities of trade—was utterly deluded econ.st/3YbbFjq

Scientific conferences attract thousands of foreign researchers to the United States every year. But some are reassessing their travel plans because of objections to U.S. policy and fears of being interrogated or detained by customs officials.

Can we set IDC rates this way too? Like the year of your founding divided by 100 or something along those lines?

Would you present your next NeurIPS paper in Europe instead of traveling to San Diego (US) if this was an option? Søren Hauberg (DTU) and I would love to hear the answer through this poll: (1/6)

I’m hiring a full-time lab tech for two years starting May/June. Strong coding skills required, ML a plus. Our research on the human brain uses fMRI, ANNs, intracranial recording, and behavior. A great stepping stone to grad school. Apply here: careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/cl... ......

This place feels like twitter from 10 years ago. How do we fast forward like 5 years? Am I doing this wrong?

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

When countries like Japan don't "grow" for decades, civilization does not seem to crumble b/c they have values and goals that are not just financial. I am not sure that's true for US.

If you or someone you know has experienced anything like this I would like to hear from you, Signal is davelevitan.26 and you can remain anonymous if you'd like

One of many stories...

I am at Stanford and will be giving an AIMI seminar today. 12-1p Clark Center, S360. Feel free to stop by and say hi after the talk. aimi.stanford.edu/events/semin...

I hope somebody gets to write a “convolutions are all you need for vision” paper. If it weren’t for the sheer amount of compute needed for this, I would.

This 👇

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

Honestly it’s insane how much of a Deja vu this March has turned out to be.

US attracts top scientific talent from across the globe. We lead the world in technology and innovation. We have the best academic healthcare centers that deliver amazing care and advance medicine. All of this is under an existential threat: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/o...