Have I got the mug for this guy CC: @zachweinersmith.bsky.social

Mafia governance in action "the only offer on the table was that I needed to resign by 5pm that day or the DOJ would basically rain hell on UVA... If I did not resign that day, I was told that the DOJ would extract/block hundreds of millions of dollars from UVA before they would even negotiate."

We are pleased to announce that BIDS Extension Proposal 038 - Atlases is open for community review! github.com/bids-standar... The review period is open from November 10 - November 21. #bids #neuroimaging

Craven behavior from Shaheen and Peters. Trying to cut a deal that guarantees you nothing--no guarantee that a single dollar gets spent as intended, a "promise" of a future vote on ACA subsides that may never happen--is chump move. thehill.com/homenews/sen...

Of course, this is precisely why we expect law enforcement to wear badges and uniforms and show identification. Anyone could have foreseen (and many of us did) that this would be a serious side-effect of ICE's insistence on behaving like unaccountable thugs.

However, splitting the RSA computation into two steps may lead to information loss. A single-step approach using regression or hierarchical modeling appears to improve precision, reliability and interpretability in estimating representational similarity. arxiv.org/abs/2511.00395

Candles, candy and colorful flowers adorned the ofrenda, or altar, that a couple of dozen people helped build Saturday to honor Silverio Villegas González, the man shot and killed by an ICE agent in northwest suburban Franklin Park nearly two months ago.

The all-contributors GitHub bot project is looking for new maintainers. Could this be you? github.com/all-contribu... #OpenSource

My sister lives in #Evanston, IL and feels the severity of the situation is not well reported nationally. The local paper interviewed residents after the Halloween assaults, and she says that matches what she's seen herself and heard from neighbors. evanstonroundtable.com/2025/11/01/e...

This is some disturbing ICE Gestapo footage. They point guns at citizens and threaten to shoot them. They punch a guy in the back of the head repeatedly when he’s down and already subdued, then later slam his head into the side of their vehicle. This took place on 10/31/2025 in Evanston, IL.

US citizen shot from behind as he warned ICE agents children would be coming to get bus, lawyers say

This week, the #python Software Foundation rejected a $1.5MM NSF grant, due to a requirement that the PSF abandon diversity work. So I joined forces with Python folks (@offby1, @petrillic, @amethyst) and we're matching up to $12,000 of donations to the PSF. 🧵

TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-... 🧵

🗳️ Polls are OPEN for the 2025 @BIDSCommunity Steering Group Election! We're electing two new members to help guide the future of BIDS. 📊✨ If you're a contributor, check your inbox for your ballot (let us know if you have not received it). Voting closes October 31st! 👉 Review candidates:

As ranking Dem and former chair of the House Armed Services Committee, he usually stays in his lane because you save your powder for the defense fights. When he lays it out like this, we should listen /2

So, I have to say — as members of Congress go, Adam Smith is about as run of the mill as there is (used to be). He’s sensible, compromises, believes in bipartisan work, believes evidence, thoroughly studies material for his committee work. Seeing quotes like this from him is… deeply unnerving. /1

DOE's public statements about this say that all the ad hoc committees, including HEPAP, will be replaced by a single committee. As an STS researcher, I am compelled to point out that this overlaps with the Nazi playbook for taking over German physics. My slides about how they did that:🧪⚛️🔭

SCIENCE POLICY NEWS: During Yom Kippur, all the members of the High Energy Physics Advisory Committee (HEPAP), myself included, received a letter thanking us for our service and telling us essentially that the almost 40 yo standing federal advisory committee was no more. ⚛️🧪🔭 Why that matters 🧵

To be clear: LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government. The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency. This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

I'm recruiting PhD students to join my new lab in Fall 2026! The Shared Minds Lab at @usc.edu will combine deep learning and ecological human neuroscience to better understand how we communicate our thoughts from one brain to another.

JUST IN: President Trump has told top U.S. commanders that the military would be used against "enemy within."

In a sane country with competent leadership, the 50 highest-ranking Democrats would call a press conference to denounce what just happened as a threat to the republic and demand Trump's immediate impeachment and removal from office. I don't know he could make his intentions more clear.

We are pleased to announce that BIDS Extension Proposal 42 - Electromyogrpahy is open for community review! github.com/bids-standar... The review period is open from September 29 - October 10. #bids #neuroimaging #electromyography #emg

We are pleased to announce that BIDS Extension Proposal 20 - Eye Tracking is open for community review! github.com/bids-standar... The review period is open from September 29 - October 10. #bids #neuroimaging #eyetracking

Huge congratulations to NASA's @cgentemann.bsky.social for the #AGU2025 Open Science Recognition Prize!!! 🎉🎊🚀 Chelle has been a steadfast leader in open science, from data, to code, infrastructure, policy and education. This could not be more highly deserved! www.agu.org/honors-home/...

You've likely seen the new $100,000 penalty on high-skill immigrant workers. Here's the next, separate bomb the White House is dropping on high skill immigration, to be officially published *tomorrow*. tl;dr: Most H-1Bs now inaccessible for entry-level jobs, e.g. new grads from US universities.

Good morning. Immigration is good. Trade is good. There are nuances but they are narrow enough that free and open movement of people and goods should be the default.

Data only shows associations. Turning those into claims about mechanism or causation? That requires a Rosetta Stone of prior knowledge + theory. Resting-state fMRI is purely observational; correlation is its currency. From this, plenty of "theoretical toys" about brain function can be built...

If Jimmy Kimmel, the mildest slice of Colby Jack in America, isn’t safe, then you aren’t safe.

I don’t know when it’s going to pop for a lot of normies that they are living under an authoritarian regime, but the cancellation of popular TV shows that make fun of the administration might do it www.vulture.com/article/abc-...

A reporter just asked the U.S. president a perfectly legitimate question about his attorney general's vow to prosecute people for constitutionally protected speech. He responded by threatening to prosecute the reporter. The threat itself is an abuse of power. It ought to be an impeachable offense.

White House Officials Vow Vast Crackdown on Liberal Groups www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09... Open authoritarianism. Happening right in front of us.

I'm officially recruiting grad students in FIU's Cognitive Neuroscience PhD program! 🧠✨ The @bottenlab.bsky.social uses precision and population approaches to study neurodevelopmental variability. Reach out if interested! (contact info on bottenlab.github.io) Apps due 12/1! cn.fiu.edu (pls share)

Pay attention. Something dark might be coming. The murder of Charlie Kirk could have united Americans to confront political violence. Instead, Trump and his anti-democratic radicals look to be readying a campaign to destroy dissent. 1/ Here's what's happening.

UC Berkeley gives the Trump admin the names of 160 faculty + students for a federal investigation into “alleged antisemitic incidents.” Judith Butler, one of the targeted scholars, tells me: "It is an enormous breach of trust... It's shocking. Did you consider not complying with this request?”

Do you ever wish you could just use python to pull together the files and code for running FSL's randomise? Me too! I made this: github.com/jmumford/ran... It will even replace the numbers in the file outputs with contrast names of your choosing (and replace corrp with 1minusp).

We are at the "Show me your papers" portion of the fascist authoritarian takeover.

"Half the population” of greater Los Angeles "now meet the government’s criteria for reasonable suspicion," in the wake of today's 6-3 SCOTUS ruling. www.latimes.com/politics/sto...

This point from Sotomayor: what Kavanaugh is proposing to shift administrative burdens from the state to the individual, with the widely-agreed upon expectation that the burdens will fall heavier on some groups more than others.

New Open dataset alert: 🧠 Introducing "Spacetop" – a massive multimodal fMRI dataset that bridges naturalistic and experimental neuroscience! N = 101 x 6 hours each = 606 functional iso-hours combining movies, pain, faces, theory-of-mind and other cognitive tasks! 🧵below

@BIDSCommunity, it’s time to nominate 🏆and elect 🗳️two new Steering Group members! The nomination period opened on September 3rd and will close on Friday, September 19th at 11:59pm (Anywhere on Earth; UTC-12). 👉Nominate yourself here: forms.gle/vFNjKCNuP29L...

BIDS v1.10.1 is released! This release includes a large number of minor improvements accumulated over the last year. See bids-specification.readthedocs.io/en/stable/CH... for a summary. #BIDS #BrainImagingDataStructure #neuroimaging #neuroinformatics

You may have gotten carried away with your privacy concerns if you're using a fake email for support tickets...

He has kept among us in times of peace Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution & unacknowledged by our laws.

Save the Date! 🗓️ Join us in Bordeaux, France, June 14–18, 2026. #OHBM2026 registration opens January 2026. Visit us here for important dates: https://humanbrainmapping.org/OHBM2026

Oh good. We've reached the "I don't have to be faster than the bear, I only have to be less woke than you" stage of faculty solidarity. archive.is/wGNDr

Just to give the TL;DR on this one: *The* main purpose of the EO is to move funding priorities and decisions away from experts and career professionals over to political appointees. With the ultimate power held by Vought / OMB.