The BRAIN Initiative has changed neuroscience, yet there is still a lot we don't know about the brain. BRAIN Initiative Director John Ngai shares a roadmap for the next decade and what's needed to achieve the next human health breakthroughs: https://bit.ly/4nVbmVP #studyBRAIN

Today's the day! End of Semester Showcase: Creative Computing in Education May 18th, 2026 - 12:30PM Featuring the work from the Teachers on Sabattical program at @cuny.edu. #education #nyc #computing

Oh snap, our first strawberries of the season are taking shape! 🥹😍🥹

Open source maintainers at profitable companies: stop asking permission to fix what your employer already depends on. No paperwork. No programme. No manager’s blessing. Just maintain it on the clock.

Published with some minor changes! Please share widely. 😊 Guest, O., Suarez, M., ... & van Rooij, I. (2026). Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia. Digital Culture & Education, 16(2), 85–118. doi.org/10.5281/zeno... Journal: www.digitalcultureandeducation.com/volume-162

Announcing: a new interactive online tool for a quick and simple start of encoding or encoding: 🧠 fMRI, EEG, MEG, iEEG, spikes… preprocessing 💬 text 🔊 audio ▶️ video 🏞️ image… embeddings 📦 pip install neuralset 🔍https://facebookresearch.github.io/neuroai/neuralset/index.html

Looks cool! Related: very interested to see how we can help educators do useful things with the Atmosphere ✨

I'm starting a new reading journey into deep learning for neuroscience. My goal is to read a paper a day from this collection. One of my colleagues has shared a lot of great papers to give me some foundational understanding on these topics. I will try to blog my takeaways from the readings.

hey @semble.so, just noticed that PubMed saves are getting this text: Your access to the NCBI website at www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov has been temporarily blocked due to a possible misuse/abuse situation involving your site... have you come across it?

howdy #nyc! this semester I co-taught Creative Computing in Education @cuny.edu for the Teachers on Sabbatical program. Our students are having their showcase at the @cunypitlab.bsky.social in the Oculus World Trade Center. Come stop by and see some really awesome work they've done! May 18th 12:30

🧪 Just came across this story that was just published today. It resonates with lots of points @ronentk.me and @row1.ca have been pushing for a revolution toward modular science.

People who have lost their moms, mothers who have lost a child, people who desperately want to be moms and can’t be, people who have strained or no relationships with their mothers…. It’s a big boat. 💔 You are not alone.

First you get the nerds, then you get the gays, then you get the girls, then that’s everyone you want to talk to

Doing a bunch of gardening with my roommate 👨🏾‍🌾🪏🎍🌼

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Olivia R. Christiano and Sebastian Michelmann: Reliability and signal comparison of OPM-MEG, fMRI & iEEG in a repeated movie viewing paradigm doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

AOC on possibly running for the Senate or President: They assume my ambition is a title or a seat. My ambition is way bigger than that. My ambition is to change this country. Presidents come and go, elected officials come and go, single payer healthcare is forever.

You know what, eff you Claude! dumb, gaslighting robot! 😡🤖

🧪 Excited to share some really awesome work our team, Brain & AI, just released led by Hubert Banville! Introducing NeuralBench: A Unifying Framework for Benchmarking Neuro AI @jeanremiking.bsky.social, @sdascoli.bsky.social, @jarodlevy.bsky.social, @lucyzmf.bsky.social 🧠📈🧠🤖 #cogsci #neuroai #ai

Across many worlds they may wander. Welcome @teonbrooks.com, an Intended Dreamweaver of @reverie.house worthy of the compendium! See their character sheet and more: https://rpg.actor/teonbrooks.com

To date, @blackskyweb.xyz’s focus has been on building tools to provide a safer online space for members of the Black Twitter community to move to... With Acorn, Blacksky is providing access to these same tools to other communities that want to build their own spaces on the open social web.

huge shout-out to @schlage.town for organizing tonight's @atproto.nyc meetup ❤️ so many new people that I didn't recognize and got to meet! so many cool projects!

pckt sticker spotted !! @teonbrooks.com is so cool 😎

having so much fun at the @atproto.nyc meetup and dreaming about all the passports I'm going to make on @passports.social I love it so much @teonbrooks.com

Such a cool demo of @passports.social by @teonbrooks.com at @atproto.nyc 💥

Teon’s scrapbook containing 20 yrs of ticket stubs digitized in cestlavie.app inspiring passports.social “tickets as cultural artifacts” ❤️‍🔥 @atproto.nyc @teonbrooks.com

Anyone know any devs/creative technologists looking for a new remote gig in the US? Looking for someone I can trust to take my place at Hovercraft Studio. Ideal candidate would be experienced with React, Three.js and some occasional Unity work. Hit me up! www.hovercraftstudio.com

Planning to check this out tomorrow!

📍 Fletcher's Cove Beach · Washington, District of Columbia, US Potomac Half with PN! #BeaconBits

Omg, I just now discovered that @beaconbits.app has a search box. I've been accidentally making new venues because I only knew about the add button 🤦🏾‍♂️

📍 Union Station Other · Union Station Drive Northeast, Near Northeast DC for the weekend! Running a half marathon with my best friend from high school :) #BeaconBits

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NYC friends — join us in Brooklyn for our next meetup the evening of Monday, May 4! We'll have pizza, do a few short talks, and hang and get atmospheric 🌀 Send us your talk ideas and reach out if you'd like to help organize this & future events. See you there! 🙌✨

Today, we're launching the ability to Bounce from Mastodon to any Atmosphere PDS you have access to, whether it be @blackskyweb.xyz, @eurosky.social, @transrights.northsky.social, @selfhosted.social, or even your self-hosted option! You can also bring an invite code when necessary 🎟️ 1/

Atmosphere Account is now an Atmosphere App. What started as an account provider page is becoming an App Store-style registry for the Atmosphere: project profiles, discovery, screenshots, reviews, updates, and protocol-native records. Check out the explore page: atmosphereaccount.com/explore

how to stop claude from deleting your production database 1. press 'ESC' this concludes the tutorial on how to stop claude from deleting your production database.

So in other news, Match Group is investing in Sniffies?! In June, I'm leading the discussion in the Black queer men discussion group I co-founded (inquire within) on the intersection of tech and sexuality, especially the extractive nature of it. Queer and trans people need digital sovereignty.

Reminder: the Open Social Awards submission deadline is this Friday, May 1st! It's part of The Next Socials program track at the PublicSpaces 2026 Conference with a €10,000 grand prize, put on by @newpublic.org @publicspaces.net @waag.org

In other news, I'm going to #BurningMan for the first time this year! I'm really excited :woot: Going to be camping with the GlamCocks. As a new cockerel, I participated in my first meeting yday. It's a Type A workaholic, party hard, and loving and kind group. I think I may have found my people lol

Is anyone building the equivalent of WhatsApp channels on atproto? One use case I keep seeing is I have a bunch of friends who have left IG but now they don't get any notifications bc they're all trapped there. WhatsApp Channels are the next best thing for those using it so they can subscribe

In a huge moment in sports history, Sabastian Sawe smashed the men's world record by 65 seconds in winning the London Marathon in 1 hour, 59 minutes and 30 seconds on Sunday. n.pr/4vQBtk3

Choosing local when buying books is more than just where you shop: You’re protecting creativity. You’re defending the freedom to read. You’re uplifting diverse voices. You’re investing in neighbors. Today, and every day, we celebrate and support indie bookstores. Happy Independent Bookstore Day!

Amtrak optimistically expected 75,000 passengers along the Mardi Gras Express line in the first year. We are 7 months in and they are about to reach 100,000. Build. More. Passenger. Rail. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VA5w...

Thanks Anuj! Here for any q's as well. We'll have email newsletter support soon & excited about collectively replacing Substack with powerful open social alternatives ✨

AHHHHHH, im about to crash out. AI CHAT IS AN ANTI PATTERN. please if you know anyone at stripe.com connect us, i need urgent support for my account. if you don't a repost would be so fucking awesome, the fate of @offprint.app relies on this 😭

The struggle to get to the top of the AI usage leaderboard at a tokenmaxxing company.

I'm going to "atproto.nyc - May 2026". atmo.rsvp/p/atproto.ny...

Check out some really great work our team, Brain & AI at FAIR, has been working on! Introducing NeuralSet: a fast, simple, and scalable Python framework for Neuro-AI Great thread below! 🧪🧠📈🧠🤖 #cogsci #NeuroAI #neuroscience #ai #opensource #Python

We're happy to release NeuralSet: a simple, fast, scalable package for Neuro-AI Supports: 🧠 fMRI, EEG, MEG, iEEG, spikes… preprocessing 💬 text 🔊 audio ▶️ video 🏞️ image… embeddings 📦 pip install neuralset 🔍 facebookresearch.github.io/neuroai/neur... 📄 kingjr.github.io/files/neural... 🧵 Details👇

So every now and then I will try to post my way into closing that gap and clarifying that neither Bluesky nor the Discover feed define this network. And you shouldn’t need to be an embedded systems engineer to get what you want out of these networks of apps.

Happy Bicycle Day to all who celebrate it! 🚲🧘🏾‍♂️🌠