Strength training is political. We have a right-wing which has taken over physical fitness spaces, and hijacked “warrior culture”. We need a muscular progressivist visions. We need to be strong to build the world we want. Building my guns for the revolution. 💪🏾✊🏾 #Swoletariat #ResistanceTraining”

Just landed in Barcelona for a @mozilla.org alumni gathering and for Mozilla Festival 😄 Let me know if you're in town and want to catch up or meet IRL! #MozFest #openinternet #openweb #tech

A truly great day for New York! congrats @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social!

Halloween logicals, still the best 10/31 venn

We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.

Just picked up my bib for the NYC Marathon this Sunday. It's really happening!!! 😬😵‍💫🥹 My bib number is 52716! 5️⃣2️⃣7️⃣1️⃣6️⃣ #nycmarathon #running

I’ll be in Barcelona November 6-9 for a @mozilla.org Alumni Gathering and Mozilla Festival! If you're in town and/or at the Festival, hit me up! Would love to see you :) #mozfest

Fly, Eagles, fly.

This week in NYC's #CivicTech is up on @beta.nyc's website! We're excited about: early voting, the PIT Pop-Up at the Oculus, call for proposals for Open Data Week art + sessions, and hands-on data classes! Small and mighty, REPRESENT! #PiTech #OpenData www.beta.nyc/2025/10/24/w...

At my town hall in Aurora, a constituent asked me what gives me hope for a better tomorrow:

On Monday, I was teaching Pandas and stumbled across a peculiarity when trying to explain the difference in `df.iloc` and `df.loc`. My head almost exploded when I learned that df.iloc[0:100] and df.loc[0:100] behaved differently 🤯. I would rather the slicing for numbers didn't work for df.loc!

TIL the import pattern `import seaborn as sns` comes from an inside joke based on West Wing: Samuel Norman Seaborn ➡️ `sns` I definitely felt old when I asked my class if anyone had watched West Wing and it was a unanimous no 👴🏾 #programming #Python

Announcing the Recoding America Fund! It's time to update the operating model of government. eatingpolicy.substack.com/p/announcing...

🧪 Just posted the preprint to @prereview.bsky.social. Thanks @neurosarda.bsky.social for the suggestion and for your team's work on creating such a great platform! It was quick, painless, and easy to request reviews. The platform is super slick and I love the increased visibility to for reviewers.

And we're live! Starting today, you can use Bounce to migrate from Mastodon to an existing Bluesky, Blacksky, or any other ATProto account! Check it out: blog.anew.social/bounce-beta-...

Gotta love science.

Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!

New York is not for sale.

Maybe let’s get the word out on this again, for no reason in particular.

🧪 I'm happy to share a new preprint that @sazeka.bsky.social and I recently submitted through our work with @gothamdataclinic.org. It's a review of tools, infrastructure, and training needed to broaden data science education in high school and higher education. #datascience #education #opensource

🎉 Get ready for Black In Neuro Chapters Week 2025! 🗓 Oct 27–31 — a week of connection, community & celebration 🖤 📣 Chapter Roll Call 🤝 Community Call 🍸 Manhattan Mixer 🧠 1st-ever Chapters SURP Symposium! ✨ Register: linktr.ee/BINchapters #BlackInNeuro #BINTogether #ChaptersWeek2025

Introduction to JBLAC Webinar Nov 7, 2025 | 6–7:30 PM ET Learn about the Journal of Black Language and Culture (JBLAC)—its mission, vision, & role in advancing Black language & culture scholarship. Hear from the team & discover how your work can engage with this new community. bit.ly/48Cjc0V

Just Bounced! and that was awesome! 🤯🤩 I've finally consolidated my open social web presence. My Hachyderm account on Mastodon is no more, but now I'm connected my followers here :) Thanks @anew.social, @quillmatiq.com, and @snarfed.org!

We're launching Mastodon to Bluesky/Blacksky/etc migrations next week! If you're interested in trying it before the rollout, reach out - we're looking for testers.

We’re hiring! @sucholutsky.bsky.social and I are seeking a postdoc and RA for a project on trust in AI systems with folks at NYU, Princeton, BU, and Cornell Positions open until filled. Apply soon! Please share 🔁 postdoc: apply.interfolio.com/175495 RA: apply.interfolio.com/175497

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US. 𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕. 𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

A speech about what drives me, how science and open source are bitter victories, unable to make improve the world if society does not embrace them for the better: gael-varoquaux.info/personnal/a-...

We’re recruiting a postdoctoral fellow to join our team! 🎉 I’m happy to share that I’ve opened back up the search for this position (it was temporarily closed due to funding uncertainty). See lab page and doc below for details!

The MTA Memorabilia & Collectibles Pop-Up Shop is back! This is a one-of-a-kind opportunity to purchase pieces of NYC transit history 🚇 DETAILS: October 16 and 17 from 9am - 2pm 23 Avenue X, Brooklyn, NY 11223 (outdoors) Take the D train to Bay 50 St Learn more: www.mta.info/article/new-...

svelte.dev/packages is now live! It's a convenient and easily discoverable place to find a sampling of high quality packages in the ecosystem. We hope it will give confidence in the Svelte ecosystem to newcomers and help them get started more easily.

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

Just taught my first class of Intro to Scientific Python at MSKCC Graduate School 🧪🧬👨🏾‍🔬 It's so great being back in a classroom! #teaching #python

The 'kin' of ‘napkin’ means "little." ‘Nap’ comes from ‘nape,' which means “tablecloth.” So a napkin is a little tablecloth. 10/10, no notes.

Happy first day of autumn 🍂

15 years, 4 kids, a laundry list of full time jobs and hours of makeup classroom time later, 34 year old Antonio Pennix received his high school diploma. www.thebanner.com/community/lo...

At Brooklyn Borough Hall about to be sworn in as a community board member of Brooklyn CB1! 🙋🏾‍♂️🥹 #bkcb1 #civics #Brooklyn #NYC

Some news: This winter Team Oonee is launching NYC's first Dutch-Style🚲 parking hub in Brooklyn's Sunset Park. The Hub will provide free parking for 100+ bikes/scooters, and will include safe charging, and appt based repairs + lite service. This will make history in several ways. More deets in 🧵👇🏾

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Christian Kothe, Scott Makeig, et al: The lab streaming layer for synchronized multimodal recording doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

Did you know that for $5/month, you can get PBS Passport, a service that unlocks the vastness of the @pbs.org libraries? Feed your mind while you help PBS stay on the air.

I'll be representing Blacksky Algorithms in Barcelona for MozFest 2025 🇪🇸🌌

Soul Summit Music @TheLotRadio 09-08-2025 now available for replay! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPRtm2BXaRA

CityCamp NYC is this Saturday! Join us for our inaugural public interest tech assembly, dedicated to collaboration and learning. We will kick off the day at CUNY School of Law and conclude the day at The Greats of Craft LIC. All you need to know www.citycamp.nyc

There are several types of K-12 schools you can send your kids to. But what are the pros and cons of each? Join a discussion led by WUNC Education Reporter Liz Schlemmer to find out. September 13 at Marbles. Register for free here: airtable.com/appzYe5UpGZ3...

The Pasteur Institute opens its Doctoral Program app. There are 5 projects focused on Hearing and my team is involved two of them! 1) neural oscillatory dynamics in temporal processing of speech 2) Algorithms for speech intelligibility in cochlear implants DM me if interested! www.pasteur.fr/ppu

I just backed KAREEM on @kickstarter.com! My friend Olajuwon is finishing up at London Film School and needs support. His film is inspired by a truly personal story about his cancer scare. If you're able to share some love, he would truly appreciate it! #blacksky #film #fundraising #cancer

Announcing fall 2025 public programs! Timely discussions, in-depth perspectives, creative ideas. Join us in person or online – RESERVE: www.gc.cuny.edu/public-progr... @pkrugman.bsky.social @asrc-gc.bsky.social @humanitiescuny.bsky.social @cuny.edu @stone-lis.bsky.social @rbiis.bsky.social

Just stumbled upon the end of a drone show over the East River. Super cool! #JustDoIt

Meeting some great folks at #ATProto_NYC :) Currently listening to a discussion between @bmann.ca and @wang.social about building on the protocol

This is WILD! neuromuscular aim assist! 🧠⚡️🎯 This guy strapped some electrodes on his arm and used some computer vision to make his reaction time go down to sub-100ms and accuracy go through the roof. Pretty fascinating setup and walkthrough. Worth the watch! #neuroscience #bci #neurotech #gaming