Corey Richier
@cjrichier.bsky.social
Clinical Psych PhD student at UIUC. Psychopathology, systems/computational neuroscience, and machine learning. Opinions my own
Pleased to share another preprint! In this paper, we compare a suite of dimensionality reduction and feature selection methods for fMRI task decoding.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Comparison of dimensionality reduction and feature selection for cognitive task decoding in functional magnetic resonance imaging
Background Advances in functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) have led to the ability to study the brain across many contexts. However, the large number of features generated by functional conne...
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October 28, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Pleased to share another preprint! In this paper, we compare a suite of dimensionality reduction and feature selection methods for fMRI task decoding.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Happy to (finally!) be able to share a preprint of the first of papers from my dissertation! In this work we examined brain age prediction in individuals with and without GAD with structural MRI.
Brain Age Prediction in Generalized Anxiety Disorder using a Convolutional Neural Network
Higher predicted brain age difference has been associated with several psychiatric disorders. Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) is associated with markers of accelerated aging. In this study, we dete...
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August 14, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Happy to (finally!) be able to share a preprint of the first of papers from my dissertation! In this work we examined brain age prediction in individuals with and without GAD with structural MRI.
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I’m looking for trainees to follow and boost to uplift us all but my feed is full of not-trainees. I’ll keep looking, but please send me tips of trainees posting things we should celebrate (my DMs are open)!
April 1, 2025 at 9:38 PM
I’m looking for trainees to follow and boost to uplift us all but my feed is full of not-trainees. I’ll keep looking, but please send me tips of trainees posting things we should celebrate (my DMs are open)!
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I'm a member of the NIMH BSC. The members who were fired are outstanding scientists, which is why they were appointed to the BSC in the first place. Their firing for unspecified reasons is unconscionable.
At least four neuroscientists received termination letters this week dismissing them from NIH advisory boards. “This is unusual and unprecedented,” says @thebalelab.bsky.social, one of the terminated board members.
By @callimcflurry.bsky.social @avaskham.bsky.social
#neuroskyence
bit.ly/4hM0Xa3
By @callimcflurry.bsky.social @avaskham.bsky.social
#neuroskyence
bit.ly/4hM0Xa3
Acting NIH director dismisses four neuroscientists from advisory boards
The letters they received this week did not include a reason for their termination.
www.thetransmitter.org
March 25, 2025 at 9:52 PM
I'm a member of the NIMH BSC. The members who were fired are outstanding scientists, which is why they were appointed to the BSC in the first place. Their firing for unspecified reasons is unconscionable.
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Seems like a good time to bump this excellent piece written by (at the time) trainees. Highlights many longstanding issues with the internship model as well as insights gleaned from new challenges encountered during the pandemic.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
March 11, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Seems like a good time to bump this excellent piece written by (at the time) trainees. Highlights many longstanding issues with the internship model as well as insights gleaned from new challenges encountered during the pandemic.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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BREAKING:
The NIH summer internship program (SIP) has been officially cancelled, across all institutes.
It’s a sad loss for the brightest science students in America, for American science, and for future cures for diseases like cancer and Alzheimer’s. 🧪 1/
The NIH summer internship program (SIP) has been officially cancelled, across all institutes.
It’s a sad loss for the brightest science students in America, for American science, and for future cures for diseases like cancer and Alzheimer’s. 🧪 1/
NIDA has announced it, but all the NIH summer internship programs are likely cancelled.
Sorry college students interested in STEM jobs, sorry high school students looking at science 🧪 careers. Trump and Musk are cancelling your futures.
Sorry college students interested in STEM jobs, sorry high school students looking at science 🧪 careers. Trump and Musk are cancelling your futures.
Another loss for #science & the next generation of researchers. The 28-year running NIDA summer internship program is cancelled for this year.
@altnih4science.bsky.social #SavetheNIH
@altnih4science.bsky.social #SavetheNIH
February 26, 2025 at 10:02 PM
BREAKING:
The NIH summer internship program (SIP) has been officially cancelled, across all institutes.
It’s a sad loss for the brightest science students in America, for American science, and for future cures for diseases like cancer and Alzheimer’s. 🧪 1/
The NIH summer internship program (SIP) has been officially cancelled, across all institutes.
It’s a sad loss for the brightest science students in America, for American science, and for future cures for diseases like cancer and Alzheimer’s. 🧪 1/
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NIH cuts are getting the press, but VA research is getting slashed too. What do we lose when VA research goes away? Here's some greatest hits: The nicotine patch, invention of the cardiac pacemaker, first successful liver transplant, development of the CAT/CT scan
prospect.org/health/2025-...
prospect.org/health/2025-...
VA Research Funding Slashed
Though not as prominent as the NIH, VA researchers play a major role in advancing basic health science. Hundreds of projects have been cut.
prospect.org
February 25, 2025 at 10:12 PM
NIH cuts are getting the press, but VA research is getting slashed too. What do we lose when VA research goes away? Here's some greatest hits: The nicotine patch, invention of the cardiac pacemaker, first successful liver transplant, development of the CAT/CT scan
prospect.org/health/2025-...
prospect.org/health/2025-...
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To say nothing of intramural research. So many rare diseases under investigation bc NIH is the only option, pharma isn't interested. And the NIH hospital announced today their clinical labs will have long turnaround times and they won't even do certain tests anymore bc they lost the staff.
The thing about destroying NIH is NIH’s scale in medical research just dwarfs everyone else.
For ex, in 2023 the American Cancer Society gave out $64.5 million worth of grants. Sounds big, right?
But NIH’s budget was $49 billion. With a B.
Kill NIH and the floor drops out of US science.
For ex, in 2023 the American Cancer Society gave out $64.5 million worth of grants. Sounds big, right?
But NIH’s budget was $49 billion. With a B.
Kill NIH and the floor drops out of US science.
HHS might as well be wrapping a wire around a piece of metal and running a current through it and see what happens.
February 20, 2025 at 3:31 AM
To say nothing of intramural research. So many rare diseases under investigation bc NIH is the only option, pharma isn't interested. And the NIH hospital announced today their clinical labs will have long turnaround times and they won't even do certain tests anymore bc they lost the staff.
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The thing about destroying NIH is NIH’s scale in medical research just dwarfs everyone else.
For ex, in 2023 the American Cancer Society gave out $64.5 million worth of grants. Sounds big, right?
But NIH’s budget was $49 billion. With a B.
Kill NIH and the floor drops out of US science.
For ex, in 2023 the American Cancer Society gave out $64.5 million worth of grants. Sounds big, right?
But NIH’s budget was $49 billion. With a B.
Kill NIH and the floor drops out of US science.
HHS might as well be wrapping a wire around a piece of metal and running a current through it and see what happens.
February 20, 2025 at 3:06 AM
The thing about destroying NIH is NIH’s scale in medical research just dwarfs everyone else.
For ex, in 2023 the American Cancer Society gave out $64.5 million worth of grants. Sounds big, right?
But NIH’s budget was $49 billion. With a B.
Kill NIH and the floor drops out of US science.
For ex, in 2023 the American Cancer Society gave out $64.5 million worth of grants. Sounds big, right?
But NIH’s budget was $49 billion. With a B.
Kill NIH and the floor drops out of US science.
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Last thing to note on @joshtpm.bsky.social’s thread:
The top scientists at NIH are not billionaires, and in fact they make a lot less than $500k per year. People take huge pay cuts to come to NIH because they believe in public service and think they can do the best science there.
The top scientists at NIH are not billionaires, and in fact they make a lot less than $500k per year. People take huge pay cuts to come to NIH because they believe in public service and think they can do the best science there.
February 18, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Last thing to note on @joshtpm.bsky.social’s thread:
The top scientists at NIH are not billionaires, and in fact they make a lot less than $500k per year. People take huge pay cuts to come to NIH because they believe in public service and think they can do the best science there.
The top scientists at NIH are not billionaires, and in fact they make a lot less than $500k per year. People take huge pay cuts to come to NIH because they believe in public service and think they can do the best science there.
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Thanks to all of the NIHers and their friends who reached out to me. I am still here (DM me or Signal jeremymberg.78)
I still have a very incomplete picture but based on what I have been told, the damage to NIH and to many wonderful people who work(ed) there is/was impossible for me to imagine
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I still have a very incomplete picture but based on what I have been told, the damage to NIH and to many wonderful people who work(ed) there is/was impossible for me to imagine
1/n
February 16, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Thanks to all of the NIHers and their friends who reached out to me. I am still here (DM me or Signal jeremymberg.78)
I still have a very incomplete picture but based on what I have been told, the damage to NIH and to many wonderful people who work(ed) there is/was impossible for me to imagine
1/n
I still have a very incomplete picture but based on what I have been told, the damage to NIH and to many wonderful people who work(ed) there is/was impossible for me to imagine
1/n
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Many in biotech/private sector are boasting about their ways of funding and doing science
But they are staffed with PhDs and postdocs we train in our NIH and NSF funded labs in universities
With university labs lacking funds to train, the private sector will be profoundly harmed
But they are staffed with PhDs and postdocs we train in our NIH and NSF funded labs in universities
With university labs lacking funds to train, the private sector will be profoundly harmed
February 11, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Many in biotech/private sector are boasting about their ways of funding and doing science
But they are staffed with PhDs and postdocs we train in our NIH and NSF funded labs in universities
With university labs lacking funds to train, the private sector will be profoundly harmed
But they are staffed with PhDs and postdocs we train in our NIH and NSF funded labs in universities
With university labs lacking funds to train, the private sector will be profoundly harmed
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Dear US scientists: we love you all, but don't be that "heartened" by legal action. Musk is saying he will ignore judicial orders. USAID/CFPB actions are blatantly illegal.
We're begging you: read @jamellebouie.net @dahlialithwick.bsky.social and @gregsargent.bsky.social on law and politics. 1/ 🧪
We're begging you: read @jamellebouie.net @dahlialithwick.bsky.social and @gregsargent.bsky.social on law and politics. 1/ 🧪
Hearing from more people at affected universities today. One at another major research institute said people there were “frozen with fear” at the potential of the rate cut and relative silence from leadership over the weekend, but heartened by the unified response of the quick lawsuit.
Destructive Banality: NIH Indirect Costs Move Sounds Boring, Could Kill You
Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.
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February 10, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Dear US scientists: we love you all, but don't be that "heartened" by legal action. Musk is saying he will ignore judicial orders. USAID/CFPB actions are blatantly illegal.
We're begging you: read @jamellebouie.net @dahlialithwick.bsky.social and @gregsargent.bsky.social on law and politics. 1/ 🧪
We're begging you: read @jamellebouie.net @dahlialithwick.bsky.social and @gregsargent.bsky.social on law and politics. 1/ 🧪
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Parents, college students:
Please be aware that NIH wants to interview and hire IRTAs - postbacs, PhD students, and postdocs this year, but we are currently banned from doing so. We may have a gaping hole.
You can and should contact your Senator and House member in your home state.
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Please be aware that NIH wants to interview and hire IRTAs - postbacs, PhD students, and postdocs this year, but we are currently banned from doing so. We may have a gaping hole.
You can and should contact your Senator and House member in your home state.
/end
February 10, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Parents, college students:
Please be aware that NIH wants to interview and hire IRTAs - postbacs, PhD students, and postdocs this year, but we are currently banned from doing so. We may have a gaping hole.
You can and should contact your Senator and House member in your home state.
/end
Please be aware that NIH wants to interview and hire IRTAs - postbacs, PhD students, and postdocs this year, but we are currently banned from doing so. We may have a gaping hole.
You can and should contact your Senator and House member in your home state.
/end
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I think we should be cautious about embracing the "NIH needs reform" nonsense. The sort of reform you are all thinking about bears little resemblance to what the right wingers have in mind. Don't be naive.
January 26, 2025 at 10:01 PM
I think we should be cautious about embracing the "NIH needs reform" nonsense. The sort of reform you are all thinking about bears little resemblance to what the right wingers have in mind. Don't be naive.
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Which all reinforces the view that the pathology of psychiatric disorders like schizophrenia is better thought of as an emergent maladaptive attractor state of a dynamical system than a direct result of acute genetic dysfunction in some specific cells of the brain
January 22, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Which all reinforces the view that the pathology of psychiatric disorders like schizophrenia is better thought of as an emergent maladaptive attractor state of a dynamical system than a direct result of acute genetic dysfunction in some specific cells of the brain
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It could be otherwise because these are false distinctions projected onto clumsy, outdated frameworks. One isn't happening within another. It's all one thing.
“It seems to me very clear that all psychopathology happens in the context of the patient’s personality. I don’t understand how it could be otherwise.” Krueger 👇🏽
The Dimensional Turn in Psychopathology: Q&A with Robert F. Krueger
“Everything we try as a field ends up illustrating how murky and complex the origins of psychopathology tend to be.”
www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/the-dimens...
“Everything we try as a field ends up illustrating how murky and complex the origins of psychopathology tend to be.”
www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/the-dimens...
January 11, 2025 at 5:42 PM
It could be otherwise because these are false distinctions projected onto clumsy, outdated frameworks. One isn't happening within another. It's all one thing.
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the data can speak for itself when the data can clean itself
November 28, 2024 at 4:15 PM
the data can speak for itself when the data can clean itself
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I agree with this - Python dependency management truly is a dumpster fire.
Niels Cautaerts - Python dependency management is a dumpster fire
nielscautaerts.xyz
November 27, 2024 at 8:49 PM
I agree with this - Python dependency management truly is a dumpster fire.
Question for fellow imaging peeps: I am looking to find any open source fMRI datasets (preferably resting state, but task-based is also ok) that may have subjects with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or ADHD. Any recommendations?
October 20, 2023 at 6:26 PM
Question for fellow imaging peeps: I am looking to find any open source fMRI datasets (preferably resting state, but task-based is also ok) that may have subjects with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or ADHD. Any recommendations?