Eric Earl
@ericearl.bsky.social
Your friendly neighborhood neuroinformatics scientist at the NIMH Data Science & Sharing Team and Dad/Husband at Home, opinions are my own
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Hello all of you #ABCD and #HBCD data users!
Did you know we recently deployed the NBDC Sandbox?
Jupyter, R-Studio, or open your own linux environment.
Compute in place, No Download. A 'SAFE' Cluster environment.
Go check it out!
nbdc.lassoinformatics.com/sandbox
Did you know we recently deployed the NBDC Sandbox?
Jupyter, R-Studio, or open your own linux environment.
Compute in place, No Download. A 'SAFE' Cluster environment.
Go check it out!
nbdc.lassoinformatics.com/sandbox
Sandbox
Lasso is designed to streamline secure access, querying, and responsible use of the ABCD and HBCD datasets.
nbdc.lassoinformatics.com
November 30, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Hello all of you #ABCD and #HBCD data users!
Did you know we recently deployed the NBDC Sandbox?
Jupyter, R-Studio, or open your own linux environment.
Compute in place, No Download. A 'SAFE' Cluster environment.
Go check it out!
nbdc.lassoinformatics.com/sandbox
Did you know we recently deployed the NBDC Sandbox?
Jupyter, R-Studio, or open your own linux environment.
Compute in place, No Download. A 'SAFE' Cluster environment.
Go check it out!
nbdc.lassoinformatics.com/sandbox
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Join us for the BIDS virtual Town Hall Wednesday, July 16 at 11:00 AM EDT — on the OSSIG Crowdcast at crowdcast.io/ossig2025
We’ll present updates from BIDS, extension proposals, and the community. We hope to see you there and hear your thoughts.
@ohbmossig.bsky.social
We’ll present updates from BIDS, extension proposals, and the community. We hope to see you there and hear your thoughts.
@ohbmossig.bsky.social
Crowdcast
Where the world gathers
crowdcast.io
July 3, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Join us for the BIDS virtual Town Hall Wednesday, July 16 at 11:00 AM EDT — on the OSSIG Crowdcast at crowdcast.io/ossig2025
We’ll present updates from BIDS, extension proposals, and the community. We hope to see you there and hear your thoughts.
@ohbmossig.bsky.social
We’ll present updates from BIDS, extension proposals, and the community. We hope to see you there and hear your thoughts.
@ohbmossig.bsky.social
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The ABCD Study 6.0 release is finally here! 🧠 Apply for data access here @theabcdstudy.bsky.social www.nbdc-datahub.org
NBDC Data Hub
NIH Brain Development Cohorts (NBDC) Data Sharing Platform: Unifying ABCD and HBCD data management in one powerful platform.
www.nbdc-datahub.org
June 26, 2025 at 11:16 PM
The ABCD Study 6.0 release is finally here! 🧠 Apply for data access here @theabcdstudy.bsky.social www.nbdc-datahub.org
Hey #neuroskyence, if you value and want to support the Open Science Special Interest Group's Open Science Room #OSSIG #OSR programming at #OHBM, they need our signatures right now on a petition. Please visit and sign and share anything else you can with them. Even a testimonial.
chng.it/4hxrPQdxBq
chng.it/4hxrPQdxBq
Sign the Petition
Preserve the Open Science Room at the Organization for Human Brain Mapping Annual Meeting
chng.it
June 17, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Hey #neuroskyence, if you value and want to support the Open Science Special Interest Group's Open Science Room #OSSIG #OSR programming at #OHBM, they need our signatures right now on a petition. Please visit and sign and share anything else you can with them. Even a testimonial.
chng.it/4hxrPQdxBq
chng.it/4hxrPQdxBq
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I'm excited to announce that my lab's open textbook on Scientific Computing for Cognitive Neuroscience (v1.0) has just gone live! Our goal is to help mend the gap between the computational skills needed by cognitive neuroscience, and typical curricula that don't yet include it. 1/3
June 9, 2025 at 4:10 PM
I'm excited to announce that my lab's open textbook on Scientific Computing for Cognitive Neuroscience (v1.0) has just gone live! Our goal is to help mend the gap between the computational skills needed by cognitive neuroscience, and typical curricula that don't yet include it. 1/3
I submitted my abstract for SfN's Neuroscience 2025 conference! 🤞Looking forward to seeing friendly faces in November.
June 3, 2025 at 5:47 PM
I submitted my abstract for SfN's Neuroscience 2025 conference! 🤞Looking forward to seeing friendly faces in November.
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You can’t cut funding to universities, signal to kids that using ChatGPT to write the papers is ok, and expect professors to save the day and the educational system without financial support to completely overhaul the curriculum.
You can’t just wave your hands and hope for the best.
You can’t just wave your hands and hope for the best.
May 8, 2025 at 12:07 AM
You can’t cut funding to universities, signal to kids that using ChatGPT to write the papers is ok, and expect professors to save the day and the educational system without financial support to completely overhaul the curriculum.
You can’t just wave your hands and hope for the best.
You can’t just wave your hands and hope for the best.
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Thank you, @marisakabas.bsky.social, for helping us tell our story. Today starts my 3rd month of unemployment for daring to be trans/non-binary in federal spaces.
@cnn.com @apnews.com @nytimes.com @washingtonpost.com @wusa9.com.web.brid.gy @metroweekly.bsky.social @maddow.msnbc.com
@cnn.com @apnews.com @nytimes.com @washingtonpost.com @wusa9.com.web.brid.gy @metroweekly.bsky.social @maddow.msnbc.com
NEW—In late Feb, Chris Rufo published leaked chats between queer/trans employees at US intel agencies. Then Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said she’d fire all involved.
I spoke to chat members who were fired, are on admin leave, and who kept their jobs about the new lavender scare:
I spoke to chat members who were fired, are on admin leave, and who kept their jobs about the new lavender scare:
Queer intel officers targeted by top secret chat leak get their chance to speak
Chris Rufo published the chats. Staffers say a new "lavender scare" is upon us.
www.thehandbasket.co
April 28, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Thank you, @marisakabas.bsky.social, for helping us tell our story. Today starts my 3rd month of unemployment for daring to be trans/non-binary in federal spaces.
@cnn.com @apnews.com @nytimes.com @washingtonpost.com @wusa9.com.web.brid.gy @metroweekly.bsky.social @maddow.msnbc.com
@cnn.com @apnews.com @nytimes.com @washingtonpost.com @wusa9.com.web.brid.gy @metroweekly.bsky.social @maddow.msnbc.com
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Big news from the ASA! We’ve partnered with Instats to offer free access to courses in stats, data science, and research methods for US gov employees with a .gov email. Learn more: www.instats.org.
April 28, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Big news from the ASA! We’ve partnered with Instats to offer free access to courses in stats, data science, and research methods for US gov employees with a .gov email. Learn more: www.instats.org.
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Please highlight this story.
ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago.
kfor.com/news/local/w...
ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago.
kfor.com/news/local/w...
'We're citizens!': Oklahoma City family traumatized after ICE raids home, but they weren't suspects
A woman says her family’s fresh start in Oklahoma turned into a nightmare after federal immigration agents raided their home, taking their phones, laptops, and life savings – even though they were …
kfor.com
April 29, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Please highlight this story.
ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago.
kfor.com/news/local/w...
ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago.
kfor.com/news/local/w...
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Last week I started a little project to archive the NIMH Data Archive (NDA) data dictionaries: codeberg.org/effigies/nda...
A first diff is now available to view changes: codeberg.org/effigies/nda...
A first diff is now available to view changes: codeberg.org/effigies/nda...
April 16, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Last week I started a little project to archive the NIMH Data Archive (NDA) data dictionaries: codeberg.org/effigies/nda...
A first diff is now available to view changes: codeberg.org/effigies/nda...
A first diff is now available to view changes: codeberg.org/effigies/nda...
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The meta-analysis on the relationship between Fluoride and IQ by Taylor et al. (2025) that RFK Jr. has cited contains major methodological flaws and data integrity issues that we describe in the following pre-print (submitted to meta-psychology): osf.io/preprints/os...
April 8, 2025 at 4:58 PM
The meta-analysis on the relationship between Fluoride and IQ by Taylor et al. (2025) that RFK Jr. has cited contains major methodological flaws and data integrity issues that we describe in the following pre-print (submitted to meta-psychology): osf.io/preprints/os...
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This Github ticket is the kind of proposal that inexperienced engineers tend to make, because they think it's about code, and not about the humans who use the system.
In any competent organization, these junior folks would get some very direct feedback and it would be a growth moment.
In any competent organization, these junior folks would get some very direct feedback and it would be a growth moment.
April 5, 2025 at 3:07 PM
This Github ticket is the kind of proposal that inexperienced engineers tend to make, because they think it's about code, and not about the humans who use the system.
In any competent organization, these junior folks would get some very direct feedback and it would be a growth moment.
In any competent organization, these junior folks would get some very direct feedback and it would be a growth moment.
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this looks really dirty.
BREAKING: Bill that would have blocked OpenAI’s conversion to a for-profit has mysteriously been gutted. @garymarcus.bsky.social
garymarcus.substack....
garymarcus.substack....
BREAKING: Bill that would have blocked OpenAI’s conversion to a for-profit has mysteriously been gutted.
I hope the media will look into this
garymarcus.substack.com
April 7, 2025 at 2:15 AM
this looks really dirty.
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Understand this: by trying to gut Medicaid, the House GOP is targeting seniors in nursing homes, kids with disabilities, and low-income workers who can’t get health coverage from their jobs.
All so the GOP can slash taxes for millionaires, billionaires, and billionaire corporations.
All so the GOP can slash taxes for millionaires, billionaires, and billionaire corporations.
February 27, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Understand this: by trying to gut Medicaid, the House GOP is targeting seniors in nursing homes, kids with disabilities, and low-income workers who can’t get health coverage from their jobs.
All so the GOP can slash taxes for millionaires, billionaires, and billionaire corporations.
All so the GOP can slash taxes for millionaires, billionaires, and billionaire corporations.
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Republicans=Nazis
February 22, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Republicans=Nazis
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It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office.
Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc.
Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.
Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc.
Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.
February 22, 2025 at 8:07 PM
It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office.
Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc.
Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.
Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc.
Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.
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this is the crux of it!!!
OPM is not my fucking boss.
February 22, 2025 at 10:26 PM
this is the crux of it!!!
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Anyone know of an an opportunity for Katie?
I maxed out my credit card, emptied my savings account, and took out a loan to move from Alabama to Bethesda, MD. I don’t even qualify for unemployment since I’ve only worked at NIH for a month. I will be financially and medically devastated.
Seeking suggestions for anywhere that’s hiring!!
Seeking suggestions for anywhere that’s hiring!!
Today, along with 2,000 other NIH employees, I had to clear out my office 😭
It was truly the honor of my life to work with such incredibly passionate people focused on improving human health. I’ve never experienced a more positive culture where *everyone* cared about their job and serving others.
It was truly the honor of my life to work with such incredibly passionate people focused on improving human health. I’ve never experienced a more positive culture where *everyone* cared about their job and serving others.
February 15, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Anyone know of an an opportunity for Katie?
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“assess the prevalence of and threat posed by the prescription of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, antipsychotics, mood stabilizers, stimulants, and weight-loss drugs”
These medications save lives. This is not ok.
🧪
These medications save lives. This is not ok.
🧪
Establishing the President's Make America Healthy Again Commission
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.
www.whitehouse.gov
February 15, 2025 at 3:19 AM
“assess the prevalence of and threat posed by the prescription of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, antipsychotics, mood stabilizers, stimulants, and weight-loss drugs”
These medications save lives. This is not ok.
🧪
These medications save lives. This is not ok.
🧪
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I don't even know what to say. I knew this was coming, but it's still a lot to process.
January 22, 2025 at 6:32 PM
I don't even know what to say. I knew this was coming, but it's still a lot to process.
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If you’ve been directly impacted by a pause or cancellation of an NIH study session, we @forbes.com would like to talk to you
All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.
January 22, 2025 at 10:59 PM
If you’ve been directly impacted by a pause or cancellation of an NIH study session, we @forbes.com would like to talk to you
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Scientific advancements aside, this is economically irresponsible
Every $1 spent by NIH generates $2.46
For example, in 2023, $47B in NIH spending generated ~$93B
Halting NIH spending will LOSE the US a lot of money (and talent)
Every $1 spent by NIH generates $2.46
For example, in 2023, $47B in NIH spending generated ~$93B
Halting NIH spending will LOSE the US a lot of money (and talent)
January 22, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Scientific advancements aside, this is economically irresponsible
Every $1 spent by NIH generates $2.46
For example, in 2023, $47B in NIH spending generated ~$93B
Halting NIH spending will LOSE the US a lot of money (and talent)
Every $1 spent by NIH generates $2.46
For example, in 2023, $47B in NIH spending generated ~$93B
Halting NIH spending will LOSE the US a lot of money (and talent)
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Diversity, equity, and inclusion are all good things. They don’t happen automatically, we have to actively work to bring them about. Shout it from the rooftops.
January 23, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Diversity, equity, and inclusion are all good things. They don’t happen automatically, we have to actively work to bring them about. Shout it from the rooftops.
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Communications shutdown. Travel ban. Canceled study sections. Now a hiring freeze?
Shutting down the NIH indefinitely without stated cause is literally an act of sabotage.
Left: yesterday. Right: today.
Shutting down the NIH indefinitely without stated cause is literally an act of sabotage.
Left: yesterday. Right: today.
January 22, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Communications shutdown. Travel ban. Canceled study sections. Now a hiring freeze?
Shutting down the NIH indefinitely without stated cause is literally an act of sabotage.
Left: yesterday. Right: today.
Shutting down the NIH indefinitely without stated cause is literally an act of sabotage.
Left: yesterday. Right: today.