Eric Earl

What matters most for childhood brain organization? We analyzed 649 variables. The answer: Socioeconomics (SES); with brain patterns pointing at sleep & stress as drivers. Even brain-IQ associations were better explained by SES. In Science today: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The strongest version of this illusion I’ve seen! Absolute head-wrecker!

Keep up the amazing work! And the replication study? Very thorough and cool stuff!

I am writing @bidsstandard.bsky.social make our formation of this new BIDS Working Group official. Here is our read-only Google Doc addressed to the Steering Group. Thanks to the team for making this happen! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Sad I couldn't be at EBRAINS Summit this year, but glad that @christinerogers.bsky.social and Julia and Yarik are representing BIDS with the help desk!

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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...

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...

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.

this looks really dirty.

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.

Republicans=Nazis

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.

this is the crux of it!!!

Anyone know of an an opportunity for Katie?

“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. 🧪

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

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)

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.

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.

When Elon Musk, the richest man on earth, is set to pay the same amount in taxes for Social Security as your neighborhood dentist, we’ve got a problem. I'm fighting to get the wealthy to pay their fair share into Social Security so we can increase benefits.

fMRI network measures are affected by sampling error 🎲, physiological artifacts 💗, arousal 👀, and task state 🎞️. We argue that a major challenge in studies of 🧠 network dynamics is distinguishing between these sources of variability. A 🧵 …

We are pleased to announce that the newest member of the BIDS Steering Group is Franco Pestilli. Franco has been elected to a term lasting from 2025-2027, and is replacing outgoing member Ariel Rokem. #BIDS #BrainImagingDataStructure

Neuroscientists are flocking to Bluesky, but X still has ten times more users. My story on the migration, featuring @nicolecrust.bsky.social @russpoldrack.bsky.social @charan-neuro.bsky.social @therealdrdukes.bsky.social @wiringthebrain.bsky.social + more! www.thetransmitter.org/community/hu...

☀️ New preprint! ☀️ Cognitive tests from 23,000+ participants in 4 datasets show cyclical fluctuations across the calendar year, including a small but replicable “summer slide” where youth show worst performance after school vacation. t.ly/OMzgl #PsychSciSky #CogPsyc #CogDev #devpsy #CogSci Thread /1

Welcoming Neuroscience to Bluesky! Love it.

We could not have done this awesome revamp without the support of @incforg.bsky.social, Google Season of Docs, and our fabulous team of Tech Writer @iamdamion.bsky.social and mentors @remigau.bsky.social, @christinerogers.bsky.social, Anthony Galassi, and me! Feel free to provide feedback.

Announcing: BIDS Validator 2.0 This is a complete rewrite to base the validator on the declarative BIDS schema. Most importantly, this validator boasts long-awaited support for BIDS Derivative datasets. bids-standard.github.io/bids-validat... #BIDS #BrainImagingDataStructure