Chris Markiewicz

Polls are OPEN for the 2026 BIDS Steering Group Election! We're electing two new members to help guide the future of BIDS. 📊✨ If you're a contributor, check your inbox for your ballot, let us know if you have not received it. Voting closes November 6th! 👉 Review candidates: tinyurl.com/4ekpxukn

THIS IS NOT A DRILL. If you package/distribute/maintain root stores or chain verifiers, act immediately. If you know how to remove trust in a root, consider doing it now. Otherwise, prepare to update systems as patches/mitigations come. Go users, update to Go 1.27.3 or Go 1.26.10.

Is commenting on GitHub via the web UI unbearably laggy for others? I'm switching to using the `gh` CLI tool so I can edit comments in vim.

“I was flabbergasted that someone could take the time to generate a paper that I believe is fake,” Rastle told us.

I wanted to highlight the work of Alison Comrie et al. that recently came out in Neuron and I don’t think it is getting enough attention: paper: cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273(26)00674-4 #neuroskyence

BIDS Community, it’s time to nominate 🏆and elect 🗳️two new Steering Group members! The nomination period opened on September 15th and will close on Friday, October 2nd at 11:59pm (Anywhere on Earth; UTC-12). 👉Nominate yourself here: forms.gle/xMjkqGfiTgCW... #BIDS

Exciting update! You can run Image Based Meta-Analyses (IBMA) on our platform 🚀 We've known for ~TWO decades that images are better than coordinates, but data has never been shared/organized properly to make that an accessible reality. We did it, enjoy: compose.neurosynth.org

Trump’s secret police presence nowadays isn’t even ***that*** secret! If you go to, say, Springfield Ohio right now, ICE isn’t trying to hide that they’ve invaded

The current strategy of making their secret police more secret because the White House realized how their live streamed death squad approach was actually significantly hurting them with swing voters in an election year absolutely was intentional, per sources who helped manufacture it It’s our job…

Over the next several months, we will phase out some popular OSF features. These changes do not affect current public content, which remains safe and accessible. We have prepared support material to help users adapt. I am very sorry for the disruption to your work. Please read this post for details.

📣 BIDS seeks a volunteer Communications Maintainer to keep our community informed, connected, and engaged. Learn more: bids.neuroimaging.io/blog/2026/07... #BIDS #OpenScience #Neuroimaging

Thanks to Kshipra Guranandan, my notebook on how to design efficient fMRI experiments (for activity, connectivity and pattern analysis) is now available in Python as a Jupyter notebook (as well as previous Matlab): github.com/RikHenson/fM...

New dataset out in Data in Brief 🧠 We're releasing an open, test-retest neuroimaging dataset built for directly comparing single-echo vs. multi-echo fMRI, head-to-head, in the same people. 1/

It’s truly astonishing to see how comprehensively the US government is tearing down every part of the system that has made it up until now a world-leading power in science, research, and technological development. The entire world will suffer from this wanton destruction.

Tired of changing your list of publications for each new grant application? fetch and order as you want, customise fields, etc. I made this self-contained HTML app github.com/CPernet/Acad... You are welcome 😁 you can see what it looks like for me here cpernet.github.io/publications...

OSS burnout claims another project. On 2 Apr, an entitled user angrily asked the burned-out maintainer of nvim-treesitter to “go switch to something that doesn't require interacting with people”. The maintainer replied “OK” — and archived the repo, stopping development of nvim-treesitter.

Very excited to play with the @ohbmofficial.bsky.social 2026 abstract browser by Satra Ghosh & Mario Senden abstractatlas.brainkb.org/ohbm2026 - it allows flexible searching, by abstract text, methods used, or 'claims', as mined by different LLMs, and exploring by semantic similarity in 2D and 3D

The BIDS workshop at BrainHack 2026 is coming together, and we want your help! Full announcement here: neurostars.org/t/bids-brain... #ohbm26 #brainhack

Join us June 11-13 in Bordeaux at the OHBM Brainhack (ohbm.github.io/hackathon2026/). We’ll be hosting BIDS workshops for both novice and experienced users, answering BIDS questions, and providing support (BIDS or otherwise) to any projects that might need it.

"And so I watch the South to keep my eyes on the central casting of the American democratic imagination and to know where the script our country is writing is going. " www.nytimes.com/2023/04/11/o...

How fast agentic AI has changed our work is head-spinning and there's been a lot of debate in our lab. So we drafted guidelines to help navigate this new reality. Sharing here in the hope it’s useful for others & curious to hear thoughts schucklab.gitlab.io/ai-policy.html #AcademicSky #compneurosky

📣 New #OpenSource fund for #science! Building on the impact of EOSS led by @dartar.bsky.social , this new @renphil21.bsky.social program will help scientific communities continue building our computational foundations as an open, public good. os4science.org/news/os4scie...

Every system that was regulated, either explicitly or implicitly, by the fact that they were effortful for humans (letters of recommendation, government filings, essays, or, as this paper finds, lawsuits) will break under a wave of AI.

We are pleased to announce that BIDS Extension Proposal 28 - Provenance is open for community review! github.com/bids-standar... The review period is open from April 20 - May 1. #bids #neuroimaging #provenance

We are pleased to announce that BIDS Extension Proposal 32 - Microelectrode Electrophysiology is open for community review! github.com/bids-standar... The review period is open from April 20 - May 1. #bids #neuroimaging #electrophysiology

When you add it all up, the collapse in immigration looks like this: a decline of roughly 50K for illegal (even including the people arrested and not released) and a decline of about 132K for legal. Over 70% of the cut in immigration has come from LEGAL immigration.

Announcing Evidentron, coming soon to a scientific publication near you! Agah Karakuzu got academic papers to talk to each other, bringing his vision of woven literature to life via AI-driven @mystmd.org articles With Evidentron you can: 1/n

Our PhD student Kennedy Orwa, who studies applications of AI to health care, was hastily deported today to Kenya along with his 13-year-old son without opportunity to speak to legal counsel. King 5 reports that he held a valid visa that was rescinded without explanation.

Boston University’s removal of Pride flags and other peaceful displays is not a minor policy issue. Censoring these expressions sets a dangerous precedent for the entire community. Whether you are a BU alum or an ally, please add your name now: alumni.standforcampusfreedom.org/petitions/te...

How do we define "good" fMRI data? Especially with resting state, there are circularity risks if we evaluate data quality as showing the networks we expect to see. Javier Gonzalez-Castillo (& me & others) developed pBOLD, a new metric that uses multi-echo info. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/8

A new data-sharing policy proposed by the NIH would result in “substantial harm to scientific progress,” a neuroimaging consortium says. By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/data-sharing...

1) participants' metadata, in particular demographics, are a bigger risk for privacy 2) we have created a new metric k-global that gives you the relative importance of each variable for anonymity and 3) BIDS compliant little python package to help everyone with data curation.

And the Lancet's editorial that goes with it www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

This week's cover @thelancet.com

I'd prefer it not have taken decades but personally I like blows being struck against elite impunity and would like that for us in the US very much

Everyone here has had to decide what they will and won’t do. Will you take someone in your house? Will you bring them groceries? Will you patrol streets with a whistle? Will you do some other kind of work, of which there are many. And how many of these types.

Spain remains a welcome contrast to the rightward lurch happening across Europe. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

MINNESOTA — Mom goes outside to warm up her car, ICE grabs her: "Please, my car kids are all alone in the house!” So nothing has changed and Homan was just to put a new face on the cruelty, got it (H/T longtimehistory)

when they tell you to go back to writing about gadgets www.theverge.com/policy/86857...

Yeah not only are these terrible, they bear little resemblance to other asks that party caucuses are making. I just got a Hispanic Caucus list of "non-negotiables" that has like 20 other things on it. The Senate Dems are squandering the moment in real time.

Applications for NeuroHackademy 2026 are now open! This is a two-week NIH-funded summer experience that combines neuroimaging and data science in a summer school / experiential hackathon: neurohackademy.org/apply/ @uwpsychology.bsky.social @uwescience.bsky.social

It appears that this legend owns a little bookstore — and you can order books from him instead of Bezos. Link in next post.

Don’t come here for a conference. Don’t host a conference here. Don’t come here on vacation. Don’t normalize fascism for one minute.

State terror has arrived..gifted article… www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/o...

These days are making for odd traveling companions. Would not have expected a face turn from Bill Kristol.

Dems should introduce lots of such legislation, demand hearings and debate, make a huge fuss, use paid media to call out GOP members who are blocking their consideration--and make clear this GOP Congress is enabling the madness.

Yes, the GOP controls Congress. That's why it's key to show Congress COULD stop the madness. And it's not just the DHS bill. Congress could repeal the prior multi-year $75b for DHS; set up a special investigative committee (cf. Watergate); amend the Insurrection Act; etc.