“Congressional failure to restore NSF’s budget jeopardizes our country’s future economic and national security,” says AAU President Barbara R. Snyder in a story by Inside Higher Ed.

Read more ⬇️ insidehighered.com/news/governmen…

I get that standards and data sharing and infrastructure doesn’t sound all that exciting. I get that funders want to fund the next big discovery or cure or treatment. But if we’re to make the most out of those huge, expensive, time-consuming data sets, they need to be reusable.

My #1 complaint about USAJobs is that it doesn't penalize folks who overrate themselves. This leads to a selection bias *against* folks who honestly assess themselves.

It wouldn't take much to implement a post-interview assesment of self-rating accuracy, and track that.

Curious about harmonizing diffusion MRI data across multiple sites and scanners using Tractometry? We explore various methods for selecting bundle features in ComBat harmonization, such as bundle-specific, whole-brain, and bundle-core-wise. Which approach comes out on top? 👇🏽

Google, who massively benefits from Python, stops investing in its maintenance and improvement!? 😱

Is that true, Jeff Dean (@🏡)? How is that justified?
Digital commons, as OSS, work only if all pitch in, in particular the privileged.

NCSES is sponsoring a series of workshops in 2024 as part of the Cybersecurity Workforce Data Initiative. Register for the opportunity to provide input that will shape a possible future federal data collection on the U.S. #cybersecurity workforce: bit.ly/3xPaPP2

If institutions want to support #OpenScience , they should use tools and services that follow principles of Open Infrastructure. But how do you discover them?

The Invest in Open Infrastructure Infra Finder is a great resource to discover+learn about services that offer open infrastructure. 👇

NCSES wants your feedback! As part of our data team’s continuous improvement program, we use your comments to make our tools better. We’re listening. Participate in our user satisfaction survey here: bit.ly/4crWUOD

A new DCL at U.S. National Science Foundation SBE encouraging proposals from EPSCoR states
new.nsf.gov/funding/initia…

Philosopher Daniel Dennett has died. dailynous.com/2024/04/19/dan…

.brainlife.io described and evaluated for validity, reliability, reproducibility, replicability and scientific utility using four data modalities and 3,200 participants. nature.com/articles/s4159… Frank Yeh

Blackthorne: You tell him that despite being called “Endless Shrimp” it does in fact have a limit. The dogs and charlatans at Red Lobster have created a lie and I intend to speak my mind about it. There needs to be accountability!

Mariko: the Anjin is upset about shrimp

Canadian science gets biggest boost to PhD and postdoc pay in 20 years nature.com/articles/d4158…

brainlife.io from the Pestilli lab (Franco Pestilli) is a one-stop cloud platform for data management, visualization, and analysis in human neuroscience. It is web-based and provides access to a variety of tools in a reproducible and reliable manner.
nature.com/articles/s4159…

Eclipse viewing at the U.S. National Science Foundation

#nsfeclipse

Two people are claiming to be an expert in neuroscience, one is and one is faking. What question do you ask to find the imposter?

Passed over the #FrancisScottKeyBridge on the way back to DC today.

Not 6x, but worse than their demographically matched peers and a nationally representative sample of US adults, and deteriorating at a more alarming clip

Winners for the OSTP Year of Open Science Recognition Challenge include Project Jupyter and The Zooniverse

whitehouse.gov/ostp/news-upda… via @whitehouse

A short and very pedagogical perspective from the great Linda Smith on how infant's processes of active embodied learning can enable them to collect high-quality multimodal data and achieve super sample efficient learning

nature.com/articles/d4158…