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80 Neuroscience and Brain Image Datasets I Found on the Internet Open data is the name of the science game in 2025. Research groups and entire universities are bolstering their efforts to publish the data…

Lots of free brain data out there. I collected 80 free datasets of EEGs, MRIs, strokes, seizures, and more and put them in this here article. Enjoy!
#science #neurosky #datascience #opendata
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From 2010 to 2016 (latest data I have ), NIH research contributed to EVERY drug approved by the FDA

So.

It has officially happened. I have been officially let go from my position at CDC. I wasn’t a probationary employee. I had stellar performance reviews every year.

I’ll be ok. But please understand that many worked HARD to get into these positions and were doing great public health work.

We want to take a moment to express how proud we are of you, America. You have stood up and spoken out every step of the way—especially when Congress and the media remained silent. When we called for help, you answered.

If you are on Bluesky, follow the Alt government departments. These are federal employees sharing information.
Alt National Parks
Alt CDC
Alt NOAA
Alt Health and Human Services
Alt DHS

They are being told to delete data and files (against the law). They are risking everything to share information.

There is no hyperbole in your statement. Civilization is built on these, truly. Long live park rangers and librarians.

The most important thing I can tell everyone that I've learned from being a YouTuber who explains how stuff works is that each and every time I thought "this is common knowledge and doesn't need to be explained" I was wrong.

Reminder that a study on lizard saliva eventually led to the development of Ozempic so be real wary of the criticism of studies and funding that sounds non-sensical when presented with no context.

Our gut microbiome and its metabolites have key interactions with our immune response to cancer and success from cancer immunotherapy. Nice perspective @jclinical-invest.bsky.social www.jci.org/articles/vie...

The feasibility of patching a severely damaged heart with stem cells as a bridge to transplant, actualized in a 46-year-old woman @nature.com

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The controls that got out of control: How failed control experiments paved the way to transformative discoveries: EMBO reports: Vol 0, No 0 EMBO Press is an editorially independent publishing platform for the development of EMBO scientific publications.

Despair not (yet)
"If a control experiment fails, does that mean that the entire experiment is poorly designed and you must restart from scratch? Often, yes— but not always. I present five examples where failed control experiments triggered entirely new fields of research."

When the government is gagged and not allowed to talk about science, the people will continue. Long live science and journalism. Long live the First Amendment. #science #usa

Welcome immigrants from X interested in science to the friendlier skies of @bsky.app, as documented by a new @nature.com survey (but you already knew that 😉)
"Bluesky is much better for science. There is much less toxicity, misinformation, and distractions."
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Red knots taking off.
Bald Hill Beach.
🪶 #birds

Other scientific journals should follow. I've requested this of the journal where I'm an editor. Other journal editor friends, join us!

Altmetric lets you know where your research is being talked about all around the Internet! Blogs, newspapers, Reddit, and more.

Beyond XX and XY: The Extraordinary Complexity of Sex Determination A host of factors figure into whether someone is female, male or somewhere in between

If anyone happens to need it this week for...reasons...this is the best graphic on the complexity of human sex determination I've ever seen. I use it in an undergrad course on gene regulatory mechanisms. Shoutout to @unamandita.bsky.social!

www.scientificamerican.com/article/beyo...

Still interested in the TikTok alternative you proposed last week, where the video versions of said memes could flourish. While we can do video on Bluesky, a platform where shortform video is "the thing" is still needed. The presence of video on Twitter doesn't prevent people from opening TikTok.

A high-performance brain–computer interface for finger decoding and quadcopter game control in an individual with paralysis - Nature Medicine A finger-based brain–computer interface was developed for a person with tetraplegia to allow him to fly a virtual quadcopter, an innovation that can lead to improved social connectedness, recreation and a sense of enablement.

A study in Nature Medicine reports that a surgically implanted brain–computer interface can detect and decode finger movements in a person with paralysis, allowing them to play a video game. #Medsky 🧪

This is my plan moving forward.

Part 1

A high-throughput platform for single-molecule tracking identifies drug interaction and cellular mechanisms.
https://buff.ly/40nMuKL

Elusive Cures A neuroscientist’s bold proposal for tackling one of the greatest challenges of our time—brain and mental illnesses

Them: Please summarize your 80K word book into a 45 minute talk.

Me: Sure; fun challenge!

Them: Now summarize your book in a 2 minute video that anyone can connect with.

Me: 😲. That's ~250 words; a compression of 320x. Yikes! I do not know that algorithm ...

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World Central Kitchen (@wck.org) also has free food trucks for evacuees and first responders posted throughout the city. Check out wck.org/news/meal-lo... and app.watchduty.org to see Red Cross's and WCK's locations in LA.

Infographic on suppressing wildfires with chemistry. The graphic looks at Phos-chek, a fire retardant which contains ammonium phosphates or sulfates as the active ingredient. The red colour comes from iron(III) oxide. While Phos-Chek only causes mild skin and eye irritation for humans, it’s hazardous to aquatic organisms. When applied in front of wildfires, Phos-Chek forms phosphate esters which form a protective char that slows wildfires’ spread.

As wildfires rage in LA, this graphic in @cenmag.bsky.social looks at one way chemistry can be used to tackle them: cen.acs.org/environment/...

#ChemSky 🧪

Noooo! :( Big sad.

Each hair follicle is an organ.

NIH launches initiative to double check biomedical studies But so far, few investigators seem interested in having a contract lab repeat their experiments

The worst problem we have? it's not fraud, or mistreatment, or whatever. It's that people and organisations that run science have no understanding of human motivation. Which leads inevitably to fraud, mistreatment of others, and whatever.

www.science.org/content/arti...

Digital Signals for Dumb*sses (Part 6: How to Remove Frequencies from a Signal with Python) Remove noise, smooth signals, or pluck out certain frequencies with Python and SciPy

SciPy docs for filters are kinda not straightforward, so we made an article to clear things up. Filter your digital signals and time series with Python, easy peasy! Comment if you need the free friend link.

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#python #datascience #bioengineering #neurosky #science #dsp