Eric Earl

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

BEP Process Working Group Open Letter December 11, 2025 Dear BIDS Steering Group, The BIDS Extension Proposal (BEP) process has been instrumental in expanding BIDS to support diverse neuroimaging modalities and use cases. Through our in...

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

A precision functional atlas of personalized network topography and probabilities - Nature Neuroscience The Masonic Institute for the Developing Brain (MIDB) Precision Brain Atlas is a resource of personalized brain network topographies (n = 9,900). It also provides a probabilistic atlas and integration...

Congratulations on the culmination of all this hard work! You missed @roberthermosillo.bsky.social , one of the folks responsible for calculating his precision brain map to estimate the placement of the electrodes, and lead author of this related paper:

doi.org/10.1038/s415...

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

Sign the Petition Preserve the Open Science Room at the Organization for Human Brain Mapping Annual Meeting

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.

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@mgreenephd.bsky.social This is so fantastic. I just skimmed all the chapters and they all appear to have most of the context needed to learn or introduce each of these topics. I will be sending self-learners to this book from now on for new skills! And the "Further Reading" sections? Perfection.

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

[ENH] BEP036 - Phenotypic Data Guidelines by ericearl · Pull Request #2123 · bids-standard/bids-specification The BEP leads can meet as-needed to discuss this BEP PR Coordinate a meeting by emailing Eric Earl: eric.earl@nih.gov. Communicate on this PR to provide feedback otherwise. HTML preview of this BEP...

Sneak preview title:

"Consensus guidelines for tabular data representation in BIDS data sets, a Brain Imaging Data Structure extension proposal"

And the community review period for our BEP036 is now!
github.com/bids-standar...

I submitted my abstract for SfN's Neuroscience 2025 conference! 🤞Looking forward to seeing friendly faces in November.

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.

'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 …

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...

A view of Codeberg's diff interface showing changed files and lines added in the baes_01.csv file. The diff is helpfully formatted as a table.

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?

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.

“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.

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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.

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.