Stephanie Noble

Stand up for Science Stand up for Science

Stand up for Science Rally is TODAY in Boston Common 12-3 pm
fight2win.standupforscience.net/Boston-March/?

Correction: data blitz is at 10:30 AM 🙃

Graph of award probability of R35 and R01 from NIH factbook as a function of review rank percentile. As is apparent, 2025 is a significant departure, with lower award probabilities at all scores <40 and significant departures from norm, where even being in the top 10% is no longer a nearly certain indicator of success. Data source: https://report.nih.gov/nihdatabook/report/302

The data is in: the NIH goalposts have shifted.

What were once almost certain fundable scores have become coin flips and what used to be likely grants have become aspirational, leading to fewer awards.

Another manifestation of how HHS policies have led to fewer awards and less science.

Heading to @cogneuronews.bsky.social ? I vibe-coded this tool to help you find relevant talks/posters, build a schedule, and export it to your calendar. Enter your research interests and it does the matching.
No personal data is stored. #CNS2026

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On our way to Vancouver #CNS2026! Catch us at

✨Su 8am
@strfabs.bsky.social’s data blitz (4) on a power curve generation tool

✨Su 3pm
@halleeshearer.bsky.social’s poster on inflation-corrected effect sizes in fMRI

✨T 8am
@alexkfischbach.bsky.social’s poster on robustness of local CSF correction

🎉 PINE Lab is hiring a postbacc Research Coordinator! Projects include cohort studies examining brain mechanisms linking adversity to cognition/language & RCTs of early interventions on neurodevelopment.
apply: forms.gle/Dyay39x2XEMn...
more info: www.plasticityinneurodevelopmentlab.com/join-us

A good day to appreciate those who support women scientists too 💪🏽

🚨Thrilled to share I am able to hire someone (PhD preferred) with coding expertise to work on our HAPPE software for EEG! Knowledge of Matlab, Python, and EEG signal processing required. Enthusiasm for teaching/mentoring, collaboration, and developmental science preferred!

The act of writing is fundamental to science, because the process is what makes people think. You cannot fully evaluate your idea until you are forced to write it down and defend it to yourself, and to the readers in your head. There is no shortcut for that. There is no way to make science easy.

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I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free

Open science is a critical part of our community—please sign this petition to keep the OSSIG at OHBM going strong!

Holy cow. This will be super useful for accelerating the development of all kinds of projects and methods from UKB—huge kudos to everyone in this team that made it happen (and the broader UKB team too)!

tfw you forgot to register the domain name, and someone else snatched it.

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Some really good tips here. Wish I had learned number 3 earlier, or ever for that matter 🥲

www.reddit.com/r/GradSchool...

Attn MRI enthusiasts! 📣

Just in time for Thanksgiving, I’m thankful to share this opportunity to join us as MRI Center Director! ✨ Couldn’t speak more highly of my time here so far—such a supportive & collaborative place to build a lab—and I’m more than happy to share more with anyone interested

Not sure about bloboligism per se 😉 we think it’s informative to quantify the size of mass univariate effects (without thresholding), but we also measure multivariate effects and find increasing evidence to prefer them from at least a pragmatic perspective (stay tuned for a hopefully upcoming paper)

It’s officially out! Check out the manuscript for more on the effect size web app, led by the truly indefatigable @halleeshearer.bsky.social and featuring so many contributions from this team, esp MINDS Lab via @dscheinost.bsky.social

Want to see what a Neuromatch course is like…on your own time? Our full course materials are freely available for anyone to explore, anytime.

While the live courses include team projects, TAs, and learning pods, the content itself is always open.

➡️ neuromatch.io/open-educati...

In solidarity with my other pre-tenure colleagues…

New data showing massive increase in forward funding obligations to R01s as of this summer

More context about the why & disastrous implications here:

www.forbes.com/sites/brucel...

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Thanks for leveling it up this year with the infusion of dynamical systems, digital health, and precision psychiatry!

fun times!

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Organizers

CBH director Chuck Hillman

Thanks again to our organizers & our sponsor (CBH), and a final extra special thank you to our main organizer, @alexkfischbach.bsky.social !! Truly the backbone of this event 🙌🏽

See you all next year!

Neurodesk team

Temporal structure team

Virtual Brain team

Aging modularity team

And bravo to all our hackers on their fantastic project presentations! Loved seeing all you accomplished in just a few short days 👏🏽

(more shots in the comments)

Sue

Don

Satra

Paola

Thank you to a wonderful lineup of speakers who served to inspire our attendees: 🌟
Sue Whitfield-Gabrieli
Don Robinaugh
Satra Ghosh
Paola Pedrelli

Hackers hacking

And that’s a wrap on our first ever Boston Precision Brain & Mental Health Hack 🥳

organized with
@psychonetrics.bsky.social @alexkfischbach.bsky.social @strfabs.bsky.social @halleeshearer.bsky.social, Shane Pracar, Sophie Engels, Fatemeh Doshvargar
& the Institute for Cognitive & Brain Health

That’s right—open neuro AND behavioral (+ESM) data! So looking forward to the cross-field conversations about methods!
🧠✨

Friends in Boston!! Please join me Tuesday evening (10/28) for this event at the Harvard Science Center. Free and open to all (just register).

Elusive Cures is targeted at non-experts and experts alike. Its message is empathetic and optimistic.

www.harvard.com/event/nicole...

Beware giving this site your unpublished data Users noticed the website had fake testimonials and a domain name registered seemingly overnight.

PSA: Many of you may have noticed a website floating around called formatmypaper(dot)com. People rightly noted something was fishy. I dig into what happened here:
open.substack.com/pub/ubadah/p...