Daniel LakensVery cool: Lisa Spitzer has made a deviation from preregistrations template, which you can find here: https://apps.leibniz-psychology.org/prp-dev/
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Greg WilsonCongratulations to Gael Varoquaux on being awarded France's National Order of Merit for his work in open source and open science: his acceptance speech is brief and well worth reading https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/national-recognition-science-open-source-bitter-gael-varoquaux-zk4ze/
A national recognition; but science and open source are bitter victories
I have recently been awarded France’s national order of merit, for my career, in science, in open source, and around AI. Let me share the speech that I gave, as it carries messages important to me (original in French below, with better style) Speech translated to English Receiving such a medal is a
dylanFascinating to be included here:
I stand by what I said— it is natural for anyone to be drawn to escapism and fantastical thinking in response to fear and uncertainty. Billionaires are not immune.
I will get on my soapbox to voice my frustration that we are often made to engage on tech billionaires' terms, and add an evergreen reminder that their fantasies aren't better, worthier, or truer than yours. 🧵
Silicon Valley's religious language around artificial intelligence
As the rapid, unregulated development of artificial intelligence continues, the language people in Silicon Valley use to describe it is becoming increasingly religious. Geoffrey Hinton, a Nobel Prize winner, suggests that creating thinking machines might challenge religious beliefs about human uniqueness. Mark Zuckerberg notes that some in tech view AI as a god-like creation. Some, like Ray Kurzweil, are predicting a transhumanist apocalypse where people merge with AI by 2045. Others, like Dylan Baker, are more skeptical. This blending of technology and spirituality reflects the profound impact AI is having in Silicon Valley.
portal_.aurahttps://youtu.be/XZ3w_jec1v8?si=TaD_eQcZdlgs5F5z
Very interesting talk on the economics of programming languages
Very interesting talk on the economics of programming languages
"The Economics of Programming Languages" by Evan Czaplicki (Strange Loop 2023)
bids-standard@BIDSCommunity, it’s time to nominate 🏆and elect 🗳️two new Steering Group members! The nomination period opened on September 3rd and will close on Friday, September 19th at 11:59pm (Anywhere on Earth; UTC-12). 👉Nominate yourself here: https://forms.gle/vFNjKCNuP29Lh27e8
BIDS Steering Group nominations
Thank you for taking the time to nominate yourself to this position! The BIDS Steering Group is responsible for approving and advancing BEPs through the BIDS standard process, as well as more general decisions regarding the standard. The BIDS Steering Group aims to preserve the longevity and sustainability of the BIDS standard. According to the Governance document adopted by the community in 2019, the Steering Group is intended to reflect the diversity of experiences and perspectives within the BIDS community. For more context, please see this interview from 2021 with outgoing Steering Group member, Kirstie Whitaker. The nomination period will close at 11:59pm on Friday, 19 September 2025 (Anywhere on Earth; UTC-12).
Chris HoldgrafI love this point from @investinopen State of Open Infrastructure report. The gold standard of open technology and knowledge is co-creation, not consumption.
Read the rest of the report here: https://investinopen.org/data-room/state-of-oi/
Michael HankeWith @adswa we built a #gitAnnex special remote for https://internxt.com/drive
They offer "lifetime" plans for >>TB-sized zero-knowledge-encrypted cloud storage.
Should be good for private stuff.
The special remote implementation is wrapped around the official CLI.
It is not without issues (see README), and the API availability could be better. But if you don't like their android/desktop app, this could be means to put that drive to good use.
cneuromodIn 2019, the CNeuroMod team and 6 participants embarked on a long data acquisition journey. For five years, most participants were scanned in an MRI twice a week, on most weeks, accumulating hundreds of fMRI scans each.
The team worked tirelessly all these years, constantly juggling data collection with planning the next series of experiments.
The end result is close to 1000 hours of fMRI task data for 6 subjects (really mostly on 5, as one dropped after 2 years), with a wide range of experimental designs.
We've started releasing each experiment publicly. This is going to be a slow process, as we are focusing on establishing data quality for each experiment and sharing derivatives that are well documented and easy to reuse.
Thanks to the citizen science initiative led by the Canadian Open Neuroscience Platform, 5/6 participants made their data entirely open with no restrictions (Creative Commons CC0 license).
Many members of the CNeuroMod team will be present at the Cognitive Computational Neuroscience conference in Amsterdam next week, including project lead Julie Boyle, data manager Basile Pinsard and @pierre_bellec (founder). Please get in touch if you want to meet to discuss this resource, or swing by our poster: https://2025.ccneuro.org/poster/?id=PaxO8LvdBt
I'm excited about the latest release of the MyST Engine, because it means you can now host MyST sites and Jupyter Books on ReadTheDocs!
https://github.com/jupyter-book/mystmd/releases/tag/mystmd%401.6.0
Release [email protected] · jupyter-book/mystmd
This release updates the way that static HTML files are generated, to follow pagename/index.html structure rather than pagename.html structure. This makes Jupyter Book and MyST more reliable when h...
NilearnHello everyone,
We are taking a break from our drop-in hours for the summer 🌞 and returning in early (most probably the 10th) September.
Wishing you a happy summer!