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blaisefrederick.bsky.social
A physicist who wandered into a psychiatry department and ended up obsessing about random fluctuations in cerebral circulation. Director, Optomagnetic Group, McLean Hospital Brain Imaging Center/Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School.
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This needs more visibility! While the general public is belatedly getting some sense of the catastrophe caused by not reviewing or funding external grants, DOGE is also completely wiping out the NIH intramural programs, which is just as bad, but is flying under the radar because NIH is gagged.

Vermont understood the assignment. Take notes, America.

Kinda baffled too. Given the apparent zeal for whacking science, why hasn't Big Pharma been putting the squeeze on Senators to protect their turf (RFK, NIH, NSF, etc.)? Are execs in denial? Too focused on short-term results? Or do they not understand their own scientific pipelines?

The totality of this article seems to support the worst case reading of the memo. As far as I can tell, nearly all scientific research in the country is suspended.

Does anybody know if any if the professional organizations in neuroscience/imaging like #ISMRM, #OHBM, #ACNP, or #SfN, etc. have any sort of organized effort to raise awareness of this? I’m not sure the general public has any idea this is going on.

OpenNeuro.org is now on Bluesky! Follow us for project updates and exciting new datasets.

@ariellekeller.bsky.social - could you add me to the Human Neuroimaging starter pack? Thanks.

Our (Dr. Cole Korponay, Dr. Amy Janes, and myself) functional connectivity inflation paper made the cover of Nature Human Behaviour! /1