This puts me at 10 people released. I filed my 1st habeas petition 29 days ago. I am an incredibly small-time, nobody lawyer who knew nothing about immigration law the day I submitted that case. I barely know any more today. I had never sued the federal government and now I've beaten them 10 times.
I have a new comment piece out in Nature today.
rdcu.be/e7LVS
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What Congress should do is not vote for additional funding, but reallocate the funding that ICE received instead. There's no reason why a domestic law enforcement agency needs a budget larger than the United States Marines.
'The Pentagon is moving parts of a THAAD system from South Korea to the ME and also drawing from its supply of sophisticated Patriot interceptors in the Indo-Pacific and elsewhere to bolster its defense against Iran’s drone and ballistic missile attacks'
wapo.st/4ufU1cV
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
- President Dwight D. Eisenhower
psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202... Pillny...& Kaiser (2026). Effort-based decision making in psychopathology: A transdiagnostic multilevel meta-analysis and systematic review of behavioral patterns and mechanisms underlying amotivational psychopathology. Psych Bull
Note that this talk included some fresh out of the oven new work w/ @foxdotdrew.bsky.social & the Kalin lab, but I did not have time to get into the Ca+ imaging collab w/ TeamKa$h. We are grateful 4 Tom & his trainees' work to further our understanding of how the brain tracks threat uncertainty!
This was super-duper fun! Two wildly different semi-informal back-2-back talks to my UMD friends & colleagues, most of whom haven't seen us talk since we were hired. Ari Gard's talk on data-sharing was timely & thought provoking. Thx for organizing @pessoabrain.bsky.social !
don’t forget to destroy your clocks tonight, walk away from your mortgage, just start driving, you’re free
Current NIH leadership want you to think they are using rigorous, consistent & scientific processes to screen studies to align them with agency priorities.
But the process that they have put down on paper is a sham.
It’s important to know NIH is not following its own guidance. Here’s why:
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i second oli's question - which movie?
Manuscript peer review is not
1) journal club
2) dissertation committee meeting
3) zero sum grant award
4) mortal kombat
When bullshiters tell you they will soon be able to make "digital twins" of patients, remember articles like this about how hard it is to model a single cell.
Here is a link to a video of the speech.
xcancel.com/netflix/stat...
Today should be your 38th birthday.. When you lose your son you lose more than a child you lose a piece of your heart and your joy. Life is forever altered, and nothing can ever fill that space. Yet in my soul, he remains, my precious boy, forever loved. His laughter, his smile, and his love are woven into who I am. My love for him will never fade. Yor are my pride and my joy - you've made a change that cannot be broken..
Alex's mom on his 38th birthday.
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That's right. Worse than Pointless
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/o...
Technological and logistical tour de force, *but* what is the scientific or practical significance of showing that you can reliably classify/decode spontaneous pain in n=1, given hours of scanner data
While we sit around to find out how bad exactly it all is, a bit of cheer: the best baguette of Paris competition was won by a Sri Lankan who appears to have started as a dish washer in restaurants and eventually trained as a Boulanger.
www.paris.fr/pages/la-mei...
“Dolly Parton Children’s Hospital did not share how much Parton donated as part of the naming announcement. But Matt Schaefer, its president and CEO, said her support would ensure ‘every child who walks through our doors receives the treatment they deserve.’”
GOD BLESS DOLLY PARTON
Another day of repeating the mantra, there are no banned words, just words that will prevent an otherwise fundable application from being funded…
blood boiling
Jasp is pretty good for this
origins of MADRS-SR
Back in business! @foxdotdrew.bsky.social @sgrogans.bsky.social (note hard to see menu on the far left). wanna plot data OLS vs Spearman/Rank vs Robust/Tukey? Dynamically censor points (for thinking about leverage, not p-hacking)? Try Scatterize 3!
