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Amy Kuceyeski @amykooz.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Our story about The Krakencoder - a new AI tool to analyze brain networks - is out in Weill Cornell's Impact magazine. Support from NIMH and @bowers-wbhi.bsky.social Led by Keith Jamison, with @msabuncu.bsky.social, @cerentozlu.bsky.social, Zijin Gu, Qinxin Wang Full story: tinyurl.com/mryjbzfk

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Unleashing the Krakencoder

Mapping the connections between the brain’s structure and function.

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Mert R. Sabuncu @msabuncu.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Happy Monday. Are you listening to Tyler’s latest album on your way to work too?

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Efrat Shimron @efratshimron.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

1/3 🔥 Postdoc opportunity! 🌟 Excited to share that Prof. Mert Sabuncu @msabuncu.bsky.social and I are recruiting postdocs for new research projects in AI for MRI. They will be co-mentored by us and work at the CornellTech campus on Roosevelt Island, NYC.✨

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Mert R. Sabuncu @msabuncu.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

We are looking for postdocs in the areas listed below. Please spread the word.

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Machine Learning for Biomedical Imaging @melbajournal.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

🚨 New publication alert: 📢 “BrainMorph: A Foundational Keypoint Model for Robust and Flexible Brain MRI Registration.” 🖊️ A Q Wang, R Saluja, H Kim, X He, @adriandalca.bsky.social , @msabuncu.bsky.social. ⬇️

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Nature Methods @natmethods.nature.com · 05/06/2025

Introducing the Krakencoder: a tool to translate between structural and functional connectivity in the brain, as applied to data from the Human Connectome Project. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Mert R. Sabuncu @msabuncu.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Uncertainty is at the core of everything. Our understanding and our ability to predict and control is fundamentally limited - often by resource constraints, but also by the complexities of nature. 1/n

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Mert R. Sabuncu @msabuncu.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

as i was watching the highlights of inter-barcelona, i was thinking about how sports/entertainment is a good distraction from all the political issues we are constantly faced with... and then i see this 😂

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.

"WE'VE ARRANGED A society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces. Who is running the science and technology in a democracy if the people don't know anything about it?"
"Science is more than a body of knowledge, it's a way of thinking. A way of skeptically interrogating the universe with a fine understanding of human fallibility. If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then we're up for grabs for the next charlatan, political or religious, who comes ambling along."

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

If Putin wanted to destroy America, how would it be different than what's happening now?

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 02/05/2025

NSF just revised its indirect cost policy—15%. When NIH tried the same, it led to lawsuits, layoffs, and a federal court injunction. Changes like this can wreak havoc on research. MORE ACTION ITEMS TO COME SOON. Stay tuned. www.nsf.gov/policies/doc... #NSFFreeze #WithoutNSF

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Policy Notice: Implementation of Standard 15% Indirect Cost Rate

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Mark Gongloff @markgongloff.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Donald Trump and Elon Musk have left Houston, Tampa, New York and other major cities without head meteorologists just ahead of what will be another busy hurricane season This is straight-up life-threatening malpractice (h/t @lisamjarvis.bsky.social ) www.cnn.com/2025/05/02/w...

A map of the contiguous 48 states titled:
Thirty National Weather Service offices are without a chief meteorologist
Some of these offices issue forecasts for major population centers such as New York City, Houston and Cleveland. Several are prone to hurricanes and tornadoes.
Callouts include:
Upton, NY - Covers New York City and southern Connecticut
Tampa, FL - Hard hit by Hurricane Milton in 2024
Houston, TX - All management positions vacant
Paducah/Louisville/Jackson, KY - Nearly the whole state of Kentucky is covered by forecast areas without leadership

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Mert R. Sabuncu @msabuncu.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

I know that some people might not understand the gravity of what's going on with all the federal funding cuts in the US. Not just top academic institutions, like Harvard, MIT, Stanford, and Cornell, but all of US academia is under existential threat. 1/n

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Mert R. Sabuncu @msabuncu.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

This is such a turbulent time for US academia and science, a world leader and engine of progress for the last 75+ years. And the news keeps getting worse... www.nature.com/articles/d41...

nature.com

Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones

US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Here’s the show. Please watch! It’s all about HHS and the first segment is about NIH. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8H34...

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RFK Jr. & HHS: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

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Mert R. Sabuncu @msabuncu.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

ironically we now need the opposte of a turning test for much of digital contnt.

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Thomas Yeo @bttyeo.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Killing the goose that lays golden eggs because it's too woke

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Mert R. Sabuncu @msabuncu.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Do you hear that? The R&D engine of the US and the world is grinding to halt...

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Mert R. Sabuncu @msabuncu.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Dark times like these can bring out the worst of people. Resist that urge. Lift each other up. Be generous. Be open.

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

If you're a billionaire, then you'll barely notice a few thousand dollars a year in higher prices at the store from these Trump tariffs - plus you can count on him to get you another big tax break for the wealthy. But for everyone else, this is a big deal, and a bad one.

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Nancy Kanwisher @nancykanwisher.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Just before Trump announced the pause on tarrifs he posted "This is a great time to buy." Tump is enriching himself and his billionaire buddies by trashing the US economy.

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Alexios Mantzarlis @mantzarlis.com · 08/04/2025

This morning I wanted to show my class how data poisoning works with a silly example so I added a little bit of white text on my personal website. By lunch, ChatGPT had made me a professional futsal player (even if with a bit of a leading question)

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Mert R. Sabuncu @msabuncu.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Here's the only post you should read today.

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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

USA led the world in expertise stopping HIV, incl preventing mother to child transmission. But DOGE has now dismissed every global prevention expert at USAID, CDC, & State Dept. The risk is insane: Resurgent HIV & 500K child deaths by 2030. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/h...

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Who Will Care for Infants With H.I.V. Overseas? (Gift Article)

The consequences of mother-to-child transmission can be enormous, a new study suggests. But the U.S. has dismissed experts working to solve the problem.

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Mert R. Sabuncu @msabuncu.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Transformer is the deep leaning architecture that solves everything with only attention, trained on massive scale multi-modal data without human labels and offers generative capabilities thanks to its decoder. Get it now?

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Alex Imas @aleximas.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

This, from my colleague Brent Neiman says it all. Trump admin used the results from his paper to justify tariff rates. Except they used the completely wrong number. Staggering 🤯 www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/o...

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Mert R. Sabuncu @msabuncu.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Oh it’s Monday. Brace for impact…

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Mert R. Sabuncu @msabuncu.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

I always look for nuance and try to poke holes from all sides. Life is never black or white. It’s shades of gray… But sometimes the shade is so extreme that it is ok to call it black or white.

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The Economist @economist.com · 03/04/2025

Donald Trump has committed the most profound, harmful and unnecessary economic error in the modern era. Almost everything he said—on history, economics and the technicalities of trade—was utterly deluded econ.st/3YbbFjq

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Science Magazine @science.org · 03/04/2025

Scientific conferences attract thousands of foreign researchers to the United States every year. But some are reassessing their travel plans because of objections to U.S. policy and fears of being interrogated or detained by customs officials.

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International scientists rethink U.S. conference attendance

Opposition to Trump administration and fears of customs run-ins are shifting travel plans

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Mert R. Sabuncu @msabuncu.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Can we set IDC rates this way too? Like the year of your founding divided by 100 or something along those lines?

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Serge Belongie @serge.belongie.com · 30/03/2025

Would you present your next NeurIPS paper in Europe instead of traveling to San Diego (US) if this was an option? Søren Hauberg (DTU) and I would love to hear the answer through this poll: (1/6)

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NeurIPS participation in Europe

We seek to understand if there is interest in being able to attend NeurIPS in Europe, i.e. without travelling to San Diego, US. In the following, assume that it is possible to present accepted papers ...

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Nancy Kanwisher @nancykanwisher.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

I’m hiring a full-time lab tech for two years starting May/June. Strong coding skills required, ML a plus. Our research on the human brain uses fMRI, ANNs, intracranial recording, and behavior. A great stepping stone to grad school. Apply here: careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/cl... ......

careers.peopleclick.com

Technical Associate I, Kanwisher Lab

MIT - Technical Associate I, Kanwisher Lab - Cambridge MA 02139

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Mert R. Sabuncu @msabuncu.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

This place feels like twitter from 10 years ago. How do we fast forward like 5 years? Am I doing this wrong?

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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

From 2010 to 2016 (latest data I have ), NIH research contributed to EVERY drug approved by the FDA

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Mert R. Sabuncu @msabuncu.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

When countries like Japan don't "grow" for decades, civilization does not seem to crumble b/c they have values and goals that are not just financial. I am not sure that's true for US.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

If you or someone you know has experienced anything like this I would like to hear from you, Signal is davelevitan.26 and you can remain anonymous if you'd like

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Mert R. Sabuncu @msabuncu.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

I am at Stanford and will be giving an AIMI seminar today. 12-1p Clark Center, S360. Feel free to stop by and say hi after the talk. aimi.stanford.edu/events/semin...

aimi.stanford.edu

IBIIS-AIMI Seminar: Mert Sabuncu, PhD

Mert R. Sabuncu, PhDProfessorCornell University Title: Moving Beyond Accuracy in Machine Learning for Biomedical Imaging

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Mert R. Sabuncu @msabuncu.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

I hope somebody gets to write a “convolutions are all you need for vision” paper. If it weren’t for the sheer amount of compute needed for this, I would.

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WIRED @wired.com · 18/03/2025

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

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Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow

As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy

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Mert R. Sabuncu @msabuncu.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Honestly it’s insane how much of a Deja vu this March has turned out to be.

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