Mert R. Sabuncu
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Mert R. Sabuncu
@msabuncu.bsky.social
Professor at Cornell Tech. Vice Chair of AI&Eng Research at Weill Cornell Radiology. AI for Medical Imaging. Ex: Princeton, MIT, Harvard. Hobbies: Running, NBA, NFL, Music (Rock!), Books, Broadway, Science, Technology. New here.
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Convolutions are the only building block you need for vision. I will die on this hill.
Happy Monday. Are you listening to Tyler’s latest album on your way to work too?
July 21, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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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.✨
June 17, 2025 at 6:19 PM
We are looking for postdocs in the areas listed below. Please spread the word.
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.✨
June 17, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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🚨 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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June 11, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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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...
June 5, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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
June 3, 2025 at 9:21 PM
May 22, 2025 at 6:18 PM
I want to see NYK v OKC
May 18, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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 😂
The EU won't even give a warning to Hungary, they're sure as hell not going to give a penalty against Inter Milan
May 7, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.
May 4, 2025 at 6:21 AM
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If Putin wanted to destroy America, how would it be different than what's happening now?
May 3, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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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
Policy Notice: Implementation of Standard 15% Indirect Cost Rate
www.nsf.gov
May 2, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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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...
May 2, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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
May 2, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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...
Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones
US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.
www.nature.com
May 2, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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Here’s the show. Please watch!
It’s all about HHS and the first segment is about NIH.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=8H34...
RFK Jr. & HHS: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
YouTube video by LastWeekTonight
www.youtube.com
April 28, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Loved this read!
In the US today, as well as all the stuff about fascism, it is INDEPENDENT BOOK STORE DAY! If you are in the US, please consider buying A Brief History of the World in 47 Borders from the independent book store of your choice

bookshop.org/p/books/a-br...
April 26, 2025 at 9:33 PM
ironically we now need the opposte of a turning test for much of digital contnt.
April 25, 2025 at 12:35 PM
TARIFF is a fantastic tool that lets you impose import tariffs on Python packages 😂 h/t @leomlck.bsky.social github.com/hxu296/tariff
GitHub - hxu296/tariff: The official repository for tariff
The official repository for tariff. Contribute to hxu296/tariff development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
April 24, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Killing the goose that lays golden eggs because it's too woke
April 21, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Do you hear that? The R&D engine of the US and the world is grinding to halt...
April 11, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Dark times like these can bring out the worst of people. Resist that urge. Lift each other up. Be generous. Be open.
April 11, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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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.
April 11, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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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.
I'm calling for an investigation into whether President Trump manipulated the market to benefit his Wall Street donors—all while working people and small businesses paid the price.

Did Trump help insiders cash in on his tariff flip-flopping? It sure looks like corruption.
Did Trump help insiders cash in on his tariff flip-flopping?
YouTube video by Senator Elizabeth Warren
youtu.be
April 10, 2025 at 12:09 AM