This work was led by the brilliant Louisa Schilling, with assists from @parkersingleton.bsky.social, @cerentozlu.bsky.social, @qingyuz.bsky.social, Keith Jamison, Kilian Pohl, and Marie Hedo.

We would like to also thank our funders, particularly @bowers-wbhi.bsky.social, as well as the NIH & BBRF.

I am excited to share that my work on "Confounder-Free Continual Learning via Recursive Feature Normalization" has been accepted at ICML 2025! Very grateful to @camgonza.bsky.social , @mhabbasi.bsky.social , @qingyuz.bsky.social, Kilian Pohl, and @eadeli.bsky.social for always supporting me. [1/n]

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...

🔥 Just out! Our new massive global ENIGMA-CNV study led by Ana Silva + David Linden (+90 authors!) reveals how rare copy number variants (CNVs) in the human genome disrupt brain structure. Landmark in human genetics
🧨 Basically

🧪 Time for a full status update at NSF!

Let's look via four lenses:

(1) New awards: 🚨 About 50% lower since Jan 20
(2) Future funding: 🚨🚨 Major uncertainty -- action alert!
(3) Active awards: 🟡🟢 Ok relative to other agencies...?
(4) Staff reductions: 🟡🚨 Some with 28% RIFs coming

Randomized Trial of a Generative AI Chatbot for Mental Health Treatment | NEJM AI ai.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

UCSF, like all UC campuses, announced an immediate hiring freeze today. UCSF is the second largest employer in the city. There will be wide ripple effects in the Bay Area and beyond, including the future of biotech and pharma in the area. 🧪

A good list:

30 Practical Generative AI Use Cases in Healthcare With Real-World Projects

medium.com/projectpro/3...

Is flat 15% fair? | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Suthana et al. studied brain recordings from implanted electrodes in freely moving humans. They show that neural dynamics encoded actual and imagined routes similarly. @suthanalab.bsky.social @seeber.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Learning from Labradors!
Discovery of an obesity gene in these dogs and also shown to be relevant in people
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@science.org

Introducing VoxelPrompt, an agent-driven model that can tackle a landscape of diverse radiological tasks, extending far beyond those addressed by today’s specialized models. VoxelPrompt addresses complex objectives with a solution grounded in interpretable vision operations.

Paper: lnkd.in/ezWSX6zQ

🔥Some Predictions about the NIH situation, NIH budget cuts
🔥 On March 14, the continuing resolution runs out that funds the US government (including NIH) through March 14.
🔥The government will shut down (no review panels, grant awards, Council meetings possible until it resumes) UNLESS ....👇🧵 (1/n)

Francis Collins, the NIH Director for 12 years, led the Human Genome Project and other NIH efforts for 32 years, resigned today. Key words from his resignation letter
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/u...

I just got access to Claude Code (docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/agen...) and so far it looks pretty amazing after trying it out on a couple of repos. Looking forward to kicking its tires a bit more, and interested to hear thoughts from others.

FDA, over the weekend, laid off its entire team (almost) of AI research for medical devices. Sad and scary days!