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Andre M Chagas

@iamchagas.bsky.social

#openhardware, #neuroscience, #openscience, some photos, some posts about running, rants about #academia... Leading the Open Science Lab at Life Science @Uni Sussex. Creator & co-maintainer @open-neuroscience.bsky.social https://open-neuroscience.com/

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Latest posts by iamchagas.bsky.social on Bluesky

Anyone off to #sfn2025?

I'll be helping out the folks of the Bonsai Foundation in sharing info about their amazing #OpenScience #opensoftware #openhardware tools for research!
Come find us on Booth 3726, in Hall B2, in the Institute & Non-Profit Area #cienciabr @open-neuroscience.com

12.11.2025 20:24 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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BeeHive on Kitspace

BeeHive - a flexible platform for connecting different sensors and actuators by @iamchagas.bsky.social and Ihor Sobianin

kitspace.org/BeeHive-org/...

22.05.2025 11:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
NeuroML logo

NeuroML logo

πŸ’‘NeuroML is an international, collaborative initiative to develop a language and associated software ecosystem for working with data-driven biophysically detailed models of neural systems.
πŸ‘¨β€πŸ”¬Padraig Gleeson; Ankur Sinha; Boris Marin; Robert Cannon
πŸ”—Link and more in the comments πŸ‘‡

04.03.2025 18:57 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
DB Prize 2025 shortlisted nominees

Congratulations shortlisted nominees for the 2025 Dorothy Bishop Prize, recognising work of early career researchers promoting robust, rigorous and reproducible UK research:
- Andre Maia Chagas
- Annayah Prosser
- Lewis Jones
- Michael Biddle
- Sacha Beniamine
- Zahra Rahemtulla

#OpenResearch

04.03.2025 11:26 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

🧐Want to dive deeper into Open Hardware (OH)?
πŸ’‘Are you trying to start or improve your own OH?
πŸ₯³Whatever the case, Open Science Office Hours is here to help!
πŸ—“οΈBook now a one-on-one meeting with AndrΓ©, founder of the Open Neuroscience initiative, and expert of the month
πŸ”—Link and more details πŸ‘‡

31.01.2025 16:21 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

πŸš€ Join @open-neuroscience.com for a talk on Open Hardware for Neuroscience! πŸ§ πŸ”¬
πŸ“… Feb 7, 2025 | 11:30 AM ET
πŸ“ The Neuro (Montreal) & Zoom

πŸŽ™οΈ Dr. AndrΓ© Maia Chagas (@iamchagas.bsky.social) on affordable, customizable, open-source tools for research!

#OpenScience #Neuroscience #OpenHardware #SciComm

29.01.2025 13:11 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Open Hardware The Website of Open Science Office Hours

Heard about #openhardware, wanted to know more, but was too afraid to ask?
Fear no more! Join us on Feb 7th when @iamchagas.bsky.social will be at the #openscience office hours held by @theneuro.bsky.social! More info:
openscienceofficehours.github.io/osoh_website...

29.01.2025 10:21 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Oh thanks! Apparently I don't know how to spell neuroscience 🫣😁 it is now correct!

28.01.2025 17:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hahaha thanks! The "quick look" I was going to have on the system yesterday took 4 hours.. I might need to quit my job.. πŸ˜πŸ˜„

22.01.2025 06:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Photo of a screen showing the installation process of homeassistant.io

Photo of a screen showing the installation process of homeassistant.io

Here is the start of a new "hobby"/time sink 😁 #homeassistant #opensource

21.01.2025 20:40 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Nipoppy | Open Neuroscience Nipoppy is a lightweight framework for standardized organization and processing of neuroimaging-clinical datasets. Its goal is to help users adopt the FAIR principles and improve the reproducibility o...



πŸ‘¨β€πŸ’» Nipoppy is a framework for standard organization and processing of neuroimaging-clinical datasets. Built to help users adopt FAIR principles & improve studies reproducibility.
Created by ORIGAMI lab members @theneuro.bsky.social
@michellewang.bsky.social

open-neuroscience.com/en/post/nipo...

20.01.2025 13:42 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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PhyloPic | Open Neuroscience Free silhouette images of animals, plants, and other life forms, available for reuse under Creative Commons licenses. Project Author(s) T. Michael Keesey Project Links https://www.phylopic.org/ This p...

πŸŽ‡Happy New Year folks!
πŸ‘€Check out PhyloPic, an open database of freely reusable silhouettes of life forms. It is totally worth checking these beautiful and realistic images ranging from πŸ„and 🍁, to πŸ’ andπŸ¦‹.
By @tmkeesey.bsky.social
πŸ”—Link: open-neuroscience.com/en/post/phyl...
#OpenScience #Science

10.01.2025 20:31 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Cool, just pinging @dinalab.bsky.social the creators of the system, in case you want to chat with them before hand?

04.01.2025 22:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

It is incredible to see the work that is happening around the world with our open source designs.
Well done Solomon and @iamchagas.bsky.social

20.12.2024 19:23 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Home The Mothbox is a low cost DIY insect monitor

Maybe this is interesting for next time? digital-naturalism-laboratories.github.io/Mothbox/

12.12.2024 06:45 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Bluesky teases paid subscription, Bluesky+, in new mockup | TechCrunch Social networking startup and X competitor Bluesky is working on subscriptions. The company first announced plans to develop a new revenue stream based on

this did not take long... techcrunch.com/2024/12/09/b...

hope this platform is also not heading for #enshittification

11.12.2024 09:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

2-based on 1 any place with numbers on if they save money with that and the gains they get from other advantages of using #opensource?

Thanks a bunch! 2/2

05.12.2024 20:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hivemind! Some random questions for which I would appreciate links/pointers/study cases and books:

1-any examples of large corp/cooperatives/groups that rely on #opensoftware for things like #cloud services, #email, instant messaging and video conferences? 1/2

05.12.2024 20:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This coming Monday! Join us for an excellent hour of #metascience #openscience and #neuroimaging! All from the comfort of your desk/couch/chair with @worldwideneuro.bsky.social @sussexneuro.bsky.social @theneuro.bsky.social

03.12.2024 13:59 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Fells of the week... πŸ«£πŸ˜…

29.11.2024 19:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Gustatory sensitivity to amino acids in bumblebees Bees rely on amino acids obtained from nectar and pollen for essential physiological functions, including maintenance, sexual maturation, and larval development. While amino acid concentrations in nec...

First post and it's a biggie! The first preprint from our lab is out now πŸ₯³ Something I have wanted to know for a long time- can bumblebees taste amino acids? The answer is yes...but not all of them! 1/2 @sussexneuro.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

29.11.2024 09:41 β€” πŸ‘ 28    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Colegas da #cienciabr! Como estΓ£o os movimentos de #cienciaaberta no Brasil? Mais especificamente, quem tΓ‘ trabalhando com #hardwareaberto? Me dei conta que to perdendo de nΓ£o saber!
AgradeΓ§o re-skeets(?)

#openscience #openhardware

29.11.2024 09:14 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Look! now we have a "verified" domain, anyone can now find us using @open-neuroscience.com here in #bluesky too! "One handle/web address to rule them all" πŸ˜‚
#openscience #neuroskyence

28.11.2024 07:08 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

#neuroskyence and #openscience folks! We have starter pack putting together the intersection if these two groups, have a look, subscribe, and if you want to be added, reply to this or send us a DM!

go.bsky.app/NUfsakW

27.11.2024 12:11 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2

What a mess! It would be interesting/smart to know what colleagues and friends in other universities have done to cope with it... As they are " in the future" in relation to us..

27.11.2024 16:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

spiral of "needs for cut -> less people to work -> worst student experience -> less matriculation -> more need for cuts, etc"

Hit me up if you would like to vent, chat, organise, and find pathways to cope...
#ledbydonkeys

27.11.2024 15:06 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

in the same situation and if people are already past the shock and thinking about what to do to navigate this? How will the "remainers" (seems we use this term too much in this country) cope with the extra workload, and how due we prevent a downward... 2/n

27.11.2024 15:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

so, we were just hit with news on the new "voluntary leave programme" at the University of Sussex, due to the shitshow that is core funding for #highereducation in the #UK and a big drop in student n# Past being angry, I would like to know if there are other Unis... 1/n #academia

27.11.2024 15:06 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Sussex Neuroscience 4-year PhD Programme : PhD Programmes in Neuroscience : Sussex Neuroscience : University of Sussex

Our Sussex Neuroscience 4-year PhD Programme is open for applications! Deadline Jan 13th, for Sept 2025 entry. Brilliant community of students and supervisors, and a choice of >60 labs for rotations- come and join us by the sea! www.sussex.ac.uk/research/cen...

27.11.2024 10:02 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 7

Also #openresearch and #openaccess crews πŸ‘‡

@sussexneuro.bsky.social

27.11.2024 12:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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