Britta Westner

Supercool!

cool people, follow them!

I built a bluesky labeler for neuroscience methods.

1️⃣ follow/subscribe to: @neuromethods.bsky.social
2️⃣ like the post with your favorite method
➡️ get a shiny methods label in your profile/posts. 🌟

main goal for this year: find a new job! 🙂

looking for a role with fun & complex technical challenges & within a great community. my main expertise is in signal processing/EEG/MEG, but topic-wise I am quite flexible.

science/industry both great! starting mid-year. nschawor.github.io/cv

Asking informally: does anyone know someone who might be interested in a postdoc focused on understanding changes in memory representations driven by attention using EEG? ⚡️Thanks!

Somehow I've only just now gotten around to signing this. Highly recommended! openletter.earth/open-letter-... Great initiative by @olivia.science @irisvanrooij.bsky.social and others.

Interesting to note how many AI experts are in fact signing this...

What an engaging discussion at our IGOR panel "Have we solved the replication crisis?"🔎

Special thanks to @deevybee.bsky.social @brittawestner.bsky.social A. Hildebrandt & S. Jeung for their insights about the current state and future of Open Science, and to the moderator @gordonfeld.bsky.social

🔍 Have we solved the replication crisis?

Join us for an IGOR panel discussion on the state of Open Science in biological psychology more than a decade after the crisis first hit.

📅 Friday, 10 Oct | 10:00–11:00 CET
💻 Online (contact us for the link)

#OpenScience #neuroskyence #academicsky

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Cycling on the Freeway: The perilous state of open-source neuroscience software Abstract. Most scientists need software to perform their research (Barker et al., 2020; Carver et al., 2022; Hettrick, 2014; Hettrick et al., 2014; Switters & Osimo, 2019), and neuroscientists are no ...

At the #OPM conference in Marseille @robertoostenveld.bsky.social reminded us the importance to take care of our FOSSS software we use and develop. Adopt the practices from the paper led by @brittawestner.bsky.social and co-authored by the main MEEG toolbox developers

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Speakers and organizers of the GAC debate. Time and location of the GAC debate: 5 PM in Room C1.03.

Our #CCN2025 GAC debate w/ @gretatuckute.bsky.social, Gemma Roig (www.cvai.cs.uni-frankfurt.de), Jacqueline Gottlieb (gottlieblab.com), Klaus Oberauer, @mschrimpf.bsky.social &‬ @brittawestner.bsky.social asks:

📊 What benchmarks are useful for cognitive science? 💭
2025.ccneuro.org/gac

@brittawestner.bsky.social is talking about #OpenSource software in academia. There's not enough room for people focusing on this, which is a problem for the development of new software, but also their maintaining (which is especially problematic when others build on your software...)! #OpenScience

This workshop is FREE btw

Cover of the textbook used in the workshop

✨We are organising (again) an online workshop on Theoretical Modeling for PhD candidates and Master students in cognitive science and psychology. Check out the website and the schedule: Registration is open! (closes July 1, spaces are limited) 🧵1/n computationalcognitivescience.github.io/workshop/

Important message.
TLDR; cite the software not the paper.

An important commentary on the state of M/EEG software and the perverse fact we all rely on something which there is little reward in writing and maintaining.

This needs to change.

That, or we never allow these authors to ever get on a plane together.

Congratulations!

While maintenance is a big part of the software life-cycle, user support can be just as time consuming - if not more so. Support needs can be reduced by providing (and maintaining) decent documentation, but this is also not something that funders seems to consider important.

Indeed, very good point!

An important call from a lot of people I worked together with on MNE Python.

If you use free open source software for your research, please read this.

It's a lot of work building the tools that we as scientists use. In turn, we can help them by e.g. citing them correctly.

Thanks to all co-authors on this work,
especially Dan McCloy and Eric Larson as my co-lead-authors,
and Alex Gramfort, @danielskatz.org, @arfon.bsky.social, Arnaud Delorme, @vlitvak.bsky.social, Scott Makeig, @robertoostenveld.bsky.social, Jan-Matthijs Schoffelen, Tim Tierney

We also believe that this is necessary to not only keep open source software packages around, but also to make them more inclusive.
If open source is seen as an important contribution to science, this will facilitate the participation of currently underrepresented groups.

We call for urgent change before it’s too late and software packages many of us rely on go unmaintained.
We need better valuation of open source work in academia and better funding mechanisms. Citing the software and not the paper can further help with giving credit to open source contributors.

And did you know that the academic incentive and funding systems are not supporting open source software well enough - especially not the work of maintaining already existing software to keep it usable?

Did you know that many of our software packages are relying on only 1-3 people who have sufficient oversight of the software to keep it going?
(Check the paper for our analysis!)

Ever used open-source (neuroscience MEG/EEG) software? Please take a moment to check out this report from within.

This paper is very close to my heart, because we are moving towards a crisis … 🧵

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Congrats @olivia.science ! 🎉

🧵 1/5 Excited to share our latest @joss-openjournals.bsky.social 🧪 #paper:

UnfoldSim.jl

New @julialang.org package to simulate continuous event-based time series for #EEG & beyond!

📜 doi.org/10.21105/jos...
🛠 github.com/unfoldtoolbo...

With @judithschepers.bsky.social, Luis Lips & Maanik Marathe

There's cake? 🍰😉 Thanks, @sarangnemo.bsky.social !

Congrats to @brittawestner.bsky.social (NEMOlab alumna 😊), Floris @predictivebrain.bsky.social, and team! Did you win more cake? 🧁🍰🧁🍰😜

Honoured to be paper number 500, together with my co-authors @predictivebrain.bsky.social et al! 🎉 Congratulations, @imagingneurosci.bsky.social and thanks to the Editors for making the famous move to start from scratch 💙

New paper published with co-first-author Ella Bosch, and Christian Utzerath, Jan Buitelaar, and @predictivebrain.bsky.social ! We find that neural adaptation to familiar images is not different between autistic and non-autistic peers. #MEG #neuroscience