Ryan Ly

There's lots of nhp ephys and behavior data there already that you can also browse on Neurosift, such as neurosift.app/nwb?url=http... and neurosift.app/nwb?url=http...

If you format your dataset in the @nwb.org standard, you can publish your dataset with DOI on @dandiarchive.org for free, no matter the size. They just ask that if you want to share >10 TB, you talk to them first. I am the technical lead for NWB so let me know if you have any questions!

🧠 Introducing NeuroDiscoveryBench. Built with @alleninstitute.org, it’s the first benchmark for evaluating AI systems like our Asta DataVoyager agent on neuroscience data. The benchmark tests whether AI can truly extract insights from complex brain datasets.

Our paper was born from insights gained during the first Open Data in Neurophysiology symposium (ODIN 2023). If you’re interested in the future of open neuroscience, look out for the next edition in 2027!

At the same time, institutions can implement funding frameworks that prioritize open science initiatives and recognize contributions to open neuroscience in career evaluations.

To effectively advance open neuroscience, we need both active engagement from individual researchers and supportive institutional structures. Researchers can drive change through sharing tools and datasets, fostering collaboration, and building an open science community.

Establishing and maintaining robust data infrastructure and standardized data formats are crucial for effective data sharing in neurophysiology. Initiatives like @nwb.org and @dandiarchive.org are working to make data more accessible and usable for researchers in the field.

While the advantages of open neuroscience are clear, challenges remain, especially concerning data heterogeneity and limited resources. Our paper discusses practical strategies to overcome these obstacles and facilitate better collaboration and data sharing among researchers.

Open science has revolutionized fields like structural biology and genomics, allowing for rapid advancements. We argue that by embracing open data and collaboration in neuroscience, we can gain transformative insights that can help us understand the brain better than before.

Open Data In Neurophysiology: Advancements, Solutions & Challenges Ongoing efforts over the last 50 years have made data and methods more reproducible and transparent across the life sciences. This openness has led to transformative insights and vastly accelerated sc...

Check out our new perspective paper in eNeuro! We explore recent advancements and future prospects in open neuroscience, and discuss how open science practices, data sharing, and structural changes can create a more collaborative and transparent scientific ecosystem

www.eneuro.org/content/12/1...

Screenshot of NWB GUIDE app highlighting selection of source data formats from a long list

Screenshot of NWB GUIDE app demonstrating metadata entry

At #SfN25? Catch @ryanly.bsky.social at the NWB/DANDI booth #3835 at 10am today for a demo of NWB GUIDE, our app for converting data from 40 common neurophysiology and behavior data formats to NWB without writing any code!

nwb-guide.readthedocs.io

@nwb.org @dandiarchive.org

Miss out on the @nwb.org poster at #SfN25? Never fear - you can still catch up with the team at learn more about nwb.org at the DANDI booth #3831! #OpenScience #OpenData

Happening in 10 minutes!

Come say hi at the @nwb.org and @dandiarchive.org booth #3831 at SfN! Learn about how the standard and archive can help advance your science and fulfill your data sharing requirements! We're also ready to help you convert your data to NWB and publish it to DANDI 📶🎉

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🚨 New preprint! 🚨

Excited and proud (& a little nervous 😅) to share our latest work on the importance of #theta-timescale spiking during #locomotion in #learning. If you care about how organisms learn, buckle up. 🧵👇

📄 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
💻 code + data 🔗 below 🤩

#neuroskyence

🎉 Deadline is *tomorrow*!
Join the @flatironinstitute.org workshop on pynapple & NeMos @sfn.org this November to analyze and model neural data

pynapple: analyze neural time series
NeMoS: model neural population dynamics
Meals + accommodation included
👉 neurorse.flatironinstitute.org/events/2025/...

NWB just turned 10 years old! Researchers worldwide have downloaded 1.9 PB of NWB data from @dandiarchive.org. This animation shows the reach of NWB, facilitating collaboration across the globe. What impact has open neurophysiology data had on your science? Share your stories! 🧠

@openscience

I’m an award-winning mathematician. Trump just cut my funding. The “Mozart of Math” tried to stay out of politics. Then it came for his research.

I wrote an op-ed on the world-class STEM research ecosystem in the United States, and how this ecosystem is now under attack on multiple fronts by the current administration: newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/im-an-awar...

This has been a blast! Such a treat to be hosted by @hhmijanelia.bsky.social at this workshop by organized by @nwb.org! Re-analysis of open-data form @dandiarchive.org with so many talented scientists has been so much fun!

🎉 Congrats to all the organizers on another great workshop! The @nwb.org community appreciates all you do. ❤️

@bendichter.com @ryanly.bsky.social @stephmprince.bsky.social

Chris Halcrow presents on SpikeInterface at NeuroDataReHack

Marco Celotto works with a team on the whiteboard at NeuroDataReHack

NeuroDataReHack participants from all over the world are finishing up 10 exciting projects analyzing open neurophys data on @dandiarchive.org. Thank you @hhmijanelia.bsky.social for being amazing hosts as always! Stay tuned for the workshop report.

@chrishalcrow.bsky.social @mcelotto95.bsky.social

‘It’s a nightmare.’ U.S. funding cuts threaten academic science jobs at all levels “There is a lot of pressure to essentially leave the country or not pursue research,” one Ph.D. student says

For 80 years, the United States led the world in science and engineering.

We could lose that position in a single year.

www.science.org/content/arti...

My first piece with @thetransmitter.bsky.social is out! Open data is transforming neuroscience—350+ datasets on
@dandiarchive.org in @nwb.org, new tools like Neurosift enabling discovery and analysis, and researchers all over the world discovering new insights using open data as a key resource!

#FlatironCCN is hosting a @nwb.org hackathon in August to bring together scientists, research software engineers and students to work on development, tool integration, outreach and training. Learn more and register: nwb.org/events/hck25... #neuroscience #science

I would love (and am trying) to build a whole lab off of data reuse + modeling. This article pointed to some useful resources I hadn't heard of.

I would also add that reuse can be for things far afield from what the data was originally collected for. Your data may have value you've never dreamt of!

Data reuse represents an opportunity to accelerate the pace of science, reduce costs and increase the value of our collective research investments. Data reuse represents an opportunity to accelerate the pace of science, reduce costs and increase the value of our collective research investments. New tools that make open data easier to use—and new…

Data reuse represents an opportunity to accelerate science, reduce costs and increase the value of investments. But to date, the field hasn't placed equal emphasis on the reuse side of the data-sharing equation, writes @bendichter.com

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/open-neurosc...

Join us at the NWB Community Hackathon at @flatironinstitute.org, Aug 4-6! Hack on NWB-related projects with the devs and tool builders, integrate tools with NWB, contribute to the standard, and help shape the future of neurophysiology data standardization. nwb.org/events/hck25...

We're excited to receive so much interest in our NWB and @dandiarchive.org workshop from computational neuroscientist and experimentalists here at UW! We're happy to meet and help anyone publish or reuse open neurophysiology data!

Opinion | The Uncertain Fate of the Young American Scientist (Gift Article) Young researchers are choosing between staying in science and staying in the United States.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/o...

Really important piece to share widely. Too many Americans don’t know how severe a threat this Administration poses to our scientific infrastructure, global leadership, and health security

What datasets do you mostly rely on? We want to hear from you.

What datasets do you use in your research @thetransmitter.bsky.social wants to know! Help us by filling out this survey: thetransmitter.typeform.com/datasets?utm...