Lea Michel

No journal will take this commentary I wrote In October so fuck it, here it is on medium.

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I've used Lavaan almost every (work)day for 15 years, but this open source labour of love has never received proper institutional support. I'm delighted to be a small part of an 1.5M OpenScienceNL award, led by Jorgensen, to completely revamp and futureproof Lavaan www.openscience.nl/en/news/45-p...

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Hybrid or multi-hubs are good future options for conferences to be more sustainable but also more accessible in terms of funds, visa and dependants at home.
See this amazing article from the sea-sig: apertureneuro.org/article/8767...

I think the responsibility lies both at the individual level: more academics should choose the train or select conferences more mindfully of their footprint.
But universities, and particularly conferences, should adapt their systems.

Taking the plane would have cost less money and taken a few hours only. It is a better solution for a lot of people that do not have the time or funds to go on these slower trips. I am very lucky being in Europe with such a good train system and being in a lab that supports this.

I divided the trip over two days, allowing me to also visit Chester on my way to Dublin and see a musical in London on my way back.

My travel to and from Dublin have emitted 72kg of CO2 while a plane trip between the Netherlands and Dublin (and back) emits 500kg of CO2.

Choosing to go by train/ferry to #Flux2025 I emitted SEVEN times less C02 compared to a plane trip.

Air travel is one of the largest contributors to the carbon footprint of research. Researchers, universities and conferences have the responsabilities to create more sustainable alternatives.

⏰ Last couple of days to apply to join my group @Cambridge as a postdoc and work on the environmental (un)sustainability of AI!

⏳ Closing September 16th.

✏️ Apply here: tinyurl.com/2ukkp8yx

Or learn more about what we do at www.lannelongue-group.org

Initial examples of research projects below 👇

My feedback to flux.

I'm not interested in anonymity. And this is my feedback to all institutions, all international conferences, and universities.

I had such a blast presenting the last project of my PhD for a flash talk and a poster at #Flux2025

Grey and white matter are not two separate tissues and we found that adversity is associated significantly differently with grey and white matter measures showing the importance of looking at both!

I'll be at Flux with a flash talk and a poster (S52) on Saturday!

I'll be presenting the last project of my PhD on how different kinds of adversity predict the development of grey and white matter structure 🧠

Also searching for a postdoc 👀

#FluxCongress2025

Don't miss @drbreaky.bsky.social's keynote at our OHBM VIRTUAL SATELLITE MEETING!! 🌍 🛰️ 🍃

Make sure you register before September 4!!

Join us for the OHBM & SEA-SIG Virtual Satellite Meeting! 🖥️

The SEA-SIG worked all year to prepare you an amazing programme for this Virtual Satellite Meeting, so check it out!

New paper by @njudd.com shows that an additional year of education doesn't causally affect telomere length in old age, despite many (theory) accounts arguing otherwise. It's been desk rejected by 13 journals happy to publish small 'positive' telomere studies. Sigh. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Picked up my poster for #ESCAP2025 last week and had a small surprise arriving at the Airbnb..

If you want to see my real poster on the association between adversity and grey and white matter development, come meet me at D2.102 today!

In @ohbmossig.bsky.social's first Open Datasets Special Issue paper, Wearn et al. introduce the OHBM Time Machine, a freely accessible archive of Annual Meeting content on YouTube: doi.org/10.52294/001...

@alfiewearn.bsky.social @sitek.bsky.social @sofievalk.bsky.social @stephforkel.bsky.social

Come chat with SEA-SIG members at table #28 if you are at OHBM right now!

It's finally here! If you're in Brisbane, welcome to #OHBM2025!

We're SO excited to welcome your to our education course TOMORROW, put on in collab with the @ohbmossig.bsky.social‬ ✨ 🔥 9:00 - 13:00 in P2

"Maximizing scientific efficiency through sustainability, reproducibility, and FAIRness"

Follow more SEA-SIG initiatives on @ohbmenvironment.bsky.social

Your guide to a sustainable OHBM experience: Brisbane edition! — OHBM Communications Authors: OHBM Sustainability & Environmental Action SIG June has arrived, and that means that another OHBM Annual Meeting is just around the corner! This year we have an absolutely beautiful...

‼️Our blog post on sustainable tips for #OHBM2025 in Brisbane is now LIVE!

Take a gander for our recommendations on how to keep the environment in mind while you are enjoying the science and the sun. ☀️👩‍🔬🌱🍃

Thank you to @ohbm-com.com for helping us get this out!

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Hello OSSIG community! We would like to share our petition as we would like to continue OSSIG opportunities and grow this community even more at future conferences! Please join our efforts in signing this petition to have OSSIG activities regularly.

🚀📢 The call for submissions to our #BrainArt Competition is officially OPEN 🎉

📆 Submit your work by June 9 using this form! forms.gle/CFTyLK6LQwTC...

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Are you an international early career scholar considering spending time in the Netherlands? We likely have capacity to host a Marie Curie Fellow if you are interested. Our lab (lifespancognitivedynamics.com) works on modeling cognitive change in early or later life, at short and long timescales.

Funded PhD opportunity with @sjblakemore.bsky.social and I, at Cambridge. We are looking for someone interested in developmental science, to start in the coming academic year. Please share it with anyone you think might be interested (see details attached 😁).
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Are you passionate about keeping sustainability a priority in your neuroimaging research? Want to spread the word but don't know where to start?

JOIN US! The SEA-SIG is looking for volunteers to help with our social media, education, & outreach team. Contact info on our website ohbm-environment.org

OHBM is just over a month away! You don't want to miss our Educational Course in collaboration with the Open Science SIG @ohbmossig.bsky.social : "Maximizing scientific efficiency through sustainability, reproducibility, and FAIRness"
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