Open Neuroscience

✍️Apply now for the Neuro-Cooper Open Science Prizes for a chance to:
🏅 Be rewarded for your contributions to #OpenScience in #Neuroscience
🧳 Visit Montreal in the Fall and present your work
🖇️ Connect with a vibrant Open Science community
🏆Bring hope a beautiful and exclusive trophy!
See below how👇

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📹OpenFlexure: a 3D printed flexure translation stage.
💡The stage is capable of sub-micron-scale motion, with very small drift over time. It is ideal for time-lapse protocols that need to be done in space-restricted areas, such as fume hoods.
👨‍🔬Joe Knapper
🔗https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__mND9BFOts

YouTube video by Openeuroscience World Wide Series | Open Neuroscience - 11/06/2021 - Alessio Buccino

👀Check out this webinar on SpikeInterface: unified Python framework for spike sorting.
💡Build analysis pipelines for spike sorting with a few lines of code.
👨‍🔬Alessio Buccino; Cole Hurwitz; Samuel Garcia; Jeremy Magland; Josh Siegle; Matthias Hennig
🔗https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_dd52IzOGo&t=3s

YouTube video by Openeuroscience The Miniscope Project by Daniel Aharoni

👀Recording of the webinar on the #Miniscope Project: an #open-source collaborative effort created to accelerate innovation of miniature microscope technology and increase global access to it.
👨‍🔬With Daniel Aharoni, who led the development of the Miniscope system.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjNS...

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🔊New resource: The Behaviour Forum, a place to discuss experimental methods in animal behaviour
💡This is a global platform bringing together scientists, technicians, and animal welfare experts to advance the study of animal behaviour.
👩‍🔬By COST-TEATIME
🔗Link: open-neuroscience.com/en/post/a_pl...

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🔊New resource: Bombcell, automated quality control for extracellular electrophysiology
💡This is an #opensource, user-friendly toolbox that streamlines quality control for spike sorting outputs.
👩‍🔬Develop by Julie M. J. Fabre
🔗Link: open-neuroscience.com/en/post/bomb...
#OpenScience #Neuroscience

Democratizing Smart Microscopy with navigate | Open Neuroscience Neuroscientific imaging demands advanced techniques capable of resolving intricate neural circuits, fine axonal structures, and precise synaptic connections within expansive, three-dimensional volumes...

🔬 Smart microscopy decouples image acquisition from analysis, allowing for real-time data processing and dynamic adjustments to microscope operations during acquisition.
👀Link and more info here: open-neuroscience.com/en/post/demo...
#OpenScience #Microscopy #OpenNeuroscience

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💡Democratizing Smart Microscopy with navigate: #opensource Python software to harness the full potential of light-sheet microscopy, empowering researchers with a flexible and innovative platform for smart microscopy.
👨‍🔬Zach Marin, Xiaoding Wang, Dax Collison, Conor McFadden, Kevin Dean
More details👇

NC4Gate: A modular gate system for autonomous control of rodent behavior | Open Neuroscience Rodent mazes have been used for decades to study the neural basis of behavior. Advancements in rapid prototyping techniques and access to affordable electronics allows laboratories with sufficient exp...

🔗Link: open-neuroscience.com/en/post/nc4g...

💡The open-source hardware /software and extensive documentation enable laboratories to build these affordable and robust gates and seamlessly incorporate automatic behavior control into their existing or new rodent tasks.🐀
#OpenScience

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💡NC4Gate: A modular gate system for autonomous control of rodent behavior. 🐭 This is a robust mechanical design that can be built using low-cost #openhardware and execute thousands of cycles before maintenance.
👨‍🔬Adam W. Lester, Gurnoor Kaur, Nadira Djafri, Manu S. Madhav
More details and link 👇

🤔 Want to learn the basics of MRI but don't know where to start?
💡 Then join Joyce Li, PhD candidate at the La Piana lab, and the Open Science Office Hours for a free hybrid workshop!
📆 Wed, April 30 at 3:30 pm ET at The Neuro @theneuro.bsky.social or via Zoom.
🍪 Snacks are included
More info 👇

CBRAIN NeuroHub workshop poster

📢NeuroHub - CBRAIN training workshop of 2025
📆Tue, April 29, 2025 from 1:00-3:00 p.m.
🗺️The Neuro @theneuro.bsky.social
👀In person with a remote option available.

✍️Register here:
www.eventbrite.ca/e/neurohub-c...

More info 👇

Towards open meta-research in neuroimaging | Open Neuroscience When meta-research (research on research) makes an observation or points out a problem (such as a flaw in methodology), the project should be repeated later to determine whether the problem remains.

🔗Link: open-neuroscience.com/en/post/towa...

👩‍💻By Kendra Oudyk; Jérôme Dockès; Julio Peraza; James Kent; Mohammad Torabi; Michelle Wang; Brent McPherson; Niusha Mirhakimi; Angela R. Laird; Alejandro de la Vega; Jean-Baptiste Poline.

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💡Towards open meta-research in neuroimaging
👀Find out about living meta-research, the prequels to this idea, and discover the standards and technologies that could assist researchers in doing living meta-research!
👩‍💻Kendra Oudyk @kendra-oudyk.bsky.social et al.
Full list of collaborators and link👇

Neurobagel | Open Neuroscience Neurobagel aims to connect decentralized neuroimaging datasets using linked data principles while allowing data files and access control to remain with research institutes. The Neurobagel software eco...

🔗Link to Neurobagel: open-neuroscience.com/en/post/neur...

👀 It provides reusable data schemas and intuitive tools to
1. annotate phenotypic data using widely adopted standardized terminology
2. integrate harmonized metadata in knowledge graphs based on semantic web standards
3. search for and define study cohorts by aggregating participants across datasets

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🖇️Neurobagel aims to connect decentralized neuroimaging datasets using linked data principles while allowing data files and access control to remain with research institutes.
🧑‍💻Sebastian Urchs; Alyssa Dai; Arman Jahanpour; Neurobagel contributors; Jean-Baptiste Poline
🔗Link and more in the comments

📢 Join the Open Science Office Hours initiative for this amazing virtual workshop on Open Ephys and its open-source data acquisition and analysis solutions.
👩‍🔬 The workshop will be led by Ceci Herbert @chucklescience.bsky.social, a former collaborator of our initiative!
Hope to see you there 👀

👀 With NeuroML, you can easily create, visualise, analyse, inspect, simulate, share, and re-use models and model components.
🔗https://open-neuroscience.com/en/post/neuroml/

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💡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.
👨‍🔬Padraig Gleeson; Ankur Sinha; Boris Marin; Robert Cannon
🔗Link and more in the comments 👇

👨‍🔬 André is an advocate for open science, an innovator in the field of scientific instrumentation and an expert in Open Hardware.

🔗 Link to book your one-on-one with him:
calendly.com/open-science...

👀 To learn more about Open Science Office Hours:
openscienceofficehours.github.io/osoh_website/

⏰ There is still time to book a one-on-one with the Open Neuroscience founder and Open Hardware (OH) expert André Maia Chagas!
👀 You can benefit from his expertise on OH to accelerate your project or start a new initiative!
💗 Thanks to Open Science Office Hours for making this possible.
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Attention #Miniscope and #neuropixels users! We recently published updates to our OpenEphys.Miniscope and OpenEphys.Onix1 Bonsai (bonsai-rx.org) libraries - make sure you update! Release notes are here: github.com/open-ephys/b... and github.com/open-ephys/b....

We are having a blast at #FOSDEM, showcasing the OpenFlexure Microscopes and chatting with loads of other open-source enthusiasts!!

Come and see us in Hall H to get a demo of our microscope, and come along to our talk tomorrow at 15:20 CET in H.1309 (Van Rijn)!

#OpenSource

Here is a flyer to print or email. Thank you very much!

Our lab is looking for 2 postdocs interested in the molecular basis of neural development and behaviour.
Post 1: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLJ521/r...
Post 2: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLJ529/r...
The deadline is 17-FEB-2025
For informal enquiries email me at: c.alonso@sussex.ac.uk
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But that is definitely a nice idea! Standing office hours for #openhardware :) we wonder if there is enough of an appetite from the community for this?

Thanks for the shout @neurodaniela.bsky.social ! A small correction though: we are not the ones running the #openscience office hours! This is done by colleagues @theneuro.bsky.social . And @iamchagas.bsky.social is a their guest this month for #openhardware.

Open Science Office Hours Welcome to the OSOH scheduling page.

👨‍🔬About our expert: Meet André Maia Chagas, Open Science advocate, and innovator in the field of scientific instrumentation with an impressive dedication to Open Hardware

🔗Link to book: calendly.com/open-science...

✅And don't forget to register to attend his workshop:
eventbrite.com/e/open-scien...

🧐Want to dive deeper into Open Hardware (OH)?
💡Are you trying to start or improve your own OH?
🥳Whatever the case, Open Science Office Hours is here to help!
🗓️Book now a one-on-one meeting with André, founder of the Open Neuroscience initiative, and expert of the month
🔗Link and more details 👇