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The Organization for Human Brain Mapping @ohbmofficial.bsky.social · 9d

LABMAN is back! 🔥
The Latin American Brain Mapping Chapter of OHBM (founded 2008 in Havana) is relaunching.
Be part of it 👇
👉 forms.office.com/r/Q9AK73n7a1

#OHBM #Neuroimaging #LatinAmerica

Microsoft Forms

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Christine Rogers @christinerogers.bsky.social · 7d

Join us online this Friday Oct.3 for pre-conference talks from the inaugural Canadian Conference on #OpenScience & #OpenScholarship
Free registration and program details at oscanada.github.io
cc #oscanada2025
@theneuro.bsky.social

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Elizabeth Tasker @elizabethtasker.bsky.social · Jul 28

In an automatic transcript, the ESA "Don Quijote" mission has been written as "Donkey Shot". Since this was a concept to deflect an asteroid, I cannot help but feel this would have been a GREAT NAME.

(Don Quijote would ultimately become the DART/Hera missions to asteroids Didymos and Dimorphos.)

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · Jul 28

4,000 NASA workers are leaving through deferred resignation. "The cuts amount to an estimated 20% of NASA's workforce" www.npr.org/2025/07/26/n...

Nearly 4,000 NASA employees opt to leave agency through deferred resignation program

The employees who have chosen to leave the agency amount to about 20% of NASA's workforce.

www.npr.org

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danilobzdok @danilobzdok.bsky.social · Jul 28

📢 job opening: software developer at Mila Quebec AI Institute & McGill

As of now, my team is looking to hire a new technical staff member with abackground in a STEM area for running and curating existing AI analysis pipelines, as well as designing GUIs around them.

Please DM or email me, with CV

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Christine Rogers @christinerogers.bsky.social · Jul 15

Congratulations Alan! What a recognition of the accomplishments of your career and lab #MCINation

ludmercentre.bsky.social @ludmercentre.bsky.social · Jul 14

A lovely summer evening at Mont Royal to celebrate Prof. Alan Evans’ appointment to the Order of Canada with his lab, the Montreal Centre for Integrated Neuroscience, and colleagues at CONP, HBHL, EEGNet, GDC, to name a few.
Congratulations to Prof. Evans and to the entire team
tinyurl.com/f4mc9dpc

Christine Rogers @christinerogers.bsky.social · Jul 8

Apply by August 15 — recognition (and funding) for #openscience achievements in neuroscience cc @incforg.bsky.social
Details:
www.mcgill.ca/neuro/open-s...

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Christine Rogers @christinerogers.bsky.social · Jul 7

BIDS townhall next week! Come for the updates, stay for the community feedback. Join @bidsstandard.bsky.social on the OSSIG Crowdcast

BIDS (Brain Imaging Data Structure) @bidsstandard.bsky.social · Jul 3

Join us for the BIDS virtual Town Hall Wednesday, July 16 at 11:00 AM EDT — on the OSSIG Crowdcast at crowdcast.io/ossig2025

We’ll present updates from BIDS, extension proposals, and the community. We hope to see you there and hear your thoughts.

@ohbmossig.bsky.social

Crowdcast

Where the world gathers

crowdcast.io

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Le Neuro (Institut-Hôpital neurologique de Montréal) @theneuro.bsky.social · Jun 4

🎉 Exciting news! The Neuro–Cooper Open Science Prizes are now open! 🏆
Whether you’re a neuroscience researcher, a trainee, or part of a larger team pushing Open Science forward, this is your moment to shine. 🌟
📎 Learn more, apply, or join our info session on June 18: at.theneuro.ca/cooperprizes

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BIDS (Brain Imaging Data Structure) @bidsstandard.bsky.social · Jul 3

Join us for the BIDS virtual Town Hall Wednesday, July 16 at 11:00 AM EDT — on the OSSIG Crowdcast at crowdcast.io/ossig2025

We’ll present updates from BIDS, extension proposals, and the community. We hope to see you there and hear your thoughts.

@ohbmossig.bsky.social

Crowdcast

Where the world gathers

crowdcast.io

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Michèle Nuijten @michelenuijten.bsky.social · Jun 23

What if you want to deviate from you preregistration but keep the label "confirmatory"? Cas Goos introduces multi-stage registration as a solution.

Read all about it in the semi-new (I somehow missed a month of blogging?) blog post from the Meta-Research Center:

metaresearch.nl/blog/2025/5/...

Multi-Stage Registration: A Better* Way to Pre-Register — Meta-Research Center

This blogpost was written by Cas Goos. Cas his PhD project focuses on studying and enhancing various interventions for improving scientific robustness at journal level, supervised by Michèle Nuijten a...

metaresearch.nl

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Le Neuro (Institut-Hôpital neurologique de Montréal) @theneuro.bsky.social · Jun 23

The Canadian Open Neuroscience Platform (CONP) was launched in 2017 by scientists who believe research should be open, collaborative, and shared. Here, neuroscientist Alan Evans explains why collecting data and sharing it openly is so important.

📽️ youtu.be/Ibh6ie5tSus?...

Alan Evans explains the Canadian Open Neuroscience Platform

The Canadian Open Neuroscience Platform (CONP) was launched in 2017 by scientists who believe research should be open, collaborative, and shared. In this int...

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Thomas Nichols @nichols.bsky.social · Jun 18

At #OHBM2025 the Open Science Room has been squeezed and next year is at risk of being dramatically reduced/cut. If you like the OSR please consider signing/sharing this petition! chng.it/yjs4Bnyf9s
@ohbmofficial.bsky.social @ohbmossig.bsky.social

Preserve the Open Science Room at the Organization for Human Brain Mapping Annual Meeting

Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?

chng.it

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Eric Earl @ericearl.bsky.social · Jun 17

Hey #neuroskyence, if you value and want to support the Open Science Special Interest Group's Open Science Room #OSSIG #OSR programming at #OHBM, they need our signatures right now on a petition. Please visit and sign and share anything else you can with them. Even a testimonial.

chng.it/4hxrPQdxBq

Sign the Petition

Preserve the Open Science Room at the Organization for Human Brain Mapping Annual Meeting

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Christine Rogers @christinerogers.bsky.social · Jun 14

Great opportunity to get your #openscience project or institutional efforts recognized — Info session June 18. Apply by mid August @theneuro.bsky.social @mcgill.ca

Le Neuro (Institut-Hôpital neurologique de Montréal) @theneuro.bsky.social · Jun 4

🎉 Exciting news! The Neuro–Cooper Open Science Prizes are now open! 🏆
Whether you’re a neuroscience researcher, a trainee, or part of a larger team pushing Open Science forward, this is your moment to shine. 🌟
📎 Learn more, apply, or join our info session on June 18: at.theneuro.ca/cooperprizes

Christine Rogers @christinerogers.bsky.social · Jun 12

Wrapping up the @bidsstandard.bsky.social Maintainers / EBrains meeting in Copenhagen

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BrainHack Donostia @bhdonostia.bsky.social · May 21

Guess what? It’s happening again — #BrainHackDonostia is BACK for its 8th edition! Hosted by our amazing research team @bcbl.bsky.social 🧠 🗓 Save the dates: November 19–21!
#OpenScience #Neuroscience #Innovation #BrainHackGlobal

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Christine Rogers @christinerogers.bsky.social · Jun 6

Office love by lovely officemates.

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Gabriel Pelletier @gabrielpelletier.bsky.social · Jun 4

Let's go!
Still one of the rare opportunities to be recognized for, and receive funding for, Open Science projects/tools/achievements in Neuroscience.

Hit me up if you have any questions about the process

Le Neuro (Institut-Hôpital neurologique de Montréal) @theneuro.bsky.social · Jun 4

🎉 Exciting news! The Neuro–Cooper Open Science Prizes are now open! 🏆
Whether you’re a neuroscience researcher, a trainee, or part of a larger team pushing Open Science forward, this is your moment to shine. 🌟
📎 Learn more, apply, or join our info session on June 18: at.theneuro.ca/cooperprizes

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Christine Rogers @christinerogers.bsky.social · Jun 3

#OpenScience in Canada - practicing or just curious ?
Join us at #osCanada2025 —
Abstracts due *June 30* for the 1st Canadian Conference on Open Science and Open Scholarship — Oct 9-10 in Montreal oscanada.github.io
Cc @kbyers.bsky.social

1st Canadian Conference on Open Science and Open Scholarship

Montreal, October 9–10, 2025 "Mapping the Present, Charting our Future" (la version française suit) The 1st Canadian Conference on Open Science and Open Scholarship is a landmark national event dedica...

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Le Neuro (Institut-Hôpital neurologique de Montréal) @theneuro.bsky.social · May 20

Congratulations to neuroscientist Alan Evans and the team from The Canadian Open Neuroscience Platform (CONP), who have been awarded $2.85 million from Brain Canada's Platform Support Grants.

braincanada.ca/funded_grant...

#OpenScience #neuroscience

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Healthy Brains, Healthy Lives @hbhlmcgill.bsky.social · May 5

HBHL, @braincanada.bsky.social & @bhi-icc.bsky.social are looking for researchers to give TED-style talks on brain health for a public audience!

Selected PIs will speak at the 2025 Amazing Brain Science Talks, held in November at @banq-officiel.bsky.social. 🧠🧪

📬 Apply by June 2: mcgill.ca/x/ix5

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Christine Rogers @christinerogers.bsky.social · May 22

Looking forward to more great things from the second cycle of #CONP #openscience platform

CONP_PCNO @conp-pcno.bsky.social · May 20

Great news for #OpenScience in Montreal! @BrainCanada is investing in six incredible platforms to drive innovation (t.ly/Aqfbz), including the Canadian Open Neuroscience Platform (‪@conp-pcno.bsky.social‬)! This funding will accelerate brain research and collaboration. #Neuroscience #BrainResearch

Driving Open Science Innovation

Brain Canada’s flagship Platform Support Grants program supports interdisciplinary collaboration and enhance Canada’s technical and research capabilities.

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Christine Rogers @christinerogers.bsky.social · May 7

Fantastic project. Does Shabnam plan to release this tool / resource openly? This is valuable research for the public community.
Is there already a GitHub / URL?

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Yani Bellini Saibene @yabellini.bsky.social · Mar 20

We are sharing our template to handle Code of Conduct Incidents Reports.
Hope is helpful for other organizations/people too!

#RStats #CommunityManager

ropensci.org/blog/2025/03...

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