My lab is hiring a software engineer to support our #NeuroAI research: careers.epfl.ch/job/Lausanne.... Please consider applying if you want to build out the infrastructure enabling models of the human brain & mind (e.g., www.Brain-Score.org). We will start screening applications this week 🧠🤖
We gave a tutorial on @nwb.org and DANDI at @cosynemeeting.bsky.social this year. If you couldn't make it (or want a refresher), the full recording is up on YouTube. Covers everything from data standardization to finding and reusing public neurophysiology datasets on DANDI.
We have three neuroscience research software engineering jobs available at @sainsburywellcome.bsky.social, two joint with the Advanced Microscopy Facility.
All positions start ASAP, funded until Sept 2028 in the first instance. Salary £54-64k.
More details: neuroinformatics.dev/get-involved
Mission: record hippocampal place cells in zero gravity
Crew: 3 rats with electrode arrays
Vehicle: Space Shuttle Columbia
Status: data now publicly available on DANDI, 28 years later
The ratstronauts' mission is finally complete. 🐀🚀 h/t NASA
about.dandiarchive.org/blog/2026/02...
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.
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 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
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 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...
