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SOBP Brain Hack - 2026

dnkennedy@www.nitrc.org (David Kennedy) — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:46:08 GMT

We're excited to invite you to SOBP Brain Hack - 2026, a hands-on, collaborative event to connect, collaborate, and code with fellow enthusiasts in a fun, informal setting.

When: Tuesday-Wednesday, April 28-29, 2026 | 9 AM - 5 PM
Where: 307 W 38th St, 14th Floor, New York, NY
What: Two days of interdisciplinary collaboration, coding, and problem-solving focused on advancing biological psychiatry research
This in-person event offers researchers at all levels the opportunity to:

- Enhance data science and computational skills
- Work in interdisciplinary teams on real-world projects
- Network with SOBP community members in an informal, energizing environment

Registration Fees:
Staff/Faculty: $50 (includes breakfast & lunch both days)
Students/Postdocs: $20 (includes breakfast & lunch both days)
Financial assistance is available for those with demonstrated need

Registration is open to all - you do NOT need to be attending the SOBP annual meeting to participate.
REGISTER HERE - https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sobp-brain-hack-2026-tickets-1984633557395

If you have any questions, please contact SOBPHackInfo@repronim.org. Or, see the website (https://sobpbrainhack.github.io/SOBPHack-2026/).

ReproNim First Fridays Webinar – Friday, April 3, 2026

dnkennedy@www.nitrc.org (David Kennedy) — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:38:58 GMT

ReproNim First Fridays Webinar – Friday, April 3, 2026 at 2pm Eastern Time

Our own ReproNim faculty member Satra Ghosh (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Senior Research Scientist, and Director of the Open Data in Neuroscience Initiative at McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT) is our featured speaker this month! Satra brings a very broadly knowledgeable perspective to bear on all of his endeavors and his work encompasses a wealth of expertise in computer science, computational neuroscience and neuroimaging.

Presentation Title: “Undata - an AI-assisted unraveling of challenges around data models and schemas.”

Webinar Registration - https://umassmed.zoom.us/meeting/register/mhxcAm_7R_msH3__kO0Lgg#/registration

ReproNim Virtual Drop-in Office Hours, Thursday November 6th

dnkennedy@www.nitrc.org (David Kennedy) — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 20:00:42 GMT

ReproNim ‘First Thursdays’ Virtual Office Hours for November – Special BIDS-focused edition!

Join us for Virtual Drop-in Office Hours, Thursday November 6th (1-2pm ET).
Register Here (https://umassmed.zoom.us/meeting/register/mz3UbrqyRY2hRND3IBp8Hg) for our new Meeting Link for Office Hours (please note change)

ReproNim Office Hours are open to all; it is an opportunity to address reproducibility questions of all sorts and at any level of expertise.

This month, ReproNim faculty are encouraging questions around the use of the Brain Imaging Data Structure (BIDS) standard. We know that some folks use BIDS, others are encouraged to use it (by ReproNim and others), others have frustrations with it, and others choose not to use it. Come one, come all and ask or tell us about your BIDS experiences!

Are you having an issue with BIDS? Come with a question.
Do you have a suggestion or feedback (good or bad) for the BIDS developers? Come and talk back.
Are you tired of people telling you to use BIDS? Come and tell them why you never will.

Our goals for the session are to:
Help people find solutions
Inform ReproNim about issues with BIDS and/or its use, in order to help reduce barriers in the future
Identify success stories in order to create useful tutorials and make it easier for other investigators to use BIDS

If you cannot attend in person, that’s OK, feel free to email comments and questions to info@repronim.org.

ABCD-ReproNim Course 2.0

dnkennedy@www.nitrc.org (David Kennedy) — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 19:57:23 GMT

Back by popular demand, this ABCD-ReproNim Course is a collaborative effort between the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study and ReproNim, to provide comprehensive background, guided curriculum in reproducible data analysis, and hands-on experience working with ABCD datasets. This is a 16-week self-paced, asynchronous, and free online course (e.g., pre-recorded video lectures, supplementary readings, data exercises) that will prepare students for reproducible and responsible analyses of ABCD data.

For Students:
* Registration is required, but enrollment is both rolling and open to an unlimited number of students
* Registration (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSenfG13JYAfFkHggagZ8YT5ZSIOKPq7zsoJP8QwaYK5vNuaVw/viewform) is open
* See Participant information/guidelines (https://www.abcd-repronim.org/students.html)

For Teaching Fellows:
* Teaching Fellows Applications – Open Now!
* We are recruiting 10 Teaching Fellows to help with the course (e.g., generate data exercises, host virtual office hours, response to student questions). They will receive a $5,000 participation stipend and an additional $2,000 in travel funds to attend the Miami Hackathon, Jan 20-23, 2026
* Application Deadline:August 1, 2025
* Teaching Fellows Information (https://www.abcd-repronim.org/fellows.html)
* Apply Here - https://www.abcd-repronim.org/fellows.html

Additional Events
* BrainHack Flux, September 1-2, 2025 in Dublin, Ireland
We will be hosting BrainHack Flux (https://fluxsociety.org/brainhack-at-flux-2025-congress/) at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland (Sept 1-2, 2025), just before the Flux 2025 Conference (https://fluxsociety.org/)! Attendees can register through the Flux 2025 Congress registration portal.

* ABCD-ReproNim Hackathon, January 20-23, 2026 in Miami, Florida
After students have an opportunity to work through the course material, we will be hosting the ABCD-ReproNim Hackathon at Florida International University in Miami.
Application deadline: November 1, 2025 (link coming soon)

2025 ReproNim Community Survey

dnkennedy@www.nitrc.org (David Kennedy) — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 13:16:01 GMT

Greetings.

ReproNim is pleased to announce that the 2025 ReproNim Community Survey is live at:
https://forms.gle/AXqd5ARJZtie38yT6

ReproNim annually tries to get the pulse of the neuroimaging community. We think this information will be valuable to the community itself, and will help developers and practitioners better understand the existing needs and opportunities. This survey can be anonymous, or, if you would like to be contacted about any of the information, you can optionally leave a contact email. The results (but not the optional contact information) will be shared publicly to provide an enhanced dialog between neuroimaging resource users and developers.

There are two main short-answer sections to this survey: First there is a general question. If you only have 2 minutes, we would be very grateful for your response to this question. This is followed by a 'deeper dive' into some of the current practices in neuroimaging, and is comprised of 5 additional questions, that we hope would take only ~10 minutes to complete. Extra gratefulness will be heaped upon those who can contribute to these questions as well.

Thanks in advance for your consideration of this survey.

You are encouraged to take the survey, if you have the time, and to share the survey with any/everyone in the community! The more the merrier...

SOBP BrainHack: Toronto - Registration Open...

dnkennedy@www.nitrc.org (David Kennedy) — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 16:03:16 GMT

April 22-23, 2025
See the website at: https://www.repronim.org/SOBPHack-042025/
Registration now open at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sobp-brain-hack-2025-tickets-1258326421199?aff=oddtdtcreator

SAVE THE DATE for BrainHack SOBP!

dnkennedy@www.nitrc.org (David Kennedy) — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 13:12:53 GMT

BrainHack is pleased to announce a 2-day Brain Hackathon on April 22 & 23, 2025 (just before the Annual SOBP Meeting). BrainHack aims to provide researchers with the tools to improve their data science and computational method repertoire. The BrainHack event allows attendees to have open time to work in interdisciplinary teams on projects that utilize design and computational techniques to solve problems of interest to the SOBP community.

Dates: April 22 & 23, 2025

Location: Peter Gilgan Centre for Research and Learning, SickKids, 686 Bay St., Toronto, ON M5G 0A4

Cost: A nominal fee is charged to hold spots and support on-site lunch: $50 for Faculty/Staff and $20 for Students. (A Fee waiver is available upon request.)

Contact: sobphackinfo@repronim.org

*Please note that the SOBP has not directly created or managed this meeting or its content. Anyone interested is welcome to attend the meeting, with a maximum of 70 attendees.*

February ReproNim Webinar

dnkennedy@www.nitrc.org (David Kennedy) — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 22:15:21 GMT

ReproNim: A Center for Reproducible Neuroimaging Computation

ReproNim 'First Fridays' Webinar – Friday, February 7, at 2pm Eastern Time

Hi All –
We have a special guest speaker this month! Melissa Kline Struhl (Research Scientist, MIT) joins us from the Early Childhood Cognition Lab, where she serves as the Executive Director for the Lookit Tean, and Director of Children Helping Science.

Title: "Psych-DS: A data standard for datasets in the behavioral sciences."

Abstract:
This talk will discuss Psych-DS, a data standard for the behavioral sciences that is designed to be usable by a single researcher during any stage of the data lifecycle. Especially when datasets are small (that is, smaller than e.g. a brain imaging dataset), we are often not explicitly taught best practices for working with data in ways that minimize error and lead to FAIR data sharing. This leads to both a lack of consensus about how to share and organize data in these fields, and difficulty with the practical sharing of the datasets that underlie our research. Psych-DS is a method for organizing psychological and behavioral data, which aims to satisfy FAIR principles for data sharing. Like the successful BIDS neuroimaging standard, Psych-DS has a validator tool that lets you check whether your dataset is organized according to the Psych-DS standard, and we are developing tools for common programming languages and platforms in the psych sciences. I will also share some example datasets, and am very interested in hearing stories from the attendees about your particular challenges in deciding how to organize your data.

Videoconference via Zoom
Register in advance here (it’s easy!): https://umassmed.zoom.us/meeting/register/v5Ikce2qrzkjF_dnGYL7_CeVQ_JqodcCrA

Once you’ve registered, you should receive a confirmation email containing information on how to join the meeting.
Any questions or problems, please contact Julie Bates at julianna.bates@umassmed.edu

Welcome All!

SOBP BrainHack, May 7-8, 2024, Austin TX

dnkennedy@www.nitrc.org (David Kennedy) — Tue, 26 Mar 2024 12:01:29 GMT

Going to Society of Biological Psychiatry (SOBP) annual meeting this May? Want more time to think? Want more time to code? Want more time to collaborate? The SOBP BrainHack is the place to be! May 7th&8th, 2024.

Details at https://www.repronim.org/SOBPHack-052024/;
Registration at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sobp-brain-hack-tickets-857174581247?aff=oddtdtcreator.

Space is limited, register soon!

Reminder: ReproNim/INCF Fellowship program

dnkennedy@www.nitrc.org (David Kennedy) — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 17:24:29 GMT

Time is running out. Apply now! Deadline is Jan 31.

The ReproNim/INCF Fellowship program is ready to select the fourth cadre of Fellows! Applications are now open here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQ... We will award five to ten fellowships for this year; the total number of Fellows pending availability of funds. Mark your calendar for application submission starting January 1 through January 31, 2024. We will conduct a hybrid kickoff workshop held in conjunction with the OHBM BrainHack, typically preceding the OHBM annual conference which is scheduled for June 23-27, 2024 in Seoul, South Korea. Some travel assistance may be available to the Fellows.

For more information about the Fellowship program, here: https://www.repronim.org/fellowship. Note: Prior applicants who were not selected last year are welcome to re-apply!