BrainGlobe has a new roadmap! Somewhat overdue, the March 2026 roadmap summarises our recent progress, and our priorities for the coming year. Read more: brainglobe.info/community/ro...

The deadline for all these positions is now April 12th. Please do not be put off by the "Senior" in the job title. We have hired people at different career stages into roles at this grade, what matters is whether you can do the job!

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

1. Senior Research Software Engineer (Neural and Behavioural Data) - We’re looking for a research software engineer to build pipelines to process weeks of neural and behavioural recordings from freely moving animals.

2. Senior Research Software Engineer (Multiphoton Microscopy) - We’re looking for a research software engineer to build pipelines to process, align and analyse data from benchtop and minaturised two-photon microscopes.

3. Senior Research Software Engineer (Omics) - We’re looking for a research software engineer to build robust and easy to use software tools for merging in-vivo imaging functional data with ex-vivo transcriptomics data.

Come join us to build great open source tools for neuroscience! Happy to answer any questions. If ephys and behaviour isn't your thing, we will have some imaging focussed RSE jobs soon!

BrainGlobe is part of this, so get in touch if you'd like to spend the summer working with us!

The CArea mouse brain atlas has been added to BrainGlobe! This atlas has regions which are automatically clustered based on three dimensional maps of gene expression. Read more in the blog: brainglobe.info/blog/carea-a...

Just over a week left to apply to apply to the Neuroinformatics Unit Open Software Summer School, August 17-28 2026 in London, UK! Bringing together researchers and open source developers of ephys, behaviour and image analysis tools. Deadline Feb 15th. neuroinformatics.dev/open-softwar...

Working with rats, & not happy w MRI based brain atlases from adult males? We've got you! High resolution (2photon), 3D atlases (female rats) are now available in @brainglobe.info. Plz start using these atlases & let us know your feedback for the official release! brainglobe.info/blog/swc-fem... 🐭🧠

New blogpost outlining our work with @athenaakrami.bsky.social at @sainsburywellcome.bsky.social to build light-microscopy based atlases of the rat brain. brainglobe.info/blog/swc-fem...

Applications to our summer school have been extended for two weeks! If you want to learn about open-source tools for neuroscience, please join us in London this August. Deadline Feb 15th. Full details: neuroinformatics.dev/open-softwar...

One week left to apply for this summer school. Deadline Jan 31st. Any questions, let me know. neuroinformatics.dev/open-softwar...

Still time to apply to learn about BrainGlobe at the Neuroinformatics Unit Open Software Summer School this August in London. neuroinformatics.dev/open-softwar...

Three weeks left to apply for the Neuroinformatics Unit Open Software Summer School, August 17-28 2026 in London, UK! Bringing together researchers and open source developers of ephys, behaviour and image analysis tools. neuroinformatics.dev/open-softwar... Deadline January 31st. Apply now!

Please join us in London August 24-28 2026 for a week long BrainGlobe course. We will teach you how to use the tools and how to contribute back to the wider BrainGlobe ecosystem. Apply now! neuroinformatics.dev/open-softwar...

Applications are open for the second Neuroinformatics Unit Open Software Summer School, August 17-28 2025 in London, UK! Bringing together researchers and developers of open-source software for training and collaboration. Financial support available. neuroinformatics.dev/open-softwar...

Fantastic to see Igor Tatarnikov, Senior Research Software Engineer at SWC, collecting the 2025 International Prize from @theneuro.bsky.social Irv and Helga Cooper Foundation on behalf of the @brainglobe.info Initiative! #OpenScience Read more: sainsburywellcome.org/web/research...

Hear BrainGlobe core developer speak about the project in this keynote lecture. 16:00 EST

Ready to see how open-source tools are revolutionizing neuroscience? Join us for Igor Tatarnikov’s talk on The BrainGlobe Initiative, the open-source platform reshaping computational neuroanatomy. Be part of the future of #OpenScience: buff.ly/p6l83E4 @ucl.ac.uk @sainsburywellcome.bsky.social

A new MRI mouse brain atlas has been added to BrainGlobe! This atlas from Dorr et al. (2008) is an average of 40 T2-weighted MR images at 32um resolution. Thanks to Saarah Hussain for adding this atlas. More details: brainglobe.info/blog/dorr-mo... Original paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...

Save the date! The Open Software Summer School returns August 17-28 2026 in London, U.K. There will be four separate tracks on animal behaviour, extracellular electrophysiology, anatomy and handling large data. Applications open Dec 1st. More details: neuroinformatics.dev/open-softwar...

Register to hear core developer Igor speak about BrainGlobe tools and the community that has been built around them.

Join us at The Neuro’s Open Science Prizes Ceremony for a special lecture by Igor Tatarnikov, Senior Research Software Engineer at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, University College London. 🔗 Come be part of the future of open science. buff.ly/p6l83E4 #Neuroscience #Neuroanatomy #OpenScience

BrainGlobe branches out! New blog outlining our collaborative work with @giuliapaci.bsky.social from @lmcb-ucl.bsky.social to build anatomical atlases for developmental mechanobiology. brainglobe.info/blog/drosoph...

Huge congratulations to the @BrainGlobe.info team for winning the 2025 International Prize awarded by the @theneuro.bsky.social and Helga Cooper Foundation Open Science Prizes Selection Committee 🎉 www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/research...

We are incredibly proud to receieve this award, especially as it recognises the hard work of the entire BrainGlobe community. Thank you to everyone who has contributed to BrainGlobe over the years!

🏆Announcing the laureates of the Neuro - Irv and Helga Cooper Foundation Open Science Prizes 2025! 🎉 Join us in celebrating the laureates at the award ceremony, featuring a special lecture from International Prize laureate representative from the BrainGlobe initiative. #OpenScience #Neuroscience

Join the new plugin sustainability initiative! Everyone is invited to fill out this interest form: forms.gle/iwX6P4tuooHK... Follow along with initial discussion on Zulip: napari.zulipchat.com#narrow/chann... The first zoom meeting will be this coming week: napari.org/stable/commu...

Lovely talk by Open Software Week participant @ishratz25.bsky.social on the challenges of using @brainglobe.info tools to identify very small regions, in very large images.

DeMBA (Developmental Mouse Brain Atlas) has now been added to BrainGlobe! This includes every developmental stage from P4 to P56. Each of these 53 atlases includes MRI, LSFM and STPT templates. For more details, see the blog: brainglobe.info/blog/DeMBA Paper: doi.org/10.1038/s414...

In our next guest blog, GSoC participant Saarah Hussain talks about her summer working on @brainglobe.info. neuroinformatics.dev/blog/gsoc_20...

Have you built any software using a BrainGlobe package? We would love to feature your tool on our "Software built by the community" page. Get in touch, we would love to hear about your work! brainglobe.info/community/ex...

Version 2 of the "Enhanced and Unified Mouse Brain Atlas" has now been added to BrainGlobe. This popular atlas has been updated with corrected annotations and an isotropic 20um reference volume. Thanks to Pavel Vychyk for adding this atlas! brainglobe.info/blog/kim-iso...

New guest blog by @marcodv.bsky.social about our open software summer school, held at @sainsburywellcome.bsky.social. neuroinformatics.dev/blog/perspec... Stay tuned for information about next years event, which will be bigger and better!

Thank you to everyone who came to Open Software Week. We had a great time, and we hope you all left with new knowledge, ideas or collaborations. #niu_osw

The third day of Open Software Week is underway. On the @brainglobe.info track, students are learning how to use the BrainGlobe Python ecosystem to write their own scripts. Starting with creating visualisations using brainglobe-heatmap: brainglobe.info/documentatio... #niu_osw

The BrainGlobe track started with an introduction to image analysis with @napari.org, and then tutorials on how to use @brainglobe.info to register data to atlases, and how to detect cells in whole-brain microscopy images. All our tutorials are online: brainglobe.info/tutorials #niu_osw

Second day of Open Software Week starts soon! Today we split into two parallel tracks: Animals in Motion: Using open source tools to track and analyse animal motion from videos BrainGlobe: Using the @brainglobe.info ecosystem of tools to process and analyse whole-brain microscopy images #niu_osw

Today is the first day of the Neuroinformatics Unit Open Software Week, bringing together researchers from around the world for a week of training and collaborating on open source neuroscience software. First day is a Python programming workshop. neuroinformatics.dev/open-softwar... #niu_osw

Version 2.3.0 of the BrainGlobe Atlas API released! Nothing exciting, but lots of minor bug fixes. This release included work by 11 contributors. Thanks to everyone in the community for their hard work. To update: "pip install brainglobe-atlasapi -U" Release notes: github.com/brainglobe/b...

The brain atlas of the bumblebee Bombus impatiens created by the @kocherlab.bsky.social is now part of BrainGlobe! This is our first insect brain atlas. Thanks to Scott Wolf for adding it! More details: brainglobe.info/blog/bee-atl... Original paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...

Hey, it's out! doi.org/10.1016/j.ce... Aligning Big Brains and Atlases, ABBA in short, is published in Cell Reports @cp-cellreports.bsky.social . @biancasilvalab.bsky.social's lab added an analysis pipeline on top of it (BraiAn) and did all the relevant biological work. What is it ? Short thread:

A new version of datashuttle is out! Datashuttle helps organise neuroscience experiments by automating folder creation and data transfer. Version 0.7.0 adds automatic validation, extends the available datatypes and several other improvements. Check it out at datashuttle.neuroinformatics.dev!

BrainGlobe has a new atlas, the "CCFv3 augmented mouse atlas"! This atlas is an extended version of the CCFv3, designed to cover the rostral and caudal tips of the mouse brain and includes Nissl templates. More details: brainglobe.info/blog/CCFv3BB... Original paper: doi.org/10.1162/imag...

Join us for the @neuroinformatics.dev Open Software Week at SWC this summer! This event will bring together researchers, developers and users of open-source software for some hands-on training, community-building and hacking. Find out more and apply: neuroinformatics.dev/open-softwar...

Still a few weeks to register for some hands-on training and hacking on open-source tools for analysing animal motion, whole-brain microscopy with @brainglobe.info, and big imaging data. 🧠📈 Aug 11-15 at @sainsburywellcome.bsky.social in London. "Free as in beer" and travel stipends available.

Fully funded (including travel and accomodation) BrainGlobe course in London. Applications close June 6th. Any questions, get in touch.

We’ve received additional funding for this, so we expect to be able to fully fund the travel and accomodation for most participants outside of London.