This week I attended my first ever hackathon with @bhdonostia.bsky.social! We put together a functioning dashboard to estimate the carbon footprint of MRI data collection 🧠 You can access the neuro-impact-calculator here: nicksouter.shinyapps.io/neuro-impact... (Not yet optimised for phones) 🧵

We just wrapped an excellent keynote from @nicksouter.bsky.social on reducing the carbon footprint of research computing. A powerful reminder that scientific progress and sustainability can — and should — go hand in hand! 🌍💡 #BHDonostia2025 #sustainability #GreenScience

‼️ If you're interested in getting involved with the SEA-SIG, we are accepting nominations for the roles of Chair, Secretary, and Treasurer until OCTOBER 5! ‼️ ✨ 💫 🌍 🌱 🍃

🗓️ Only ONE WEEK to register for the OHBM Virtual Satellite Meeting, hosted with the SEA-SIG @ohbmenvironment.bsky.social! There will be an educational course, 3 symposia, and a can’t-miss keynote from Dr. Michael Breakspear! You won’t want to miss it!

📣 Interested in the environmental (un)sustainability of AI (and how to support positive change)? Or know someone who is? I have an open position for a postdoctoral researcher to join my group in Cambridge, UK 🌱 🚨Closing June 5th www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51255/ Topics below 👇 #AcademicSky #GreenSky

Save the date ! Co-organized with @inserm.bsky.social bLORIER, @nicksouter.bsky.social from @sussexfss.bsky.social will talk about « How to reduce the carbon footprint of your research computing? » tinyurl.com/4hck9xbh An event affiliated with @ohbmenvironment.bsky.social !

Som staggering statistics from @ourworldindata.org

Are you a neuroscientist interested in sustainability, but don't know who to follow? 🤔 You're in luck! Here's a starter pack of neuroscientists who post about climate, and researchers who work in the intersection of neuro/psych and climate change! 🌱Msg if you want to be added! go.bsky.app/E1iW12T

Weekends are a great time to let ideas percolate, so why not give @nicksouter.bsky.social's paper on "10 recommendations for reducing the carbon footprint of neuroimaging research" a read and let it sink in while you head outside and get some fresh air? direct.mit.edu/imag/article...

What is the relationship between neuroscience and climate change? At first these two topics can seem very distinct, but this article by Rae et al. makes a very compelling case for why we should incorporate environmental awareness into our research practices. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🚨We're recruiting! Interested in making science and computing more environmentally friendly? Now's the time! Very excited to build a research group at Cambridge Uni to expand our Green Algorithms work thanks to the support of the Wellcome Trust www.green-algorithms.org/join-us #AcademicSky #SciSky

‼️ NEW PAPER ALERT ‼️ @nicksouter.bsky.social et al. (including many of our SEA-SIG members) demonstrate the environmental impact of different fMRIprep preprocessing choices, and make recommendations for minimizing carbon emissions of your pipeline! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Are you looking to get involved with like-minded neuroimagers to make our field more sustainable? Nominate yourself to be the new Chair, Secretary, or Treasurer of the SEA-SIG in our 2024 elections! Nominations accepted from August 15-September 15! ohbm-environment.org/upcoming-sig...

In this short 'PosterByte' video made for the British Neuroscience Association 2024 Members' Meeting, I discuss our recent work on the carbon footprint of neuroscience data processing 🌱🧠🖥️ shorturl.at/aguWY #BNAMembersMeeting2024

The Problem with Doomerism: Critics are right that doom and gloom can demoralize people into inaction. We found that negative messages increase social media sharing, but had no effect on policy support or climate beliefs & even backfired for effortful action: powerofus.substack.com/p/how-to-tal...

Our review paper 'Ten recommendations for reducing the carbon footprint of research computing in human neuroimaging' was recently published in @imagingneurosci.bsky.social doi.org/10.1162/imag... Here's a quick summary of each of our recommendations 🧵

Last week we ran the first 'Environmental impacts of computing (EIC) in health & life sciences research' workshop, at the Wellcome Trust in London 🌱 🖥️ You can now find recordings of all our spreakers on YouTube! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... We discussed a number of topics... 🧵

On November 7th, we're hosting the first 'Environmental impacts of computing in health & life sciences research' workshop, at the Wellcome Trust in London! eicworkshop.info Come along to learn more about the carbon footprint of your research computing, and how it can be reduced 🌱

Here's the preprint for my final PhD paper, and my first fMRI study! 🧠 We found that dissociable default mode network (DMN) subnetworks support retrieval of contextual and emotional associations, seperately from processing of retrieval demands www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...