And we are live! Excited to announce the 2025 Multi-Agent Behavior Challenge on cross-lab supervised action recognition in mice 🐁🐀🖱️ Running on Kaggle until December 15th, with a $50,000 prize pool going to the top five submissions! www.kaggle.com/competitions...

I enjoyed chatting with Peter about my @softwaresaved.bsky.social fellowship. Tune in for the backstory behind animals-in-motion.neuroinformatics.dev and @neuroinformatics.dev 's "Open Software Week". PS: Code for Thought is a great podcast to follow if you’re into research software.

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!

BIIG seminars are back! 🎉 12-1pm on 12th September: - Kaixiang Shuai (LMCB, UCL): Creating the first Drosophila imaginal wing disc atlas - Aikta Sharma (UCL Mechanical Engineering): Predicting Osteoarthritis in the Tibial Epiphysis with Synchrotron X-ray CT and Digital Volume Correlation

Had a blast teaching "Animals in Motion" last week, together with my @neuroinformatics.dev colleagues. All course materials, including hands-on coding exercises, are freely available as an online book: 🔗 animals-in-motion.neuroinformatics.dev/latest/

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

Courtney @courtneyl7a7.bsky.social has written a lovely piece on this wonderful community initiative we’ve been running for 5 years at UCL - have a read! And follow @biig-ucl.bsky.social !

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

How can birds keep enough control to fly while drifting in and out of sleep? In an excerpt from their new book published today, @evoneuro.bsky.social and Georg Striedter explore this and other questions about neural mechanisms that regulate bird sleep. bit.ly/45mfwgn #neuroskyence

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.

🛠️ Calling all open source developers! COS is looking to fund small dev projects that help improve the Open Science Framework (OSF). Python, Django, Angular.js devs—this one’s for you. Proposals due: May 14th, 2025. 🔗 http://cos.io/pose #DevGrants #OpenSource #OpenScience

🟢 Applications are now open for two SSI Fellows' events: Niko Sirmpilatze's "Animals in Motion" and Alessandro Felder's "Big Imaging Data". These events will take place during the NIU Open Software Week running between Monday 11 and Friday 15 August in London. www.software.ac.uk/news/ssi-fel...

Had a blast at #ASABSpring2025, presenting movement and meeting many enthusiastic early career researchers. If you're into tracking animal movements in videos, do apply for the "Animals in Motion" workshop I'm organising in London this August: neuroinformatics.dev/open-softwar...

In an open letter of support to the President of @harvard.edu, Max Planck President Patrick Cramer @patrick-cramer.maxplanck.de has expressed his full support of the University in its stance against demands by the Trump administration to change its policies in order to retain federal funding.

As part of this event, I will be running a 2-day hand-on workshop, for folks that want to use open-source software to study "Animals in Motion". Thanks to the generous support of @softwaresaved.bsky.social & @sainsburywellcome.bsky.social More info at neuroinformatics.dev/open-software-week

Excited to share our new pre-print on bioRxiv, in which we reveal that feedback-driven motor corrections are encoded in small, previously missed neural signals.

A new high-resolution 3D brain atlas for the Eurasian blackcap is now available via @brainglobe.info. This new, open-source map will support research into magnetoreception, migration, and navigation 🧭 Blog ⤵️ www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/blog/map... Preprint⤵️ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

There may be a non-model organism “renaissance”, but these fields also need experimental tools. Our new blog describes our work building brain atlases for novel species. Get in touch if you're interested in making an atlas for the species you study! brainglobe.info/blog/unchart...

New blog outlining new spatial navigation features in movement, a collaboration with @sepikeshavarzi.bsky.social movement.neuroinformatics.dev/blog/arc-col...

openRxiv has arrived! We’re thrilled to announce the launch of openRxiv as an independent, researcher-led nonprofit to oversee bioRxiv and medRxiv, the world’s leading preprint servers for life and health sciences. openrxiv.org/introducing-... #openRxiv #OpenScience #Preprints #bioRxiv #medRxiv

New version of movement (0.2.0) released! Including: - First version of our @napari.org GUI - New ROI and spatial navigation features - New quick plotting options - New examples (pupil tracking and head direction) Full documentation: movement.neuroinformatics.dev Any questions, get in touch!

🟥 We are happy to announce that the SSI has received £4.8m from @ukri.org to launch the Research Software Maintenance Fund. Find out more about this exciting opportunity at www.software.ac.uk/news/ukri-aw...

Let's talk about this Nature piece in more detail. I've rarely read something so anti-scientific anywhere short of the National Review. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

🚨I promised I'd say more on the Royal Society and Elon Musk, so here it is. 🚨 I've resigned my position as Associate Editor at Royal Society's journal Open Science in protest at their lack of action over Elon Musk. My op-ed in @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I've created a @gatsbyucl.bsky.social starter pack! Let me know if you’d like to be included, or just jump in to see what we're talking about. Either way, a retweet would be greatly appreciated! 🚀 go.bsky.app/4g6Ro4U go.bsky.app/AErHDon

Excited to announce that we will be taking part in the Google Summer of Code this year! If you'd like to get paid to contribute to open-source neuroscience software, please get in touch. Full details here: neuroinformatics.dev/get-involved...

Excited to announce that we will be taking part in the Google Summer of Code this year! If you'd like to get paid to contribute to BrainGlobe, please get in touch. Applications will be accepted via @neuroinformatics.dev. Full details here: neuroinformatics.dev/get-involved...

Members of the U.K. and international scientific community are invited to sign to show their support: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Amazing new #Python #PEP to improve optional dependencies handling: https://peps.python.org/pep-0771/ The PEP is very thorough and well-written, and it perfectly uses @napari#python#peps a motivating example. We were not involved but we fully endorse it! 😃

We've added some great accounts to our #neuroinformagical starter pack, follow along! 🧠💻🔬 #openscience #datasharing #neuroskyence 🧪 go.bsky.app/LRqnaMP

Today Mastodon is taking another step towards its founding ideals: independence and non-profit ownership. We're transferring ownership of key assets to a new, European not-for-profit entity, ensuring our mission remains true to a decentralised social web, not corporate control […]

This is a monumental day for the future of the open web, though it might not be obvious for a while. Mastodon matures its governance model with a great, solid non-profit blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/01/the-... and a coalition of independents push to open up Bluesky's AT Protocol: freeourfeeds.com

Nature Psilocybin desynchronizes the human brain www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I used VVD Viewer for this #FluorescenceFriday video: 141 volumes from the #HHMIJanelia FlyLight Split-GAL4 #Drosophila driver collection. The animation comes from a high-level description processed by neuVid. Such a rapid tour of the data has questionable scientific value, but it's fun to watch!

Meet 10 neuroscientists bringing model diversity back with the funky animals they study. By @callimcflurry.bsky.social, @avaskham.bsky.social, @claudia-lopez.bsky.social, @shaena.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/animal-model...

This was such a fun project to work on! 🦋🐙🐟🦇🐦 Read up on some of the interesting animals that are helping neuroscientists study the brain in new ways:

I figured out a prompting pattern for getting Claude to produce fully self-contained Python scripts that execute with "uv run" using PEP 723 inline script dependencies - and now I can one-shot useful Python utilities with it simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/19/...

It’s true that medieval people were very ignorant compared to us today. For instance, they would panic over mysterious apparitions in the sky, or believe that a strongman leader was blessed by God.

🧠 Come work with us! In addition to our postdoc position on modelling, our lab at @institutpasteur.bsky.social we also seek a postdoc to help us create the most complete open atlas of brain folding development! This is part of our ERC Synergy project Unfold (unfold-lab.github.io). Join us! (1/10)

"A fast pathway for the interoception of heartbeat whereby arterial pressure pulsations within the brain modulate neuronal activity." 🧠🫀 Blood pressure pulsations modulate central neuronal activity via mechanosensitive ion channels Science Feb 2024 www.science.org/doi/full/10.... #interoception

🚀 We're hiring! Join the German BioImaging Team as a Software Developer! 💻 Build scalable #bioimaging solutions 🌍 Collaborate globally 🎯 Contribute to open science through #OMEZarr @openmicroscopy.org Remote, full-time. Apply by 31 Jan 2025: bit.ly/3Zrd4SR

The birth of fruit fly's central nervous system imaged with multicolor #adaptive #lightsheet microscopy. The microscope self-aligns to a signal that appears during imaging. www.nature.com/articles/nbt...

I didn't embark in machine learning thinking of it as an ideological project to disenfranchise human beings. But we need to face reality, machine learning can easily become the driver of such change, shifting power structures. We, actors of tech, can modulate this effect. 1/3

🚀 movement—our free, open-source Python package for analysing animal motion—just got an upgrade (v0.0.21). movement offers a modular, consistent interface for processing motion tracks from tools like DeepLabCut and SLEAP. Check it out: movement.neuroinformatics.dev

How the brain coordinates the activity of its many muscles to achieve successful control remains an enigma. www.cell.com/issue/S0896-...

Is there an equivalent of DANDI or OpenNeuro for animal behavior? There's a few dozen hours of videos here: edspace.american.edu/openbehavior..., and there's MaBE2022, but it feels like there must be a lot more

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