INCF community blog
The INCF community blog is where we collect news, success stories, information about the INCF Assembly, our workshops, and community activities. Community members are encouraged to submit relevant job openings, write guest posts, review and recap events, and suggest content that they would like to see featured on the blog.
Do you have a success story related to neuroinformatics, standardization, or FAIR and open neuroscience? Are you hiring for a job related to neuroinformatics? Did you attend one of our events and want to do a write-up? Let us know in this form!
INCF is always looking for ways to support neuroscience training activities, and we are very happy to provide the INCF training platforms to support two large training initiatives taking place this summer: the Neuromatch Academy and the NeuroHackademy.
Multiple postdoc and PhD positions are available in the labs of Carsten Mehring (University of Freiburg), Domenico Formica and Giovanni di Pino (Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma) as well as Dario Farina and Etienne Burdet (Imperial College London), on motor control and movement augmentation, in the context of the EU project NIMA.
Community review helps to optimize new Standards and Best Practices (SBPs) by allowing those who will use them to highlight areas of improvement before the SBPs are accepted.
Members of the community are asked to provide feedback on the NIDM-Results - a model for standardizing neuroimaging analysis results. This is a part of INCF’s Standards and Best Practices review process to ensure the standard being reviewed provides value to the community.
Members of the community are asked to provide feedback on the NIX Format - a model for storing annotated datasets across a variety of disciplines. This is a part of INCF’s Standards and Best Practices review process to ensure the standard being reviewed provides value to the community.
The Best Negative Data Prize was created in 2018 to incentivise researchers to publish their negative results. Submissions are open from Apr 7 to May 31, 2020 for this year’s award of €10,000 which was generously sponsored by Cohen Veterans Bioscience.
The NISO Taxonomy, Definitions, and Recognition Badging Scheme Working Group has drafted a standard for the names and definitions of reproducibility levels within the computational and computing sciences.
We are excited to announce the 21 INCF projects that have been accepted for Google Summer of Code 2020! Stay tuned for more content on GSoC, including mentor profiles and posts detailing each project.
Open, online, 3-week intensive tutorial-based computational neuroscience training event (July 13-31, 2020). Participants from undergraduate to professors as well as industry are welcome.
Since the first Google Season of Docs (GSoD) in 2019, the INCF network has served as a mentoring organization providing mentors from the neuroinformatics community.
Before the organization applications are due, we are soliciting ideas for projects that are aligned with INCF community activities