The Open Science Day at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit aims at discussing open science practices and enabling researchers to make science more open.

Programme

08:30-09:00

Registration, coffee, and welcome

09:00-9:40

Introduction

9:00-9:40 Verena Heise (University of Oxford) – Open Science - Better Science? A critical introduction

9:40-11:00

Open data & Open code

9:40-10:20 Varsha Khodiyar (Nature Scientific Data) - How to prepare your (behavioural / imaging) analyses for sharing

10:20-11:00 Edwin Dalmaijer (MRC CBU) – How to open-source without the headaches

11:00-11:20

Coffee

11:20-12:30

Open neuroimaging

11:20-12:00 Michael Hanke (Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg) – Open neuroimaging

12:00-12:30 Johan Carlin (MRC CBU) – Brain Imaging Data Structure (BIDS): A standard format for neuroscience data

12:30-13:30

Lunch (not provided)

13:30-14:30

Additional topics

13:30-13:50 Alex Quent (MRC CBU) – Open Lab Book

13:50-14:10 Rogier Kievit (MRC CBU) – Open Science with large public datasets: Challenges and opportunities

14:10-14:40 Peter Murray-Rust (University of Cambridge) – Open knowledge

14:40-15:00

Coffee

15:00-15:40

Conclusions

15:00-15:40 Candice Morey (Cardiff University) - What's in it for me? Transparently organizing your research from start to finish

15:40-16:40

Plenary discussion: What happens between ideal and real; Open science utopia; Open peer review / signing reviews; Preprints

Participants: Verena Heise, Michael Hanke, Candice Morey, Rogier Kievit, Peter Murray-Rust