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Your grandmother is much better at open reproducible science than you!

Yes you read it correctly, I am calling you out on your ability to do open reproducible science. This 3 minute video should convince you: If not, then leave a comment!...

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Protect Yourself from Zombie Papers

Another fun flier to post around the department. Zombification of papers: the inability to use or validate information in the paper.How can we stop this terrible plague on the scientific literature? -...

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RRID: Improve your Impact Factor!

Please feel free to take this fun flier and post it around your lab to help your lab-mates to remember how to get an RRID into your next methods section or grant application. ...

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What is the identity of your Cell Line?

The SciCrunch portals now contain a data source that will help people figure out if their cell lines have been reported to be contaminated and the Resource Identification Portal at scicrunch will star...

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Collaborative Cyberinfrastructure Environment - Survey

Greetings NIF/SciCrunch Community!Are you a researcher or educator? This survey needs your input!"The aim of this survey is to understand how researchers and educators might need and use a cyberinfras...

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Human Brain Project Platform Release

Greetings NIF/SciCrunch Community,Please click the link below for a press release from the Human Brain Project regarding the release of their new platform. This platform will "Advance Collaborative Re...

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Reproducibility in the Recipes of Science

Hello SciCrunch/NIF Community! Please read below for Dr. Bandrowski's post on "Reproducibility in the Recipes of Science"Reproducibility in the Recipes of ScienceReproducibility in science is a very d...

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OHBM Hackathon 2016 - Stipends Application

Hello NIF/SciCrunch community!Please take a moment to read this message from the Organization for Human Brain Mapping:"OHBM Hackathon 2016 - Stipends ApplicationThe registration for the fourth OHBM Ha...

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iNeuro Project Workshop Report

Hello NIF/SciCrunch users!Please take a moment to view the iNeuro Project Workshop Report.The report outlines necessary steps for preparation and production in regards to accomplishing two main objec...

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bioCADDIE External Monthly Webinar

bioCADDIE External Monthly WebinarHypothes.isDate: Thursday, December 10, 2015Time: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM (PST); 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM (EST)Presenters Maryann Martone, PhDUniversity of California, San Diego...

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Biosharing Standards Registry Survey

Hello, NIF/SciCrunch Community,Please take a moment to fill out the survey listed and described in the link below."The Biosharing team is conducting a survey on standards with and for 2 major/research...

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NIF Supports the release of Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR) Data.

Hello NIF Community!Below is a press release in regards to FAIR Guiding Principles formal publication. NIF fully supports the release and publication of Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and R...

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NIF Homepage Outage Postmortem Apology

Dear NIF Community,The NIF home page was down last weekend due to a bad update that overwrote our production webserver files.  We apologise for any inconvenience that this may have caused.  We are n...

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SPARC Funding Opportunities: Informational Webinar - March 24, 2016 from 12pm-1pm

Hello NIF/SciCrunch Community!The SPARC Program will be hosting an Informational Webinar about its three FOA's on March 24, from 12 - 1 PM. Please read below for more information."Dear Colleague,The N...

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New SPARC Cooperative Agreement (U18) Funding Opportunity Announcement!

Greetings NIF/SciCrunch Community!Please read below for a funding oppurtunity announcement from our colleagues at the NIH Common Fund SPARC Program Staff.Dear Colleague,The NIH Common Fund Program on ...

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New SPARC Other Transaction (OT) Funding Opportunity Announcements!

Hello NIF/SciCrunch Community!Please take a moment to read the information below about New SPARC Other Transaction (OT) Funding Opportunities provided by the NIH Common Fund SPARC Program staff. De...

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Register now for Annotating all Knowledge #FORCE2016

Greetings SciCrunch/NIF Community!Please read below for a message from Maryann Martone regarding the upcoming "Annotating all Knowledge" event!Join us for the kick off  face to face meeting for the ...

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Force2016 Conference

Hello NIF/SciCrunch Community! See below for important information on the upcoming Force 11 Conference."Force2016 ConferenceDates: Preconference: April 17, 201; Main conference: April 18-19, 2016Venue...

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The NIH Common Fund Program on Stimulating Peripheral Activity to Relieve Conditions (SPARC) has released new funding opportunity announcements.

Hello NIF/SciCrunch Community! Please read this message from our colleagues at the NIH Common Fund SPARC Program staff regarding new funding opportunities!"The NIH Common Fund Program o...

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Do you have high performance computing needs for your computational work?

The Neuroscience Gateway (http://www.nsgportal.org) allows neuroscientists to use commonly available computational and imaging tools such as NEURON, NEST, Freesurfer etc on supercomputers free of char...

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[EZID] Practical Hacking On Identifiers at BiOSphere 2 (PHOIBOS2), Feb. 17-19, 2015, Oracle, Arizona, USA

Greetings NIF/SciCrunch Community! Please check out this announcement below in regards to a three day PHOIBOS2 workshop at Biosphere 2 which will be located in Oracle, Arizona."In the era of big data ...

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New SPARC Other Transaction (OT) Funding Opportunity Announcements!

Check out these funding opportunity announcements from our colleagues at SPARC!"Dear Colleague,The NIH Common Fund Program on Stimulating Peripheral Activity to Relieve Conditions (SPARC) has released...

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Neuinfo x DressHead Chiffon Bodycon Dress

Neuinfo x DressHead Chiffon Bodycon Dress / Purple and Black / Short Sleeves This very ornately studded jersey chiffon dress inspired by Neuinfo x http://www.dresshead.com is very unique and the only ...

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Funding Opportunity for Identification of Genetic and Genomic Variants by Next-Gen Sequencing in Non-human Animal Models (U01)

Greetings NIF/SciCrunch Community!Check out this funding opportunity from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, NIH.“Identification of Genetic and Genomic Variants by Next-Gen Sequencing in Non-huma...

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Training Activity - Human Brain Project - Call for Applications

Hello NIF/SciCrunch Community!Check out the Call for Applications that has recently been released by the Human Brain Project!HBP_3rdWorkshopManchester_Call for Applications_V3"This is the third and fi...

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NIF Events at SfN

NIF Events:Monday:BANTER (it’s a party): NIF is one of the co-sponsors of the Banter event at SfN. Don’t miss it! @sfnbanter #sfnbanterLocation: Frontier, 1072 N. Milwaukee (Blue Line to Division)...

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Text Mining Survey for Neuroscience

Hello NIF Community!Our friends at the National Center for Text Mining have passed a survey along to us that we thought we would share with you all! In the words of the Professor Sophia Ananiadou, D...

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NIF will be at SFN 2015!

Hello NIF Community!The Neuroscience Information Framework will be at SFN 2015!Attending the SFN meeting in Chicago?  Come see what’s new in NIF. The Neuroscience Information Framework will have a...

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NIF-Hypothesis join forces

NIF is working with Hypothes.is, a non-profit organization building an open annotation layer for the web.  With Hypothes.is, users can add information to any web document, including scientific articl...

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Request for Input on the Science Drivers Requiring Capable Exascale High-Performance Computing

Dear NIF/SciCrunch Community,The Department of Energy, National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health are seeking your input to identify scientific research that would benefit from a gr...

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Sandia National Laboratories has two positions open in Computational Neuroscience

Hello NIF Community!Sandia National Laboratories has two positions open in Computational Neuroscience.  Details below.  Please share with your colleagues.Sincerely,The NIF/SciCrunch Team***Postdoc p...

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Environmental Determinants of Diabetes in the Young (TEDDY) Study

Hello NIF Community!The Environmental Determinants of Diabetes in the Young (TEDDY) study intends to award funding to investigators interested in analyzing interactions between environmental and genet...

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Eating my own Dog Food!

While not all of you have been fortunate enough to attend the first Beyond the PDF meeting, I will say this; it was eye opening for this scientist. To me, the most memorable statement from the meeting...

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Apply for the position of Program Manager of SPARC at NIH

Hello NIF Family!The position for Program Manager of the Stimulating Peripheral Activity to Relieve Conditions (SPARC) program at the National Institute of Health (NIH) is available. If you think you ...

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“The Resource Identification Initiative: A cultural shift in publishing”

The NIF community is very excited about a recently released research article, “The Resource Identification Initiative: A cultural shift in publishing” (Anita Bandrowski, Matthew Brush, Jeffery S. ...

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 Common Fund Program Manager Office of Strategic CoordinationNational Institutes of HealthAre you a top-level Scientific Researcher seeking a career at one of the preeminent biomedical resea...

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Version 6.1 of NeuroMorpho.Org

NIF/SciCrunch is very pleased to hear that NeuroMorpho.org has released two new datasets to its collection. This means there are 4597 new reconstructions for your accessing pleasure! To view these r...

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GBSI Antibody Survey

Hello NIF family!The GBSI (Global Biological Standards Institute) has created a survey in order to gather valuable information in regards to how researchers view the best practices in Cell Culture Au...

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The re3data.org – Registry of Research Data Repositories is moving forward

NIF / SciCrunch is very excited about a couple of upcoming collaborations with re3data. Please take a look below for their new announcement about the DataCite (from Harvard) collaboration. Re3data's g...

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NIH Plan for Increasing Access to Scientific Publications and Digital Scientific Data

The NIH put out a plan to increase access to scientific data.What do they really mean and what does this mean to researchers?Researchers have been asked to provide PubMed Central PMC identifiers in gr...

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The NIA Butler-Williams Scholars Program

The NIA Butler-Williams Scholars Program (formerly Summer Institute on Aging Research) is accepting applications for an intensive introduction to aging research. This program for investigators that a...

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Integrated Annotation just added the 7-million-th record

Yes we do have annotations!What can we do with these annotations? * When you are reading a paper, would you like to know if the data you are looking at has been stored somewhere? * Would you like to...

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Did you know? The IMPC maintains a large list of predicted mouse gene phenotypes

The Monarch project (monarchinititiave.org) with the NIF project have brought in many sources that are now available from NIF or many of the SciCrunch portals that contain a wealth of phenotype inform...

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Webinar from BioCaddie (aka DDI): Jeff Grethe presents NIF

Cooperative and collaborative data and resource discovery platforms for scientific communities – The Neuroscience Information Framework (NIF) and SciCrunch Date: Thursday, February 12, 2015Time...

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The 10E8 antibody and other reasons I hate Excel

Dear Microsoft, While I have, in the past submitted complaints to you directly, never having heard back, I am now submitting this set of woes for the enjoyment of the wider resource community. Dates a...

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The Journal of Comparative Neurology Reaches 100 RRID papers!

Have you ever wondered how can you find validated antibodies?Have you ever wondered where most of our literature mentions come from in the antibodyregistry.org?Well, wonder no more. Neuroscience Infor...

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The Journal of Comparative Neurology Reaches 100 RRID papers!

Have you ever wondered how can you find validated antibodies?Have you ever wondered where most of our literature mentions come from in the antibodyregistry.org?Well, wonder no more. Neuroscience Infor...

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Research Resource Identification has made it into PLoS

Thanks to some great folks at PLoS, we will be adding the PLoS Genetics and Biology journals to our list of journals joining the RRID pilot.For those of you who don't know about the initiative, NIF wi...

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Statement of Commitment from Earth and Space Science Publishers and Data Facilities:

This is an important committment from the CODATA and earth science community. Looking quite forward to circulating a similar document from the Neuroscience community. Coalition on Publishing Data...

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Your chance to provide input on NIDA strategic plan

 NIDA is asking for input on their strategic plan for the next 5 years. They are listening, what do you want to tell them? Text about the RFI from NIDA is below: The Division of Basic Neuros...

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Community based standards, a BD2K request for comments

One of the Big Data to Knowledge, BD2K, activities has been to hold workshops to assess the state of the bioinformatics resource landscape and one important feature is the community standard, somethin...

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Worm brain in Robot body!

Well we have done it. Captured the imagination of media types! Wish it sounded a little more like science and less like science fiction, but heck, this is a little bit of science posing as science fic...

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NIF's top 10 brain regions and cells

Back by popular demand, NIF Brings you the top brain region and cellular search terms, most of which actually lost to the weirdest search term for this month: lettuce! No, we have no idea why people a...

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Call for task force members - BioCaddie (BD2K - DDIC)

As part of the NIH’s Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) kick off, we are pleased to announce the launch of the Data Discovery Index Consortium, bioCADDIE (http://biocaddie.org). bioCADDIE (biomedical and...

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INCF & NIF social - Monday night in DC

NIF and INCF are present at Neuroscience 2014 in Washington DC, November 15-19 at the Walter E Washington Convention Center. Please visit us in booth #3516 & #3517, located near other neuroinformatics...

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From Force11: Abstract deadline in 5 days for Force2015

FORCE2015 CONFERENCE SUBMISSIONS (www.force2015.org)\tNew! Travel Fellowship Applications Open\tNew! Call for Vision Flash Talk Submissions Open\tCall for Session Abstracts Submission Deadline Novembe...

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Big Data vs Small Data: Is it really about size?

We have been hearing for some time that when it comes to data, it is all about size. The bigger is better mantra has been all over the press, but is it really size that matters?There are the so called...

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RISE program at NMSU, highlighting success

We at NIF were very fortunate to have hosted the director of the RISE program from NMSU, Elba Serrano this summer attempting to develop coursework and improve outreach to students and faculty at New M...

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ISIS PHARMACEUTICALS REPORTS DATA FROM ISIS-SMNRX PHASE 2 STUDIES IN INFANTS AND CHILDREN WITH SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY

NIF applauds ISIS pharmaceuticals, the press release is below. This is an event, unfortunately too rare, where neuroscience research is successfully pushed from the bench to a clinical application giv...

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Please join us for a webinar discussing Neurostars: A Q&A platform for neuroscience

Next week we kick off the fall webinar series, with Dr. Satrajit Ghosh from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Ghosh is a research scientist at the mcgovern institute for brain research an...

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Introducing the Aging Portal

The Neuroscience Information Framework, has been asked many times "how can we sort through this dizzying amount of data?" to which we have never had a great answer until now. With SciCrunch, a shared ...

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Introducing the Aging Portal

The Neuroscience Information Framework, has been asked many times "how can we sort through this dizzying amount of data?" to which we have never had a great answer until now. With SciCrunch, a shared ...

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Network of BioThings Hackathon - Nov 7-9

The Network of BioThings is sponsoring a hackathon.NoB Hackathon posterCome one, come all.Mainly though, sign up because space is fairly limited. ...

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Introducing the Aging Portal

NIF has created a dedicated subset of resources funded by and of interest to the aging research community. ...

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NIF now pleased to serve more electrophysiology data

For years, physiology has been lagging far behind anatomy as data sharing is still in infancy in that community as opposed to being fairly standard now in neuro-anatomy.We are pleased to announce that...

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New in NIF! Find your MRI images in NeuroVault

New to NIF this week is NeuroVault.NeuroVault is a public repository where researchers can publicly store and share unthresholded statistical brain activation maps produced by MRI and PET studies. Man...

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Obama wants to hear your 2 cents!

The White House OSTP is requesting comments on a number of issues, one of which is how the federal government can improve reproducibility in the science it funds: https://www.federalregister.gov/artic...

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Olympus competition

Olympus would like to invite you to submit several of your images and/or digital video clips to the 2014 Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition, which will honor extraordinary microscope images...

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Comment requested: Academic credit for reviewing

This seems a very interesting blog written by Rebecca Lawrence. The link is below.I am re-posting it for the NIF community.Link to original blog: http://blog.f1000research.com/2014/08/22/peer-review-...

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