Brainhack: Developing a culture of open, inclusive, community-driven neuroscience

Rémi Gau; Stephanie Noble; Katja Heuer; Katherine L Bottenhorn; Isil P Bilgin; Yu-Fang Yang; Julia M Huntenburg; Johanna M M Bayer; Richard A I Bethlehem; Shawn A Rhoads; Christoph Vogelbacher; Valentina Borghesani; Elizabeth Levitis; Hao-Ting Wang; Sofie Van Den Bossche; Xenia Kobeleva; Jon Haitz Legarreta; Samuel Guay; Selim Melvin Atay; Gael P Varoquaux; Dorien C Huijser; Malin S Sandström; Peer Herholz; Samuel A Nastase; AmanPreet Badhwar; Guillaume Dumas; Simon Schwab; Stefano Moia; Michael Dayan; Yasmine Bassil; Paula P Brooks; Matteo Mancini; James M Shine; David O'Connor; Xihe Xie; Davide Poggiali; Patrick Friedrich; Anibal S Heinsfeld; Lydia Riedl; Roberto Toro; César Caballero-Gaudes; Anders Eklund; Kelly G Garner; Christopher R Nolan; Damion V Demeter; Fernando A Barrios; Junaid S Merchant; Elizabeth A McDevitt; Robert Oostenveld; R Cameron Craddock; Ariel Rokem; Andrew Doyle; Satrajit S Ghosh; Aki Nikolaidis; Olivia W Stanley; Eneko Uruñuela; Brainhack Community

doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2021.04.001

Brainhack: Developing a culture of open, inclusive, community-driven neuroscience

Neuron. 2021 Jun 2;109(11):1769-1775. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2021.04.001. Epub 2021 Apr 30.

Authors

Rémi Gau¹, Stephanie Noble², Katja Heuer³, Katherine L Bottenhorn⁴, Isil P Bilgin⁵, Yu-Fang Yang⁶, Julia M Huntenburg⁷, Johanna M M Bayer⁸, Richard A I Bethlehem⁹, Shawn A Rhoads¹⁰, Christoph Vogelbacher¹¹, Valentina Borghesani¹², Elizabeth Levitis¹³, Hao-Ting Wang¹⁴, Sofie Van Den Bossche¹⁵, Xenia Kobeleva¹⁶, Jon Haitz Legarreta¹⁷, Samuel Guay¹⁸, Selim Melvin Atay¹⁹, Gael P Varoquaux²⁰, Dorien C Huijser²¹, Malin S Sandström²², Peer Herholz²³, Samuel A Nastase²⁴, AmanPreet Badhwar²⁵, Guillaume Dumas²⁶, Simon Schwab²⁷, Stefano Moia²⁸, Michael Dayan²⁹, Yasmine Bassil³⁰, Paula P Brooks²⁴, Matteo Mancini³¹, James M Shine³², David O'Connor³³, Xihe Xie³⁴, Davide Poggiali³⁵, Patrick Friedrich³⁶, Anibal S Heinsfeld³⁷, Lydia Riedl³⁸, Roberto Toro³⁹, César Caballero-Gaudes⁴⁰, Anders Eklund⁴¹, Kelly G Garner⁴², Christopher R Nolan⁴³, Damion V Demeter⁴⁴, Fernando A Barrios⁴⁵, Junaid S Merchant⁴⁶, Elizabeth A McDevitt²⁴, Robert Oostenveld⁴⁷, R Cameron Craddock⁴⁸, Ariel Rokem⁴⁹, Andrew Doyle⁵⁰, Satrajit S Ghosh⁵¹, Aki Nikolaidis⁵², Olivia W Stanley⁵³, Eneko Uruñuela²⁸; Brainhack Community

Collaborators

Brainhack Community:
Nasim Anousheh, Aurina Arnatkeviciute, Guillaume Auzias, Dipankar Bachar, Elise Bannier, Ruggero Basanisi, Arshitha Basavaraj, Marco Bedini, Pierre Bellec, R Austin Benn, Kathryn Berluti, Steffen Bollmann, Saskia Bollmann, Claire Bradley, Jesse Brown, Augusto Buchweitz, Patrick Callahan, Micaela Y Chan, Bramsh Q Chandio, Theresa Cheng, Sidhant Chopra, Ai Wern Chung, Thomas G Close, Etienne Combrisson, Giorgia Cona, R Todd Constable, Claire Cury, Kamalaker Dadi, Pablo F Damasceno, Samir Das, Fabrizio De Vico Fallani, Krista DeStasio, Erin W Dickie, Lena Dorfschmidt, Eugene P Duff, Elizabeth DuPre, Sarah Dziura, Nathalia B Esper, Oscar Esteban, Shreyas Fadnavis, Guillaume Flandin, Jessica E Flannery, John Flournoy, Stephanie J Forkel, Alexandre R Franco, Saampras Ganesan, Siyuan Gao, José C García Alanis, Eleftherios Garyfallidis, Tristan Glatard, Enrico Glerean, Javier Gonzalez-Castillo, Cassandra D Gould van Praag, Abigail S Greene, Geetika Gupta, Catherine Alice Hahn, Yaroslav O Halchenko, Daniel Handwerker, Thomas S Hartmann, Valérie Hayot-Sasson, Stephan Heunis, Felix Hoffstaedter, Daniela M Hohmann, Corey Horien, Horea-Ioan Ioanas, Alexandru Iordan, Chao Jiang, Michael Joseph, Jason Kai, Agah Karakuzu, David N Kennedy, Anisha Keshavan, Ali R Khan, Gregory Kiar, P Christiaan Klink, Vincent Koppelmans, Serge Koudoro, Angela R Laird, Georg Langs, Marissa Laws, Roxane Licandro, Sook-Lei Liew, Tomislav Lipic, Krisanne Litinas, Daniel J Lurie, Désirée Lussier, Christopher R Madan, Lea-Theresa Mais, Sina Mansour L, J P Manzano-Patron, Dimitra Maoutsa, Matheus Marcon, Daniel S Margulies, Giorgio Marinato, Daniele Marinazzo, Christopher J Markiewicz, Camille Maumet, Felipe Meneguzzi, David Meunier, Michael P Milham, Kathryn L Mills, Davide Momi, Clara A Moreau, Aysha Motala, Iska Moxon-Emre, Thomas E Nichols, Dylan M Nielson, Gustav Nilsonne, Lisa Novello, Caroline O'Brien, Emily Olafson, Lindsay D Oliver, John A Onofrey, Edwina R Orchard, Kendra Oudyk, Patrick J Park, Mahboobeh Parsapoor, Lorenzo Pasquini, Scott Peltier, Cyril R Pernet, Rudolph Pienaar, Pedro Pinheiro-Chagas, Jean-Baptiste Poline, Anqi Qiu, Tiago Quendera, Laura C Rice, Joscelin Rocha-Hidalgo, Saige Rutherford, Mathias Scharinger, Dustin Scheinost, Deena Shariq, Thomas B Shaw, Viviana Siless, Molly Simmonite, Nikoloz Sirmpilatze, Hayli Spence, Julia Sprenger, Andrija Stajduhar, Martin Szinte, Sylvain Takerkart, Angela Tam, Link Tejavibulya, Michel Thiebaut de Schotten, Ina Thome, Laura Tomaz da Silva, Nicolas Traut, Lucina Q Uddin, Antonino Vallesi, John W VanMeter, Nandita Vijayakumar, Matteo Visconti di Oleggio Castello, Jakub Vohryzek, Jakša Vukojević, Kirstie Jane Whitaker, Lucy Whitmore, Steve Wideman, Suzanne T Witt, Hua Xie, Ting Xu, Chao-Gan Yan, Fang-Cheng Yeh, B T Thomas Yeo, Xi-Nian Zuo

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Psychology, Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain la Neuve, Belgium. Electronic address: remi.gau@uclouvain.be.
² Radiology & Biomedical Imaging, Yale University, New Haven CT, USA.
³ Center for Research and Interdisciplinarity, Université of Paris, Paris, France; Department of Neuropsychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany.
⁴ Department of Psychology, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA.
⁵ Biomedical Engineering, Cybernetics, University of Reading, Reading, UK; Allied Health Professions Institute, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK.
⁶ Department of Psychology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany.
⁷ Systems Neuroscience Lab, Champalimaud Research, Lisbon, Portugal.
⁸ Centre for Youth Mental Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia; Orygen Youth Health, Melbourne, Australia.
⁹ Autism Research Centre, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK; Brain Mapping Unit, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
¹⁰ Department of Psychology, Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA.
¹¹ Laboratory for Multimodal Neuroimaging, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany.
¹² Centre de Recherche de l'Institut Universitaire de Gériatrie de Montréal, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada.
¹³ Section on Developmental Neurogenomics, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD, USA; Centre for Medical Image Computing, Department of Computer Science, University College London, London, UK.
¹⁴ Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK; Department of Neuroscience, Brighton and Sussex Medical School, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK; Sussex Neuroscience, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK.
¹⁵ Department of Data Analysis, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
¹⁶ Department of Neurology, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany; German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Bonn, Germany.
¹⁷ Computer Science, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada.
¹⁸ Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada.
¹⁹ Neuroscience and Neurotechnology, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey.
²⁰ Parietal, INRIA, Saclay, France; Montréal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada.
²¹ Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands; Developmental and Educational Psychology, Leiden University, Leiden, the Netherlands.
²² INCF, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden.
²³ NeuroDataScience - ORIGAMI laboratory, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences McGill University Montréal, QC Canada.
²⁴ Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA.
²⁵ Centre de Recherche de l'Institut Universitaire de Gériatrie de Montréal, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada; Multiomics Investigation of Neurodegenerative Diseases (MIND) Lab, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada; Département de Pharmacologie et Physiologie, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada.
²⁶ Department of Psychiatry, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada; Mila, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada.
²⁷ Department of Biostatistics & Center for Reproducible Science, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
²⁸ Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language, San Sebastián-Donostia, Spain; University of the Basque Country (EHU UPV), San Sebastián-Donostia, Spain.
²⁹ Human Neuroscience Platform, Fondation Campus Biotech Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.
³⁰ Graduate Division of Biological & Biomedical Sciences, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA.
³¹ Department of Neuroscience, Brighton and Sussex Medical School, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK; Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK; NeuroPoly Lab, Polytechnique Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada.
³² Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
³³ Department of Biomedical Engineering, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.
³⁴ Department of Neuroscience, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York City, NY, USA.
³⁵ Padova Neuroscience Center, University of Padova, Padova, Italy.
³⁶ Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine, Brain & Behaviour (INM-7), Research Centre Jülich, Jülich, Germany.
³⁷ Computational Neuroimaging Lab, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA; Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA.
³⁸ Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Philipps Universität, Marburg, Germany.
³⁹ Center for Research and Interdisciplinarity, Université of Paris, Paris, France; Neuroscience Department, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France.
⁴⁰ Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language, San Sebastián-Donostia, Spain.
⁴¹ Department of Biomedical Engineering, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden; Department of Computer and Information Science, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden; Center for Medical Image Science and Visualization (CMIV), Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden.
⁴² Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Australia; School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK; School of Psychology, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Australia.
⁴³ School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
⁴⁴ Psychology Department, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA.
⁴⁵ Instituto de Neurobiología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Querétaro, Mexico.
⁴⁶ Neuroscience and Cognitive Science Program, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA; Department of Psychology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA.
⁴⁷ Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands; NatMEG, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
⁴⁸ Department of Diagnostic Medicine, The University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School, Austin, TX, USA.
⁴⁹ Psychology and eScience Institute, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
⁵⁰ McGill Centre for Integrative Neuroscience, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada.
⁵¹ McGovern Institute for Brain Research, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA; Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
⁵² Center for the Developing Brain, Child Mind Institute, New York City, NY, USA.
⁵³ Centre for Functional and Metabolic Mapping, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada; Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada.

Abstract

Brainhack is an innovative meeting format that promotes scientific collaboration and education in an open, inclusive environment. This NeuroView describes the myriad benefits for participants and the research community and how Brainhacks complement conventional formats to augment scientific progress.

Keywords: Brainhack; best practices; collaboration; community building; hackathon; inclusivity; neuroscience; open science; reproducibility; training.

Publication types

Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Communication*
Congresses as Topic
Internet*
Neurosciences / organization & administration*
Practice Guidelines as Topic

Abstract

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