OHBM OSR 2025 will have 9 emergent session. See available time slots below.
Emergent Sessions are available via application with limited slots.
How do I host an Emergent Session?
Emergent Sessions are bookable during the meeting for times allocated for Emergent Sessions. For 2025, we are opening 9 slots during OHBM. Emergent Sessions can be booked by any OHBM or OSR registered participant at any point during these periods of time (or in the meeting while there is space in the schedule). Submitted Emergent requests will be briefly reviewed and selected by the OSR team for appropriate content (taking into account diversity and how the topics fits), and details communicated regarding how to book a slot in our schedule. We will be on hand to manage the hosting and broadcast of your session on your behalf, and help your participants join the conversation.
How can I attend Emergent Sessions if I am a virtual attendee?
All Emergent Sessions will be live streamed and recorded (unless we have specific reason to think this would inhibit discussion). The recorded sessions will be made available for viewing on Crowdcast straight after the event. Links to this “spontaneously” recorded material will be shared with registered participants.
Program and sign-up
You can request to hold such a session by creating an issue through our github repo template.
The sessions will be reviewed based on their timeliness and interest to the open science audience by the OSR team and we will notify everyone of their assigned sessions as soon as possible.
Emergent Session 1: OHBM Open Science Room BIDS Town Hall pt. 2
Kim Ray, University of Texas at Austin
9:00 (GMT+10) June 25 (Wednesday)
The Brain Imaging Data Structure (BIDS) standard is a community-led effort to standardize how we organize and describe neuroimaging data. BIDS currently supports multiple neuroimaging modalities and more are under active development. Our community is large and spread across disciplines and domains. In this Town Hall event we will announce recent BIDS achievements and updates from the BIDS extension proposal working groups. After announcements, we will open the Town Hall to public comment and questions. Representatives of the BIDS Steering and Maintainers groups will be present to respond to questions. We are eager to discuss the state and future of BIDS as a community standard!
Participating groups:
The BIDS team
More information:
Emergent Session 2
3:30 (GMT+10) June 25 (Wednesday)
Emergent Session 3
17:45 (GMT+10) June 25 (Wednesday)
Emergent Session 4: Metavaluation: Kickstarting a Virtuous Cycle in Open Science
Cooper Smout. (1) Open Heart & Mind (OHM), (2) Institute for Globally Distributed Open Research and Education (IGDORE)
9:15 (GMT+10) June 26 (Thursday)
Crowdcast link will be released before the OHBM
Open science faces a collective action problem: while everyone benefits from activities like data sharing, reproducible methods, and open peer review, these and many other essential contributions remain systemically undervalued. Despite decades of open science advocacy and countless viable alternatives, the adoption of open science principles, practices and platforms remains persistently low, primarily due to misaligned incentives.
Metavaluation addresses this crisis through a simple and inclusive peer evaluation mechanism that places all contributions on the same scale – including evaluations themselves – incentivizing engagement, value creation and collaboration across stakeholders. Critically, the same mechanism can also recognize and reward system improvements, alongside all other scholarly contributions, creating the potential for a virtuous cycle of value creation and systemic change.
Session goals:
- Introduce Metavaluation’s conceptual foundations and core mechanics
- Share prototype data from diverse communities in academia and beyond, demonstrating how interoperable value-aligned metrics can foster coordination
- Preview our soon-to-be-released open-source MVP application
- Discuss potential use cases within the field of neuroimaging
- Share the vision and next steps for interested communities
More information:
Emergent Session 5
11:30 (GMT+10) June 26 (Thursday)
Emergent Session 6: Showcasing open data with run-anywhere open examples
Vijay Iyer, MathWorks
9:10 (GMT+10) June 27 (Friday)
Increasing interests in (and requirements for) making scientific data publicly available has driven the launch and growth of a range of scientific data repositories with various storage back-ends, often cloud-based. This proposed emergent session is about the front-end: how can sharers of open datasets best showcase what’s in their datasets, so their contemporary and future colleagues can appreciate, understand, re-analyze, and even potentially reach new insights and discoveries from their hard-won data? The host(s) believe that open examples – publicly viewable and runable computational notebooks with code & text that accesses, explains, and uses the open data – are a/the key ingredient to drive more engagement with and scientfic advances from open datasets. This session will get into the nitty gritty of puzzles, emerging best practices, and other considerations for producing and disseminating such open examples, such as how remote data is best accessed, data subsetting, cloud & containerized example sandboxes, and more.
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Emergent Session 7: Perspectives on the Future of Publishing in Neuroinformatics
GigaScience Press
11:30 (GMT+10) June 27 (Friday)
With the increasing growth of extremely large-scale data research, tools, computational methods and AI, publishing needs to keep up with these rapid advances and move beyond the PDF, without compromising the open science ethos of OHBM.
This emerging session will include three journals - Aperture Neuro, Imaging Neuroscience and GigaByte. A representative from each journal will present their perspectives and experiences on what the future of FAIR publishing in the context of neuroinformatics may look like. The overall goal is to show researchers the options available in open science publishing and foster discussion on publishing and how journals can better serve the neuroinformatics community.
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Emergent Session 8: The Nexus PORTAL DOORS Scribe (NPDS) Cyberinfrastructure for open data and metadata management
Brain Health Alliance
9:15 (GMT+10) June 28 (Saturday)
Demo usage of live NPDS repositories and show people where they can download the software with which they can set up their own repositories on their own servers. If some permits, go over installation process and answer questions.
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Emergent Session 9: No CAP(saicin) with Dr. Lucina Uddin
James Kent, University of Texas at Austin
11:30 (GMT+10) June 28 (Saturday)
This session would be a Hot One’s style interview with Lucina Uddin, asking questions related to her contributions to open science, advocacy, and her philosophy towards science while consuming spicier and spicier hot sauces.
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Introductions to Emergent Sessions
What are Emergent Sessions?
Emergent Sessions are spontaneous and interactive hot topic talks hosted by OSR attendees. Emergent sessions may last from 30 minutes to one hour (ideally 30 minutes planned talk and 30 minutes discussion). The duration will be set by the participant organizer, or it will run for as long as the conversation is flowing. Emergent Sessions can be framed as conversations held in an open format among peers. These sessions may be used to invite contributions to collaborative projects, hold an open forum to discuss a development in existing projects, hold a panel discussion, or basically anything you would like!