Dear ,

OHBM 2024 in Seoul, Korea is right around the corner!

As you prepare your posters, talks, and booths, take a moment to think about your logistics: Are you registered for the annual meeting? How about for the Educational Courses? Have you booked your flights using the OHBM discounts? And what about your accommodations?

But most importantly: Are you excited? With a stunning lineup of featured speakers, symposia, and oral and poster sessions, OHBM 2024 will be showcasing incredible advances in human brain mapping—not to mention the opportunity to connect with brain mappers from across the globe. We can’t wait to see you there!

Best,

Kevin Sitek
On behalf of the OHBM Communications Committee (ComCom)

Table of Contents

1. Upcoming OHBM deadlines
2. Announcing OHBM Time Machine (past Annual Meeting content)
3. Committee and Special Interest Group (SIG) updates
4. New episodes of Neurosalience, the OHBM podcast
5. Recent publication in Aperture Neuro
6. Job postings on the OHBM Job Board

May 15 – Expression of Interest deadline for Lunch with Mentors event

May 31 – Submit nominations to join the Sustainability and Environmental Action SIG

OHBM Time Machine is live!

Ever wish you could easily find and share content from last year’s OHBM Annual Meeting? Wish no more! In partnership with Program and Education Committees, ComCom has uploaded Keynotes, Educational Courses, Roundtables, Symposia, and Oral Sessions from the 2023 Annual Meeting in Montreal to the OHBM YouTube channel. Be on the lookout for earlier annual meetings’ content in the OHBM Time Machine—coming later this year!

BrainArt SIG

The call for submissions to our annual BrainArt Competition is officially open! Find more details and how to participate on our website.

Student–Postdoc SIG

Every year during the OHBM Annual Meeting, the Student & Postdoc-SIG (SP-SIG) hosts the Lunch with Mentors event as part of the suite of SP-SIG initiatives. In this event, OHBM trainees (i.e., students and postdocs) will have the opportunity to engage in informal conversations on wide-ranging topics with both new and established PIs and industry experts.

This one-hour mentoring session will be run in-person at OHBM Seoul 2024 on Monday, June 24th, and will include a full catered lunch.

Expressions of interest are open until May 15th at 12pm EDT. There are limited spots available. If you would like to attend, please complete the expression of interest for registration.

IMPORTANT: You *need* to be registered and coming in-person to the OHBM Seoul conference to attend.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Open Science SIG

The OSSIG is busily preparing for the BrainHack, Open Science Room and Symposium at OHBM2024.

The OHBM BrainHack will take place at DreamPlus, Gangnam in Seoul from June 20–22. Registration is now live! Find out more and register on our website.

The Open Science Room will host panel sessions on Funding in Open Science, Getting started in Open Science, how Open Science has evolved over the past 10 years and where it's going, Crowdsourcing and  Open Science in Asia. There's still time to submit an emergent session.

Do you want to help us make Open Science SIG shine at OHBM? Support us and score sweet perks like event discounts and shout-outs! Check out our Sponsor Tiers for more info. Let's rock OHBM together!

Finally - you don't need to be in Seoul during OHBM2024 to take part in OSSIG activities - both the BrainHack and OSR will be freely available on our Crowdcast channel.

OHBM Women Faculty SIG

The OHBM Women Faculty SIG published a new blog piece on contra-power harassment.

If you identify as a woman faculty member, have you experienced contra-power harassment? If so, what do you think are other ways to address this issue and to provide support? The OHBM Women Faculty SIG would love to hear from you—please take a few moments to complete this survey.

Diversity and Inclusivity Committee

DIC has a recent manuscript submission (available on psyarxiv) entitled “Brain Mappers of Tomorrow: An international multilingual initiative for neuroscience dissemination.”

In this editorial, they underscore the importance of initiatives like their own Brain Mappers of Tomorrow (BMT), sharing experiences and resources to assist other scientific communities in launching similar endeavors. Together with a graphical description of recommended formats, it serves as an invaluable source for prospective organizers, aiding in structuring team organization, live event arrangements, participant categories, preparation steps, and program content.

Furthermore, they discuss the challenges in organizing large-scale outreach events and offer pragmatic solutions to overcome them. Lastly, they discuss the future of science dissemination to cultivate a truly inclusive neuroscience, advocating for diversity, inclusivity, and equity in all scientific facets.

Sustainability and Environmental Action SIG

Join the OHBM SEA-SIG Committee! The Sustainability & Environmental Action Special Interest Group is currently looking for a person to cover the role of Secretary for the years 2024–2025.

You will be assisting the current Secretary until the end of August, and then stepping into the role from September 2024 to September 2025. The following year (September 2025–2026) you will be providing assistance to the next Secretary in a supervisor capacity.

If you would like to get involved in efforts to improve sustainability in neuroimaging research and to take action on environmental issues, we encourage you to consider joining us!

Nominations can be made by email to ohbm.sea.sig@gmail.com until May 31, 2024. Please include a short statement including why you are applying for the role, and why you would make an effective member of the Committee.

Communications Committee

ComCom’s annual interview series with annual meeting keynote speakers is coming soon! Be on the lookout for upcoming blog posts, podcast episodes, and Brain Bites summaries on the new ComCom website.

This month, two new episodes of Season 4 of Neurosalience were released. All episodes can be viewed on YouTube or on your usual podcast platform.

Episode 14: Rotem Botvinik-Nezer – 70 teams and a multiverse of analyses (NARPS paper)

Episode 15: Peter Fox – Brain coordinates, predicting BOLD, data sharing foundations

Check out a new publication in Aperture Neuro:

Mikheev V, Skukies R, Ehinger BV. The Art of Brainwaves: A Survey on Event-Related Potential Visualization Practices. Aperture Neuro. 2024;4. doi:10.52294/001c.116386

“Our primary goal is to better understand the visualization tools currently in use, the challenges researchers face, and their experiences and opinions on how best to display their brain data.”

• The Parkinson Cognition Action and Neuroimaging (PCAN) laboratory at the Centre de recherche, Institut Universitaire de Montréal is looking for a Postdoctoral Fellow with prior training in neuroimaging. The successful candidate will work on a project that aims to characterize pain processing in patients with Parkinson’s disease  with and without pain using behavioral, physiological, and neuroimaging data. 
• The Center for Brain, Biology, and Behavior (CB3) at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln is seeking an accomplished scientist to join our team as the Associate Director for Research.
• The Department of Neurology at Yale University seeks to hire a full-time Neuro-hospitalist at the level of Assistant/Associate Professor.

If you have content to be featured in the next OHBMonthly newsletter, or a suggestion or comment regarding its format, we want to hear from you!

Reach out to ohbm.comcom@gmail.com