Dear David,

The OHBM community is gearing up for OHBM 2024 in Seoul, Korea. In this month’s OHBMonthly newsletter, we’ve highlighted some key information for the annual meeting and from across the organization—read on to learn how you can get more involved!

Best,

Kevin Sitek and Alfie Wearn
On behalf of the OHBM Communications Committee

Table of contents

1. Upcoming OHBM deadlines
2. Committee and Special Interest Group (SIG) updates
3. New episodes of Neurosalience, the OHBM podcast
4. Recent publications in Aperture Neuro
5. Job postings on the OHBM Job Board

April 19 – Deadline to vote for OHBM Council
April 22 – Women in OHBM SIG self-nomination deadline 
April 23 – Discounted accommodations deadlines

Vote for OHBM Council

Voting is still open for the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM) Council Election. As a member of the organization, you are invited to take part in the election process to select the organizational leadership who represent you on the OHBM Council. 

To cast your vote, please login to your OHBM account and complete the ballot no later than Friday, April 19th at 23:59H (US-Eastern). 

Student–Postdoc SIG

OHBM SP-SIG 'Lunch with Mentors' expressions of interest are opening soon. 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. Expressions of Interest (EOI) will be released in April. Please stay tuned and follow the OHBM trainees on Twitter and Bluesky for the EOI link!

Open Science SIG

Mark your diaries! The OHBM OSSIG Hackathon will take place Thursday, June 20, to Saturday, June 22, at DreamPlus, Gangnam Station. Engage in collaborative, brain-oriented project development, learn new tricks, practice open science, build your networks.  For more details and registration, click here.

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.

OHBM Women Faculty SIG

The OHBM Women Faculty SIG is seeking nominations for the following leadership positions:

• Chair-elect
• Secretary-elect
• Treasurer

The nomination period will be open until April 22, 2024.
Please check out our website for more information about the roles and additional volunteer opportunities to get involved!

Diversity and Inclusivity Committee

The Diversity and Inclusivity Committee (DIC) has a new preprint entitled “Creating Diverse and Inclusive Scientific Practices for Research Datasets and Dissemination.” You can find the preprint on PsyArXiv.

DIC has initiated the formation of various specialized sub-committees to address specific objectives and challenges. These sub-committees serve as essential units in strategizing and implementing focused goals. Each year, the chair of a subcommittee is empowered to establish subcommittees to develop strategies and execute defined objectives, fostering collaborations with other OHBM committees and Special Interest Groups. Recruitment for these subcommittees is sourced from the membership pool within the Diversity and Inclusivity Committee, which was announced in a previous OHBM blog post.

Communications Committee

ComCom has a new website!: ohbm-com.com
The new website is a single home for all ComCom content, including the OHBM Blog, Neurosalience podcast and our Lay Media articles.
Our Lay Media articles have also been rebranded as OHBM Brain Bites. Make sure to check out our recent summaries of OHBM award winners’ scientific papers!

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 12: Gang Chen: Statistician on a mission to reduce fMRI information waste
   
• Episode 13: Daniele Marinazzo: Networks, causality, new ideas for advancing the field

Check out two new publications in Aperture Neuro:

Moia S, Wang HT, Heinsfeld AS, et al. Proceedings of the OHBM Brainhack 2022. Aperture Neuro. 2024;4. doi:10.52294/001c.92760

• The first hybrid OHBM hackathon, it had an in-person component taking place in Glasgow and three hubs around the globe to improve inclusivity and fit as many timezones as possible.

Rorden C, Webster M, Drake C, et al. niimath and fslmaths: replication as a method to enhance popular neuroimaging tools. Aperture Neuro. 2024;4. doi:10.52294/001c.94384

• Rorden et al. introduce the niimath clone, which can provide benefits with regards to licensing, performance and portability.

• The Institute for Applied Life Sciences (IALS) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst is seeking a Director for its Human Magnetic Resonance Center (hMRC).
   
• The Bipolar Disorder Center at Dell Medical School, Department of Psychiatry and Behavior Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin seeks a full-time post-doctoral fellow to assist an interdisciplinary research and clinical team with collecting and analyzing psychological and neuroimaging measures for the bipolar disorder population focusing on gut-brain axis, energy metabolism and mitochondria function. 
   
• The Research Institute at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) is accepting applications for a Scientist/Senior Scientist focused on the neuroscience of child and youth mental health.

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