SPARC
@sparc.science
FAIR data | neuromodulation | PNS
The SPARC Portal is an open neuroscience and systems physiology platform containing multi-species data, knowledge, computational modeling and spatial mapping.
The SPARC Portal is an open neuroscience and systems physiology platform containing multi-species data, knowledge, computational modeling and spatial mapping.
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@sparc.science
· Jul 8
🚀 Big news in autonomic neuroscience:
SPARC DRC 🤝 Autonomic Neuroscience: Basic and Clinical!
Authors can now share FAIR data via the SPARC Portal, linking research directly to open datasets. Transparency FTW!
🔗 sparc.science/news-a...
#openscience 🧪
SPARC DRC 🤝 Autonomic Neuroscience: Basic and Clinical!
Authors can now share FAIR data via the SPARC Portal, linking research directly to open datasets. Transparency FTW!
🔗 sparc.science/news-a...
#openscience 🧪
Who's going to the Human Digital Twin workshop in Auckland (Feb 2-5)? Multiscale cardiopulmonary modeling, clinical translation, and amazing discussions. Comment if you'll be there! Details: auckland.ac.nz/human...
January 19, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Who's going to the Human Digital Twin workshop in Auckland (Feb 2-5)? Multiscale cardiopulmonary modeling, clinical translation, and amazing discussions. Comment if you'll be there! Details: auckland.ac.nz/human...
🎤 Dr. Don Bolser presents his work on laryngeal reflexes reveals that central control systems are far more complex than the peripheral nerves suggest—critical for developing better bioelectronic therapies.
📅 January 21, 3:00 pm ET
📍 shorturl.at/u2qJt
Research: shorturl.at/EobYk
📅 January 21, 3:00 pm ET
📍 shorturl.at/u2qJt
Research: shorturl.at/EobYk
January 19, 2026 at 3:00 PM
🎤 Dr. Don Bolser presents his work on laryngeal reflexes reveals that central control systems are far more complex than the peripheral nerves suggest—critical for developing better bioelectronic therapies.
📅 January 21, 3:00 pm ET
📍 shorturl.at/u2qJt
Research: shorturl.at/EobYk
📅 January 21, 3:00 pm ET
📍 shorturl.at/u2qJt
Research: shorturl.at/EobYk
Vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) is emerging as a valuable treatment option for people with treatment-resistant depression—and the science behind it is fascinating.
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NIH Common Fund SPARC - Overview of the Reconstructing Vagal Anatomy (REVA) Initiative
The Common Fund’s Stimulating Peripheral Activity to Relieve Conditions (SPARC) program accelerates development of therapeutic devices that modulate electrical activity in nerves to improve organ function. The SPARC Reconstructing Vagal Anatomy (REVA) initiative is creating more precise and detailed
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January 18, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) is emerging as a valuable treatment option for people with treatment-resistant depression—and the science behind it is fascinating.
www.youtube.com/watc...
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📢🧪 Call for Late breaking Abstracts: American Physiology Summit
Systems physiology, interoception, autonomic nervous system—this is your moment!
We'll be at Booth #1022 & want to see you at #APS2026!
Submit your abstract: shorturl.at/9Bwg3
Deadline: February 2
@apsphysiology.bsky.social
Systems physiology, interoception, autonomic nervous system—this is your moment!
We'll be at Booth #1022 & want to see you at #APS2026!
Submit your abstract: shorturl.at/9Bwg3
Deadline: February 2
@apsphysiology.bsky.social
January 15, 2026 at 10:00 PM
📢🧪 Call for Late breaking Abstracts: American Physiology Summit
Systems physiology, interoception, autonomic nervous system—this is your moment!
We'll be at Booth #1022 & want to see you at #APS2026!
Submit your abstract: shorturl.at/9Bwg3
Deadline: February 2
@apsphysiology.bsky.social
Systems physiology, interoception, autonomic nervous system—this is your moment!
We'll be at Booth #1022 & want to see you at #APS2026!
Submit your abstract: shorturl.at/9Bwg3
Deadline: February 2
@apsphysiology.bsky.social
🧪🎤 Upcoming SPARC Seminar Alert!
Join us for a talk by @ufresearch.bsky.social Dr. Don Bolser on how peripheral sensory devices can fundamentally reshape central nervous system circuits — for better or worse.
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Join us for a talk by @ufresearch.bsky.social Dr. Don Bolser on how peripheral sensory devices can fundamentally reshape central nervous system circuits — for better or worse.
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January 13, 2026 at 3:00 PM
🧪🎤 Upcoming SPARC Seminar Alert!
Join us for a talk by @ufresearch.bsky.social Dr. Don Bolser on how peripheral sensory devices can fundamentally reshape central nervous system circuits — for better or worse.
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Join us for a talk by @ufresearch.bsky.social Dr. Don Bolser on how peripheral sensory devices can fundamentally reshape central nervous system circuits — for better or worse.
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Neurotrauma CDEs: Where things started and where they are going
Join NINDS for an essential webinar regarding progress on preclinical CDEs and data standards for neurotrauma🧪
January 28
⏰2:00 - 3:00 PM
Join:
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Join NINDS for an essential webinar regarding progress on preclinical CDEs and data standards for neurotrauma🧪
January 28
⏰2:00 - 3:00 PM
Join:
sparc.science/news-a...
January 12, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Neurotrauma CDEs: Where things started and where they are going
Join NINDS for an essential webinar regarding progress on preclinical CDEs and data standards for neurotrauma🧪
January 28
⏰2:00 - 3:00 PM
Join:
sparc.science/news-a...
Join NINDS for an essential webinar regarding progress on preclinical CDEs and data standards for neurotrauma🧪
January 28
⏰2:00 - 3:00 PM
Join:
sparc.science/news-a...
❓Who's going to the Human Digital Twin workshop in Auckland (Feb 2-5)? Multiscale cardiopulmonary modeling, clinical translation, and amazing discussions. Comment if you'll be there!
Registration deadline: Jan 12
Details: auckland.ac.nz/human...
Registration deadline: Jan 12
Details: auckland.ac.nz/human...
January 10, 2026 at 7:00 PM
❓Who's going to the Human Digital Twin workshop in Auckland (Feb 2-5)? Multiscale cardiopulmonary modeling, clinical translation, and amazing discussions. Comment if you'll be there!
Registration deadline: Jan 12
Details: auckland.ac.nz/human...
Registration deadline: Jan 12
Details: auckland.ac.nz/human...
🚨 LAST DAY to pitch your CFDE-centric Bio-IT Hackathon project! Deadline is TODAY (Jan 9). Boston hackathon May 18-19. Travel funds available. Don't wait—submit now: orausurvey.orau.org/... #Bioinformatics #FAIRData
January 9, 2026 at 4:01 PM
🚨 LAST DAY to pitch your CFDE-centric Bio-IT Hackathon project! Deadline is TODAY (Jan 9). Boston hackathon May 18-19. Travel funds available. Don't wait—submit now: orausurvey.orau.org/... #Bioinformatics #FAIRData
Got a bioinformatics project idea? Pitch it for the Bio-IT FAIR Data Hackathon in Boston (May 18-19)! Open-source tools, FAIR principles, real impact. Travel funding available. Deadline: Jan 9. Submit here: orausurvey.orau.org/... 🧬🧪
January 6, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Got a bioinformatics project idea? Pitch it for the Bio-IT FAIR Data Hackathon in Boston (May 18-19)! Open-source tools, FAIR principles, real impact. Travel funding available. Deadline: Jan 9. Submit here: orausurvey.orau.org/... 🧬🧪
February in Auckland = Digital health innovation overload! 🇳🇿
The Auckland Bioengineering Institute is hosting an extraordinary series of back-to-back workshops that span the entire spectrum of computational physiology and systems biology.
Register by Jan 12: auckland.ac.nz/human...
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The Auckland Bioengineering Institute is hosting an extraordinary series of back-to-back workshops that span the entire spectrum of computational physiology and systems biology.
Register by Jan 12: auckland.ac.nz/human...
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January 5, 2026 at 7:00 PM
February in Auckland = Digital health innovation overload! 🇳🇿
The Auckland Bioengineering Institute is hosting an extraordinary series of back-to-back workshops that span the entire spectrum of computational physiology and systems biology.
Register by Jan 12: auckland.ac.nz/human...
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The Auckland Bioengineering Institute is hosting an extraordinary series of back-to-back workshops that span the entire spectrum of computational physiology and systems biology.
Register by Jan 12: auckland.ac.nz/human...
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The #NIH_SPARC Data and Resource Center January Office Hours for K-core #curation, MAP-core, SIM-core and DAT-core can be found here: sholink.to/DRCOffice... We love questions! We have answers.
Plan to share your PNS and systems physiology studies today!
#computationalmodeling #data 🧪
Plan to share your PNS and systems physiology studies today!
#computationalmodeling #data 🧪
SPARC Help Center
The open community platform for bridging the body and the brain through neuroscience and systems physiology data, computational and spatial modeling, and device design.
sholink.to
December 29, 2025 at 2:00 PM
The #NIH_SPARC Data and Resource Center January Office Hours for K-core #curation, MAP-core, SIM-core and DAT-core can be found here: sholink.to/DRCOffice... We love questions! We have answers.
Plan to share your PNS and systems physiology studies today!
#computationalmodeling #data 🧪
Plan to share your PNS and systems physiology studies today!
#computationalmodeling #data 🧪
📢 Last call!
Submit your #OpenScience plan
$850,000 Replication Prize Competition: The NIH Common Fund and #NASA's Tournament Lab are calling on the scientific community to create a culture shift where replication activities become a routine.
sparc.science/news-a...
Submit your #OpenScience plan
$850,000 Replication Prize Competition: The NIH Common Fund and #NASA's Tournament Lab are calling on the scientific community to create a culture shift where replication activities become a routine.
sparc.science/news-a...
December 19, 2025 at 2:05 PM
📢 Last call!
Submit your #OpenScience plan
$850,000 Replication Prize Competition: The NIH Common Fund and #NASA's Tournament Lab are calling on the scientific community to create a culture shift where replication activities become a routine.
sparc.science/news-a...
Submit your #OpenScience plan
$850,000 Replication Prize Competition: The NIH Common Fund and #NASA's Tournament Lab are calling on the scientific community to create a culture shift where replication activities become a routine.
sparc.science/news-a...
🧪WEBINAR TODAY $7,000,000 Prize Competition: Help Transform Biomedical Research!
The NIH Common Fund and NASA's Tournament Lab are calling on the scientific community to advance research with the Complement-ARIE Reduction to Practice Challenge.
⏰3:00 - 4:00 PM
Join now:
The NIH Common Fund and NASA's Tournament Lab are calling on the scientific community to advance research with the Complement-ARIE Reduction to Practice Challenge.
⏰3:00 - 4:00 PM
Join now:
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Complement-ARIE NAMs Reduction to Practice Challenge Q & A Webinar. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
What is the Complement-ARIE NAMs Reduction to Practice Challenge and how can you participate? Join the National Institutes of Health (NIH) team for a live Q & A webinar.
Build the future of human-based biomedical research with new approach methodologies.
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December 10, 2025 at 3:00 PM
🧪WEBINAR TODAY $7,000,000 Prize Competition: Help Transform Biomedical Research!
The NIH Common Fund and NASA's Tournament Lab are calling on the scientific community to advance research with the Complement-ARIE Reduction to Practice Challenge.
⏰3:00 - 4:00 PM
Join now:
The NIH Common Fund and NASA's Tournament Lab are calling on the scientific community to advance research with the Complement-ARIE Reduction to Practice Challenge.
⏰3:00 - 4:00 PM
Join now:
🧪FREEMIND Program: FREE AI/data science training with NIH datasets including SPARC! 1-year mentorship + 2-week UC San Diego bootcamp. Learn Python, machine learning & more. Travel/housing covered.
Apps due Feb 13.
Level up your research skills! #DataScience #AI #Research
sparc.science/news-a...
Apps due Feb 13.
Level up your research skills! #DataScience #AI #Research
sparc.science/news-a...
December 9, 2025 at 6:00 PM
🧪FREEMIND Program: FREE AI/data science training with NIH datasets including SPARC! 1-year mentorship + 2-week UC San Diego bootcamp. Learn Python, machine learning & more. Travel/housing covered.
Apps due Feb 13.
Level up your research skills! #DataScience #AI #Research
sparc.science/news-a...
Apps due Feb 13.
Level up your research skills! #DataScience #AI #Research
sparc.science/news-a...
📢 $850,000 Replication Prize Competition: The NIH Common Fund and #NASA's Tournament Lab are calling on the scientific community to create a culture shift where replication activities become a routine.
Don't miss your chance to submit your ideas: sparc.science/news-a...
📅 Deadline: Dec 19
Don't miss your chance to submit your ideas: sparc.science/news-a...
📅 Deadline: Dec 19
December 5, 2025 at 2:25 PM
📢 $850,000 Replication Prize Competition: The NIH Common Fund and #NASA's Tournament Lab are calling on the scientific community to create a culture shift where replication activities become a routine.
Don't miss your chance to submit your ideas: sparc.science/news-a...
📅 Deadline: Dec 19
Don't miss your chance to submit your ideas: sparc.science/news-a...
📅 Deadline: Dec 19
Today's the day to get your systems physiology, interoception, and autonomic nervous system abstracts in for #APS2026
👉 Submit now: shorturl.at/9Bwg3
@apsphysiology.bsky.social
👉 Submit now: shorturl.at/9Bwg3
@apsphysiology.bsky.social
SPARC Portal
The open community platform for bridging the body and the brain through neuroscience and systems physiology data, computational and spatial modeling, and device design.
shorturl.at
December 3, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Today's the day to get your systems physiology, interoception, and autonomic nervous system abstracts in for #APS2026
👉 Submit now: shorturl.at/9Bwg3
@apsphysiology.bsky.social
👉 Submit now: shorturl.at/9Bwg3
@apsphysiology.bsky.social
The @usasp.bsky.social society is developing the next generation of leaders in pain science.
Application deadline for the USASP Leadership Academy closes TOMORROW, Dec 3.
Advance the field of pain science and your career. Apply here:
Application deadline for the USASP Leadership Academy closes TOMORROW, Dec 3.
Advance the field of pain science and your career. Apply here:
Leadership Academy | USASP
Driving Future Leaders in Pain Science: Advancing Research, Practice, Policy, and Education.
www.usasp.org
December 2, 2025 at 2:00 PM
The @usasp.bsky.social society is developing the next generation of leaders in pain science.
Application deadline for the USASP Leadership Academy closes TOMORROW, Dec 3.
Advance the field of pain science and your career. Apply here:
Application deadline for the USASP Leadership Academy closes TOMORROW, Dec 3.
Advance the field of pain science and your career. Apply here:
Are you advancing pain research? 2026 USASP abstracts close next week!
Join other NIH HEAL Initiative researchers and share your groundbreaking data on sparc.science to help shape the future of pain science!
📅 Deadline: Dec 5
🔗 https://www.usasp.org/
#USASP2026 @usasp.bsky.social
Join other NIH HEAL Initiative researchers and share your groundbreaking data on sparc.science to help shape the future of pain science!
📅 Deadline: Dec 5
🔗 https://www.usasp.org/
#USASP2026 @usasp.bsky.social
SPARC Portal
The open community platform for bridging the body and the brain through neuroscience and systems physiology data, computational and spatial modeling, and device design.
sparc.science
November 28, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Are you advancing pain research? 2026 USASP abstracts close next week!
Join other NIH HEAL Initiative researchers and share your groundbreaking data on sparc.science to help shape the future of pain science!
📅 Deadline: Dec 5
🔗 https://www.usasp.org/
#USASP2026 @usasp.bsky.social
Join other NIH HEAL Initiative researchers and share your groundbreaking data on sparc.science to help shape the future of pain science!
📅 Deadline: Dec 5
🔗 https://www.usasp.org/
#USASP2026 @usasp.bsky.social
🎉 Congratulations Parker Tyson!
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November 25, 2025 at 2:06 PM
🎉 Congratulations Parker Tyson!
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The @usasp.bsky.social society is developing the next generation of leaders in pain science.
Deadline to apply to the USASP Leadership Academy has been extended to December 3.
Advance the field of pain science and your career. Apply here: www.usasp.org/leadershipac...
Deadline to apply to the USASP Leadership Academy has been extended to December 3.
Advance the field of pain science and your career. Apply here: www.usasp.org/leadershipac...
Leadership Academy | USASP
Driving Future Leaders in Pain Science: Advancing Research, Practice, Policy, and Education.
www.usasp.org
November 24, 2025 at 7:23 PM
The @usasp.bsky.social society is developing the next generation of leaders in pain science.
Deadline to apply to the USASP Leadership Academy has been extended to December 3.
Advance the field of pain science and your career. Apply here: www.usasp.org/leadershipac...
Deadline to apply to the USASP Leadership Academy has been extended to December 3.
Advance the field of pain science and your career. Apply here: www.usasp.org/leadershipac...
Last call! Abstract submissions for #APS2026 close Wednesday, Dec 3
Plan to share your work on advancing neuroscience and bioelectronic medicine
📍 Minneapolis, April 23-26
👉 Submit now: shorturl.at/9Bwg3
#BioelectronicMedicine #Neuroscience @apsphysiology.bsky.social
Plan to share your work on advancing neuroscience and bioelectronic medicine
📍 Minneapolis, April 23-26
👉 Submit now: shorturl.at/9Bwg3
#BioelectronicMedicine #Neuroscience @apsphysiology.bsky.social
SPARC Portal
The open community platform for bridging the body and the brain through neuroscience and systems physiology data, computational and spatial modeling, and device design.
shorturl.at
November 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Last call! Abstract submissions for #APS2026 close Wednesday, Dec 3
Plan to share your work on advancing neuroscience and bioelectronic medicine
📍 Minneapolis, April 23-26
👉 Submit now: shorturl.at/9Bwg3
#BioelectronicMedicine #Neuroscience @apsphysiology.bsky.social
Plan to share your work on advancing neuroscience and bioelectronic medicine
📍 Minneapolis, April 23-26
👉 Submit now: shorturl.at/9Bwg3
#BioelectronicMedicine #Neuroscience @apsphysiology.bsky.social
The #NIH_SPARC Data and Resource Center December Office Hours for K-core #curation, MAP-core, SIM-core and DAT-core can be found here: sholink.to/DRCOffice... We love questions! We have answers. #computationalmodeling #data 🧪
November 24, 2025 at 2:05 PM
The #NIH_SPARC Data and Resource Center December Office Hours for K-core #curation, MAP-core, SIM-core and DAT-core can be found here: sholink.to/DRCOffice... We love questions! We have answers. #computationalmodeling #data 🧪
🔬 JOIN US TODAY to see how the NIH CFDE and CONNECT initiative bring collaborative research to accelerate biomedical discoveries.
⏰2:00 -3:00 PM eastern
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Perfect for #systemsBiology, #computationalBiology, and #biomed researchers looking to leverage data-driven approaches!
⏰2:00 -3:00 PM eastern
dknet.org/about/blog...
Perfect for #systemsBiology, #computationalBiology, and #biomed researchers looking to leverage data-driven approaches!
November 21, 2025 at 6:00 PM
🔬 JOIN US TODAY to see how the NIH CFDE and CONNECT initiative bring collaborative research to accelerate biomedical discoveries.
⏰2:00 -3:00 PM eastern
dknet.org/about/blog...
Perfect for #systemsBiology, #computationalBiology, and #biomed researchers looking to leverage data-driven approaches!
⏰2:00 -3:00 PM eastern
dknet.org/about/blog...
Perfect for #systemsBiology, #computationalBiology, and #biomed researchers looking to leverage data-driven approaches!
WEBINAR TODAY🚀 $850,000 Prize Competition: Help Transform Biomedical Research!
The NIH Common Fund and NASA's Tournament Lab are calling on the scientific community to advance research replicability through the Replication Prize competition.
⏰1:00 - 2:00 PM
Join now:
cfdeknowledge.org/r/...
The NIH Common Fund and NASA's Tournament Lab are calling on the scientific community to advance research replicability through the Replication Prize competition.
⏰1:00 - 2:00 PM
Join now:
cfdeknowledge.org/r/...
November 21, 2025 at 5:00 PM
WEBINAR TODAY🚀 $850,000 Prize Competition: Help Transform Biomedical Research!
The NIH Common Fund and NASA's Tournament Lab are calling on the scientific community to advance research replicability through the Replication Prize competition.
⏰1:00 - 2:00 PM
Join now:
cfdeknowledge.org/r/...
The NIH Common Fund and NASA's Tournament Lab are calling on the scientific community to advance research replicability through the Replication Prize competition.
⏰1:00 - 2:00 PM
Join now:
cfdeknowledge.org/r/...
Join us TODAY for back-to-back webinars from the NIH Common Fund
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November 21, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Join us TODAY for back-to-back webinars from the NIH Common Fund
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