Last week I took part in the @neuroinformatics.dev Open Software Week in London. There were great workshops on collaborative coding and deep learning methods for motion tracking. Big thanks to all the organisers, I'd love to be back next year! #niu_osw

Thank you to everyone who came to Open Software Week. We had a great time, and we hope you all left with new knowledge, ideas or collaborations.

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The final day of Open Software Week is the Hackday! Participants are working on applying existing tools to new data, further developing NIU software and improving documentation.

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Day 4 of Open Software Week continues with both the "Big Imaging Data" track, and a workshop on "Collaborative Coding with Git".

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Open Software Week continues with a careers clinic with a panel discussion from diverse Research Technology Professionals with a background in life sciences.

Panellists are Mayo Faulkner, Vicki Yorke-Edwards, Batool Almarzouq, Laura Porta & Jonas Hartmann.

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Day 4 of Open Software Week begins with the "Big Imaging Data" track.

Participants will learn how to handle big microscopy data with open-source software and build connections between the imaging and software engineering community.

Today's material: neuroinformatics.dev/slides-big-i...

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On the "Animals in Motion" track, students are learning how to use the Python package, movement, to analyse pose tracks.

Today's course materials: animals-in-motion.neuroinformatics.dev/latest/04-mo...

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The third day of Open Software Week is underway. On the @brainglobe.info track, students are learning how to use the BrainGlobe Python ecosystem to write their own scripts.

Starting with creating visualisations using brainglobe-heatmap:
brainglobe.info/documentatio...

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The BrainGlobe track started with an introduction to image analysis with @napari.org, and then tutorials on how to use @brainglobe.info to register data to atlases, and how to detect cells in whole-brain microscopy images.

All our tutorials are online: brainglobe.info/tutorials

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The Animals in Motion track started with a survey of participants to understand the field they work in, and the models they study.

Lots of different fields want to track animals!

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Open Software Week is only possible due to the generous funding of @sainsburywellcome.bsky.social, @society-rse.org, softwaresaved.bsky.social and @aibio-uk.bsky.social. Thank you!

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Second day of Open Software Week starts soon! Today we split into two parallel tracks:

Animals in Motion: Using open source tools to track and analyse animal motion from videos

BrainGlobe: Using the @brainglobe.info ecosystem of tools to process and analyse whole-brain microscopy images

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Today is the first day of the Neuroinformatics Unit Open Software Week, bringing together researchers from around the world for a week of training and collaborating on open source neuroscience software.

First day is a Python programming workshop.

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