OSSIG 2025
General changes
- Removed three offices (OSR co-chair/elect and Inclusivity chair)
- Added the office of local liaison
- Officialized volunteers roles (less involvement, no perks)
Offices
Operations
- Starting in the previous term, we parallelized teams, activating elects sooner
- Compiling Operative Procedures for each office and task
- Opening the 2025 renewal before the Annual Meeting
General activities
- Revising the sponsorship system to attract a wider range of potential sponsors (<1000$ in-kind or small donation for local businesses)
- Starting to reach out to sponsors in mid-November
Treasury
Transparency
- We will publish our 2025 final budget and a summary of the renewal process
Community involvement
- Symposium on issues in reproducibility from data acquisition to analysis
- Educational (collab. with SEASIG) on sustainable and reproducible research
- Supporting the organization of an Open Neuroscience workshop in Taiwan
OHBM Brainhack
- 110 in person (30 online) participant
- 19 projects, 14 unconferences
- 5 trainings, 4 panels
2024
OHBM Brainhack
- Setting up 200+ in person for Brisbane
- Restructuring as an "event platform" for communities to organise gatherings relying on our organization, starting with the NeuroStatistics Workshop
- Collaborations with BASIG and SEASIG
2025: Plans
- Two possible venues
- Registration opening at abstract notification
- Two potential sponsors targetted (of which one might move to AM)
2025: Logistics
Open Science Room
- ~ 150 in person attendees across all activities (low), ~30-40 online
- 5 panels, 5 table talks, 5 emergent sessions, 1 "open mic"
- Hybrid panels and participants
2024
Open Science Room
- Aiming at restoring bottom-up activities as main activities in Brisbane (emergent sessions and table talks)
- Aiming at reintroducing OSR fouier (Open-Science working area)
2025: Aims
- Hosting a panel in collaboration with ESMRMB (MRITogether) and the ISMRM Reproducibile Research Study Group (currently seeking endorsement)
- Hosting the reproducibility challenge event (pending)
- Hosting a panel on OSSIG activities in OSR
2025: Highlights
Aperture Neuro (Special Issue)
- We aim at increasing the involvement of the OS community with Aperture Neuro in collaboration with its editorial team
Aims
Special Issue
- Special Issue on Open Datasets
- 4 tentative submissions (2 ok'd), inviting authors starting mid-November
Community involvement
- Potential paper (SEASIG collab) on reproducible and sustainable science
- Proceedings of Brainhack 2023 and 2024 in the making
- Starting with 2024, the OSR will also compile proceedings
Inter-societies OS virtual seminar
- Q1 of 2025 to increase whole-year community involvement
- In collaboration with ISMRM (RRSG), and ESMRMB (MRITogether)
- Topic: Community development for open research
SIGs chairs meetings
We started a set of quarterly meetings within the SIGs chairs to improve our collaborations and activities efficiency
Reproducibility Challenge
- Networking experience facilitated by the OSSIG
- Based on submitted abstracts (and derivatives like publications)
What
- Aims at improving both the reproduction and the reproducibility of scientific results involving both "replicants" and "original authors"
Why
- Pilot in 2025, first edition from 2024 to 2026, evaluation and repetition after
- In collaboration with ISMRM (RRSG), hosts of the challenge for 3 years
How (overall)
Reproducibility Challenge
- Original Authors (OA) submit an abstract to OHBM, opting in for "reproduction"
- Their submission is recorded and shown on the OSSIG website
- At the annual meeting their abstracts are marked with the challenge logo
- A party of "reproducers" (RP) team up with the OA party, forming a team
- The RP takes all available information and data (if possible), and without further help from OA, they attempt to reproduce and/or generalise the results
- The team submits an abstract for the following annual meeting
- The outcome is not only scored on interesting results, but also on procedures
- The OSR hosts an oral session on results and challenges in reproduction
How
Reproducibility Challenge
- Modify the submission portal for challenge opt-ins
- Notify the OSSIG of submissions
- Advertise the challenge at the opening of the annual meeting
- Accept up to three nominations for the Reproduciblity Award
- Possibly, a few waives/discounts for the parties
- Possibly, costs to submit the best results to Aperture Neuro
Help needed
OSSIG 2025
Always open for collaborations with Coms and SIGs!
OSSIG
By Stefano Moia
