Britta Westner
@brittawestner.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in Neuroscience at the Donders Institute & Radboudumc.
Oscillations, language, the visual system, source reconstruction methods, and decoding. Open source enthusiast. https://britta-wstnr.github.io
Oscillations, language, the visual system, source reconstruction methods, and decoding. Open source enthusiast. https://britta-wstnr.github.io
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What an engaging discussion at our IGOR panel "Have we solved the replication crisis?"🔎
Special thanks to @deevybee.bsky.social @brittawestner.bsky.social A. Hildebrandt & S. Jeung for their insights about the current state and future of Open Science, and to the moderator @gordonfeld.bsky.social
Special thanks to @deevybee.bsky.social @brittawestner.bsky.social A. Hildebrandt & S. Jeung for their insights about the current state and future of Open Science, and to the moderator @gordonfeld.bsky.social
October 10, 2025 at 9:27 AM
What an engaging discussion at our IGOR panel "Have we solved the replication crisis?"🔎
Special thanks to @deevybee.bsky.social @brittawestner.bsky.social A. Hildebrandt & S. Jeung for their insights about the current state and future of Open Science, and to the moderator @gordonfeld.bsky.social
Special thanks to @deevybee.bsky.social @brittawestner.bsky.social A. Hildebrandt & S. Jeung for their insights about the current state and future of Open Science, and to the moderator @gordonfeld.bsky.social
Reposted by Britta Westner
🔍 Have we solved the replication crisis?
Join us for an IGOR panel discussion on the state of Open Science in biological psychology more than a decade after the crisis first hit.
📅 Friday, 10 Oct | 10:00–11:00 CET
💻 Online (contact us for the link)
#OpenScience #neuroskyence #academicsky
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Join us for an IGOR panel discussion on the state of Open Science in biological psychology more than a decade after the crisis first hit.
📅 Friday, 10 Oct | 10:00–11:00 CET
💻 Online (contact us for the link)
#OpenScience #neuroskyence #academicsky
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September 30, 2025 at 10:08 AM
🔍 Have we solved the replication crisis?
Join us for an IGOR panel discussion on the state of Open Science in biological psychology more than a decade after the crisis first hit.
📅 Friday, 10 Oct | 10:00–11:00 CET
💻 Online (contact us for the link)
#OpenScience #neuroskyence #academicsky
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Join us for an IGOR panel discussion on the state of Open Science in biological psychology more than a decade after the crisis first hit.
📅 Friday, 10 Oct | 10:00–11:00 CET
💻 Online (contact us for the link)
#OpenScience #neuroskyence #academicsky
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At the #OPM conference in Marseille @robertoostenveld.bsky.social reminded us the importance to take care of our FOSSS software we use and develop. Adopt the practices from the paper led by @brittawestner.bsky.social and co-authored by the main MEEG toolbox developers
direct.mit.edu/imag/article...
direct.mit.edu/imag/article...
Cycling on the Freeway: The perilous state of open-source neuroscience software
Abstract. Most scientists need software to perform their research (Barker et al., 2020; Carver et al., 2022; Hettrick, 2014; Hettrick et al., 2014; Switters & Osimo, 2019), and neuroscientists are no ...
direct.mit.edu
October 2, 2025 at 4:06 PM
At the #OPM conference in Marseille @robertoostenveld.bsky.social reminded us the importance to take care of our FOSSS software we use and develop. Adopt the practices from the paper led by @brittawestner.bsky.social and co-authored by the main MEEG toolbox developers
direct.mit.edu/imag/article...
direct.mit.edu/imag/article...
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Our #CCN2025 GAC debate w/ @gretatuckute.bsky.social, Gemma Roig (www.cvai.cs.uni-frankfurt.de), Jacqueline Gottlieb (gottlieblab.com), Klaus Oberauer, @mschrimpf.bsky.social & @brittawestner.bsky.social asks:
📊 What benchmarks are useful for cognitive science? 💭
2025.ccneuro.org/gac
📊 What benchmarks are useful for cognitive science? 💭
2025.ccneuro.org/gac
August 13, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Our #CCN2025 GAC debate w/ @gretatuckute.bsky.social, Gemma Roig (www.cvai.cs.uni-frankfurt.de), Jacqueline Gottlieb (gottlieblab.com), Klaus Oberauer, @mschrimpf.bsky.social & @brittawestner.bsky.social asks:
📊 What benchmarks are useful for cognitive science? 💭
2025.ccneuro.org/gac
📊 What benchmarks are useful for cognitive science? 💭
2025.ccneuro.org/gac
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@brittawestner.bsky.social is talking about #OpenSource software in academia. There's not enough room for people focusing on this, which is a problem for the development of new software, but also their maintaining (which is especially problematic when others build on your software...)! #OpenScience
July 18, 2025 at 9:24 AM
@brittawestner.bsky.social is talking about #OpenSource software in academia. There's not enough room for people focusing on this, which is a problem for the development of new software, but also their maintaining (which is especially problematic when others build on your software...)! #OpenScience
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This workshop is FREE btw
✨We are organising (again) an online workshop on Theoretical Modeling for PhD candidates and Master students in cognitive science and psychology. Check out the website and the schedule: Registration is open! (closes July 1, spaces are limited) 🧵1/n computationalcognitivescience.github.io/workshop/
June 7, 2025 at 9:48 PM
This workshop is FREE btw
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✨We are organising (again) an online workshop on Theoretical Modeling for PhD candidates and Master students in cognitive science and psychology. Check out the website and the schedule: Registration is open! (closes July 1, spaces are limited) 🧵1/n computationalcognitivescience.github.io/workshop/
May 29, 2025 at 7:33 PM
✨We are organising (again) an online workshop on Theoretical Modeling for PhD candidates and Master students in cognitive science and psychology. Check out the website and the schedule: Registration is open! (closes July 1, spaces are limited) 🧵1/n computationalcognitivescience.github.io/workshop/
Reposted by Britta Westner
Important message.
TLDR; cite the software not the paper.
TLDR; cite the software not the paper.
Ever used open-source (neuroscience MEG/EEG) software? Please take a moment to check out this report from within.
This paper is very close to my heart, because we are moving towards a crisis … 🧵
bsky.app/profile/imag...
This paper is very close to my heart, because we are moving towards a crisis … 🧵
bsky.app/profile/imag...
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Britta U. Westner, Tim M. Tierney, et al:
Cycling on the Freeway: The perilous state of open-source neuroscience software
doi.org/10.1162/imag...
Cycling on the Freeway: The perilous state of open-source neuroscience software
doi.org/10.1162/imag...
May 9, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Important message.
TLDR; cite the software not the paper.
TLDR; cite the software not the paper.
Reposted by Britta Westner
An important commentary on the state of M/EEG software and the perverse fact we all rely on something which there is little reward in writing and maintaining.
This needs to change.
That, or we never allow these authors to ever get on a plane together.
This needs to change.
That, or we never allow these authors to ever get on a plane together.
Ever used open-source (neuroscience MEG/EEG) software? Please take a moment to check out this report from within.
This paper is very close to my heart, because we are moving towards a crisis … 🧵
bsky.app/profile/imag...
This paper is very close to my heart, because we are moving towards a crisis … 🧵
bsky.app/profile/imag...
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Britta U. Westner, Tim M. Tierney, et al:
Cycling on the Freeway: The perilous state of open-source neuroscience software
doi.org/10.1162/imag...
Cycling on the Freeway: The perilous state of open-source neuroscience software
doi.org/10.1162/imag...
May 8, 2025 at 12:54 PM
An important commentary on the state of M/EEG software and the perverse fact we all rely on something which there is little reward in writing and maintaining.
This needs to change.
That, or we never allow these authors to ever get on a plane together.
This needs to change.
That, or we never allow these authors to ever get on a plane together.
Reposted by Britta Westner
While maintenance is a big part of the software life-cycle, user support can be just as time consuming - if not more so. Support needs can be reduced by providing (and maintaining) decent documentation, but this is also not something that funders seems to consider important.
May 7, 2025 at 2:03 PM
While maintenance is a big part of the software life-cycle, user support can be just as time consuming - if not more so. Support needs can be reduced by providing (and maintaining) decent documentation, but this is also not something that funders seems to consider important.
Reposted by Britta Westner
An important call from a lot of people I worked together with on MNE Python.
If you use free open source software for your research, please read this.
It's a lot of work building the tools that we as scientists use. In turn, we can help them by e.g. citing them correctly.
If you use free open source software for your research, please read this.
It's a lot of work building the tools that we as scientists use. In turn, we can help them by e.g. citing them correctly.
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Britta U. Westner, Tim M. Tierney, et al:
Cycling on the Freeway: The perilous state of open-source neuroscience software
doi.org/10.1162/imag...
Cycling on the Freeway: The perilous state of open-source neuroscience software
doi.org/10.1162/imag...
May 7, 2025 at 7:44 AM
An important call from a lot of people I worked together with on MNE Python.
If you use free open source software for your research, please read this.
It's a lot of work building the tools that we as scientists use. In turn, we can help them by e.g. citing them correctly.
If you use free open source software for your research, please read this.
It's a lot of work building the tools that we as scientists use. In turn, we can help them by e.g. citing them correctly.
Ever used open-source (neuroscience MEG/EEG) software? Please take a moment to check out this report from within.
This paper is very close to my heart, because we are moving towards a crisis … 🧵
bsky.app/profile/imag...
This paper is very close to my heart, because we are moving towards a crisis … 🧵
bsky.app/profile/imag...
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Britta U. Westner, Tim M. Tierney, et al:
Cycling on the Freeway: The perilous state of open-source neuroscience software
doi.org/10.1162/imag...
Cycling on the Freeway: The perilous state of open-source neuroscience software
doi.org/10.1162/imag...
May 7, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Ever used open-source (neuroscience MEG/EEG) software? Please take a moment to check out this report from within.
This paper is very close to my heart, because we are moving towards a crisis … 🧵
bsky.app/profile/imag...
This paper is very close to my heart, because we are moving towards a crisis … 🧵
bsky.app/profile/imag...
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🧵 1/5 Excited to share our latest @joss-openjournals.bsky.social 🧪 #paper:
UnfoldSim.jl
New @julialang.org package to simulate continuous event-based time series for #EEG & beyond!
📜 doi.org/10.21105/jos...
🛠 github.com/unfoldtoolbo...
With @judithschepers.bsky.social, Luis Lips & Maanik Marathe
UnfoldSim.jl
New @julialang.org package to simulate continuous event-based time series for #EEG & beyond!
📜 doi.org/10.21105/jos...
🛠 github.com/unfoldtoolbo...
With @judithschepers.bsky.social, Luis Lips & Maanik Marathe
March 25, 2025 at 12:56 PM
🧵 1/5 Excited to share our latest @joss-openjournals.bsky.social 🧪 #paper:
UnfoldSim.jl
New @julialang.org package to simulate continuous event-based time series for #EEG & beyond!
📜 doi.org/10.21105/jos...
🛠 github.com/unfoldtoolbo...
With @judithschepers.bsky.social, Luis Lips & Maanik Marathe
UnfoldSim.jl
New @julialang.org package to simulate continuous event-based time series for #EEG & beyond!
📜 doi.org/10.21105/jos...
🛠 github.com/unfoldtoolbo...
With @judithschepers.bsky.social, Luis Lips & Maanik Marathe
Reposted by Britta Westner
Congrats to @brittawestner.bsky.social (NEMOlab alumna 😊), Floris @predictivebrain.bsky.social, and team! Did you win more cake? 🧁🍰🧁🍰😜
Excited to announce the 500th paper published by Imaging Neuroscience ! @imagingneurosci.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social
We've come a long way in a short time and are hugely grateful to the neuroimaging community for your support.
Hope to see lots of you at OHBM @ohbmofficial.bsky.social
We've come a long way in a short time and are hugely grateful to the neuroimaging community for your support.
Hope to see lots of you at OHBM @ohbmofficial.bsky.social
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Britta U. Westner, Floris P. de Lange, et al:
Typical neural adaptation for familiar images in autistic adolescents
doi.org/10.1162/imag...
Typical neural adaptation for familiar images in autistic adolescents
doi.org/10.1162/imag...
March 26, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Congrats to @brittawestner.bsky.social (NEMOlab alumna 😊), Floris @predictivebrain.bsky.social, and team! Did you win more cake? 🧁🍰🧁🍰😜
Honoured to be paper number 500, together with my co-authors @predictivebrain.bsky.social et al! 🎉 Congratulations, @imagingneurosci.bsky.social and thanks to the Editors for making the famous move to start from scratch 💙
Excited to announce the 500th paper published by Imaging Neuroscience ! @imagingneurosci.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social
We've come a long way in a short time and are hugely grateful to the neuroimaging community for your support.
Hope to see lots of you at OHBM @ohbmofficial.bsky.social
We've come a long way in a short time and are hugely grateful to the neuroimaging community for your support.
Hope to see lots of you at OHBM @ohbmofficial.bsky.social
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Britta U. Westner, Floris P. de Lange, et al:
Typical neural adaptation for familiar images in autistic adolescents
doi.org/10.1162/imag...
Typical neural adaptation for familiar images in autistic adolescents
doi.org/10.1162/imag...
March 20, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Honoured to be paper number 500, together with my co-authors @predictivebrain.bsky.social et al! 🎉 Congratulations, @imagingneurosci.bsky.social and thanks to the Editors for making the famous move to start from scratch 💙
New paper published with co-first-author Ella Bosch, and Christian Utzerath, Jan Buitelaar, and @predictivebrain.bsky.social ! We find that neural adaptation to familiar images is not different between autistic and non-autistic peers. #MEG #neuroscience
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Britta U. Westner, Floris P. de Lange, et al:
Typical neural adaptation for familiar images in autistic adolescents
doi.org/10.1162/imag...
Typical neural adaptation for familiar images in autistic adolescents
doi.org/10.1162/imag...
March 20, 2025 at 7:30 AM
New paper published with co-first-author Ella Bosch, and Christian Utzerath, Jan Buitelaar, and @predictivebrain.bsky.social ! We find that neural adaptation to familiar images is not different between autistic and non-autistic peers. #MEG #neuroscience
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Encouraging to see 5000+ protesters at our local Amsterdam protests against the budget cuts in higher education in the NL! In this time of geopolitical tensions, changing climate, democratic backsliding, & tech revolutions, governments should *invest* in knowledge & the future of the next generation
March 17, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Encouraging to see 5000+ protesters at our local Amsterdam protests against the budget cuts in higher education in the NL! In this time of geopolitical tensions, changing climate, democratic backsliding, & tech revolutions, governments should *invest* in knowledge & the future of the next generation
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What are you doing on 28-31 October 2025?
Save the date & join us at PracticalMEEG 3d edition in Aix-en-Pce with hands-on training in MEEG data, plenary lectures & other exciting new features like posters sessions, toolbox bouquet and more: cuttingeeg.org/practicalmee...
Registration coming soon!
Save the date & join us at PracticalMEEG 3d edition in Aix-en-Pce with hands-on training in MEEG data, plenary lectures & other exciting new features like posters sessions, toolbox bouquet and more: cuttingeeg.org/practicalmee...
Registration coming soon!
March 17, 2025 at 8:44 AM
What are you doing on 28-31 October 2025?
Save the date & join us at PracticalMEEG 3d edition in Aix-en-Pce with hands-on training in MEEG data, plenary lectures & other exciting new features like posters sessions, toolbox bouquet and more: cuttingeeg.org/practicalmee...
Registration coming soon!
Save the date & join us at PracticalMEEG 3d edition in Aix-en-Pce with hands-on training in MEEG data, plenary lectures & other exciting new features like posters sessions, toolbox bouquet and more: cuttingeeg.org/practicalmee...
Registration coming soon!
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5nE...
Important and painful
Important and painful
How Germany's elite research institution fails young scientists | DW Documentary
YouTube video by DW Documentary
www.youtube.com
March 13, 2025 at 8:58 PM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5nE...
Important and painful
Important and painful
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3500 people protesting the right-wing Dutch government's 1.3 billion € budget cuts to higher education. This is an extinction-level event for dutch research, and @Radboud_uni @radboudumc and the HAN are having none of it.
#nijmegen #woinactie #doehetniet
#nijmegen #woinactie #doehetniet
March 13, 2025 at 12:13 PM
3500 people protesting the right-wing Dutch government's 1.3 billion € budget cuts to higher education. This is an extinction-level event for dutch research, and @Radboud_uni @radboudumc and the HAN are having none of it.
#nijmegen #woinactie #doehetniet
#nijmegen #woinactie #doehetniet
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En ook de derde dag van de estafettestaking in het Hoger Onderwijs, vandaag in Nijmegen, is een groot succes. Het rode vierkant van #WOinActie wappert aan de toren, en duizenden studenten, docenten, wetenschappers en sympathisanten protesteren tegen de aangekondigde bezuinigingen. #DoeHetNiet
March 13, 2025 at 2:48 PM
En ook de derde dag van de estafettestaking in het Hoger Onderwijs, vandaag in Nijmegen, is een groot succes. Het rode vierkant van #WOinActie wappert aan de toren, en duizenden studenten, docenten, wetenschappers en sympathisanten protesteren tegen de aangekondigde bezuinigingen. #DoeHetNiet
Against the budget cuts in higher education. 🟥
March 13, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Against the budget cuts in higher education. 🟥
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“We believe that healthy universities are a backbone of a thriving democracy. They promote critical thinking, independent research & informed debates. The planned cuts threaten academic freedom, innovation and equal access to education. A weakened university system means a weakened democracy.”
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March 12, 2025 at 10:15 PM
“We believe that healthy universities are a backbone of a thriving democracy. They promote critical thinking, independent research & informed debates. The planned cuts threaten academic freedom, innovation and equal access to education. A weakened university system means a weakened democracy.”
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If you are working at Radboud University, I encourage you to join the strike! Here is the programme: www.ru.nl/en/about-us/...
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Demonstrations against budget cuts on 13 March | Radboud University
Staff members have announced that they will join a relay strike on Thursday 13 March against the Dutch Cabinet’s cuts to the education budget. Some students also want to demonstrate.
www.ru.nl
March 12, 2025 at 10:15 PM
If you are working at Radboud University, I encourage you to join the strike! Here is the programme: www.ru.nl/en/about-us/...
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🧠 Do you know about Research Software Engineers (RSEs)? #RSEMidlands2025 #MATLAB #MATLABAmbassador
💻 Academic outputs increasingly depend on software, yet academia primarily rewards papers, not the code behind them! 📝
💻 Academic outputs increasingly depend on software, yet academia primarily rewards papers, not the code behind them! 📝
March 4, 2025 at 2:59 PM
🧠 Do you know about Research Software Engineers (RSEs)? #RSEMidlands2025 #MATLAB #MATLABAmbassador
💻 Academic outputs increasingly depend on software, yet academia primarily rewards papers, not the code behind them! 📝
💻 Academic outputs increasingly depend on software, yet academia primarily rewards papers, not the code behind them! 📝