INCF community blog
The INCF community blog is where we collect news, success stories, information about the INCF Assembly, our workshops, and community activities. Community members are encouraged to submit relevant job openings, write guest posts, review and recap events, and suggest content that they would like to see featured on the blog.
Do you have a success story related to neuroinformatics, standardization, or FAIR and open neuroscience? Are you hiring for a job related to neuroinformatics? Did you attend one of our events and want to do a write-up? Let us know in this form!
We are happy to announce that INCF has been accepted to serve as a mentor organization in Google Summer of Code 2025 (GSoC) for the 15th year running!
We want to make sure our network is accessible to all members of the Neuroinformatics community. Help us by filling in your profile on INCF.org!
Wondering what INCF is up to in 2025? We have lots of activities planned for this calendar year - here is a list of events we will host or attend in 2025.
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INCF will apply to be a mentor organization in Google Summer of Code for the 15th time running. Want to join us?
We are now calling for open source software development project ideas with some sort of neuro connection - fixes or extensions to big/broadly applicable or small/niche tools used by neuroscience researchers, efforts and initiatives in the broad field of computational neuroscience. 
This Giving Tuesday, we’re raising money to keep our training resources open and free to the global neuroscience community. Your gift will enable us to support open science for the global neuroscience community, leading to breakthroughs in our understanding and treatment of the human brain.
Here is a selection of INCF member publications for 2023. They include authors who are members, publications by our working groups, and publications using endorsed standards.
Hierarchical Event Descriptors (aka HED) is an open standard for describing experimental events, conditions, and experiment organization in a format that is both human- and machine-readable to enable analysis, re-analysis, and meta/mega-analysis. INCF seeks community feedback on the Hierarchical Event Descriptors (HED) Standard.
We've confirmed nearly all our speakers & are excited to share the lineup! Check out these exciting talks on BCI, neuroimaging, AI as a tool, & lots more.
We’re happy to announce that Acta Neuropsychiatrica has joined the NPRC!
INCF is proud to announce that Damion Demeter,a Postdoctoral Scholar at UCSD, has been hired as the technical writer for the INCF Google Season of Docs project.