INCF is asking for your help to review the 3D BRAIN Microscopy metadata standards (3D-MMS) to assess their value as a community standard. Participating is simple; read the INCF SBP committee review report on F1000 and leave your feedback in the comments!

A new preprint describes the BRAIN Initiative Cell Census Network (BICCN), a major five-year effort within the BRAIN initiative that pioneers collaboration based on open and FAIR research practices. The BICCN is committed to implementing practices and technologies to make data and other research products FAIR.

INCF will apply to be a mentor organization in Google Summer of Code for the 13th time running. Want to join us? If your project supports or implements INCF endorsed standards or best practices, we especially encourage you to apply! 

The INCF Training and Education Committee held a very successful Professional Development Workshop on Brain Data Science at SfN in San Diego.

Mathworks and INCF held a pilot round last summer of engaging current or recently graduated students as trainees to work on MATLAB neuroscience toolboxes. Four trainees worked with mentors from the toolboxes Automatic Analysis, EEGLAB, FieldTrip and MatNWB.

Identifiers for research resources are a new way to link papers, improve resource findability and reproducibility. A new project by SciScore and funded by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) will see to implement a Resource table for each preprint.