Apr 7, 2022 | Community Call to Action, Open Source Resource, OpenBehavior Team Update, Video Analysis
In the summer of 2021, OpenBehavior organized a working group on methods for video analysis. A Slack channel was started to discuss the methods and a series of virtual meetings were held that involved conversations among users and developers. Some in the group decided...
Sep 2, 2021 | In the Community, Open Source Resource, OpenBehavior Team Update, Teaching, Video Analysis
Earlier this year, the OpenBehavior project initiated a repository of raw videos from typical behavioral neuroscience experiments. A total of 14 video collections were contributed to the repository, and several more will be added this fall. The videos will be useful...
Aug 5, 2021 | In the Community, Open Source Resource, OpenBehavior Team Update, Uncategorized
The RRID Initiative by OpenBehavior and SciCrunch The OpenBehavior project received support from the National Science Foundation in January 2021. There are three main goals for the initial funding period: (1) create a database of open-source tools used in behavioral...
Jun 17, 2021 | Community Call to Action, In the Community, OpenBehavior Team Update
Following several conversations on Twitter about methods for video analysis, in May 2021 the OpenBehavior team reached out to prominent research groups working on methods for video analysis and groups who contributed videos to our behavioral neuroscience video...
Dec 10, 2020 | In the Community, OpenBehavior Team Update
Students in the Computational Methods course in the Neuroscience major at American University learn about core methods for open source science each fall. In past years, we have focused on learning Python for data analysis, methods for 3D printing, and using Arduino to...
Feb 20, 2020 | In the Community
Yesterday, Lex and I participated in a “hack chat” over on hackaday.io. The log of the chat is now posted on the hackaday.io site. A few topics came up that we felt deserved more attention, especially the non-research uses of open source hardware developed for...
