Welcome to the New OpenBehavior!
In case you hadn't noticed, OpenBehavior got a makeover! The goal with this website is to improve the way we have projects categorized and tagged so you can find what you're looking for, and if you're just looking for inspiration for your next...
read moreOpenBehavior goes international! New members of the team and new content is on the way
Exciting news in an otherwise troubled time. This month, the team behind OpenBehavior is expanding and going international. We would like to welcome Jibran Khokhar and Jude Frie to the team. They are based at the University of Guelph and...
read moreVideo Repository Initiative on OpenBehavior
Last fall when teaching an undergraduate course on computational methods in neuroscience at American University, we wanted to bring in some of the tools for video analysis that have been promoted on OpenBehavior. The idea was to introduce these...
read moreFED Development Interview
One of the co-founders of OpenBehavior, Lex Kravitz recently participated in an interview about the development of the Feeding Experiment Device, lovingly known as FED! Read more to learn about how the project started, how the device has improved...
read moreOpen Source Science: Learn to Fly
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...
read moreOpen-Source Neuroscience Hardware Hack Chat
This week we would like to highlight an event hosted by Hackaday.io: The Open-Source Neuroscience Hardware Hack Chat. Lex Kravitz and Mark Laubach will be available on Wednesday, February 19, 2020 at noon Pacific Time to chat with users of...
read moreeNeuro’s “Open Source Tools and Methods” paper topic
There’s a new place to publish your open-source tools or methods in neuroscience! Christophe Bernard, Editor-in-Chief at the journal eNeuro (an open-access journal of the Society for Neuroscience), recently wrote an editorial detailing the opening...
read moreCurated Itinerary on Open-Source Tools at SfN-19
OpenBehavior is now an official part of the SfN team for curated itineraries at SfN-19! This year, we will provide an itinerary on Open-Source Tools. Linda Amarante (@L_Amarante) and Samantha White (@samantha6rose) are working on the itinerary now....
read moreThe Future is Open
This week’s post is about the current state of OpenBehavior (OB) and ongoing efforts within the open source neuroscience community. Next week, we will resume posting about new tools. Samantha White, Linda Amarante, Lex Kravitz, and Mark Laubach...
read moreUpcoming Posters and Talks at SfN 2018
At the upcoming Society for Neuroscience meeting in San Diego, there will be a number of posters and talks that highlight novel devices and software that have implications for behavioral neuroscience. If you’re heading to the meeting, be sure to...
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