Abstract:
This talk will discuss the perceived and actual barriers experienced by
researchers attempting to do reproducible research in neuroscience, and
give practical guidance on how they can be overcome. It will include
suggestions on how to make your code and data available and usable for
others (including a strong suggestion to document both clearly so you
don’t have to reply to lots of email questions from future users).
However, as this is a Brainhack event, Dr Whitaker will push you
further: to consider working openly. Open research is an important step
in changing an academic reward system from its current focus on
individual contributions and “getting there first” to sharing work as it
is being created and allowing collaborators to contribute from the
start. All the AoN Brainhack Warsaw participants will leave knowing
there is something they can do to step towards making their research
reproducible, and hopefully a few will be inspired to make more radical
changes.
Bio:
Kirstie is a Research Fellow at The Alan Turing Institute (London, UK).
She completed her PhD in Neuroscience at the University of California,
Berkeley in 2012 and holds a BSc in Physics from the University of
Bristol and an MSc in Medical Physics from the University of British
Columbia. She was a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of
Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge from 2012 to 2017. Dr Whitaker
uses magnetic resonance imaging to study child and adolescent brain
development and is a passionate advocate for reproducible neuroscience.
She is a Fulbright scholarship alumna and 2016/17 Mozilla Fellow for
Science. Kirstie was named, with her collaborator Petra Vertes, as a
2016 Global Thinker by Foreign Policy magazine.