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Nick Souter @NickSouter

Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University of Sussex, studying ways of measuring the carbon footprint of fMRI data preprocessing and analysis 🌱🧠

Joined May 2009
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‼️ NEW PAPER ALERT ‼️ @NickSouter et al. (including many of our SEA-SIG members) demonstrate the environmental impact of different fMRIprep preprocessing choices, and make recommendations for minimizing carbon emissions of your pipeline! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…

Measuring and reducing the carbon footprint of fMRI preprocessing in fMRIPrep

Computing needed for data processing has a carbon footprint. We estimated the carbon emissions arising from eight variants of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) preprocessing pipeline...

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Are you looking to get involved with like-minded neuroimagers to make our field more sustainable? Nominate yourself to be the new Chair, Secretary, or Treasurer of the SEA-SIG in our 2024 elections! Nominations accepted from August 15-September 15! ohbm-environment.org/upcomin…
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Loïc Lannelongue@Loic_Lnlg
28 Jun 2024
I am incredibly excited to announce Green DiSC, a free and open-access sustainability certification scheme for computational labs, hosted with the Software Sustainability Institute! Read more: software.ac.uk/blog/announci…
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I recently ran a workshop focused on 'How to reduce the carbon footprint of your research computing', including interactive demonstrations of green computing tools 🌱🖥️ You can find a recording of the event here! youtube.com/watch?v=DGWQaxRE…

How to reduce the carbon footprint of your research computing

This workshop took place at the University of Sussex on June 13th 2...

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Huge thanks to @NeuroRae for helping me plan and run the workshop, and to @SussexNeuro and the Sussex Researcher School for their support!
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29 May 2024
Our Interviews with Scientists feature is back & we were delighted to speak to @NickSouter of @SussexUni! 👨‍🔬 Nick was the recent winner of a @BritishNeuro Green Neuroscience Prize! 🧠🔬 Read his inspiring new interview: ow.ly/VvOu50RY90n #sustainablescience #greenlabs
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My final PhD paper had just been published in Human Brain Mapping 🎉 Using fMRI, we found dissociable activation in subnetworks of the Default Mode Network during the retrieval of contextual semantic and emotional associations to pictures🧠 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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Big thanks to Antonia de Freitas, @MeichaoZ, @Ximing_Shao, @TirsoRJGonzalez, @athanatizein, @the_mindwanders, Katya Krieger-Redwood, and Beth Jefferies for all their help on this project!
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British Neuroscience Association@BritishNeuro
3 May 2024
Our 2024 Green Neuroscience Prize Winner @NickSouter shared his fascinating study into the #Carbonfootprint of #neuroscience Data Processing giving recommendations on how to reduce the carbon emissions when using fMRIPrep. #researchposters #green #scientificresearch
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Thank you to @BritishNeuro for this prize, and for giving a platform to green neuroscience! 🌱🧠
British Neuroscience Association@BritishNeuro
30 Apr 2024
We are delighted to announce the winner of our #Green Neuroscience prize @NickSouter. This new prize is part of our commitment to minimise the negative #environmental impact of undertaking research, teaching and practice. bna.org.uk/mediacentre/news/…
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In this short 'PosterByte' video made for the @BritishNeuro 2024 Members' Meeting, I discuss our recent work on the carbon footprint of neuroscience data processing 🌱🧠🖥️ You can also find it on TikTok: shorturl.at/aguWY #BNAMembersMeeting2024
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At 3pm today I'll be presenting this same work in a little more detail. It'll be livestreamed and there's still time for BNA members to register! bna.org.uk/mediacentre/event…
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Charlotte Rae@NeuroRae
18 Apr 2024
Don't miss the @BritishNeuro Members Meeting, next week 24-25 April 🧠 I'll be debating 'a revolution in sustainable neuroscience is needed more now than in open neuroscience' with @Dom_Makowski of @Sussex_Psych @hjhope of @wellcometrust @josephclift of @BritishNeuro
British Neuroscience Association@BritishNeuro
17 Apr 2024
The countdown is on… only one week till our Members’ Meeting! We have a fantastic line-up of talented researchers giving short ‘Rapid Fire’ talks about the current neuroscience research advances being made. Register here: bna.org.uk/mediacentre/event… #BNAMembersMeeting2024
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Christina Kampoureli@CKampoureli
16 Apr 2024
I'm very excited to announce that I will be speaking at the @BritishNeuro Members' Meeting on April 24th! I will be discussing our adaptation of an attention training paradigm with real-time fMRI, for subsequent implementation in participants with ADHD.🧠 #BNAMembersMeeting
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I'll be speaking at the @BritishNeuro Members' Meeting on April 25th! I'll provide an overview of our recent work on the carbon footprint of neuroscience research computing, and what you can do to reduce it. 🌱🧠🖥️ #BNAMembersMeeting
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You can register for the metting here: bna.org.uk/mediacentre/event… And sign up for membership here: bna.org.uk/about/membership/
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9. Use existing data Running analysis on previously collected and preprocessed data is a great way to test hypotheses without using additional energy to preprocess it yourself. We provide a table describing different open access datasets.
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10. Talk about greener computing Discussing the carbon footprint of data processing within your neuroimaging community will make it easier to think seriously about this issue. This will help in embedding sustainable ideas into standard practice 🌱
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Big thanks to @Loic_Lnlg, @gabriellesamue1, Chris Racey, @Lincoln81, Nikhil Bhagwat, @raghavian, and @NeuroRae for all their work on this paper!
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Our review paper 'Ten recommendations for reducing the carbon footprint of research computing in human neuroimaging' was recently published in @ImagingNeurosci! doi.org/10.1162/imag_a_00043 Here's a quick summary of each of our recommendations 🧵

Ten recommendations for reducing the carbon footprint of research computing in human neuroimaging

Abstract. Given that scientific practices contribute to the climate crisis, scientists should reflect on the planetary impact of their work. Research computing can have a substantial carbon footprint...

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8. Reflect on what needs to be shared It's good practice to share all raw neuroimaging data on platforms like @OpenNeuroOrg. But this storage still has a carbon footprint. Consider whether just sharing preprocessed files would be enough to allow others to make use of your data.
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7. Push for publicly owned centralised data storage Large centralised data centres tend to be more efficient, but this often means relying on big tech comapnies to host data. Alternatives like EuropHPC JU may allow storage that is efficient & sustainable: eurohpc-ju.europa.eu/index_e…

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The European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) is a joint initiative between the EU, European countries and private partners to develop a World Class Supercomputing Ecosystem...

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