The landscape after the Brainhack - on the results and impressions after the first AoN Brainhack Warsaw

The Open Science movement has never been in a better shape. Open databases have changed research, and hackathon events brought researchers together so that they can team up and produce new research through brainstorming and an open discussion panels. The term 'researcher' is slowly changing its meaning, as these days, research is no longer a term closed to academia, but rather, an experience available to anyone who has a heart for asking good questions and trying to find the answers.

In the first part of this presentation, I will summarize fresh impressions after the event held in Warsaw this fall, AoN Brainhack Warsaw (17th-19th) November, https://brainhackwarsaw.github.io/), and its results. In this event, over 80 participants from all around Europe challenge themselves with 9 diverse projects inspired by neuroscience. This is the first such event in Warsaw, supported by the Brainhack organization and by IBRO.

In the second part of the presentation, I will also refer to my own daily research, which is focused on the topic of causality in functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI). fMRI datasets pose certain limitations on the causal inference and therefore, they are often envisaged as non-causal datasets. In this talk, I will discuss this research question, and introduce my findings and solutions for causal inference in fMRI obtained during the PhD program in the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior in Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

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