Description

#9:
Mats van Es joins Arfon and Abby to discuss reproducible science and
the functionality he added to FieldTrip, a MATLAB software toolbox for
analyzing brain imaging data.

Mats is a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Oxford.

You can follow Mats on Twitter/X @mats_van_es.

See the show notes: https://blog.joss.theoj.org/2024/05/josscast-9-reproducibility-in-neuroscience

Episode Highlights

• [00:03:11] Introduction to FieldTrip and reproducescript
• [00:06:30] Config-Driven Science & Reproducibility
• [00:11:42] Using MATLAB in Open Source Software
• [00:21:02] The State of Open Source Software in Neuroscience
• [00:21:53] Publishing in JOSS
• [00:23:35] Future Directions and Contributions

Links

• JOSS paper: https://joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21105/joss.05566
• FieldTrip repository: https://github.com/fieldtrip/fieldtrip
• OHBA Software Library or OSL https://github.com/OHBA-analysis/osl
• OSL Dynamics https://github.com/OHBA-analysis/osl-dynamics
• Mats on Twitter/X @mats_van_es https://twitter.com/mats_van_es
• The Journal of Open Source Software (Twitter/X, blog)
• @arfon on (fosstodon, Linkedin, GitHub, website)
• @abbycabs on (Twitter/X, hachyderm, bsky, Linkedin, GitHub, website)
• Donate to JOSS

See the show notes: https://blog.joss.theoj.org/2024/05/josscast-9-reproducibility-in-neuroscience

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