OHBM Diversity and Inclusivity Committee

Please visit this year's website for more information: ohbm-dic.github.io/kidsreview/2...

We welcome submissions for the OHBM 2026 on-site event in Bordeaux, France 🇫🇷 from Francophone researchers, as well as submissions for local, satellite events in your community's language 🌎🌍🌏.

📣 We are still welcoming submissions for our signature outreach initiative: The Brain Mappers of Tomorrow 🧠

Apply now if you are a neuroimaging researcher who wants to share their work with children ages 8-15, and inspire the next generation of Brain Mappers.

If you are interested, please visit this year's website for more information: ohbm-dic.github.io/kidsreview/2...

We welcome submissions to the on-site event in Bordeaux, France 🇫🇷 from Francophone researchers, as well as submissions for local, satellite events in your community's language. 🌎🌍🌏

📣 The time has come again for the Brain Mappers of Tomorrow Event! We are looking for neuroimaging researchers who want to share their work with children ages 8-15, and inspire the next generation of Brain Mappers. 🧠

#albadiversityweek 2025 DAY 4
📢 Calling all neuroscientists with disabilities!
Join the ALBA Database of Scientists with Disabilities to increase representation, speak at conferences, or provide advice to improve policies and practices for inclusion in neuroscience. 🧵
✍️Sign up here: loom.ly/zZ4n6xY

Promotional poster for the ALBA Network webinar series titled "Breaking down the ivory tower". The featured episode is "A journey of self-awareness towards understanding disability", scheduled for 3 December 2025 at 10:00 EST / 16:00 CET. The poster includes a portrait of Dr. Dionna Williams from Emory University, US, wearing red glasses and smiling. The background shows chess pieces with a large hand making one piece fall down with another piece. The ALBA Network logo appears at the top in purple with the tagline "Towards diversity and equity in brain sciences – a division of FENS", and a QR code is displayed at the bottom right alongside the hashtag #InternationalDayofPersonswithDisabilities.

🧠 ALBA Webinar: Breaking Down the Ivory Tower — Ep7
This #InternationalDayOfPersonsWithDisabilities, join us for a powerful conversation with Dr Dionna Williams (Emory University School of Medicine, US) @dwwilliamslab.bsky.social
📅 3 Dec 2025
⏰ 10:00 EST | 16:00 CET
👉 loom.ly/-VJQ83g
#DisabledInSTEM

OHBM Sustainability & Environmental Action Special Interest Group (SEA-SIG) | LinkedIn OHBM Sustainability & Environmental Action Special Interest Group (SEA-SIG) | A group within the Organization of Human Brain Mapping (OHBM) working to reduce the environmental impact of neuroimagi...

The SEA-SIG is now on LinkedIn!! 💼

Come connect with us over there as well!

www.linkedin.com/company/ohbm...

@ohbmofficial.bsky.social @ohbmtrainees.bsky.social @ohbm-dic.bsky.social @ohbm-com.com @ohbmbrainart.bsky.social @ohbmossig.bsky.social @ohbm-australia.bsky.social

Have a look at some pictures of the event ⬇️

We thank everyone who made this event such a success, including Leyla Khenissi, @kangjoolee.bsky.social, and Julia Kam, and can’t wait to see you for the Brain Mappers of Tomorrow 2026 in Bordeaux, France 🇫🇷

In the second part of the session, the Brain Mappers of China Team shared with us the importance of sustained attention. Nine students from Hangzhou gave presentations on how the brain supports sustained attention and why it's important 🧠.

We once again collaborated with the Frontiers for Young Minds journal on this live review!

For the first part of the session, Tanja Schmidt and Iryna Vlasiuk gave a presentation on the concept of diffusion MRI based on their manuscript written for a young audience. Two young scientists then critically reviewed their work to see if it's suitable for publication 📝🗣️.

This year, we also added a special segment where a group of youths gave a presentation. Our audience then got to engage in arts and crafts prepared by the wonderful BrainArt SIG.

At the OHBM annual meeting in Brisbane 🇦🇺, we invited children interested in science to review scientific work written for children and youths.

📣 We had a successful in person Brain Mappers of Tomorrow 2025 Edition❗️

The Brain Mappers of Tomorrow are our signature science outreach initiative where we bring neuroscience to young minds 🧠 .

What to expect from the Diversity and Inclusivity Committee at the 2025 OHBM Annual Meeting — OHBM Communications Authors: Sharna Jamadar, Julia Kam, Leyla Khenissi, Nikitas Koussis, Kangjoo Lee, Lena Oestreich, Tilak Ratnanather

📣 Check out our latest blogpost to see what to expect from the Diversity and Inclusivity Committee at the 2025 @OHBM Annual Meeting ⬇️

www.ohbm-com.com/blog/dic-act...

We can’t wait! 🧠🇦🇺

Find more information here ⬇️
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See you there 🇦🇺

➡️ Thursday, Jun 26: 6:15 PM - 7:15 PM. Room: P3 (Plaza Level) 🇦🇺

📣 Join us for our signature science outreach initiative: The Brain Mappers of Tomorrow (Australian Session)❗️

Our goal is to communicate science to kids attending OHBM together with their parents, help them develop critical thinking, and actively engage them in the scientific process 🧠

Find more information here ⬇️
ww6.aievolution.com/hbm2501/Even...

❗️See you there 🇦🇺 #OHBM2025

➡️ Friday, Jun 27: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM. Room: M4 (Mezzanine Level) 🇦🇺

❗️Join us for our roundtable: Accessible Neuroimaging Research and Dissemination via Speech to Text Apps

We aim to demonstrate the wider uses of matured (stable) speech to text apps in disseminating, accessing or participating in functional neuroimaging. 🧠

Find more information here ⬇️
ww6.aievolution.com/hbm2501/Even...

❗️See you there 🇦🇺 #OHBM2025

❗️Join us for our symposium: First Nations People in Neuroimaging Research

Two projects from the Mātai Medical Research Institute will highlight the unique approach of engaging local communities in Tairāwhiti Gisborne, New Zealand

➡️ Wednesday, Jun 25: 3:15 PM - 4:30 PM. Room: M2 (Mezzanine Level)🇦🇺

The DIC is ready for OHBM 2025 🇦🇺

Join us for:
➡️ Our symposium: First Nations People in Neuroimaging Research
➡️ Our roundtable: Accessible Neuroimaging Research and Dissemination via Speech to Text Apps
➡️ Our signature science outreach initiative: The Brain Mappers of Tomorrow

More info soon❗️🧠

💥Third year of talking Neuroscience with the researchers of tomorrow!

🧠This week we met 75 elementary school students and explored the Neuroscience of memory and language.

👩‍🏫 It is always a pleasure to do this fun/exhausting/beautiful thing with the amazing Isotta Rigoni.

👉 @ohbm-dic.bsky.social

Connected But Protected: Guiding Healthy Brain Development in the Digital Age Understanding the impact of smartphone use on teenage brain development is crucial. Excessive smartphone use can disrupt healthy brain development by weakening connections between brain cells, making ...

📣 The Brain Mappers of Tomorrow (BMT) are our signature science communication initiative 🧠. We are excited to share that our Korean team's paper presented at the BMT 2024 in Seoul 🇰🇷 was reviewed by children 📝 and is now published in Frontiers for Young Minds ⬇️

kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10....

Applications for in-person Australian session of the OHBM Brain Mappers of Tomorrow 2025 The scientists of today meet the scientists of tomorrow! We are excited to organize our 5th annual Multilingual Kids Live Review, now called Brain Mappers of Tomorrow in 2025! In 2024, we organized K...

❗️Applications for the 2025 Brain Mappers of Tomorrow in-person sessions are open until December 15th, 2024🧠

Apply now and share your research with the next generation of Brain Mappers at the BMT in-person sessions at OHBM 2025 in Brisbane, Australia🇦🇺

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