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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Dear Neuro and Data Science enthusiasts,<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The reliability of scientific research is being compromised by the
<b>‘replication crisis’</b> in biomedical research. To ensure that ‘research translates into health’ (</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#3494BA"><a href="http://www.bihealth.org/"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3494BA">http://www.bihealth.org</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3494BA">),
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">the digital era demands transparent and open solutions for data handling, sharing, and integration. Open science practices improve efficiency, creativity, democratization
of knowledge and stakeholder empowerment.</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">As part of the
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="https://www.bihealth.org/en/research/quest-center/mission-approaches/quality/spokes/"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#6888C9">Wellcome Trust funded BIH SPOKES fellowship
program</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> we are organizing a lecture series on the interface of data- and neuroscience to communicate about opportunities and resources that can improve
reproducibility and scientific rigor in our field.</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">We are inviting you to the kick-off event of this project, our ICN data-week, 3 days of talks and discussions where we are seeking the support and insight from knowledgeable
experts in “all-things data”.</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Therefore, on behalf of the Interventional and Cognitive Neuromodulation group at the Movement Disorder and Neuromodulation Unit of the Department of Neurology at Charité
Universitätsmedizin Berlin, we would like to invite you from <b>Week 12th - 14th Oct 2020, 10 am – 4 pm, virtually.</b></span><span lang="EN-US">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">At this event we aim to share knowledge, unique ideas and best practices in talks about “data management for clinical neuroscience” including Neuroimaging and Connectomics,
Invasive Neurophysiology, Clinical BCI, Data Carpentry, Data and code versioning and testing best practices. Knowledge management, technical quality and decision making, Open science, reproducibility and meta research.</span><span lang="EN-US">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">With your help, we aim to elucidate opportunities of new resources to
<b>support the core theme of open science, while at the same time developing an efficient and comprehensive research data strategy</b>. We believe successful automation of reproducible data organization and sharing principles have educational value, improve
research quality and secure sustainable translational drive.</span><span lang="EN-US">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">We do very much hope to have you on board.</span><span lang="EN-US">
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Please register to get the meeting link for free and check the program at
</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#3494BA"><a href="https://www.icneuromodulation.org/dataweek"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3494BA">https://www.icneuromodulation.org/dataweek</span></b></a></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3494BA">
</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#3494BA"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Kind regards,</span><span lang="EN-US">
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Safaa Malkawi & Wolf-Julian Neumann</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Prof. Dr. med. Wolf-Julian Neumann<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Assistant Professor - Interventional and Cognitive Neuromodulation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Movement Disorder and Neuromodulation Unit<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Department of Neurology & Neuroradiology<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE" style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE" style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">T: +49 30 450 660 359<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE" style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">M: +49 152 539 262 90<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><a href="https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6758-9708"><span lang="DE">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6758-9708</span></a></span><span lang="DE" style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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