The Society for Social Neuroscience is committed to promoting robust, transparent and reproducible science at every level.
Since 2021, we have awarded two prizes for Open & Reproducible Science, one for human and one for non-human animal social neuroscience (list of past winners below). Several excellent candidates were nominated for the S4SN Open and Reproducible Science Prizes 2023/24. The Open Science Award Committee has selected two winners:
Helena Hartmann
For human social neuroscience, the winner is Dr Helena Hartmann, postdoc at the University of Essen. Helena employs state-of-the-art Open Science practices in her own research, including preregistration of fMRI studies and sharing code and data on the Open Science Framework. Helena is an active contributor to the field and promotes Open Science at many different levels, with the overarching aim of making open-access online resources available to the scientific community, especially early career researchers. She is an editor at two important science outlets that promote Open Science: Collabra: Psychology and PCI Registered Reports. Among her many contributions, Helena has created and now curates a GitHub repository of helpful research tools and resources for scientists called “Awesome PhD”.
Jibran Khokhar
For animal social neuroscience, the winner is Dr. Jibran Khokhar, an Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair at the The University of Western Ontario. Jibran is a committed advocate for open-source tools in behavioral neuroscience research. Notably, Jibran and his team recently released FARESHARE, which is an affordable, open-source solution for tracking fluid consumption in socially housed rats. FARESHARE overcomes the limitations of commercial software by providing an open-source platform that ensures reproducibility, accessibility and flexibility for researchers. In addition, Jibran and his team have released multiple open-source tools for behavioural neuroscience ranging from automated apparatuses for catalepsy and drinking behaviour as well as an open-source system for exposing animals to drug vapor from e-cigarettes. He is also a member of the OpenBehavior team, which is a collaborative initiative dedicated to disseminating and advocating for open-source tools in behavioral neuroscience research.
We congratulate this year’s winners, and look forward to honouring them at the 2024 annual meeting!
Previous Open & Reproducible Science Award winners
2022
Human social neuroscience: David Smith, Temple University, USA
Animal social neuroscience: Talmo Pereira, Salk Institute, USA
2021
Shannon Grogans, University of Maryland, USA
Lei Zhang, University of Vienna, Austria
Martin Trøstheim, Oslo University Hospital, Norway