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This week at YNiC
by Lauren Welbourne 04 Mar '19

04 Mar '19

Hi everyone We have teaching in Open Plan on Tuesday and Friday this week between 12 and 4pm, there will be no access to open plan for anyone who is not involved in this teaching. Please be reminded that YNiC will be closed from Wednesday 27th to Friday 29th March for building and maintenance work. Siemens will be available as normal on 25th March (the scheduled maintenance took place on 25th *Feb*, I made an error in a previous email). Finally, our next *YNiC user induction* will take place on *Wednesday 13th March at 10am*. If you are aware of any students that will require an IT account for YNiC, they must complete a User Induction first. Please ask them to contact support(a)ynic.york.ac.uk to sign up for the next induction date. Hope you have a good week, Lauren -- Lauren Welbourne, PhD Senior Research Technician lauren.welbourne(a)york.ac.uk York Neuroimaging Centre University of York Innovation Way Heslington York YO10 5NY

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REMINDER: Project Presentations @ 2:30pm
by Lauren Welbourne 28 Feb '19

28 Feb '19

Hi everyone Just a reminder that today's YNiC Project Presentations are starting at the earlier time of *2:30pm*. We have two talks today, the first from Adam Turnbull, and the second from Nerissa Ho. Hope to see you there! Kind regards Lauren -- Lauren Welbourne, PhD Senior Research Technician lauren.welbourne(a)york.ac.uk York Neuroimaging Centre University of York Innovation Way Heslington York YO10 5NY

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This Week at YNiC
by Lauren Welbourne 25 Feb '19

25 Feb '19

Hi all We have quite a few things going on this week that we'd like you to be aware of: *Presentations and Inductions:* 1. We have two project presentations this Thursday, starting from *2:30pm* in YNiC open plan. The first will be given by Adam Turnbull, and the second by Nerissa Ho. 2. We will be running a *YNiC user induction this Wednesday* 27th at 10am - if you are aware of anyone that needs to be inducted, please ask them to contact us to sign up (support(a)ynic.york.ac.uk). 3. There is a seminar in Biology room K018 on *Friday 1st at 1pm*, as part of the Biomedical Sciences seminar series, by Prof Rob Lucas (University of Manchester) entitled "Vision Beyond Rods and Cones", which may be of interest to a number of YNiC users ( https://www.york.ac.uk/biology/news-events/seminars/infection-immunity/spri… ) *Closures:* 1. *YNiC will be closed from 3:45pm this Thursday 28th*, after the project presentations, in order for staff and YNiC users to attend the YBRI Neuroscience Social (Register at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ybri-social-neuroscience-theme-tickets-54695… Password: YBRI2019) 2. *YNiC will be closed from 27th to 29th March*, in order for a number of building and maintenance works to be carried out. 3. Open Plan will be closed for teaching this Friday between 12 and 4pm. *Scanner Bookings:* 1. Both GE and Siemens scanners will be used for Masters projects from the end of April. The slots restricted to these projects have been marked on the booking system, and can only be booked for these projects. 2. Other restricted slots that occur in March will be released a week before the scan date, in the event that they are not booked by the restricting group. Please note that we have also added some additional operator covered slots in Siemens on Mondays, for those weeks where the scanner is heavily restricted. Hope you have a good week, Lauren -- Lauren Welbourne, PhD Senior Research Technician lauren.welbourne(a)york.ac.uk York Neuroimaging Centre University of York Innovation Way Heslington York YO10 5NY

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This week at YNiC
by Lauren Welbourne 18 Feb '19

18 Feb '19

Hi everyone Here are a few things to note for this week, and upcoming limited-staff dates: - There will be teaching in open plan on Tuesday and Friday, 12-4pm. Open plan will be unavailable to users that are not attending the taught sessions. - *The Siemens scanner is now available for booking on Mondays. *Please be aware that clinical scans of patients will be taking place in GE, and we therefore ask that you maintain a professional manner in reception and the MRI corridor if you use the Siemens scanner on the same day. - Further to the above, Siemens will be unavailable on the 25th March for scheduled maintenance. - The MEG UK conference takes place in Cardiff on 15th-17th April. A number of YNiC staff will be in attendance, and therefore on these dates there will be no operator cover and very limited staff availability (the centre will still be open for use). Hope you have a good week, Lauren -- Lauren Welbourne, PhD Senior Research Technician York Neuroimaging Centre University of York Innovation Way Heslington York YO10 5NY

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DC Labs Lecture by Andreas Roepstorff on Playfulness
by Lauren Welbourne 14 Feb '19

14 Feb '19

Hi everyone, I'd like to invite you all to attend the following talk by Andreas Roepstorff at *2:30pm* next *Tuesday, 19th Feb*, at the Department of Computer Science (Hes. East). Andreas is an anthropologist/neuroscientist/interdisciplinarist and he directs the Interacting Minds Centre in Denmark, which explores new weird, wonderful ways of studying minds in interaction. Please find the talk abstract below (and attached), as well as directions to the seminar room in the Computer Science building. I hope you can make it! Kind regards Lauren *Playfulness: A Surprising State of Mind* *A Digital Creativity Labs Lecture by Andreas Roepstorff* *February 19, 2019, 2:30-3:30pm* *Heslington East, room **CSE/082&083 http://bit.ly/2E7aWXW <http://bit.ly/2E7aWXW>* *Attendance is free, no registration required* These days, theories of prediction error minimization are *en vogue* across the cognitive sciences. Cognition seems to be all about control: of events, hidden causes, environments, and many things in between. Playful activities seem to open up a very different terrain. They appear to involve letting go of control, to let processes, materials and collaborators do ‘their’ thing, and in and through that create unexpected trajectories. We have recently explored a number of such activities involving unusual research tools, like Ouija boards, Lego bricks, and haunted houses. I will describe some of these experiments, drawing on both qualitative and quantitative methods, to explore emergent dynamics of play-like activities. This will allow us to explore whether playfulness is a surprising state of mind. *Biography* Andreas Roepstorff is a Professor of Cognition, Communication and Culture at Aarhus University (Denmark). He works at the interface between anthropology, cognitive science, and neuroscience, and is equally interested in the workings of the mind and brain, and in how cognitive science and brain imaging, as fields of knowledge production, relate to other scientific and public fields. He is the director of the Interacting Minds Centre at Aarhus University and is involved in a number of transdisciplinary collaborations, focusing on aspects of human interaction. Most recently, he won a major grant to work with renowned artist Olafur Eliasson to create engaging experiments on perception, decision-making, action, and collaboration in public spaces. For more, visit interactingminds.au.dk. -- Lauren Welbourne, PhD Senior Research Technician York Neuroimaging Centre University of York Innovation Way Heslington York YO10 5NY

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Weekly YNiC news & YBRI Social Event
by Lauren Welbourne 11 Feb '19

11 Feb '19

Hi all A couple of things to be aware of for the coming weeks: - There is a *YBRI Social event* on the* 28th Feb* in Biology. The theme this year is Neuroscience, and it is a good platform for discussing your work in a social setting. Pizza and drinks are provided. If you'd like to attend, please register via Eventbrite <https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ybri-social-neuroscience-theme-tickets-54695…> (password YBRI2019). If you'd also like to bring a poster, please let the administrator know at ybri(a)york.ac.uk - Due to the above event, *YNiC will be closed from 3:45pm on the 28th Feb * - Open plan will be open all of this week, as there is no teaching during Reading Week - If you are running projects at YNiC, please take note of the updates to the screening procedure highlighted in our emails earlier today Kind regards Lauren -- Lauren Welbourne, PhD Senior Research Technician York Neuroimaging Centre University of York Innovation Way Heslington York YO10 5NY

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IMPORTANT: changes to MRI screening procedures
by Andre Gouws 11 Feb '19

11 Feb '19

(Sorry for cross posting - MRI operators may get this twice) Hi all We would like to make you aware of recent updates we have made to the GE and Siemens MRI Safety and Consent forms, which can be found here https://www.ynic.york.ac.uk/forms. In particular, please draw your attention to the section on piercings and tattoos. The piercings question now reads: "Are you currently wearing any jewellery? – e.g. piercings, watches, bracelets, necklaces, hair clips, rings" Please read the *full question *to participants, including the list of examples. This question should be answered /after/ all jewellery has been removed, which may be when the participant is in the control room. In most cases, the answer to this question should be 'No'. If jewellery cannot be removed, operators will require a Level 3 signature. In your initial screening of your participants you should establish if any jewellery cannot be removed, and then notify support(a)ynic.york.ac.uk <mailto:support@ynic.york.ac.uk> if you will require a Level 3 signature (please provide details of the scan date/time). You will no longer be required to obtain a Level 3 signature for participants with tattoos. Instead, you will direct the participant's attention to the tattoo warning sign located on the control room wall (near the other safety information signs), read the warning to the subject, and advise them to press the emergency buzzer if they feel any heating of the tattooed area during the scan session. Finally, both operators in charge of the scanning session should sign the boxes now marked as 'Operator A' and 'Operator B' - the order of the signatures is irrelevant, but it should only be signed by those acting as operators for the scan. We hope that these updates will improve your scanning process, whilst maintaining the safety of our participants. Please read through the full questionnaire to familiarise yourself with this updated version - *every question* on this form will require a yes or no answer now. -- André ************************************************************************ André Gouws PhD Manager of Imaging Services York Neuroimaging Centre University of York The Biocentre York Science Park Heslington YO10 5NY Tel: +44 (0) 1904 435327 Fax: +44 (0) 1904 435356

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Fwd: Burst water pipe bio
by Antony Morland 01 Feb '19

01 Feb '19

Hello All, It will be a bit chilly at YNiC this morning (see below). We have independent heating control of the MRI areas, so scanning can still go ahead. In even better news, we have escaped flooding this time! All good wishes Tony ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Adam Douglas <adam.douglas(a)york.ac.uk> Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2019 at 08:55 Subject: Burst water pipe bio To: Good morning. Unfortunately due to the cold weather we have had a burst pipe in the bio centre. This has only damaged the 2nd floor at the moment. However, to bring it under control and fix the pipe we have had to turn the pumps off. This means the heating will be off this morning until it is repaired. Engineers are on site and will get the heating back on as soon as possible. If you need a heater please let me or a member of the team know and we will happily provide. The engineers hope to have the heating back on by lunch time, I will keep you updated as much as possible. Please accept my apologies for any inconvenience caused. We are working to rectify this as soon as possible. Kind regards Adam -- *Adam Douglas* *Facilities Manager* York Science Park Ltd T: 01904 435100 *DD: *01904 567824 E: Email address W: www.yorksciencepark.co.uk <http://www.facebook.com/pages/York-Science-Park-Ltd/178260196498> An Exciting Environment for Growth... Virtual Office | Hot Desks | Next to world-leading University of York For more info contact - enquiries(a)yorksciencepark.co.uk Innovation Centre, Innovation Way, Heslington, York, YO10 5DG F: 01904 435135 Company No. 2939132 | Registered address: Heslington Hall, Heslington, York, YO10 5DD | VAT No. 647 2055 41 Email Disclaimer <http://www.yorksciencepark.co.uk/disclaimer.html> -- Antony Morland, PhD. Director, York Neuroimaging Centre Department of Psychology, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK.

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Reserved slots
by Antony Morland 30 Jan '19

30 Jan '19

Dear All, We are trialing a 'reserved slot' model for some scanning activities at YNiC. What does this mean? 1. In general terms, it means that the system we use to reserve slots for teaching is being rolled out for some grant funded research activity. There are however some differences in the timing of when unused reserved slots become available to others to book. 2. The reserved slots open up 6 weeks in advance - coinciding with the booking access that externally funded projects have. 3. If reserved slots have not been booked one week ahead of those reserved slots, they will become available to others to book. This means that those researchers who have one week booking access are unaffected. The rationale behind this change is to allow funded researchers to plan ahead, which can be very valuable when high participant throughput is needed. At the same time however we are happy to reserve slots for any funded researchers even if they intend only to scan a few participants. As part of the trial we will also monitor the use of reserved slots by the researchers who requested them. Best wishes Tony -- Antony Morland, PhD. Director, York Neuroimaging Centre Department of Psychology, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK.

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Earing
by YNiC Reception 30 Jan '19

30 Jan '19

Hi all I have an earing in reception which was handed in yesterday if you lost one. Best wishes Jackie

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