Hi everyone We've got a couple of announcements for you this week: *Guest Speaker Wednesday 29th @ 2pm:* This week YNiC will be hosting a short talk by Dr Elena Mikulskaya on the subject of: “Psychophysical And Neural Correlates Of Visual Processing In Cannabis Users” The talk will be held at *14:00 on Wednesday the 29th of January in YNiC open plan,* all are welcome to attend. Refreshments will be provided afterwards. *Monthly Science Social Seminar:* On the first Thursday of every month YNiC hosts a 'Science Social' at 4pm in YNiC open plan. Topics include imaging methods, software, and analysis techniques, but we also encourage users to volunteer to present anything that they think may be of interest (email support(a)ynic.york.ac.uk to volunteer). Pizza and drinks will be provided! The next Science Social will be on MEG data processing using Brainstorm, and will take place on* Thursday 6th February at 4pm*. We look forward to seeing many of you there! For a list of the upcoming Thursday sessions, please visit https://www.ynic.york.ac.uk/events/thursday-sessions. *Open Plan Teaching:* Please be reminded that teaching will be taking place in YNiC open plan at 12-4pm on Tuesday and Friday this week. During these times, the area will be closed to anybody not involved in the teaching. *Level 0 operator Training:* Our next scheduled Level 0 training session is now fully booked. The next session will take place on Wednesday 11th March at 10am-12pm. Please note that users requesting Level 0 training should be a PhD, RA/Postdoc, or staff, and should already have a project proposal submitted to YNiC. Please email support(a)ynic.york.ac.uk if you have any questions or wish to book on to this session, and include which scanner you wish to be trained on. Please note that sessions are limited to 4 trainees, which will be allocated on a first-come first-served basis. Training must be booked at least a week before the session date, in order to reserve the scanner booking. All operators must attend an 'Emergency First Aid at Work' one-day training course. Courses should be organised by the project PI with a relevant training provider (e.g. St Johns Ambulance, Red Cross); these providers can also run group training sessions (8 or more people) on-site, so labs may wish to coordinate their operators to all attend training on the same day, at a location of your choice. *YNiC User Inductions:* If you are aware of any new students/staff that will require access to YNiC and/or an IT account, they must attend a YNiC user induction. Our next induction date will be Wednesday 12th February at 10am. Please ask them to contact support(a)ynic.york.ac.uk to sign up. Hope you all have a great week! 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