Nick Souter
@NickSouter
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University of Sussex, studying ways of measuring the carbon footprint of fMRI data preprocessing and analysis 🌱🧠
Brighton, UK
Joined May 2009
RT @OhbmEnvironment: ‼️ NEW PAPER ALERT ‼️. @NickSouter et al. (including many of our SEA-SIG members) demonstrate the environmental impact….
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Computing needed for data processing has a carbon footprint. We estimated the carbon emissions arising from eight variants of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) preprocessing pipeline...
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RT @OhbmEnvironment: Are you looking to get involved with like-minded neuroimagers to make our field more sustainable?. Nominate yourself t….
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RT @Loic_Lnlg: I am incredibly excited to announce Green DiSC, a free and open-access sustainability certification scheme for computational….
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Huge thanks to @NeuroRae for helping me plan and run the workshop, and to @SussexNeuro and the Sussex Researcher School for their support!.
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I recently ran a workshop focused on 'How to reduce the carbon footprint of your research computing', including interactive demonstrations of green computing tools 🌱🖥️. You can find a recording of the event here!.
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RT @hello_bio: Our Interviews with Scientists feature is back & we were delighted to speak to @NickSouter of @SussexUni! 👨🔬. Nick was the….
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Big thanks to Antonia de Freitas, @MeichaoZ, @Ximing_Shao, @TirsoRJGonzalez, @athanatizein, @the_mindwanders, Katya Krieger-Redwood, and Beth Jefferies for all their help on this project!.
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My final PhD paper had just been published in Human Brain Mapping 🎉. Using fMRI, we found dissociable activation in subnetworks of the Default Mode Network during the retrieval of contextual semantic and emotional associations to pictures🧠.
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RT @BritishNeuro: Our 2024 Green Neuroscience Prize Winner @NickSouter shared his fascinating study into the #Carbonfootprint of #neurosci….
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Thank you to @BritishNeuro for this prize, and for giving a platform to green neuroscience! 🌱🧠.
We are delighted to announce the winner of our #Green Neuroscience prize @NickSouter. This new prize is part of our commitment to minimise the negative #environmental impact of undertaking research, teaching and practice.
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At 3pm today I'll be presenting this same work in a little more detail. It'll be livestreamed and there's still time for BNA members to register!.
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In this short 'PosterByte' video made for the @BritishNeuro 2024 Members' Meeting, I discuss our recent work on the carbon footprint of neuroscience data processing 🌱🧠🖥️. You can also find it on TikTok: #BNAMembersMeeting2024
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RT @NeuroRae: Don't miss the @BritishNeuro Members Meeting, next week 24-25 April 🧠. I'll be debating 'a revolution in sustainable neurosci….
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RT @CKampoureli: I'm very excited to announce that I will be speaking at the @BritishNeuro Members' Meeting on April 24th!. I will be discu….
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@BritishNeuro You can register for the metting here: And sign up for membership here:
bna.org.uk
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I'll be speaking at the @BritishNeuro Members' Meeting on April 25th! . I'll provide an overview of our recent work on the carbon footprint of neuroscience research computing, and what you can do to reduce it. 🌱🧠🖥️. #BNAMembersMeeting
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Big thanks to @Loic_Lnlg, @gabriellesamue1, Chris Racey, @Lincoln81, Nikhil Bhagwat, @raghavian, and @NeuroRae for all their work on this paper!.
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10. Talk about greener computing. Discussing the carbon footprint of data processing within your neuroimaging community will make it easier to think seriously about this issue. This will help in embedding sustainable ideas into standard practice 🌱.
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9. Use existing data. Running analysis on previously collected and preprocessed data is a great way to test hypotheses without using additional energy to preprocess it yourself. We provide a table describing different open access datasets.
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8. Reflect on what needs to be shared. It's good practice to share all raw neuroimaging data on platforms like @OpenNeuroOrg. But this storage still has a carbon footprint. Consider whether just sharing preprocessed files would be enough to allow others to make use of your data.
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