It’s officially March and the NoCTURN blog has been taken over by the Open Science Committee! Our posts will include highlights from community members and reflections on previous accomplishments in Open Science. We also encourage you to become more involved […]
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What is microCT imaging?
Click here for a GitHub resource on how micro-CT imaging works, and how it can be used to capture detailed 3D microstructural images. MicroCT imaging, short for micro-computed tomography, is a technique that uses X-rays to create detailed 3D images […]
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Practical Microcomputed Tomography Workshop
Create by Stuart Stock, hosted by the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Description This record presents the material presented at the Denver X-ray Conference (DXC), Aug 2024, in Westminster, CO. It is designed to introduce practical numerical analysis of […]
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Announcing a Call for Nominations: Rohlf Medal for Excellence in Morphometrics
In an era where understanding life’s intricate details has never been more crucial, we are thrilled to announce the call for nominations for the prestigious Rohlf Medal for Excellence in Morphometrics. This award is not just about innovation; it’s a […]
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Open CT Facilities – NYIT Visualization Center
Location – Old Westbury, NY, USA CT Scanner – Bruker SkyScan 1173 Facility Contact – Kelsi Hurdle, Lab Manager, khurdle@nyit.edu Written by Simone Hoffmann, Julia Molnar, and Kelsi Hurdle Facility Overview What inspired the creation of an open access facility? Over the […]
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Member Spotlight – Freya Goetz
Title: Museum Specialist at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural HistoryORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5696-4333Website: https://naturalhistory.si.edu/staff/freya-goetzNoCTURN Involvement: Open Science Committee “NoCTURN is wonderful because it is aimed at improving approaches to CT and open science. The group is collaborative and incredibly welcoming” […]
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Open CT facilities – Florida Atlantic University Laboratory Schools – Owls Imaging Lab
Location – Boca Raton, FL, USACT Scanner — Bruker SkyScan 1173Facility Contact Information — Lauren Simonitis, Research and Bioimaging Specialist, lsimonit@fau.edu Facility Overview What inspired the creation of an open access facility? The Owls Imaging Lab is a one-of-a-kind research […]
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Vertebrates open for download!
Between 2017 and 2023, the “open Vertebrate” (oVert) project, funded by NSF, united 18 participating institutions to digitize vertebrates in their natural history collections through Computed Tomography (CT) scans. Six institutions acted as imaging centers with CT scanning labs, including […]
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Member Spotlight – Callie Crawford
Title: Assistant Professor, Coastal Carolina University, Department of BiologyExpertise: Functional Morphology, Fishes, Elasmobranchs, BiomechanicsORCID: 0000-0002-7225-8137Involvement in NoCTURN: Open Science and Education and Outreach Introduction Today, we’re featuring Dr. Callie Crawford, a functional morphologist based at Coastal Carolina University. Dr. Crawford has been using CT […]
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The importance of open science and data sharing in academic publishing: A journal editor’s perspective
Written by Heather F. Smith, Ph.D. Editor-in-Chief of The Anatomical RecordProfessor of Anatomy at Midwestern UniversityNoCTURN Open Science Committee member ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3738-0903 As scientists, we’ve all been there—trying to reconstruct another researcher’s steps or protocols, but missing the necessary information […]