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2026-ohbm-ossig/ossig-ai-workflows.md

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+# OHBM 2026 OSR Emergent Session Submission
+
+for submission https://forms.office.com/r/W9WNfcSczF
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+## 1. What is the proposed title of your emergent session?
+
+AI-Assisted Scientific Workflows: From Coding to Data Analytics -- A Pragmatic Exchange
+
+## 2. Who are you and what is your affiliation?
+
+Yaroslav O. Halchenko, Center for Open Neuroscience, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA
+
+## 3. What is a good email address to contact you?
+
+yoh@dartmouth.edu
+
+## 4. Please provide a short description of the session and what you hope to achieve.
+
+_Address how you're incorporating multiple perspectives._
+
+AI coding assistants and agentic tools are rapidly reshaping how researchers write code, analyze data, and manage scientific workflows.  Yet adoption varies widely -- especially in the European research community, where concerns about data privacy, reproducibility, and over-reliance on AI are (rightly) prominent.  This emergent session aims to bridge that gap through a pragmatic, experience-driven exchange rather than a one-directional talk.
+
+**What we will cover:**
+
+- **The AI coding maturity ladder** -- from simple chat-based prompting to in-the-loop agentic coding and multi-agent orchestration.  Where are you, and what does the next step look like?
+- **Practical workflows** -- spec-driven development, reusable skill/command libraries, guard rails (hooks, sandboxing), and how these patterns apply not just to software engineering but to data analytics pipelines in neuroimaging.
+- **Reusable tools and frameworks** -- existing open collections of AI coding skills (e.g., con/skills), AI-ready digital artifact archival (con/serve, YODA principles), and how to compose them into everyday research practice.
+- **Challenges and honest limitations** -- when AI assistance hurts rather than helps, the "doom loop" trap, context engineering pitfalls, and strategies for responsible adoption.
+
+**Multiple perspectives:** We explicitly invite participants from different career stages (students to PIs), technical backgrounds (occasional scripters to software engineers), and attitudes toward AI (enthusiasts and skeptics alike).  The session is designed as a moderated discussion where European and international perspectives on data governance, reproducibility, and ethical AI use are central -- not afterthoughts.  Building on themes from last year's OHBM OSR emergent sessions on open-source tools and reproducibility, we aim to move past hype and toward actionable, community-validated practices.
+
+**What we hope to achieve:**
+
+1. Participants leave with at least one concrete technique they can try in their next project.
+2. A shared understanding of the maturity spectrum -- so researchers can self-assess and plan their learning path.
+3. Seed a community of practice around AI-assisted scientific workflows within the OHBM/OSSIG ecosystem.
+
+## 5. Please provide links to any relevant materials
+
+- Talk slides "A few words of intro into AI assisted coding" (CA Origami Retreat 2026): https://datasets.datalad.org/centerforopenneuroscience/talks/2026-ca-origami-retreat-aicoding.html
+- con/serve -- digital research artifact archival: https://con.github.io/serve/
+- con/skills -- reusable Claude Code skills collection: https://github.com/con/skills/
+- con/yolo -- sandboxed agentic coding: https://github.com/con/yolo
+- AI coding maturity ladder (Jo Van Eyck): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6W_-YWHKwZ4
+- Context engineering guide (Anthropic): https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/effective-context-engineering-for-ai-agents
+
+## 6. Which time slots work for you? (Please select all that apply)
+
+TODO: Select based on your schedule. Available slots:
+- [ ] June 17th (Wednesday), 8:00am-9:00am
+- [ ] June 17th (Wednesday), 1:45pm-2:45pm
+- [ ] June 18th (Thursday), 9:15am-10:15am
+- [ ] June 18th (Thursday), 11:15am-12:15pm
+- [ ] June 18th (Thursday), 12:30pm-1:30pm
+- [ ] June 18th (Thursday), 1:45pm-2:45pm
+
+## 7. Recording and streaming volunteer (Name, email address)
+
+_(Optional -- leave blank or fill in if you have a volunteer)_
+
+## 8. Agreement to Code of Conduct
+
+[x] I agree to follow OSR's Code of Conduct
+
+## 9. Agreement to Recording and Dissemination
+
+[x] I agree to record and disseminate this session on YouTube
+
+## 10. Agreement to be included in the proceedings
+
+[x] I agree to be included in the proceedings