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Sam, this question required me to dig way, way, way back! My favourite memory is bumping into a fellow newbie that was just as overwhelmed as I was and sparking a new friendship. We navigated the rest of the meeting together which made it much more enjoyable.

This is a topic that is very "near and dear" to my heart. As an ardent supporter of open and FAIR neuroscience, data sharing and reuse govern my work. Whether that is through volunteer efforts to develop standards or developing web applications and platforms to make data sharing and reuse more feasible. I believe that data reuse has the potential to democratise neuroscience; that is, enable individuals from under resourced institutions to conduct research beyond their institutional capacity. Moreover, the open data archives developed by the world's large-scale brain initiatives (e.g. BRAIN, Brain/MINDS, CONP, and HBP) are posed to provide the neuroscience research community with large volumes of FAIR data that can not only be reused to advance our understanding of the brain, but also to revolutionise how we teach and learn neuroscience (from high school to graduate school). I would love to hear about any of your experiences with data sharing and reuse whether you are pro or against it. My colleagues and I are in the process of collecting data about barriers to data sharing and reuse in neuroscience. I encourage you all to help us out and complete the survey.