This is an executive summary of some of the activity that has occurred in the past few months collected from posts you made to our Facebook group and to Twitter.
Please note that not every post or news item is repeated here. We selected posts/items that we felt might be of greatest interest to society members. This necessarily involved some discretionary choices, but we made our best effort at fair representation of what’s going on.
Nevertheless, if you know about relevant activity that you think should be included here, please contact us with your comments so that we can be more comprehensive in our coverage. Also, for what it’s worth, the order of presentation here is arbitrary. For future newsletter issues, we encourage you to announce events via the Facebook group or on Twitter using the hashtag #fNIRS.
fNIRS review article among journal’s top most downloaded
Posted by Paola Pinti on June 14, 2019.

Chiara Builgarrelli had an oral fNIRS talk at OHBM.
Posted by Sabrina Brigadoi in FB group June 11, 2019.
fNIRS summer school at Belgorod State University

Posted by Mojtaba Soltanlou in Twitter in June 10, 2019
Although not focused on fNIRS, the school included fNIRS relevant content. Find the details here.
ARTscientific2019: The third Artinis NIRS Symposium
Posted by Artinis Medical System in Twitter on May 11, 2019.
Hand and foot stimulation in neonates: talk video
Posted by Nasser Kashou in Tw April 28, 2019.

Xu Cui’s 6 experiments you should do with NIRS (vs fMRI)
Posted by Rob Cooper on Tw April 26, 2019.
Read it in full here.

fNIRS work featured in 50th Anniversary Special Issue of Developmental Psychobiology
Posted by Heather Bortfeld in FB April 7, 2019.
Read the whole story here.
New NIRS-Homer Google Group
Posted by David Boas in FB on April 10, 2019.
Visit https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/homer-fnirs .


Multi-directional NIRS
Posted by Tshiro Ishii in FB April 10, 2019.
This research was highlighted in Physics World.

Deconstructing the Dream on stage: NIRS in the theater
Posted by Antonia Hamilton in Twitter April 2, 2019.
NIRS for the treatment of eating disorders
Posted by Varun Mandalapu in FB March 28, 2019.
Prof. Joe Culver: Endowed Chair Inaugural Lecture
Posted by non-member in Twitter on April 25, 2019.

SfNIRS FB group turns 4!
Posted by Mari Franceschini on March 23, 2019.