Hello @research_community! This Topic acts as a recap of some activity that occurred on Discourse over the month of May. If you’re new - the community management team will create these summaries each month to help you stay up to date with what’s happening in the community. To see roundups from previous months, click here.
One major addition we’d like to flag is that we have recently added the ability to include your research interests on your Discourse profile. We hope this makes it easier to identify collaborators and subject matter experts! Please take a minute to add tags to your own profile.
Notable Topics 
- Thank you to everyone who contributed to the Getting Started with Parkinson’s Disease Data guide! Per Mike’s post, It is now published on Zenodo.
- @Gdp22 asked where to find CSF glucocerebrosidase activity is in the PPMI dataset, and @jodiefm provided a helpful response. Check out the Topic if you’re hoping to use the PPMI dataset in a similar way.
- @danieltds shared a detailed guide to how to identify clinical milestones to use for a new research project.
- @vdardov shared the video recording of an AMP-PD Target Explorer demo that she gave to the community in the fall of 2023.
Upcoming DCoP events 
- We’re happy that several new folks have joined the data community this month! If you’re a new member who didn’t get a chance to join a welcome call, provide your availability for one here, we’d love the chance to get to know you better!
- If you joined the community this year, fill out this survey so that we can learn how to better serve new members!
Ongoing conversations 
- The conversation about using ChatGPT for research purposes continues, with folks sharing how they do and do not use the platform.
Opportunities 
- If you’re new to the community, add an introduction here! We’d love to learn more about you.
- Or, reply to other DCoP members’ introductions to connect with other new members!
Social 
- It’s great to see what you have been publishing this quarter - if you have authored a paper or presented at a conference, let us know so that other DCoP members can see what you’re working on! If you’re looking for collaborators, this could be a great place to start.