Andy Lowry @AndyLowry@qoto.org

Weird gate.

Either a random remnant of a fence that no longer exists, or a portal to somewhere else entirely. I didn't walk through.

#Photography #Fotografie #fotomontag #monochrome

Super pleased to be here.

I think it's glorious that there's now a Mastodon server operated by people who used to work for Twitter (macaw.social). I could have never imagined it when I started in 2016.

This top-tier food content is exclusively for the Mastodon community. Tweeps have no idea what they’re missing. Was it a difficult decision? Sure. But I didn’t start this war. I’m just another hapless foot soldier on the front lines of the senseless sectarian conflict Musk began.

*stares, unblinking, into the far distance*

From The Onion:

"Elon Musk Demands Twitter Servers Explain What All These Wires For"

https://www.theonion.com/elon-musk-demands-twitter-servers-explain-what-all-thes-1849786227

But, you know, at this point it wouldn't surprise me if this really happened. 🤷‍♀️

A foggy day in the depths of Epping Forest.

#photo #photography #forest #fog

Slightly excited, Thursday my transport will be ready

I’m dismayed by the amount of post-election reporting that focuses on tactics (blunders, maneuvering, infighting), to explain the “surprising,” “improbable” Democratic success. The “surprise” framing absolves the political press from guilt for swallowing a red wave propaganda campaign from GOP operatives and pollers.

And what if Republicans did badly because voters don’t want what they’re selling? Maybe policy choices matter.

@EJDionne does much better:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/11/12/gretchen-whitmer-josh-shapiro-ron-desantis-big-winners/

When I was on the birdplace I had over 3,000 followers. I would rather have 30 here.

_The Internet Archive is now on Mastodon!_

The Internet Archive has recently set up its own Mastodon server– a federated/decentralized open source social media package– that has garnered lots of attention lately. We use it in ways that we use twitter now (we are not leaving twitter):• @internetarchive for events, announcements, and fun things• Staff accounts (e.g. my account @brewsterkahle) for, well, […]

https://blog.archive.org/2022/11/13/we-have-added-a-mastodon-server/

Feel like I have been refreshing the "US HOUSE ELECTIONS RESULTS" page on the NYT website for days now, and almost nothing ever changes

🚨 BIG DATA RELEASE 🚨 We are beyond excited to announce the release of our Brain Wide Map of neural activity during decision making! It consists of 547 Neuropixel recordings of 32784 neurons across 194 regions of the mouse brain 🐭🧠

All these recordings were performed in a distributed fashion in 12 different labs, spanning Europe and the US 🌎 Rigorous standardization of methods and materials allowed us to pool the data from these labs together into a single gigantic dataset 🐙

Mice are performing our standardized perceptual decision-making task in which they have to position a stimulus in the center of a screen to receive reward. The dataset contains the stimuli and decisions, but also videos from three angles and DeepLabCut pose information. We're even releasing all the raw ephys data!

We know, it's a lot. At your own pace you can read all the details about the experimental setup, the task, processing of the data, and much more in the technical paper which accompanies this data release: https://figshare.com/articles/preprint/Data_release_-_Brainwide_map_-_Q4_2022/21400815

To explore the data at your leisure, visit our visualization website where you can scroll through different recording sessions, look at neural activity during example trials, and see trial-based activity of single neurons: https://viz.internationalbrainlab.org

Do you have itchy fingers to run your models on this humongous dataset? We totally get it! Here you can find how to download the data using our API so you can fire up those computing clusters: https://int-brain-lab.github.io/iblenv/notebooks_external/data_release_brainwidemap.html

This was a collective effort of our stellar team, who all put in so much work to make this monumental achievement possible. Our collaboration consists of 22 PIs, 37 researchers, and 11 staff members who all worked tirelessly to bring these data to you, the community 👏🍾

Grótta lighthouse at low tide. #iceland #lighthouse #photography #longexposure #sea #shore #misty #blackandwhite #bwphotography #rocks #building #tower

Arctic Tern. #iceland #photography #animal #bird #blackandwhite #bwphotography #closeup

_In this era of Food Insecurity, it's almost criminal that 13% of good fresh food is wasted!_

This farmer says he reluctantly throws away enough cauliflower to feed a province | CBC Radio

An estimated 13 per cent of fruits and vegetables grown in Canada go unharvested or are discarded, according to a federal government report. Many farmers say they can't afford to harvest, box and transport wasted produce to food-insecure Canadians for free.

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/checkup/cauliflower-farm-canada-surplus-food-waste-food-insecure-1.6644601

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