Andy Lowry @AndyLowry@qoto.org

Jeff Beck, guitar god who influenced generations, dies at 78

https://www.inquirer.com/wires/ap/jeff-beck-guitar-god-who-influenced-generations-dies-78-20230111.html

This morning at the FAA...

@gabsmashh I don’t like music streaming. I want to own my favorite tracks and albums and listen to them 600 times in a row without Apple judging me.

@StabbyCutyou @gabsmashh
THIS. Why does every piece of technology want me to talk to it? I don't even want to talk to people...

@gabsmashh I literally never want technology to try to speak to me or listen to my voice.

I will push buttons and you will receive signals, and that is the contract.

I ran a mile today.

It wasn't very fast but I kept moving at an above-walking pace the whole time. Running even a little bit has been painful and numbing for my feet since chemo. I hadn't seriously tried running this whole last year because I've been afraid to discover that it was lost to me.

I'm not a great runner by any means, but some of my absolute favorite memories are running the Hood to Coast relay race several times and other events like it. Running enables a lot of joy in my life.

So with that background, I'll say it how I feel it:

Hey y'all, I RAN A FREAKING MILE TODAY!!! 🎉🥳🤩🔥

ok, carry on with your day now 😘

#WeHackHealth #Cancer

Fun fact about #homeopathy if there's just one drop left in the bottle, you don't have to buy a new one! Just refill with tap water and shake thoroughly. Do it often enough and eventually that stuff will cure #cancer.

Today seems a good time for a proper #introduction :

I’m a professional #mobiledev employed as a code mechanic/mercenary. Updating deprecations and hardening implementations.

I contribute to #opensource projects that empower & protect the public good. I won’t be sharing much of that work here.

Deep commitment and passion for all things #nature. Beekeeping, climbing, or anything without cell service.

Started making #jewelry in spare time May of 2020. Freedom from devices, just you and the metal. Therapeutic when dealing in #infosec.

While code occupies most of my time, I’ll be sharing knowledge of history, #geometry and other interesting stuff.

It’s different here, and I like that. Thanks to those making it happen behind the scenes and in front.

Ugh #Google is such trash now search should be like a library not a damn shopping mall

Tip your server. Return your shopping cart. Pick up a piece of trash. Hold the door for the person behind you. Let someone into your lane. Small acts can have a ripple effect.
That's how we change the world.

@AndyLowry “little gamma rays in my hands,” I told myself in order to grant myself the strength to actually touch the dough to roll the balls. 😂 Long story short, I had to master Snickerdoodles in a weekend or my sister would have screamed from 100 miles away. 😆❤️

I don't have any followers here, but:

Here's a story from me today about the state-of-play at Texas' three unionized newspapers -- with the big news being that the Fort Worth NewsGuild has ratified the only union contract at a Texas newspaper, following a 24-day labor strike: https://www.texasobserver.org/striking-does-work-fort-worth-journalists-win-only-newspaper-union-contract-in-texas/

Hi Mastodon! #introduction 👋
My name is John Butler.
I'm Maths/Stats Lecturer and Neuroscience researcher in the School of Mathematics and Statistics in TU Dublin since 2015.

My research uses computational neuroscience methods to investigate multisensory processing. My favourite sensory system is the vestibular system it is just great.

I am a member of @neuromatch I’ve contributed materials to the summer schools. I also help organise the Conference and I’m particularly proud of the introduction of Neuromatch for Kids which shows how maths and neuroscience work together.

I really enjoy teaching, I've taught mathematics, statistics and computational neuro to all levels from graduate, down to primary. Here are two modules:
• Numerical Analysis with Applications in Python (https://john-s-butler-dit.github.io/NumericalAnalysisBook/ )
• Short Introduction to Maths in Neuroscience with Python (https://github.com/john-s-butler-dit/Basic-Introduction-to-Python)
There are more on my my GitHub.

Lastly, I do a bit of#scicomm, so I give talks at events like; Maths week and Science Week, Pint of Science, Bright Club, I’m a Mathematician Get Me Out of Here, and I regularly give talks in primary and secondary schools about his work.

I started off on techhub but I'm trying to reduce the amount of my identity that's about tech. So I moved, and now I guess I need to do this again:

I'm Ash, or Geiiga. 8 months ago I decided to stop having music be a thing I always wanted to do and start actually doing it. Got a guitar and started writing my own songs, mostly about people being abused by systems meant to support them. I plan to start releasing them as soon as my rapidly improving guitar skills allow. #introduction

Visual cortex is affected by sounds. Does this mean it is multisensory? Does it represent sounds?

Today in Nature #Neuroscience (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-022-01227-x) Célian Bimbard and team find otherwise.

Sound-evoked activity in visual cortex was similar across neurons. Even neurons in hippocampus. It persisted after we cut fibers from auditory cortex!

This activity was predicted by… subtle body movements evoked by the sounds. It reflects brainwide state and behavior signals.

#NeuroNewPaper

"My eyes are up here," she says with an elegant gesture to the top shelf of curious jars and grotesqueries.