Britt DK Gratreak 🖖 @Britt@qoto.org

A ✅ has appeared in my profile. Hurrah for that. I think we have to realise that the learning curve here is steepish, but rather than be anxious about it, shouldn’t we should celebrate the adventure of slowly finding out something that was puzzling at first? Like your first week at school or in a new office building. We’ll get there and soon laugh at how confused me were at first. I hope!

Which instances support latex? I am asking for a friend 👀

#GradSchool folks and future #GradStudents:
I started a list of US #PhD programs that *guarantee* full rotation support for students who need to switch labs. This is an important #inclusion, retention, and equitymeasure.
To add a program, reply to this post or add a comment to the GSheet at the following link. Let's make this a standard feature of PhD training! 👊
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1H14zbDDn62jWjuB506pABSGnIHLncVvK3d0jTEvssXg/edit?usp=sharing

Hey #NeuroscienceMigration and #Neuroscience folks! I'm presenting pain relief (opioid, Hsp90, and phospholipase C-focused) research at #SfN22 / #SfN2022 in 2 poster sessions! I'm really excited for my very first SfN & this will be my first poster since switching to a new lab earlier this year. Put me in your itinerary! ✨ Let's network and have a couple dozen cups of coffee!

Saturday: 6:30-8:30pm L1 TPDA Trainee Professional Development Award session
Wednesday: 3-4pm 711.03 Opioids/Pain

Here's the link to my abstract:
https://abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/10619/presentation/65376

Investigating the role of phospholipase C in enhancing opioid pain relief during Hsp90 inhibition

Session Title: Opioids and Pain
Presentation Number: 711.03
Presentation Time: Wed Nov. 16, 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM

I #KnitMyPhD! Asteroid impacts, molten metal and 4.5 billion year old space rocks - you can read all about it in our recently published article 1/3

Keeping my tradition of painting octopuses on the bottoms of tables in hotel rooms alive 😀

If you think I'm following you and then get another notification, let me introduce you to my FAT. THUMBS. I've been looking through my followers and keep unfollowing.

Hi #neurodon! I want to learn more about experiments in rodents about model free vs model based behavior. Any suggestions for great papers/reviews on this broad topic would be appreciated! #neuro #neuroscience

The QOTO server gives you 65535 characters per toot, which makes around 36 standard printing pages

Ok I guess this is what one does with #TwitterMigration to reforming #neuroscience #neurodon communities—an intro:

Hi! I’m interested in circuit development from a cellular / systems perspective, particularly neuron-glia and brain-body interactions. For my PhD, I used imaging to study (1) myelination and (2) NMDAR activity in circuit development and refinement.
Currently I’m figuring out “what next” while doing #scicomm. Check out my projects <https://linktr.ee/zahraa.chorghay> and connect!

Alvin popping in to say hi #MedMastodon!

Intro time. Hi #sciencemastodon - I'm Co-Founder of the #preprint servers bioRxiv & medRxiv at Cold Spring Harbor Lab, where I also oversee CSH Perspectives and other #publishing projects. I trained as a molecular biologist. My goal is to improve science communication.

Learn more about bioRxiv at https://doi.org/10.1101/833400 - and on the podcast https://tinyurl.com/y8rbttwz

I'm also interested in promoting understanding of different career paths for academics. More at https://tinyurl.com/4papvn5z

First toot #ScienceMastodon

I am a #devbio Group Leader at the Babraham Institute. 🐭⌛️👤⏳

Likely to highlight papers on dev bio. Specially timing, stem cells and mammalian #development.

Sometimes I post about research culture, academic progression and women in science

Trying to keep up in SMM as twitter has been useful so far.

By way of #introduction, I’m another new migrant, trying to understand the culture here & looking forward to not finding a #hostileenvironment. My #STEM career mostly spent in #breastcancer #genetics but increasingly working on #psychology behind #abuseculture. I battle #fatigue & #brainfog due to #autoimmunity thus also keen to tackle #LongCovid. I practise #art (watercolour) & ride a #tricycle to look after my own #mentalhealth & also follow #ukpolitics since it’s currently such a mess.

Hey, if you want to be "verified" on the fediverse as being _actually you_, you don't need some third party to verify you or to check some list.

Got a domain you own, that's obvs you?

Paste `<a rel="me" href="https://your.server/@your_username">Mastodon</a>`into the html on that domain, add that domain to your profile links, bam, verified at least as comprehensively as a lot of folks on birdsite.

If this seems hard, I will help you! You can verify yourself, promise!

(boosts for reach a-ok)

A relevant blog post for this Mastodon platform: 'The "palaeontological folklore" of mastodon hair': an essay about the surprising LACK of fossil evidence for brown, shaggy hair in these elephant-like creatures. It turns out that there's no reason to assume mastodons were mammoth-like in appearance, and the brown, hairy mastodons you see everywhere are a #paleoart super-meme.

(Mastodon image by Charles Knight - one of my favourites from him).

http://markwitton-com.blogspot.com/2020/08/the-palaeontological-folklore-of.html

I’m looking for a seminar speaker for our experimental (astro-)particle physics group on Nov 18. Since it’s also LGBTQ+STEM Day, I’d be particularly excited to welcome #LGBTQSTEM #BiInSci #TransInSTEM folks! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Seminar is online, so you can join us from anywhere in the world. Early career folks (incl. final year PhD students) welcome! #Astrodon #ParticlePhysics

You know, I am grateful for you. For everyone out there who is curious, compassionate, kind, and fosters laughter, understanding, and connection.

The last few days have showed me that no one place can ever hold the keys to our communities, our passions, our power, and our fire.

No matter what, we've got this.

I've seen some people describe themselves as a "Twitter refugee".

Would it be possible for people to stop using that term please. Refugees flee from persecution, usually also fleeing for their lives. Moving from Twitter to Mastodon is not fleeing from persecution or fleeing for your life.

Using refugee in this context comes across of making light of what it actually means to be a refugee, and can strip away what being a refugee actually in everyday parlance means to if used causally too often.