Christian Wilms @ChrisWilms23@qoto.org
Learning skiff sailor, former cell watcher, endless dinghy builder, dabbling woodworker, budding star gazer.
Joined Nov 2022
@bibliotecaria This is an inherent feature. Counter to how it is often discussed, Chat GPT is not a knowledge base. It's a language model. It simply invents text, without any understanding of it.
Christian Wilms
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“The apparent exodus is a shock to the academic system that some researchers didn’t see coming but that others say has been palpable for quite some time — and is a trend only set to continue. ‘The majority of senior academics still don’t understand how fast this is coming,’ says Daniel MacArthur, a population geneticist at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research in Sydney, Australia.
“Early-career scientists are not missing a beat, however.”
@Der_Waeller Lass mich raten: aber sie bewerben fleißig Homeopathie in ihren Praxen?
@DeepGreenDesign What a lovely picture! It catches the cozy inside-looking-out (where the cold is) atmosphere.
I had to look twice, as it looks like those "look what I rendered on POV Ray" posts back in 1997 or thereabouts.
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If you’re at the right place at the right time, with the right equipment, this is possible.
Last night, with guidance from https://transit-finder.com/, I positioned myself along the narrow line where the International #SpaceStation would pass between me and the nearly full moon.
I used a Fujifilm X-T4 shooting 4K video through a Celestron 8” SCT to capture the pass. Then, back at the computer this morning, put together these views with PIPP, Registax, and GIMP.
Quite pleased. My best yet.
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RT @EuroBioImaging@twitter.com
Happy 2023 🥳! We're excited to share this year's #VirtualPub calendar with lots of great talks on biological & biomedical #imaging topics!
Hope you can join us on 🕐Fridays @ 13:00 CET.
Full calendar & registration link⤵️
https://www.eurobioimaging.eu/about-us/virtual-pub
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/EuroBioImaging/status/1611019030013280258
Christian Wilms
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Announcing the 2023
Paris Spring School in Optical imaging and electrophysiological recording in neuroscience
3-16 May, Paris, France
Applications open now, deadline 31. Jan.
Please reboost, with apologies for duplicates.
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@SexyCyborg
Even in the US, which effectively committed to that repeated suffering very early, people still don’t understand that that is what they’ve been committed to.
The human capacity to willfully not understand is remarkable.
@McPatrick @moqume @SexyCyborg Of course it isn't. It's much more contagious. It causes much more long-term damage to infected individuals (which was to be expected the second we had the first full sequence and first documented in March 2020).
As we start seeing the fallout of all this over the next two decades, we will continue to be told that no-one could have known and that it's all hindsight now. Grmpf.
@moqume @McPatrick @SexyCyborg What struck me there is that anyone can get a flu jab in the UK. Updated Covid jabs? Not so much.
Christian Wilms
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Sick of people calling everything in crypto a Ponzi scheme. Some crypto projects are Pump-and-Dump schemes, while others are Pyramid schemes. Others are just middlemen skimming off the top. Others are just standard-issue fraud.
Stop glossing over the diversity in the industry.
@manisha @audreydrotos
I admit that I never really saw an issue with it (tiny volumes in the pipette and a filter in the line), but some people are now using automated pressure application. Much more reproducible.
@audreydrotos ex-patch-clamper here. 18 years of in vivo and in vitro, with and without imaging, mostly in cerebellum. Hoping to get a chance to try again over the summer :-)
Christian Wilms
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Any other patch clampers here from the bird site yet? Brain slice & in vivo patcher here, plus some silicon probe recordings with opto 💡 🧠
Christian Wilms
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An interesting explanation about the federated infrastructure behind Mastodon, with challenges and promises ahead https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/12/mastodon-highlights-pros-and-cons-of-moving-beyond-big-tech-gatekeepers/
@hasmis It was what made Mastodon so appealing to me. It is not a "Birdsite replacement", but so much more.
@Kalwat_Lab@mas.to @mikelove Exactly how I did it in Tusky: "copy link" in the menu at the bottom of the toot.
@Kalwat_Lab@mas.to @mikelove or simply tooting your "Hey, have a look at this" with a link to the thread?
@aidanhorner@fediscience.org I stumbled into stargazing due to being properly locked down ("do not leave your village") much of 2020 in a "dark village" at the edge of a dark sky reserve. The first thing I saw through the telescope was Jupiter and the Galilean Moons - I was hooked.
After spending a few weeks lurking, it's time for an #introduction.
I'm Christian, based in southwestern #Germany after fleeing the Brexit fallout in the #UK. A #biologist by training, I spent a long time with #neurobiology research. Today I work for two small companies in the #fluorescence #microscopy and #motioncontrol fields.
I have been #sailing #dinghies for over three decades, with a partcular passion for highperformance #skiffs (still a beginner at sailing faster than the wind blows). Over a #boatbuilding project (a #Farr37 is still work in progress) I discovered #handtool #woodworking and now dabble in furniture making.
The meltdown of the Birdsite reminded me how much I miss #usenet - maybe Mastodon will be a good replacement?
Learning skiff sailor, former cell watcher, endless dinghy builder, dabbling woodworker, budding star gazer.
Joined Nov 2022
