#DarkSky International (formally #IDA) has announced the winners of it's 2023 Capture the Dark photography contest. For some beautiful dark sky photography, check out the finalists:
https://darksky.org/news/2023-capture-the-dark-winners/
"Don’t believe HR’s endless blather about “putting people first” or “breaking the silence about bullying”. It is just spin to enable your university to look good and get its Athena SWAN badge."
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/bullying-feature-uk-research-universities-not-bug
Iva Lučić shows our students how to label CaMKII with fluorescent dye for #singleMolecule TIRF #microscopy #biophysics
@andrewplested The only true way to look at electrophysiology data :-)
Thomas Korte shows the students how to use TIRF microscopy to visualise single molecules, and what a dirty coverslip looks like. #biophysics
🔬First method-focused work from our lab is just out in Cell Reports Methods 🎉
Interested in multicolor SMLM? Check the open-access final version of Karoline Friedl's PhD work, with Sandrine Lévêque-Fort's lab and the Abbelight gang
https://www.cell.com/cell-reports-methods/fulltext/S2667-2375(23)00215-1
Have you read "The B Lane Swimmer?". If not, you're in for a treat: https://holly.witteman.ca/the-b-lane-swimmer/
A man in Saudi Arabia has been sentenced to death for his tweets, and surprise: Elon Musk is NOT funding his legal bill as promised because there's a good chance that the necessary data to identify this man came from the second largest shareholder of Twitter: the Saudi prince Alwaleed bin Talal.
Musk has been awfully silent about this as you can't really make your “freedom of speech!!” argument when you assist with killing a retired teacher for the regime critic posts they made on your platform, only possible because that regime owns a huge chunk of “your” platform.
We’d love to hear your thoughts about this probe: would you use it for your scientific question? What do you like/dislike, and what would you change? A final production decision has not been made so your input here is critical.
@PhiloNeuroScie
Our lab has released a wireless miniscope for mice, and its not that expensive!
https://wiki.aharoni-lab.com/Wire-free_Miniscope_v4
Trust me on this. You absolutely want to spend 10 minutes reading about this random pedestrian bridge in Minnesota.
https://tylervigen.com/the-mystery-of-the-bloomfield-bridge
#bridge #bridges #highways #civilenginerring #history #Minnesota
Hi there!
Here is a short #introduction about me and things I have been doing lately!
Living in the UK, after a decade in Germany, originally being from South America.
for a while I have been an #openscience advocate and practitioner, focusing on #openhardware and tools for research.
I currently work at the University of Sussex in the UK, as a scientific officer and a lecturer in Open Science.
Some places that might be worth a visit (but some might be outdated)
https://open-neuroscience.com (a community led repository for open source tools in Neuroscience - which I started back in 20143
https://openhardware.space - online training resource for best practices on developing open hardware
https://amchagas.github.io (outdated personal page)
https://prometheus-science.com (my side hustle, a company offering services around open source hardware and open science
Introducing Neuropixels Ultra, a new probe with >10x site density: an implantable voltage camera capturing complete planar images of neurons' electrical fields in vivo! ⬆️ spike sorting yield, ⬆️ detection of small fields, and ⬆️ cell type identification.🧵
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.08.23.554527
Many trans people have made important contributions to society. For example, Ben Barres was a ground-breaking neuroscientist who also used his experiences as a trans man to highlight sexism in science.
You can read more about Barres story by visiting this article: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07109-2
Alt text: Picture of Ben wearing a lab coat and glasses, sitting in a front of a microscope. Text as in post.
@ChrisWilms23 thanks for the @! @susanleemburg Indeed, we're making the Buskazi lab version for the community (and our own @t1m used it with neuropixels and regular probes) . So far, a bit over 60 labs have received drives from us and the feedback we got was mainly positive.
Moving to the UK, as a scientist:
Startup package, what’s that?
Entry-level faculty salary lower than your postdoc salary a decade ago, what do you mean?
Child care as expensive as elsewhere where salaries are twice the amount, that can’t possibly be, right?
Buying a house costs several times the cost of a house where you lived before, come on that can’t be that bad?
Ah yes, please pay many thousands of pounds upfront so that we can sign you up with the NHS… no we can’t finance that or let you pay it over multiple months.
We hope you can still apply to the ERC, the local funding bodies are overstretched but surely it will work out?
In other words, please subsidise us from your savings and international collaborations.
This is not a red carpet but a tar pit with snakes, flying arrows and a giant rolling stone catching up to your footsteps.
We hope to start with neuropixels2.0 soon (multishanks ftw!)
So far I've seen this surprisingly low-tech DIY-ish version https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8177890/
This one that looks nice, but seems almost a bit delicate for rats (ours are enthusiastically destructive): https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.08.03.551752v1
And I believe there are the Atlas Neurotech headstages (but only for neuropixels 1.0?)
Learning skiff sailor, former cell watcher, endless dinghy builder, dabbling woodworker, budding star gazer.