Christian Wilms @ChrisWilms23@qoto.org
Learning skiff sailor, former cell watcher, endless dinghy builder, dabbling woodworker, budding star gazer.
Joined Nov 2022
Christian Wilms
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Die drei Stufen der sog. Eigenverantwortung:
1. Ich mache nichts, es gibt ja noch nicht mal eine Empfehlung.
2. Ist ja nur eine Empfehlung, so wichtig ist das offensichtlich nicht.
3. Ich lass' mir doch nichts vorschreiben.
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a beautiful highlight of the microscopy by the Prevedel Lab: imaging 1.5mm into the brain #3Pmicroscopy #adaptiveoptics
Christian Wilms
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Really looking forward to this from fabulous BINA crew!
A seminar series on Career Paths for the #ImagingScientist 🪜🔬
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RT @BioimagingNA
Surprise 🎉 We have a second speaker series!
Curious to learn about the career paths of #ImagingScientists outside the traditional academic pathway?
Attend BINA’s Careers Speaker Series on the 📅Third Wednesday of the month at 12 CT /1 ET
Register:
https://www.bioimagingnorthamerica.org/events/c…
https://twitter.com/BioimagingNA/status/1621539515255984131
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Our latest paper on our two-photon targeted multi-patch-clamp platform is now updated on biorXiv.
GI Vera Gonzalez, PO Kgwarae and SR Schultz (2023), Two-photon targeted, quad whole-cell patch-clamping robot. To be published in Proceedings of the 11th International IEEE/EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering, Baltimore, USA 2023.
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.11.14.516499v2.full.pdf
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Bei Menschen mit überstandener #COVID19-Infektion werden #Autoimmunerkrankungen häufiger diagnostiziert als in einer Kontrollgruppe ohne dokumentierte COVID-19-Infektion. Das ergeben Analysen umfangreicher Krankenversicherungsdaten.
➡️ https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.01.25.23285014v1
Die Studie ist Teil des vom Robert Koch-Institut geleiteten und vom Bundesministerium für Gesundheit geförderten Projektes „Postakute gesundheitliche Folgen von #COVID19“.
➡️ https://www.rki.de/DE/Content/InfAZ/N/Neuartiges_Coronavirus/Long-COVID/Projekt-Post-COVID.html
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College essay assignment: use ChatGPT to write an essay on the following topic. Print it out and, by hand, grade and critique the essay, showing where it is wrong(based on what we’ve learned in class), inadequate or where the writing is clichéd or otherwise less than excellent human quality.
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Love this Axios Visuals look at the evolution of pickup trucks and their popularity in the US (and how they are used for shopping / daily driving much more than hauling boulders) . This view of the inversion of the ratio between cab and cargo bed tells the story. https://www.axios.com/ford-pickup-trucks-history
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Reflecting back on things certain people told me were dangerous. Rock music. Dungeons & Dragons. LGBTQ+ peeps. Drag Queens. Immigrants. CRT. Black Lives Matter. Vaccines.
Some of y’all are just scared & constitutionally wrong. Grow up. Contribute, rather than sowing fear.
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@trose_neuro How convenient. 7 schools prior to university, some for only a few months - I wouldn’t even know where to begin. Feel a tad if relief that I won’t get into a situation of needing the DFG anymore. 😁
Random musings of someone who left academia on the publishing industry from a #CompetitiveStrategy point of view.
Looking at the structure of the academic publishing industry, the average profit in the entire industry should be very high. Looking at it using #MichaelPorter’s #FiveForces as a framework, you will struggle to find an industry as prone to profits:
The rivalry within the publishing industry seems low, but is the only one of the five forces that is likely to limit profits.
The buyers (the researchers as readers through their institutions) are generally weak - the need for access to these journals is high and it has to be specific journals, limiting the ability of buyers to believably threaten to take their business elsewhere.
The suppliers (the researchers as authors) are generally weak as well. Simply because the selection of where one can publish and advance their career is very limited.
The threat of new entrants to the market is exceedingly low. One due to the high costs of entry and two due to “brand loyalty” of the buyers and suppliers.
That leaves the fifth force: risk of substitution. Thus would mean a complete replacement of the current publishing system with a move to post hoc review, funding agency funded publication servers, etc. Again, given the academic incentive model, the risk of this is low.
When all of these five forces are low or weak, the average profit in that industry will be high.
What is really interesting, and ultimately promising that the reason they are weak in this case always comes down to a single factor: that success in academic careers is tied to publication in “high impact” journals. The instance that scientists are judged by a different metric, the whole structure of the publishing industry changes fundamentally.
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#2724 Washing Machine Settings
I guess the engineers who built my dishwasher MIGHT have some insight into how to load it, but instead of reading the booklet they gave me, it seems easier to experiment for years and then get in arguments so heated that I get banned from Quora.
https://xkcd.com/2724/
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RT @markocms@twitter.com
It seems like Nikon implemented and is ready to commericalize @VicidominiLab@twitter.com idea of scanning with 5x5 SPAD array detectors achieving resonant scanning compatible superresolution imaging.
@andrewplested Always a bit sad, but at the same time so exciting :)
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Reported that 3-per-week Brussels-Vienna Nightjet set to become daily from Dec 2023, combined with new daily Nightjet from Brussels to Berlin (in addition to European Sleeper's new train, so yes, TWO sleeper trains Brussels-Berlin!).
Existing 3-per-week Paris-Vienna Nightjet (often fully-booked weeks ahead) is also set to become daily, combined with a new daily Nightjet from Paris to Berlin, swapping portions with the train from Brussels in Germany (2 origins & 2 destinations forming an X).
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A List of Things People Blamed on Jazz
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@bibliotecaria @cshlan@toot.cat and that is a huge mistake. Given the way ChatGPT was discussed by media as well as in academic conversations, it’s an understandable mistake. But still a very fundamental one.
@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.
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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?
Learning skiff sailor, former cell watcher, endless dinghy builder, dabbling woodworker, budding star gazer.
Joined Nov 2022
