Christian Wilms @ChrisWilms23@qoto.org

This is Mastodon and this is why it rocks!

I'm giving up eating chocolate for a month.

Sorry, bad punctuation.
Should be:
I'm giving up. Eating chocolate for a month.

quiesco: I rest
Minimus has had a dies negotiosa (busy day) and he's fessus (tired) - he needs a little intermissio (pause) with a potio calida (hot drink)!
#LatinVerbs

Cheeky Scientist is a bad company that should be stopped.

Academic friends, please contact your department/school's career services and ask them to stop booking Isaiah Hankel or his company.

Read this important article by Catherine Offord, and pass it on

https://www.science.org/content/article/criticism-builds-against-ph-d-careers-firm-cheeky-scientist

The Swiss Government has officially launched their Mastodon server at https://social.admin.ch/

In their official press release the Government confirms it is a trial for one year. They state that "Mastodon has several characteristics that make it fundamentally attractive for government communications", such as being beyond the control of others, as well as it being privacy friendly.

Official press release: https://www.admin.ch/gov/de/start/dokumentation/medienmitteilungen.msg-id-97696.html

Speaker of the Swiss Government: @gov

#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/

My fav.
https://darksky.org/app/uploads/2023/08/1st-place_-1584_Creatures_of_the_Night_Petr_Horalek.jpg

"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

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.

Survey: https://forms.gle/xerfVKMcWjbGuwPk8

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.

#ThrowbackThursday #TransHistory #Trans

The restroom sign we need to see more of in the world.