Christian Wilms @ChrisWilms23@qoto.org

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Hungary’s Victor Orbán is trying to blackmail the EU into paying him EUR 30 billion to end his block on Ukraine aid.

I have an alternative solution: Hungary joins Russia, Ukraine joins the EU — everybody gets to live in their dream society.

https://www.politico.eu/article/hungary-ukraine-aid-veto-eu-accession-unblock-frozen-fund-balasz-orban/

Yes, but... the search engine is all wrong: https://proton.me/blog/alternative-search-engines

Those trying to justify absurd Rwanda Bill overriding our courts & laws in the name of “Parliamentary sovereignty” are wrong. Parliament can only be sovereign *within a functioning legal & constitutional system* where courts can interpret law - which this Bill totally undermines.

🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/CarolineLucas/status/1734579736196620745#m

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Call it what it is: a war on British multinational families.
https://iandunt.substack.com/p/the-price-they-put-on-love?r=ga1yo&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

Happy to announce our new preprint on fast and light efficient volumetric voltage imaging with FLIPR microscopy – led by the outstanding @UrsLucasBoehm
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.11.28.568783

Am I missing something with the #ElginMarbles? Some British aristocrat stole some sculptures a couple of hundred years ago and Greece, quite reasonably, wants them back. What is the issue?? Seems like a no-brainer. It's never too late to atone for a shameful colonial past.

For all patch clampers out there Check out this beautiful preprint on reliable synaptic event detection. It works really well, with basically zero false positives! The project was led by Igor Delvendahl and Philipp O'Neill, and I also made a (small) contribution: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.11.02.565316v1

As part of a new report on digital advertising as a security threat published today by @johnnyryan and me (https://www.iccl.ie/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Europes-hidden-security-crisis.pdf), and previously unreported:

We reveal 'Patternz', a global mass surveillance system that harvests digital advertising data on behalf of 'national security agencies'.

Patternz is operated by a company based in Israel and/or Singapore. It claims to collect data about 5 billion users from 87 ad exchanges and SSPs via 6 data centers around the world.

Thread:

Come see us at #sfn2023 #sfn #sfn23 https://sites.google.com/internationalbrainlab.org/iblsfn23/

Björn Höcke ist und bleibt ein Nazi. Das sagt auch die Hamburger Staatsanwaltschaft. 👉 https://taz.de/Verfahren-wegen-Beleidigung-eingestellt/!5968418/

A sobering thought! #statistics #analytics more at timoelliott.com/blog/cartoons

It's an oldie but a goodie, re-upping it for #Halloween2023 - the #9types of horror lab. Happy Hallowe'en! 🎃 👻

http://totalinternalreflectionblog.com/2022/10/31/the-9-types-of-horror-lab/

Reading up on dyes, I see that the widely-used Alexa 594 performs poorly in #2Photon #imaging above about 850 nm.

We want a dye that works well at 1040 nm. According to this nice @biophysj paper, it looks to me like A546 would be a good choice, at least twice as good as A594. Do you have a favourite?

#fluorescence #cellbiology #neuroscience

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000634951200063X

@ChrisWilms23

The reason it doesnt work for people on QOTO is because QOTO isnt mastodon, its a fork.

@mapto @neilhoskins @helenczerski @davidho @gabipurcaru

@mapto @ChrisWilms23 @neilhoskins @helenczerski @davidho @freemo The way Followgraph is implemented is meant to preseve privacy: it uses inauthenticated requests to make sure Followgraph does not need to receive or store user data.

Specifically, it uses this API endpoint: https://docs.joinmastodon.org/methods/accounts/#following

The documentation says "**OAuth:** Public". Some implementations accept inauthenticated requests, but some choose not to.

This is why Followgraph doesn't always work.

Update on tracking neurons across days in #Neuropixels recordings: @EnnyvBeest gave a nice talk on it, where she explains UnitMatch. It's a brief talk and it's available online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4c_dgTZcBaQ&list=PLfhWmWntvjl7kljKozClpjS29DoY8V5pB&index=23&ab_channel=MatteoCarandini

The lectures of the 2023 UCL Neuropixels course are now on YouTube:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfhWmWntvjl7kljKozClpjS29DoY8V5pB&si=UjCmdEFyjZR5BE6Z

They are a great way to get an introduction to #Neuropixels, and to get up to speed on the latest developments.

The list of lectures is at https://www.ucl.ac.uk/neuropixels/training/2023-neuropixels-course. They are brief (typically 10-20 minutes) and packed with information. Click on the lecture title for the video.

Thank you to @EnnyvBeest and Celian Bimbard for organizing a fantastic course, and to the lecturers for doing an amazing job!

Extremely relevant article: https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/a-new-hope-taming-the-satellite-swarm-in-our-skies/?utm_source=cc&utm_medium=newsletter

Great quote from @planet4589: "The concern is that eventually they will start colliding (however spiffy their automatic avoidance algorithms are) and generating a lot of debris"