Ron Anderson, PhD @DoctorRinny@qoto.org

On a positive note, today I submitted my draft post-doctoral proposal, which builds on my Ph.D. dissertation. In addition, my dissertation is now about 90% complete and I have the body written, now just need to get the conclusion and defense going. Things are moving! #WxMastodon #SciComm #severeweather #phdlife #academicmastodon

📣 I’ll be admitting 1-2 PhD students to work in the area of CS Education, Ed Tech Design, #HCI, and cultural studies. I’d love students who are interested in working with low-income African American and Hispanic communities, or in low income areas in West Africa.

Please apply to the Human Centered Computing PhD program Georgia Tech @ICatGT. Apps are due Dec 15 - no GRE required. DM me if you have specific questions about your fit for my work or the program.

Highly recommended fancy German hot cocoa! You can buy it in America for somewhat exorbitant prices, but cheaper than flying to Europe.

#introduction

Hi, I'm Cristina, an italian #scicomm professional working in #academia, where I lead a master program in #communication of #science.

I hate writing so I don't know how it happened that I started two blogs, wrote books, magazine colums, and papers ... All about #social #media, #technology, and #society.

I enjoy exploring weird conversations on social media, and sharing memes on Telegram.

I love #cats , #music 🎶 #scifi 👽 and
I spend my freetime playing #golf (and filling my #mastodon timeline after the
#TwitterMigration )

#autumn #colour in perfection - love to live where I live

Hi hi! Deepu here. Cognitive Neuroscience Memory researcher. My intentions are to imbue Mastafon with 30% cool science, 40% irreverence, 20% puppies, %10 innocuous cyber bullying of colleagues. #introduction

#introduction I am an associate professor at the Gatsby Computation Neuroscience Unit and Sainsbury Wellcome Centre at UCL and visiting scientist at #MetaAI.

I think we're pretty amazing learners and my goal is to unravel the computational principles governing learning in artificial and biological systems. I'm broadly interested in the theory of deep learning and applications to neuroscience and psychology.

#machinelearning #ai #neuroscience #psychology #deeplearning #ucl #cifar

Finally finding time for my Mastodon #introduction!

I am a Senior Scientist at the Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest in Toronto, Canada. I am also an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Toronto.

My research uses multimodal neuroimaging techniques to study cognitive aging, with a special focus on memory and the functional organization of the medial temporal lobes.

Read more here: https://www.olsenmemorylab.com/

Mastodon growing pains... switched servers and my #introduction is gone, so let me try again, this time with hashtags!

My #cognitiveneuroscience lab studies #learning, #memory, and #sleep using empirical as well as #computationalmodeling approaches.

(Did I do it right?)

My optimism about Mastodon has been oscillating at high amplitude and frequency, but my fingers are tightly crossed that we will be able to rebuild our science community here!

Hello everyone, I've made the leap to Mastodon! 👋

I'm Charlotte, a Lecturer in Psychology at Aston University, Birmingham 👩‍🎓 🏫

My research expertise lies in addictive behaviours and social cognition and I am passionate about science done right #OpenScience

I am the Author of: "A Student's Guide to Open Science: Using the Replication Crisis to Reform Psychology", which will be published in January 2023

Great to be here, and to see you all again!

#TwitterMigration

Time for a #hashtag #introduction

I come from the #birdsite to #mastodon looking for other like minded people and to escape Elon's hellsite. I chose the @SDF instance b/c I support their mission and all they do. I also used their free #unix shell years ago.

I have an interest in
#politics #uspolitics
#technology
#computers #computing
#programming
#webdesign #webdevelopment
#linux #windows #android
#software #games
#videogames
#retrocomputing
#retrogames #retrogaming
#raspberrypi

post-migration re-#introduction:

I'm an assistant professor in the School of Information at #umich. I develop computational methods to study conversations, in the vein of #computationalsocialscience #datascience #nlp #nlproc, with #socialcomputing #cscw #emca #hci #linguistics in my peripheral vision.

I have a dog whose yawns, out of context, can be construed as screaming. I maintain a messy mapping of books to cafés at http://tisjune.github.io/recreation/

Having switched servers, I should give another #intro: I’m a #geneticist with a background in #neuroscience, #evodevo, #HumanGenetics, and #MarineBio. These days I work in #PublicHealth and #epi spaces, doing #DataScience, #sequencing, and #rnd, usually in #R. I used to be a #sysadmin, for my sins.

#PunkMusic, punk ethos, all things #ocean, cranky lefty #politics, #cocktails, #ttrpg, and #baking are all pretty much guaranteed if you stick around.

Every year, students in my CS 488 Software Development course work in teams of 4-8 to build software for an external customer. If you are in the Portland, Oregon area, that customer could be you!

Last year's ​projects included:

* A video game to teach people about earthquake preparedness.
* Creative animation software for an artist.
* A tool to help a faculty member organize course content.

Do you (or someone you know in a local organization) have a computational problem for which you need a piece of software? Let me know and maybe we can help you out.

WHAT YOU GET

Free custom software! This comes with some caveats:

* We usually produce stand-alone desktop applications. Other things are possible, but I'd prefer to stay within this realm.
* These are mostly seniors working on their first large piece of software. I make no guarantees as to quality; you might get something that you can use to do real work, but you might just get a fragile "proof of concept". We use an agile development technique that regularly reexamines goals, priorities, and expectations; this leads to a good probability that we'll have something working by the end of the semester, even if some of your more optimistic features have to be dropped.
* There probably won't be anyone to maintain your program after the semester is over. You might be able to hire some juniors to do more work on it.

WHAT YOU GIVE (We'll work with you on all of these things)

* Create an initial description of your project.
* Create and maintain a list of "user stories"​ (​things that you want your program to do​)​.
* Commit to meet with the students every other week to discuss progress and priorities. This must be a firm commitment; it's a disaster for me ​and ​the students and me if a customer flakes out.

Please boost and let me know ASAP if you're interested!

#software #ComputerScience #education #portland #pdx

Babe, wake up, a new #JWST image just dropped.

Light from the protostar L1527 escapes above and below an edge-on protoplanetary disk (the dark line at the center of the image), creating an hourglass shape. This illuminates the cavities carved as ejected material from the star collides with the surrounding, dusty nebula.

Dust scatters shorter wavelengths of light, so blue areas are where the dust is thinner and orange areas are where the dust is more dense.

https://webbtelescope.org/contents/news-releases/2022/news-2022-055

#astronomy

Look closely at the center of this image. You probably noticed the bright spot in the center, the central protostar. But did you notice the dark band in front of it? That’s the protostar’s accretion disk, created as material swirls around it.

The material within this disk can sometimes clump up, forming the beginnings of planets. But the protostar will absorb many of these before they can mature.

Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI

We finally made it to the #fediverse, so it's time for a brief #introduction!
We are an interdisciplinary research group based at the Dept. of #Geography at the University of Innsbruck exploring transient spaces and societies at the intersection of #urbanisation, #mobilities and #digitisation. We take a critical perspective on these cross-sectional themes and scrutinise how social practices and power relations shape them. See more: https://www.transient-spaces.org/

I have Opinions about the SLS, but dang it's still cool to see the launch of a new giant rocket to the Moon.

Photo: NASA/Keegan Barber from https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasahqphoto/52502725017/in/album-72177720297400430/