OnceMagicBrainEel @OnceMagicBrainEel@qoto.org

Europe has just experienced its warmest October on record, with temperatures nearly 2°C above the 1991-2020 reference period ♨️

#ClimateCrisis #ClimateAction

Discover more highlights on October temperatures, sea ice extent and hydrological variables: https://bit.ly/3ThoQdd

Deadline tomorrow! We are hiring postdocs for two projects. One seeks to reveal how neural activity is structured in brainwide patterns to support diverse behaviors in mice. The other aims to relate the activity of a single neuron with that of thousands of presynaptic and postsynaptic neurons across the mouse cortex (w Alipasha Vaziri and Federico Rossi). We are interested in people with diverse backgrounds, not only those with specific experience. https://tinyurl.com/CortexlabPostdoc. #neuroscience

Something more lively! No video embedding here so let's go for a GIF. Mmmh OK there are some strange rules, less than 10 MB, no 1920x1080... Here's a living neuron expressing tagged actin with tickling dendritic spines:

I’m very happy to be part of this review on my favourite taste modality https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-physiol-031522-075853

@albinokid

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OK hi time for a hashtag-athon #introduction post.

I run a behavioral #neuroscience lab in #boston and care a lot about #sabv in basic research and #equity in #academia.

In other realms, just an unapologetic and enthusiastic dilettante. I have an extensive home bar and like making #cocktails. I get excited about #fonts. I am learning to play the #drums. I like taking pictures (#photography) of buildings with my phone. #midcentury design (any medium), yes please.

I really loved Twitter.

Hey #neuroscience #neurotech #neurodon

I'm very excited about a truly distributed community for #neuroscience.

Let's make it easier for new folks (and #twitterexodus #twittermigration) folks to plug into the #neurodon community!

Please add your Mastodon information to this importable community list: https://forms.gle/sWZyxMGsNefy3kzr5

Some people think Mastodon is too weird to become popular:

I joined Twitter in 2008. We had to put a "d" in front of a tweet to convert it to a direct message and every other day you had some embarrassing private moments exposed because someone forgot about the “d”. Hashtags were just a community hack, introduced by Chris Messina to somehow tag content. Search? Hah, you wish! Tweets via SMS were supposed to be a thing. Oh, and the daily meet and greet with the failwhale. Totally not weird.

Hi folks,
A brief #introduction:
I took the disruption of the pandemic to return to my undergrad degree at #UofT after a 20-year hiatus (poor mental health). I am currently studying Ecology and Evolutionary Biology with a strong interest in sexual selection and behavioural ecology,
I've been keeping neotropical cichlids for ~30 years and have a whole lot of questions about them that I'm SO eager to explore!

Good time to announce that I will be starting my lab at SIDB & University of Edinburgh early next year! 🎉 We will investigate neuromodulation and cortical learning, as well as their dysfunction in mouse models of autism spectrum disorder

Have you visited the #FlyWire website yet? Both for helping proofread and analyze the whole #Drosophila brain #connectome, or simply to admire the beautiful renderings of neuronal arbors: https://join.flywire.ai

(See also the #VirtualFlyBrain for #ontology-driven navigation of the fly brain, and access to images of genetic driver lines, and more: https://v2.virtualflybrain.org/org.geppetto.frontend/geppetto?id=VFB_00101567&i=VFB_00101567 )

Wish I had time or resources to create such a beautiful landing page for the larval central nervous system. The #connectome of the whole larval brain is coming soon. For now, see the #vEM images and some ~3,000 published neurons in this #CATMAID server: https://l1em.catmaid.virtualflybrain.org/?pid=1&zp=108250&yp=82961.59999999999&xp=54210.799999999996&tool=tracingtool&sid0=1&s0=2.4999999999999996&help=true&layout=h(XY,%20%7B%20type:%20%22neuron-search%22,%20id:%20%22neuron-search-1%22,%20options:%20%7B%22annotation-name%22:%20%22papers%22%7D%7D,%200.6)

#connectomics

short #introduction
Neuroscientist fascinated by neuromodulation and cortical learning. Big on open science! Also love nature (i.e., wildlife 🐛 ) and painting strange pictures.

Just because it is Monday morning and the #TwitterMigration is still going on, it may be worth repeating that #science would do well to replace their antique journals with modern technology:
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5526634
The three most important reasons why:
- The most prestigious journals publish the least reliable science:
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2018.00037/full
- Journal prices are tenfold inflated:
https://f1000research.com/articles/10-20/v2
- Open infrastructures for research data, code, models, software, etc. are sorely missing.

🚨 We are hiring a Bioimage Analyst and Research Software Engineer @humantechnopole@twitter.com in Milan. 🚨
I believe we are a really fun team doing great work together. Check us out and apply if you want to join! 👍
We’re looking forward getting to know you!
https://careers.humantechnopole.it/o/bioimage-analyst-and-research-software-engineer-computational-biology-research-center

JOB ALERT (please reblog) -->

Molecular biologist for zebrafish at Janelia Research Campus, HHMI:

https://hhmi.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External/job/Janelia-Research-Campus/Research-Specialist---Ahrens-Lab--Molecular-Biology_R-1568

Casey Schneider—Mizell studies the #mouse cerebral #cortex with #vEM #connectomics at the Allen Brain Institute, and develops software for mapping and analyzing #neuronal #circuits in very large image volumes with nanometer resolution measuring over a cubic millimeter.
#neuroscience

I could maybe also pitch my latest preprint here. Among other things, I discuss the (probably) increasing influence of big tech on #cheminformatics and #bioinformatics research.

"Social and environmental impact of recent developments in machine learning on biology and chemistry research"

https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.00356