OnceMagicBrainEel @OnceMagicBrainEel@qoto.org

#Social #bees, e.g., #Apis and #Bombus, have larger #foraging ranges than #solitary bees, because bigger bees have greater flight abilities, and also because bees from greater colonies need to travel further to avoid competition with their colony members.
bit.ly/3EHy7Hv

📢 #introduction

🔬🧬 Italy's research institute for #LifeSciences based in Palazzo Italia, Milan.

👨‍🔬 👩‍🔬 Our mission is to promote human health & well-being.

#lifescience #science #genomics #neuroscience #biology #computationalbiology #structuralbiology #datascience #biostatistics #molecularbiology #microbiology #bioinformatics #cryoem #cryoet #machinelearning #openscience #scicomm #crispr #genetics #organoids #medicine #publichealth

Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana...
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RT @Diogenes_LXX
Best poster of #SfN2022
https://twitter.com/Diogenes_LXX/status/1592971753189363713

Butterfly eggs, by David Millard.

This article nicely summarizes how NeuronBridge can be used to go from #connectome circuit to #fly strain by enabling access to large, open data sets. #drosophila #neuroscience #OpenScience
https://www.janelia.org/news/janelia-software-tools-power-fly-brain-research

Hello everyone! I joined a few days ago. I'm a glaciologist and senior researcher at #GEUS, The Geological Survey of Denmark and #Greenland
I mostly tweet about #Arctic #Antarctica #climate #climatechange #Polar science, but also #Mars science, #equity #openaccess and #fieldwork

I didn’t realize that the Dutch fought for their bike lanes. There’s a lot of history within this that I’m currently naive about but excited to learn!

Here’s the article I’m starting with — How the Dutch got Their Cycle Paths: https://www.pps.org/article/how-the-dutch-got-their-cycle-paths

#bikes #urbanism

I didn't take this photo but I was with my husband when he did. It was breathtaking up on Stenbury Down on the Isle of Wight, watching the mist roll in at sunset. The sheep were surprised to see us and for once the weather did what we'd hoped it would do! #SheepofMastodon

🚨#Tenure-Track Behavioral #Neuroscience Position Alert!🚨
McGill University is searching for candidates! This is a great opportunity to be with amazing colleagues, live in an vibrant city, and become a Montreal-style bagel convert! #NeuroJobs #URMinSTEM #NeuroMastodon #NeuroscienceMigration

https://mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/McGill_Careers/job/McGill-College-2001/Assistant-Professor-BNS_JR0000033648

Wow! That was new: At the San Diego airport, random attendees of #sfn22 #sfn2022 were called up by name and asked if they had any biological materials with them, related to their specialty.

This is nuts: Using armadillos as a model system, this group has shown that #leprosy bacteria are able to reprogram differentiated hepatocytes into stem-like cells. This ultimately results in further cell differentiation and proliferation (which ultimately benefits the bacteria by increasing the host resources available). The paper highlights the possibilities for liver regeneration in medicine.

But we're here to be awed by this new parasite manipulation strategy.

https://www.cell.com/cell-reports-medicine/fulltext/S2666-3791(22)00379-2?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS2666379122003792%3Fshowall%3Dtrue

The word forms are not their meaning
Their meaning is not the world

Modeling the distribution of word forms is not the same as modeling (knowledge of) the world. And yet somehow this basic point is missed over and over and over...

#AI #ML #MathyMath #AIHype #NLP #NLProc #Galatica #LaMDA #GPT3 etc etc

#rejectedCover
Theory of hierarchically organized neuronal oscillator dynamics that mediate rodent rhythmic whisking
https://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273(22)00756-5

For all electron microscopists out there:

"Crosshair, semi-automated targeting for electron microscopy with a motorised ultramicrotome"

Kimberly Meechan et al. 2022 @eLife from Yannick Schwab's lab at EMBL in collaboration with The Crick institute. https://elifesciences.org/articles/80899

Presents a new method for reliably and "selectively targeting small regions of interest in a resin block by trimming with an ultramicrotome", powered by "user-friendly software to convert X-ray images of resin-embedded samples into angles and cutting depths for the ultramicrotome."

Reviewed by three outstanding electron microscopists: Christel Genaud, Song Pang, and Michaela Wilsch-Bräuninger.

#electronmicroscopy #microCT #Platynereis #science #methods #EMBL #TheCrick

Aberdeen's University Librarian @simonjbains announced our new rights retention policy today!

Seems niche, but is super important for fighting the supervillains in for-profit publishing.

Uni staff can no longer be made to sign over copyright to publish. All work will be made freely available to all in the university repository.

We have an amazing Open Research Team at the library 📚 🦸‍♀️ 🏆. Thank you!

Full details:
https://www.abdn.ac.uk/library/documents/Research%20Publications%20Policy%202023.pdf

#OpenAccess #OpenResearch #RightsRetention #LibraryDon

friend taught me about something recently, known as Gell-Mann Amnesia

quoting this page: https://www.epsilontheory.com/gell-mann-amnesia/

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Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray’s case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the “wet streets cause rain” stories. Paper’s full of them.

In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.

We are very happy to announce that all @neuromatch 5 posters and talks (who chose to stay online) are now available, citable and enjoyable via @worldwideneuro: Come for the neuro stay for the science. https://www.world-wide.org/neuromatch-5.0/