OnceMagicBrainEel @OnceMagicBrainEel@qoto.org

For those that joined #Mastodon and grabbed the first server they could find, but would prefer to #migrate to a different one, I created a short guide on how to do this quickly and easily.
It also allows you to easily move any followers across to your new profile and leaves a redirection on your old profile for those that find it to help them get to your new one. 😁👍

I'd love if you could share it among your networks to help those that will invariably need it later on.
https://youtu.be/BpI-SplOXVE

Haben Tiere in Bewusstsein? Haben sie ein 'Ich' oder können sie überhaupt nicht zwischen 'selbst' und 'nicht-selbst' unterscheiden? Verschiedene Tiere geben unterschiedliche Hinweise darauf, wie sich unser Selbstbewusstsein in der Evolution entwickelt haben könnte. Mit Eva Jablonka, die hier bahnbrechendes leistet, mit @ZeroNoiseLab und auch mit ein wenig #drosophila #neuroscience
https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/104840-015-A/haben-tiere-ein-ich/

3,013 neurons, half a million synapses: the complete #connectome of the whole #Drosophila larval brain!

Winding, Pedigo et al. 2022. "The connectome of an insect brain" https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.11.28.516756v1

We’ve mapped and analysed its circuit architecture, from sensory neurons to brain output neurons, as reconstructed from volume electron microscopy, and here is what we found. 1/

#neuroscience #connectomics #vEM #volumeEM

This is a fun* website that gives you context for any flights you are planning to take.

https://flightfree.org/flight-emissions-calculator

*fun as in good product design, not that it will make you feel good to use...

30 Tage Gewahrsam für Klimaaktivist:innen?

Maya Werner und Ralf Poscher vom Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung von Kriminalität, Sicherheit und Recht in Freiburg vertreten im "Verfassungsblog" die Meinung:

Das bayerische Vorgehen ist nicht nur verfassungswidrig. Es ist noch nicht einmal vom bayerischen Polizeigesetz gedeckt.

https://verfassungsblog.de/gewahrsam-als-letztes-mittel-gegen-die-letzte-generation/

#Klima #Klimaproteste #Recht #Verfassungsrecht #Polizeigesetz

I've got some time to kill in Los Angeles tomorrow. Does anyone have suggestions what to do or see? I've never been to LA before, and I prefer quirky and weird attractions over the mainstream tourist traps. Thanks

This young male elephant seal isn’t quite ready to engage in the kind of bloody territorial battles the adult males engage in. So he resorts to making some funny faces instead.

#wildlife #wildlifephotography #elephantseal #pinniped #funnyanimal #photovember #seal #sealife #photography #california

Dear fellow Mastodoners, To help the #TwitterMigration I only post teazers on twitter with a link to the mastodon content and a short message:
"Join us on the other side. Open, distributed, community driven, no ads, no AI feeding you, no random retweets, full control."
you could do the same

"Structured cerebellar connectivity supports resilient pattern separation" Nguyen, Thomas et al. in @darbly's lab https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05471-w

Spectacular work based on connectomic reconstruction from nanometre-resolution volume electron microscopy and computational modelling that contributes novel findings in cerebellar microcircuitry:

"both the input and output layers of the circuit exhibit redundant and selective connectivity motifs, which contrast with prevailing models. Numerical simulations suggest that these redundant, non-random connectivity motifs increase the resilience to noise at a negligible cost to the overall encoding capacity. This work reveals how neuronal network structure can support a trade-off between encoding capacity and redundancy, unveiling principles of biological network architecture with implications for the design of artificial neural networks."

#cerebellum #connectomics #neuroscience #science #vEM #volumeEM #NeuralBetwork

@albertcardona Thank you for so kindly describing Tri Nguyen’s and @lathomas42’s paper. Indeed, Purkinje cells are amongst the most “elegant and luxurious” #neurons extracted out of our EM data.

Folks can see more for themselves here: https://github.com/htem/cb2_project_analysis

#neuroscience #connectomics #cerebellum

I’m a bit late to the game, but now out, in a more final form: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05471-w

Tri Nguyen, @lathomas42, and our team #cerebellum found neurons sample inputs redundantly and selectively in ways that may help make the network more robust with a minimal loss of encoding capacity.

#neuroscience #connectomics #neuralNetworks

Introduction! I am a biologist and neuroscientist. I got a PhD in systems #neuroscience in the Portugues lab imaging the brain of #zebrafish larvae, where described a mesmerising circuit for heading direction in the hindbrain (https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.04.27.489672).

I recently moved to the lab of Giuliano Iurilli at IIT (Rovereto, Italy) to follow up in mice my interest in subcortical circuits for naturalistic behavior.

I'm a fan of #openscience, #Python, and unconventional paradigms. Cortex is overrated!

#introduction

👋 Hello from #Zurich!

I'm a researcher working at the intersection of #neurosciene and #ai. Before joining Google's #connectomics team earlier this year, I did my PhD advised by @jakhmack on simulation-based Inference (#sbi).

Excited to see Mastodon gaining momentum!

Leave Twitter just because it's systemically broken and run by a toxic white man with unchecked power?

Please, I'm an academic.

#introduction
I am a Max Planck Research Group Leader at the MPI for Biological Intelligence. Our lab explores fundamental questions in developmental #neurobiology related to the generation of cell-type diversity. We combine scRNAseq with lineage barcoding tools and genetic perturbation to explore principles that orchestrate the establishment of neuronal identities.