OnceMagicBrainEel @OnceMagicBrainEel@qoto.org

Admittedly, these days #mastodons have a very special place in our hearts😉 🥰, so this new research really speaks to us! The oldest #DNA ever recovered, from permafrost in Greenland, has revealed that the elephant-like creatures roamed northern #Greenland 2 million years ago. Now a barren polar desert, the area apparently used to be a lush landscape of trees & home to a diverse flora & fauna. 🤗 *Go mastodons, go!* 🐘 😉 https://nature.com/articles/d41586-022-04377-x

Welcome new Twitter migrators!

Somewhat new myself. Some insights you might appreciate:

➡️ It only appears “dead” here as long as you don’t follow a couple hundred people. Just follow, follow, follow… you can later be more selective!

➡️ There is no “algorithm” deciding what you see, so you need to boost toots to give them traction.

➡️ “Liking” is less of a thing here, so don’t be discouraged.

➡️ Ppl describe the content of attached images. I love this! It gives extra depth to your toot! See 👇👇👇

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1604617643973124097?t=LyBsUVEF5Wq2KWEtFGEVkA&s=19
Muss man wohl mitmachen.

@aawanner Welcome Adrian Wanner to #neuroscience #connectomics et al.!

Censoring Mastodon links on Twitter could be a major violation of EU competition law (abuse of dominant position, art 102) which could lead to billions in fines. Have you any proof? If so, send it to comp-market-information@ec.europa.eu

In getting my feet wet with this new platform, wanted to test posting videos like this slow reveal of a primary visual cortex layer 5 IT neuron and one of its post synaptic targets in a higher visual area from microns-explorer.org. Rendered using MeshParty (https://www.github.com/sdorkenw/MeshParty) which is turn powered by VTK.

Welcome Emre Yaksi @yaksi_emre !
#neuroscience #zebrafish

I’m super excited that part of my PhD thesis got published today.

Depolarization block in olfactory sensory neurons expands the dimensionality of odor encoding. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.ade7209

We show that olfactory sensory neurons undergo silencing due to depolarization block at ethologically relevant odor concentrations, which has direct implications on how odors are represented at the sensory periphery.
#neuroscience #olfaction #olfactory transduction #electrophysiology #behavior

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For those in #neuroscience or adjacent, I've made an instance at
https://synapse.cafe/

Come join us! We still have capacity for quite a bit more people.

#neurosciencemigration
@neuroscience @neuro

A fantastic group of authors, spearheaded by the amazing
@RebeccaSenft and Barbara Diaz-Rohrer
, have a new preprint for your end-of-year-reading lists! In the 🧵, learn a bit more about "A biologist's guide to the field of quantitative bioimaging"
https://zenodo.org/record/7439284#.Y5s_POzMI0R 1/x

Public Service Warning

Mastodon has a very big surge of new users right now. There's no way to tell if it will be sustained, but at this early point it looks similar to Nov 18 when when Musk pulled the employee purge.

It is very challenging for system administration to accommodate so many new users. If your server starts to struggle, it is not broken and will get sorted out.

We're all in this together. It's our social network. Be patient. What we are building is amazing.

#twittermigration

In 1 hour (3 PM UK time), the Brain Prize webinars on the Circuits for Movement will start!

Register here: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/circuits-for-movement---2/register

Featuring:
* Abdel El Manira (Karolinska Institutet)
* David McLean (Northwestern)
* Marta Zlatic (MRC-LMB)

... who will talk about spinal interneurons and circuits in honour of Silvia Arber, who was awarded the Brain Prize https://www.unibas.ch/en/News-Events/News/Uni-People/Brain-Prize-2022-for-Silvia-Arber.html

#neuroscience #BrainPrize

Hello beautiful people! I'm a computational neuroscientist working on sensory-motor control. Lately, my lab has been working on recurrent neural networks and spiking nets (all still in the pipeline) and I'm here to exchange and learn about these and other topics.

#COSYNE2023 #registration is now open y'all!!!!

https://www.cosyne.org/registration

Please boost!

Over-reliance on English hinders cognitive science: it has led to premature claims of universality (due to over-sampling of English speakers) and limited the cognitive constructs being examined (due to the use of English as a meta-language).

🐦: https://twitter.com/asifa_majid/status/1581244979061874688

Paper: https://www.cell.com/trends/cognitive-sciences/fulltext/S1364-6613(22)00236-4

#linguistics #language #bias #english #TheoryOfMind #CognitiveScience

We're looking for a PhD student (09/23 start) to use computational modelling and deep learning to try to understand how the *physical spatial* arrangement of neurons, synapses & astrocytes contributes to brain learning: https://www.ulster.ac.uk/doctoralcollege/find-a-phd/1455716

(image from https://www.microns-explorer.org/phase1

New server, so new #introduction post —

🚲 ☕ 🧠 🎨

I'm a PhD student in the @kordinglab, studying the intersection of #AI and #neuroscience. My research tends to focus on big data network-science #connectomics but I love living in the space between fields, where the science is the juiciest!

I'm also (currently) one of the neuromatch.social admins, so if you need help or you're lost, ping me!

Hi. It would help me a lot if I could get a HEAP of responses to this poll. The goal is to get a decent enough sample for the results to be predictive of the wider user-base right now. I dislike asking for boots but this is SCIENCE... or something. (Thanks.)

How do you use Mastodon MOST of the time?

On a phone, or other touch screen device?

OR

On a device with a keyboard like a laptop or desktop computer?

(If it's half and half choose the middle option.)

How can we see what neurons deep in the cortex are doing during behavior? Now all cortical layers of a freely moving mouse can be imaged – even in lit environment. Artwork by @somedonkey https://mpinb.mpg.de/en/research-groups/groups/behavior-and-brain-organization/news/neuroscientists-illuminate-how-brain-cells-deep-in-the-cortex-operate-in-freely-moving-mice.html