OnceMagicBrainEel @OnceMagicBrainEel@qoto.org

I'm sharing here a wide range of resources and advice that has helped me as I delved into climate action and work as an academic; please share widely!

https://gracewlindsay.com/2023/08/04/so-youre-an-academic-who-wants-to-help-with-the-climate-crisis/

#Introduction of my #Neuroscience-oriented account! 🧠​

I am a postdoctoral researcher investigating #NeuroRats 🐀​ doing flexible #Navigation 🗺️​ and how their #Hippocampus might support this fascinating ability.
Is it #PlaceCells?
Is it #HippocampalReplay?
​Is it #SplitterCells?
Is it everything, everywhere (... yes, yes, all at once)?

This account will post, boost and follow specifically neuroscience content, don't hesitate to tag it when relevant.

Followers, please tell us about yourself under my pinned tweet!

Death by Fungus: a photo gallery.

#photography #Insects #cordyceps #Mycology

https://www.alexanderwild.com/Insects/InsectKilling-Fungi

I love how the White House definition of open science includes "processes" next to "product"

"The [OSTP] defines Open Science as the principle and practice of making research products and processes available to all..."

https://www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/news-updates/2023/01/11/fact-sheet-biden-harris-administration-announces-new-actions-to-advance-open-and-equitable-research/

Open Science is often overly focused on the end result. I think it will be much more impactful if we make the *process that creates knowledge* open and accessible to all from beginning to end.

tips for being more #positive about your work!

❌ “I can’t fix this bug no matter what I try”
✔ “I am an avant-garde software artist”

❌ “my code won’t compile”
✔ “this is an abstract piece”

❌ “I never get around to implementing any of the features I want”
✔ “I consider myself a minimalist“

❌ “sorry I forget to document my code…”
✔ “my art is about the journey, not the destination”

❌ “I have never finished a project”
✔ “I prefer to leave the ending open to interpretation”

❌ “sorry, this software is not compatible with ( )”
✔ “here I have chosen to make a political statement against ( )”

❌ “this memory leak causes the program to crash”
✔ “this program symbolizes the transience of mortality and reminds us all what is important in life”

Really excited to share the lab's first Drosophila paper and it's a big one. Check out our preprint https://shorturl.at/gqrvO where we present the complete neural connectome of an animal circadian clock . 🧵 (1/8) #Drosophila #neuroscience #connectome

I am happy to announce our new preprint on “Improving equilibrium propagation (EP) without weight symmetry through Jacobian homeostasis,” led by Axel Laborieux. https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.02214

If you are drafting figures for a scientific paper or presentation, remember that https://scidraw.io/ exists: a repository of free SVG cartoons for science.

#SciDraw is supported by the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre.

All content on SciDraw is shared under creative commons license (CC-BY) unless stated otherwise.

#inkscape #SVG #science

📢 Job Opportunity!

🧠🔬
@UniCologne
& #iBehave Network announce a #Neuroscience #professorshipW2

🤝Collaborate with 49 PIs, dive deep into experimental & computational neurosciences & benefit from advanced tech platforms.

🗓️Apply by Sep 30: https://nature.com/naturecareers/job/12804489/professorship-in-neuroscience-w2-permanent-or-tenure-track-w2-fmd

Last week we had fun posting about #dopamine, but if you’d rather read about #plasticity in vision👀 audition👂 & our beloved olfaction👃, check out our lab’s 2nd preprint on deprivation-induced changes in pre-cortical areas
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.09.04.556170v1

So, we did a thing… The first preprint from the lab is finally out 📜🥳
If you fancy dopamine, and weird axonless cells, and electrophysiology, and poking around different brain areas, you should have a look⤵️
https://biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.08.29.554772v1.article-info

And yet universities were far from universal, as they excluded women. It took 600 years from the opening of the first University (Bologna) in 1088 to the first woman graduating. Her name? Elena Cornaro Piscopia. She graduated in Padua in 1678, in philosophy. She was not allowed to graduate in theology, and not allowed to teach afterwards. But she graduated. (Cambridge and Oxford did not follow suit, so in England women had to wait another 150 years for University College London to open). (4/4)

PhD alert! We have a FULLY FUNDED #neuroscience project looking at thalamic place cells in rat. Lots of fun in vivo ephys & spatial navigation, in a project led by the awesome Kate Jeffery. Deadline 30th Sep, project to start by January. Please retoot and reach out to us if you have questions! #FindAPhD

This endorsement from Pensoft

https://blog.pensoft.net/2023/08/21/pensofts-statement-on-the-european-unions-conclusions-on-oa-scholarly-publishing/

leaves the big, monopolist academic publishing houses alone in their opposition to the conclusions on scholarly publishing by the Council of the EU:

https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2023/05/23/council-calls-for-transparent-equitable-and-open-access-to-scholarly-publications/

after widespread support from scholarly organizations, e.g.:

https://www.coalition-s.org/open-science-stakeholders-welcome-european-efforts-towards-publicly-owned-and-not-for-profit-scholarly-communication/

or funders, e.g.:

https://www.dfg.de/en/service/press/press_releases/2023/press_release_no_16/index.html

What once was a radical approach is now mainstream and accepted. Let's make it happen:

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.230206

#openscience

When a 26-year-old Deputy Mayor proposed a 1977 plan that made the centre of Groningen virtually impenetrable by car, his party was the subject of outrage, protests and death threats.

Decades later, no one regrets the change or remembers the controversy.

Fortune favours the brave.

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/how-groningen-gained-and-hopes-to-retain-the-title-of-the-worlds-cycling-city-photos-video

We are excited to share our new work led by Sander Lindeman.

This study describes cell type-specific, reward-related modulation in the olfactory bulb and provides mechanistic constraints.

The modulation appears as widespread inhibition of mitral cells (but not tufted cells). Depth-resolved imaging hints that deep granule cells convey contextual signals.

👉 https://www.biorxiv.org/lookup/content/short/2023.08.17.553686v1

A bit of fun - chatting about the CRediT authorship tracking system, working on big teams, and my personal approach of "weaponized laziness". Thanks to @jperkel, whose great notes and edits made this a million times better! (Your girl gets wordy) https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02591-9

Finally, thanks to everyone who worked for months/years on this project, and to the funders that allowed to develop an ambitious new direction for the lab, and a special thanks to Subhojit Roy for hooking me up with the bead-induced presynapses
https://rupress.org/jcb/article-abstract/222/10/e202208110/276185/Presynapses-contain-distinct-actin 23/23 - Thanks for reading the whole thread!

for open data to work, we have to have formats. this facilitates reuse.

to have formats to work, they have to be extremely easy to extend and use. this facilitates adoption.

for formats to be easy to extend, they have to be schema-driven: no new code for extensions. this facilitates accessibility.

for the formats to be easy to use, conversion should be a set of linear mappings from source data to schema properties. this facilitates interfaces.

for there to be no new code for format extensions and for conversion to be a set of linear mappings, the format tooling needs to be decoupled from the schema and from the storage representation. this facilitates maintenance.