Albert Cardona @albertcardona@qoto.org

@callieconnected @albertcardona. Noise is complex. A system’s robustness to noise can be improved in different ways, for example by minimizing variability or increasing signal size and separability.

We think the network we mapped is able to do this because neurons sample more redundantly than expected from specific inputs. Those inputs may be less noisy or convey more relevant information. This is interesting because prevailing models assume random, non-specific sampling, which is thought to optimize the amount of information a network can encode.

If interested, this review may be useful: https://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273(19)30071-6

Great paper: a droplet #microfluidics assay to encapsulate single micron-sized algae to study long-term #behaviour.
https://elifesciences.org/articles/76519#fig4
by Bentley et al. gielenlab.com and @micromotility
A thread.

Hi all,

I'm a postdoc in #computerscience at the University of #Vienna, working in #algorithms.

I am interested in the design, analysis, and experimental evaluation of algorithms and especially in #AlgorithmEngineering , which means that I am studying how algorithms perform in practice and how to make them better and/or faster in real-world scenarios. I particularly like dynamic algorithms, which can also deal with changes in the data and don't have to recompute from scratch.

#introduction

Hi all! I’m a neuroscientist and cerebellum enthusiast doing a postdoc at Western University, CAN. I did my PhD in Oxford, UK on neurotransmitter changes in the cerebellum and postdoc-ed in Cambridge.

I want to find out what the cerebellum contributes to cognition and how it interacts with the cortex. For that, I use imaging (fMRI, MRS) & computational techniques (NLP, ML) & brain stim (tDCS).

Follow me for a dose of cerebellum news and science memes!
#cerebellum #neuroscience #introduction

Some very cool science from
Scott Hensley's lab published today in Science points a way to a potential universal #flu vaccine. If this works in people, this could prime us against all known flu hemagglutinins, dramatically lowering the risks flu pandemics pose. https://www.statnews.com/2022/11/24/experimental-flu-vaccine-developed-using-mrna-seen-as-potential-game-changer/

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

@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

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#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!

@brembs @HeedLab @bohaceklab @eLife @richardsever I tend to agree that the incentives are in the wrong place. Public funders should incentivize behaviors that support scientific advance rather than the careers of individual scientists (as in, CNS publications). Open Science is non-trivial in cost and effort and until it is supported and valued for funding/hiring decisions, it will be hard to have systemic change