Albert Cardona @albertcardona@qoto.org
- Personal website
- https://albert.rierol.net
How does the brain work? Someday, we'll figure it out.
Group Leader, MRC LMB, and Professor, University of Cambridge, UK.
#neuroscience #Drosophila #TrakEM2 #FijiSc #CATMAID #connectomics #vEM
Born at 335 ppm.
Brains, signal processing, software and entomology: there will be bugs.
Joined Oct 2022
@wildlifestuff Horrifyingly pleasant, then. The climate is off, here in Cambridge we were 6C above for both the min and max temperatures for half of November.
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RT @markdhumphries@twitter.com
We're hiring!
2 permanent lectureships at Nottingham University, in the School of Psychology
All areas of Psychology considered,
including cognitive and computational neuroscience.
https://jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=SCI561522
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/markdhumphries/status/1595487342130872334
@NicoleCRust @tyrell_turing @charanranganath @cogneurophys @PessoaBrain @marcwhoward@mstdn.social There’s the famous saying that all models are wrong but some are useful. I have yet to see a model that captures all forms of memory and their properties (learning rate, extinction, second order associations, pattern completions, ...) In other words so far so good, but still lots of runway for discovery.
#neuroscience #memory
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WOWWWWWWW! Northern Ireland has its first astronaut....and she's an astronomer! Huge congratulations Rosemary 👏👏 👏 https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/Astronauts/Rosemary_Coogan
(FYI: I've seen a lot of people describe her as "another British astronaut". But unless she identifies as such, Rosemary is *not* British. The UK's full title is the United Kingdom of Great Britain AND Northern Ireland. Rosemary is from NI 👍 So "UK astronaut" is correct)
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I wrote an editorial about the #AntimicrobialResistance crisis. It covers the need for a #Global #Equitable approach, #resistance in neglected #fungi & #parasites, the promise of new #antibiotics, sharing of #sequence data, idiotic policies that risk antibiotic stewardship & more
Please share it far and wide - this #WorldAntimicrobialAwarenessWeek we've not been as loud as others, or as loud as we need to
The antimicrobial resistance crisis needs action now
#WAAW2022 https://plos.io/3U2OoeJ
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In our recent paper, we found 3 new trypanosome species in #squash #bees. I am looking for collaborators to work on describing these new species. Any suggestions on who to contact would be greatly appreciated! https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022201122001343
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We have positions, lots of opportunities: computation, behavior, fMRI, electrophysiology, microscopy and often a mix of approaches -- all about arm/hand motor control and motor learning. Plus you help make the reading list! Please share. https://superlab.ca/join
@dcksnptrc Wouldn’t it be wonderful if journal articles online had a button to expand all acronyms, or at least show you their definition when hovering the mouse over? The focus on PDFs has made journals neglect their “full text” article webpages.
@alexwild Sorry,
I’m basically asking you to provide a solution and that isn’t fair. It’s hard enough to recognize the problem.
The conundrum I posed does keep me awake often. Depending on wise kings a la Plato isn’t easy or durable—power corrupts. And when democratic institutions stop being supported and nurtured, mayhem ensues, a phase we seem to be in presently. Revolution, as in organized rebellion, is painful for many, particularly for the most vulnerable. Reform seldom if ever has enough thrust to push through. Yet doing nothing at some point is not tenable either.
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It's live! I'm hiring a technician to process and analyze thousands of stickleback gut microbiomes.
TO APPLY: check hr.uconn.edu/jobs, Staff Positions, Search #496991 to upload a resume, cover letter, and contact information for three (3) professional references.
Full information about the position here: https://drkatlab.wordpress.com/2022/10/26/we-are-hiring-2022/
@alexwild How do you promote policies to end billionaires when the latter effectively write their policy into law, and the information asymmetry is so large between the largely uninformed public and the well-informed self-serving micro-minority?
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Exciting new preprint from the @DrAnneCarpenter / Shantanu Singh (https://twitter.com/shantanuXsingh) lab and mine! Hop into the 🧵to learn a bit more about "Interpreting Image-based Profiles using Morpheus and Single-Cell Visualization", or check it out here!
https://zenodo.org/record/7348094#.Y340RuzMI0S
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@DrYohanJohn @lmsacasas So many quotable bits, or rather, to detoxify our social media reward-driven mindset, so many take home messages to ponder about in the safe refuge of our corner of darkness.
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"In retrospect, maybe Twitter will appear as the last gasp, admittedly hybrid and possibly monstrous, of the old print culture in the new digital age. And I suspect this accounts for many of the derangements and absurdities that characterize the platform."
Very nice essay on social media by @lmsacasas
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Tomorrow I will be striking in pursuit of fairer pensions and to protest inequality, excessive workloads and casualisation for my UCU colleagues
Also tomorrow, my children’s school teachers will be striking in pursuit of a fair and just pay settlement
So, plans are afoot for a day of wee teach-outs
- Home Economics: bake cookies for the picket line
- Politics tutorial: what’s a picket line?
Music & history lessons: protest songs through the decades. Suggestions welcome.
@richardsever Been obvious for a while that the business model of glamour journals isn't necessarily to sell subscriptions to scientists, but rather, to medical doctors, engineers, politicians, and various firms whose profile raises when customers see these journal issues on the coffee tables. The scientific articles contribute by providing a veneer of authenticity; the op-eds and job ads and all is what anybody on those offices would read. The prestige is what they buy.
Art takes many forms.
Awareness post: there is an instance on fedi called 'dolphin.town' where you can only post 'EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE' my experience ...
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Billions of bees and butterflies are killed on North American roads every year:
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Replace these “wireless telegraphs” with smartphones, update the dress a little, and this vision of "isolating technology" from a 1906 issue of Punch magazine could easily be from today: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/a-vision-of-isolating-technology-from-1906 #history #technology #illustration #histodon
@alexwild @fieldecology @MarianneDenton Can they at least be brought to the genus level? I know with parasitoid wasps is quite hopeless to even do that from photographs, at least as per experience at #iNaturalist.
- Personal website
- https://albert.rierol.net
How does the brain work? Someday, we'll figure it out.
Group Leader, MRC LMB, and Professor, University of Cambridge, UK.
#neuroscience #Drosophila #TrakEM2 #FijiSc #CATMAID #connectomics #vEM
Born at 335 ppm.
Brains, signal processing, software and entomology: there will be bugs.
Joined Oct 2022
