Albert Cardona @albertcardona@qoto.org

Time for my #introduction as well.
I am an electrical engineer by training, but got interested #neuroscience since grad school. After joining the lab of Christof Koch (now at @AllenNeuroLab) in 1994 I got hooked on the #neuromorphic approach of Carver Mead, and started my "understanding by building" journey. To this day we are building #spiking #neuralnetworks with analog electronic neuron and synapse circuits to investigate #intelligence #plasticity and other primitives of neural computation.

Honestly, the categorization of the #solarpunk vision as "Utopic" bothers the hell out of me as a Greek person. The use of utopia as a word has been a linguistic tool against optimism for as long as we've agree to hold onto it.

Ουτοπία (utopia) literally translates to "a place that can never exist", and our complacency to accept it as the opposite of dystopia is doing us harm by perpetuating this idea that a society built on "good" cannot happen; is impossible.

Believe it or not, there is a word for something which I believe describes solarpunk and our vision perfectly: Ευτοπία (Eutopia / Pronounced eff-topia), "the best POSSIBLE place" and we might as well adopt it

Since everybody is doing their #introduction ...

I'm a professor of #neurogenetics at University of Regensburg in Germany. In our lab, we do #neuroscience research on spontaneous behavior and learning from the consequences of such behavior: operant learning.

I've also been involved in infrastructure modernization towards #OpenScience for some time now, advocating to finally replace 17th century scholarly journals with 21st century technology.

My #introduction is overdue. I’m a professor at Penn who studies memory using systems and computational approaches. I’m also writing a book: When it comes to understanding the brain, what are we trying to achieve? What’s our plan to get there? What challenges do we face? #neuroscience #author

Writing has deepened my appreciation for community-based progress. I’m excited to be on this inclusive platform where we can leverage collective intelligence, and work through conceptual blocks together.

Learned about #Mastadon this week from the bird app & fell in love, so prob good to join in for #FollowFriday. I'm a neurobio postdoc w/ a mechE background doing a lot of calcium imaging & analysis in Python and ImageJ. I also ride bikes, a lot. Probably too much if you ask my academic mentors.
A few rad ppl to follow:
@Russpoldrack
@weinberz
@SherlockpHolmes
@PracheeAC

I read that Mastadon is more interactive than bird app & I'm looking for ppl to follow, so maybe say hello if that's you?

Hello mastodon world! :) As academics, we’re very well used to moving IRL so this virtual move feels like business as usual, easy peasy lemon squeezy 😋 Looking forward to this new virtual adventure, so far it seems to be pretty awesome! As some of you may already know, my lab is using experimental evolution to evolve cognition in #drosophila so I will be posting about #drosophila #brain #evolution #popgen #neuroscience #cognition #behavior #genetics #academia and more :)

“THAT’S HOW THEY ROLL!” Check out our preprint on larval rolling behavior out now on bioRxiv! https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.11.03.514605v1

#introduction post:

Hi! I’m Michael and I’m broadly interested in the proximate and ultimate causes of behavioral evolution. For my PhD I studied the genetic basis of mating behavior evolution and it’s role in reproductive isolation. For my postdoc in the Benton lab I am integrating a neurobio approach to compare how the brains and behaviours of broadly distributed #drosophila species respond to environmental variation relative to our equatorial endemic focal species, D. sechellia.

Hi all: Less Twitter #migration and more Mastodon exploration. I’m a university professor, technology educator, data analyst, and futurist. I’m intrigued by all things #tech ; #data ; #programming ; #iot ; #ai ; #entrepreneurship ; #neuroscience ; #outdoors ; #biking ; #photography and many other things I have yet to discover! Filed under: #electrical #engineer currently living in a #business college world.

Hello, @Mastodon 👋 A quick #intro

I'm a #science and #technology journalist and an editor at MIT Technology Review, where I commission articles from writers, journalists, and experts. I covered #chips for a few years and have a special interest, in #physics, #materials, #space, and the intersection of technology and society.

Among other things, you'll see me post about our print magazine every couple of months. The latest issue just came out https://www.technologyreview.com/magazines/the-mortality-issue/

In addition to these first records on iNat, I recently learned that a Micrathena spider I found two years ago is an undescribed species! If I were independently wealthy I think I'd move to Ecuador to look for cool new animals.

Folks coming over from Twitter might have already seen this, but I now have four first observations on iNat from my trip to Ecuador!

@jeffjarvis @henrikornebring @Chanders I’m hoping that Influence metric places like Altmetric start factoring toots into their scores. Maybe there will be more impetus for this since so many academics are part of the #TwitterMigration. There is already a server asking for scientists’ publication records before allowing them to join.