Albert Cardona @albertcardona@qoto.org

Hi, this is Greta. You are welcome to follow me here, if you prefer planet earth to planet mars.

A reminder for anyone new to mastodon who might not be happy with some of the racist and bad actors out there on other servers... Just import the fediblock list to your personal blocks and you will be safe from the vast majority of bad actors.

Hello #neuroscience people! #introduction time: I’m a post doc at Salk institute studying #astrocytes and #neurodevelopment. I am from Arizona and did my PhD at Harvard studying #serotonin and #mouse #behavior.

In addition to my research, I care about mentoring and am active in Salk’s SACNAS chapter. I’m also a runner training for my first marathon and have two really good cats.
Here’s my website: https://krissylyon.wixsite.com/website.

#postdoc #academia #glia #science

Mastodon growing pains... switched servers and my #introduction is gone, so let me try again, this time with hashtags!

My #cognitiveneuroscience lab studies #learning, #memory, and #sleep using empirical as well as #computationalmodeling approaches.

(Did I do it right?)

My optimism about Mastodon has been oscillating at high amplitude and frequency, but my fingers are tightly crossed that we will be able to rebuild our science community here!

Interesting essay competition from https://lab42.global/ with ~$2,000 prize:

"What fundamental principles of intelligence must be considered in the successful design of artificial intelligence?"

https://lab42.global/essay/

Paper *accepted* in @eLife! Stellar job by Casper Kerrén, with support from dream team Sander van Bree & @b_j_griffiths.
https://www.biorxiv.org/node/2534276.external-links.html

I wanna use this opportunity to say this. Sure, I will miss the kick you get from an acceptance email. May future generations of scientists smile at the silly things (like acceptance letters) that made us happy in 2022…

That said, I am very ready for trying out the new @eLife system.

1/2 (trying first thread here)

#introduction I am a professor at Penn and also co-director of the CIFAR Learning in Machines and Brains program. I like to think about neuroscience, AI, and science in general. Neuromatch. Recently, much of my thinking is about Rigor in science and I just started leading a large NIH funded initiative community for rigor (C4R) that aims at teaching scientific rigor.

My interests are broad: Causality, ANNs, Logic of Neuroscience, Neurotech, Data analysis, AI, community, science of science

‘Tis the festive season of new faculty recruitments in many unis. It's a great reminder that women in academia, especially women belonging to intersectional minorities, still have it tough. What are you going to do to dismantle the barriers standing in our way? See what my colleagues (soon joining Mastodon) & I have to say. #academicmastodon
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41557-022-01072-2

https://twitter.com/ProfRachelGaN/status/1585668176712540161?s=20&t=xNmQsHBoocBK8eAW9oDOhA

In terms of #introduction, I am a researcher in computational
Neuroscience and biomimetic AI with a background in theoretical
physics. I have worked on insect brain models to understand olfaction and related to this, how the insect mushroom body is a prototypic motive for classification circuits.

The collapse of Twitter is a system breakdown. Mastodon and the fediverse represent something different: _system change_. From for-profit "Big Tech" to nonprofit, open source, community-owned public spaces.

System change is always harder than you think. It always incurs short-term costs, with hoped for long-term benefits.

The next few weeks will be really tough for the fediverse. Stick around, vibe with it, and you just might help us put a huge part of the web back in community hands. <3

My #introduction to #ScienceMastodon:
I am a #Cell #Biologist and research group leader at IRB Barcelona, Spain.
In my lab we observe the #microtubule #cytoskeleton and try to make sense of what we see, what an awesome job!
We also like hashtags that start with C:
#cell #cytoskeleton #centrosome #centrioles #cilia

#introduction
Hi everyone,
I am Nila. I am a neuroscientist & currently a Postdoc in Rainer Friedrich's lab at FMI. I study the circuit of the olfactory bulb in the adult zebrafish using a connectomic approach. Recently I have been a bit sidetracked by telencephalic temptations...

I am here to keep up to date and exchange with the scientific community. But I love to have my mind blown by anything nature. So, I am hoping to learn many fun facts outside of my horizons (& to see many beautiful images as well).
I am a first-gen academic which has sometimes been a struggle (mostly in my mind). Topics of open access, social mobility & justice are important to me, and I do have to learn a lot there.
Parenting 3 little humans doesn't leave much energy for hobbies but running is my lifeline.

It's really quite exciting starting up on Mastodon.
Rather like opening a door in a wall and suddenly finding you are in a party with some old friends and lots of new interesting people.
As one who was an early adopter of Twitter, it also is very reminiscent of the old days when I first realised how useful social media could be for meeting new people and learning new stuff.