Albert Cardona @albertcardona@qoto.org

Am thinking about how my historical data on journal turnaround times compares to that discussed by Christos Petrou for 2011–2020 on #ScholarlyKitchen.

He says:
2019/20 - average turnaround time (all disciplines) 163 days

2011/12 (all disciplines), 199 days

https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2022/11/08/guest-post-publishing-fast-and-slow-a-review-of-publishing-speed-in-the-last-decade/

My data from #RoyalSociety (science only):

2009 - about 70 days
2002 - about 280 days
1960 - anything between 210-315 days...

https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/philosophicaltransactions/time-taken-to-publish/

#publishing #journals #scholarlycomms

Interested (or know someone who is interested) in doing a #PhD in #History at #UnivStAndrewsHist ?

Applications welcome at any time of year, but this year's deadline for those applying for funded studentships (e.g. AHRC via Scottish Graduate School) is December 8.

First step: contact a potential supervisor to express interest!

https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/prospective/ #histodons

some of this summers #pollen harvest. observing naturally occurring fluorescence using #microscopy is fascinating.

Not really dying to jump into the Twitter drama, but I did get commissioned to do this piece for The Hollywood Reporter this week. So ...here it is!

Had a good time doing the Death-Star-with-rocket-nozzles twitter-bird design.

#illustration #ElonMusk #twitter

I won’t be going to #sfn22 this year, but my work will! Please come by board AA.12 on Tuesday morning around 9 am to learn about the anatomical organization of cell types and inhibitory connectivity across visual cortex. Long story short, layer 2 is really different than layer 3, different excitatory neurons have quite different synapse properties, layer 5 has oodles of very specific inhibition, and we found what seems to be a new class of disinhibition specialist interneurons.

Hi tooters, time for a belated #introduction.

I work on the #EvolutionaryEcology of host-parasite interactions using #Malaria as a model system. I mostly work on #AvianMalaria, but I occasionally dabble in human and #RodentMalaria.

I’m particularly interested in exploring the genetic and environmental sources of heterogeneity in parasite #Virulence and within-host dynamics. Also keen on #DrugResistance and parasite #PhenotypicPlasticity. Oh, and #Mosquitos, obviously 😎

Our work showing that the locus coeruleus broadcasts unsigned visuomotor prediction errors to facilitate cortical sensorimotor learning is now on bioRxiv!
Please check it out, would love feedback! https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.11.08.515698v1

short #introduction
Neuroscientist fascinated by neuromodulation and cortical learning. Big on open science! Also love nature (i.e., wildlife 🐛 ) and painting strange pictures.

The Scientific Computing Associates (SCA) program at #HHMIJanelia has two openings:
. Machine Learning Software Engineer with #OpenScience Software
. Automating Cognitive #Neuroscience Research with the Johnson Lab

https://www.janelia.org/support-team/scientific-computing-software/scientific-computing-associates

This program is a great chance for people with backgrounds in computer science to explore applications in biological research, and for people with backgrounds in other sciences to expand their experience with software development.

Janelia welcomes and values diversity, and encourages applications from people of all backgrounds, including people of color and members of groups traditionally underrepresented in science.

Don't forget that Janelia's Computation & Theory area is looking for both [Senior] Group Leader candidates (https://www.janelia.org/our-research/our-labs/group-leaders) and Theory Fellows (https://www.janelia.org/our-research/overview/theory-fellows)! Are you working on interesting computational and theoretical approaches to address fundamental biological questions? Talk to us!

John von Neumann’s wife, Klára Dán, asked him to put a picture of an elephant in his book “Theory of Games and Economic Behavior”. He complied, hiding one in plain sight in a set theoretic diagram.

There’s reason to believe Klára’s code was the first modern-style code ever to run on a computer.

You can dive into Klára’s life and work by listening to season 2 of “Lost Women of Science” https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e1-the-grasshopper/id1590670779?i=1000555799822

#ENIAC #WomenInComputing #WomenInSTEM #WomenInTech #HERstory

Want to investigate bio-inspired ActiveAI for problems in which insects excel but deep learning methods struggle?
Post-docs available at Sussex. Deadline Nov 22nd
http://sussex.ac.uk/about/jobs/research-fellow-in-bio-inspired-ai-rob-ref-10131
http://sussex.ac.uk/about/jobs/research-fellow-in-bio-inspired-ai-rob-ref-10128

@ProfAndyP

@drtnowotny

@InsectNav

@neworderofjamie

PhD position in Manchester, UK (BBSRC DTP): The evolution of nerves: understanding the roots of neurodegeneration – training in evolution biology, biochemistry, expansion or electron microscopy, cell culture, genetics, #scicomm – supervision: Prokop/Allan/Ronshaugen
Details: https://thenode.biologists.com/jobs/prokop

Would you like to work with me and my group to investigate #MembraneTraffic in cells? There is a postdoc position available in my lab in Warwick, UK. https://tinyurl.com/roylePostDocJob I'm happy to answer any questions!
#ScienceMastodon #CellBiology #microscopy #PostDoc #vacancy

"C. Hartgerink (Liberate Science GmbH) also contributed to this work and was originally included as a co-author. He opted to withdraw from the author list because this piece could not be published under an open access licence."

I guess I could tag him here, but maybe just to save him the stress I won't.

This is a great way of raising awareness of this issue to people & policy makers. The publisher is choosing to be obstructive.

Bravo.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-022-01481-w

I realized I never did an #introduction!

I'm Grace Lindsay. I'm a new Asst. Prof in #Psychology and #DataScience at New York University. I wrote a popular science book on how & why we use #math to study the #brain.

In my research in my lab I hope to model how #attention works in the brain. I'm also separately working on applications of #MachineLearning to #ClimateChange!

Find out more here! 👇 https://gracewlindsay.com/

Never thought Elon Musk would do so much for the adoption of a decentralised infrastructure…

Please Elon, can you buy Elsevier ?