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
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Good morning Tooters, happy to be on here with fellow #photography lovers.
I will try not to be boring with my #birds but my birds will surely be more attractive than ol’ Tweetybird😜
#TwitterRefuge
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Please help spread the news!
Open call for 3 #postdocs at the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research #KLI #KLIAustria
Theme: “Evolutionary theory in #interdisciplinary context”
https://kli.ac.at/content/en/the_kli/open_calls/view/10
#EvoMed #EvoBio #PublicHealth #EvoEco #Conservation #EvoNeuro #neuroscience #psychology #BioculturalEvolution #PhilSci #PhilBio #Histbio #EcoEcon #CulturalEvolution #KLIFellowships #EvoTheory #EvolutionaryBiology
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Apparently, when some scientific journals publish an Expression of Concern on an article, they don't display it on the article itself. So, readers have no way of knowing an EoC exists, which rather defeats the purpose.
Refuse to review for or submit to journals that do this, & tell them why.
#ScientificIntegrity #PublishingEthics #AcademicJournals #publishing
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This, from PNAS reviewing instructions, is actually pretty good:
"The purpose of peer review is not to demonstrate proficiency in identifying flaws."
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MIT has some great postdoc positions for scientists from underrepresented minorities: https://engineering.mit.edu/the-mit-postdoctoral-fellowship-program-for-engineering-excellence/
Sometimes all it takes is to pay attention and let the beauty and extraordinary resilience of little critters wash into you.
Lasioglossum (possibly) #nativebee unwittingly pollinating brambles. Watch the bee now, imagine the blackberries.
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Hello Mastodon, we meet again.
I'm a microscopist with a background in #infectiousdisease , #vaccines , and #auditoryneuroscience (a perfectly sensible mix). I run the light and electron microscopy facility at the UCL Ear Institute with my technical hat on, and collaborate on projects about the structural basis of #hearing and #balance with my researcher hat on. With my outreach hat on, I co-chair the outreach committee in the #volumeem #vEM community initiative.
I may have too many hats.
As an electron microscopist, every time I image a partial volume of the brain, I notice how most inputs and outputs of the neurons within originate in neurons outside the imaged volume. #microscopy
As a neuroscientist, when I reconstruct a neuron from #vEM I see that its inputs are collected from one or more brain areas, and its outputs target one or more other areas. There are local neurons but these are the exception. #neuroscience
As a programmer, I see that a software function can't be studied or understood in isolation, unless it''s a pure function, which is rare. Even functional programming languages such as #clojure or even #haskell require a fair share of non-pure functions in order to interact with the broader world.
As a developmental biologist, I see how one neuron is made after another in precise spatio-temporal patterns essential to assembling the correct circuit architecture. The study of any one neuron only makes sense within the context of the other neurons, and glia, and blood vessels, and more. #DevBio
As an evolutionary biologist, I notice how the fitness of an individual depends not on this or that neuron, but rather, on the effect, recursively, of one neuron on many other neurons. Brain modules are not pure, not enclosed, but mere shorthand to refer to broad chunks of an indivisible whole. Crutches for our present inability to grasp a collective so large and complex.
Yet the unit of selection is not even the whole brain, or the whole individual organism, but the population with its many relationships across its individuals, and even beyond, the interrelated collective of species that we call an ecosystem. Ecosystems are also under selection pressure, and they change. We are changing ours now. #evolution
Whole brains, whole individuals, whole ecosystems. Ultimately, the whole planet, as eloquently articulated by Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagain in their 1989 book "Biospheres from Earth to Space". But I am satisfied, in the short term, with the study of the brain as a whole.
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Hi everyone,
After a long day of work, it is time for me to do a short #introduction:
I'm Roberto, an #Italian independent #lightingdesigner and a lover of #dark #skies.
My interests are focused on exploring the ways that #light affects people’s environments and creates different settings and moods.
I like to mentor #students and young #designers during practical #workshops.
I love to #sketch and paint in #watercolour for pleasure.
@PessoaBrain If the idea of studying brains as a whole appeals to you, apply to my lab or reach out to collaborate. That’s what we do, or at least, aim for.
Alex Gomez-Marin reviews @PessoaBrain ’s latest book, “The entangled brain”:
“…offers a way to construe the brain as a fully integrated organ, a framework that “while not rare, is also not mainstream among neuroscientists.” A “divide-and-conquer strategy” has produced ever more refined brain maps, he argues, and subsequent leaps from structure to function. However, not only are anatomical brain areas far from simply located units of cognition but, as the subtitle of the book makes explicit, perception, cognition, and emotion are also interweaved.”
“In turn, proper anatomy calls for embryology. And, as tackled later in the book, evolution also informs brain organization. Disciplines, we learn, are entangled too.”
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ade8689
#neuroscience #science #brain
QT: https://mstdn.science/@leafs_s/109323026178500338
Science Transcending reductionism in neuroscience https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ade8689#.Y22_k3_qW1U.twitter
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Let me introduce myself! My name is Ilenna Jones, I am a computational neuroscientist with keen interest on how dendrites contribute to a singular neuron's ability to compute functions and learn tasks. I build biophysical models of neurons in #pytorch and use #deeplearning principles to investigate how #neuron models can learn and compute given their biologically realistic constraints.
I'm looking for postdocs right now! Feel free to connect if you're looking for someone like me!
I'm very interested in helping other students find resources and guidance as they consider science and #neuroscience in general. Feel free to connect if you're looking for advice/perspectives!
#computationalneuroscience #theoreticalneuroscience #neuroscience #neuralcomputation #learning #modeling #BlackInNeuro #FirstGen #Questbridge
ilenna.com
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Rewriting my #introduction using hashtags. I’m a professor of #economics at #CUNY & #universityofjohanneabourg I do #empirical work on #trade #innovation #technology & #policy in #developing #economies. I’m the first female to become #fullprofessor at #economics department #ccny in more than 120 yrs #glasscealing I’m European & American and love traveling #teaching #classicalmusic and I do teach students from disadvantaged backgrounds. I’m part of the #mentoring program #AEA
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About two-thirds of all bee species make their nests in the ground. The females dig a hole, create a chamber, carry pollen and nectar in, make a little loaf, and lay an egg on it. Then they seal up the chamber. Over and over again.
Usually all we see, if anything, is a hole in the ground. Most of the ones I know about like bare, sunny spots. All ground-nesting bees need a place where the earth will not be disturbed.
#bees #pollinators
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About a third of bee species nest in cavities. This could mean hollow or pithy stems, tree hollows, fallen or standing dead trees, or other crevices. You can help them by offering places to nest. It could be as time-consuming as keeping honeybee hives, as chancy as setting up bee hotels, or as simple as leaving a foot or two intact when you cut standing stems.
Here's advice from Tufts Pollinator Initiative on how to leave stems for #bees and #pollinators:
https://sites.tufts.edu/pollinators/2021/04/the-right-way-to-leave-stems-for-native-bees/
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👋 Hello, this is my #introduction! I'm a #PhD student in #evolution and #genetics at the University of Exeter.
👩🔬 I study #ageing and #longevity in nematodes.
🗣️ I really enjoy communicating research both to the public and other researchers through podcasts, social media, public speaking, committees, and conferences.
🍂 Outside of science, I love coffee, animals (cat person), travelling, reading, climbing, veggie food, escape rooms, music, Star Trek, prosecco, and being in nature.
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I study #vision, #peripheralvision, #attention. Also interested in applications: #HCI, #graphics, #imageprocessing, #driving, #infovis. Here to support #academic Mastodon.
Personal: #cooking, #fiberCrafts, #nerd, #books, #growingfood, pro-#queer
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Now that this thing has taken off and I've (almost) figured out how it works- a proper #introduction!
I'm a Group Leader in the #neuroscience program at the Champalimaud Center for the Unknown in Lisbon, Portugal. My lab studies neural circuits for learning & coordinating movement.
I'm still not sure if moving here will capture the best or circumvent the worst of the birdapp. Meanwhile, https://fedifinder.glitch.me is helpful for finding people. Can anyone recommend a good #mastodon app for #iOS?
@PLOSBiology And notice the call out to the #iNaturalist project "Bees concentrating nectar" and its associated paper by Zach Portman, John Ascher & Daniel Cariveau in 2021, titled "Nectar concentrating behavior by bees (Hymenoptera: Anthophila)" https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13592-021-00895-1
Zach Portman and John Ascher are #entomology experts specialised in #bees who have identified hundreds of #insects among my #iNaturalist observations. Thanks so much!
An example of a #nativebee concentrating nectar: Nomioides minutissimus, a ~3 to 4 mm long solitary bee observed on a beach in Catalonia. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/120366203
Nice highlight @PLOSBiology of the role and importance of organism identifiers at #iNaturalist. That is, the experts putting in the time to figure out the taxon of the animal in my and your photos.
My huge appreciation to these experts, particularly in #entomology, for they often take the time to educate me and point me to resources for identifying #nativebees #insects #arachnids and more.
QT: https://fediscience.org/@PLOSBiology/109324740975116417
The number of observations submitted to the #CitizenScience platform @inaturalist is outpacing the rate at which the organisms can be identified. @...
- 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
