Albert Cardona @albertcardona@qoto.org

Aberdeen's University Librarian @simonjbains announced our new rights retention policy today!

Seems niche, but is super important for fighting the supervillains in for-profit publishing.

Uni staff can no longer be made to sign over copyright to publish. All work will be made freely available to all in the university repository.

We have an amazing Open Research Team at the library 📚 🦸‍♀️ 🏆. Thank you!

Full details:
https://www.abdn.ac.uk/library/documents/Research%20Publications%20Policy%202023.pdf

#OpenAccess #OpenResearch #RightsRetention #LibraryDon

The LMB PhD Programme
@LMB_PhD is open to applications for starting next year.

PhD students interested in developing novel cryomicroscopy technology are welcome to apply: https://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/students/international-phd-programme/projects/christopher-russo/

To apply see: https://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/students/international-phd-programme/how-to-apply/

#PhD #CryoEM

"It was late in 1972 — a year in which the science of genetic engineering really began to sizzle — that two California researchers announced the unusually tidy transfer of genetic information from one bacterium to another with help from a specialized enzyme. It was a scientifically heralded result, but behind the hoopla was just one small catch. The information transferred enabled a common human disease bacterium, E. coli, to resist not just one antibiotic, but two.

“Alarm bells should have rung,” writes @matthewcobb, in his deeply researched and often deeply troubling history of gene science."

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/14/books/review/as-gods-matthew-cobb.html

Interested in transcription? Skills in bioinformatics?
@LabBrickman is looking for a bioinformatician!

candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationIni…

Also advertising PhD/post docs - like Bioinformatics, please apply…lots of cool data!

Please Boost…

Excited to come across the beta of a version of Internet Archive focused on academic journal articles. The version for books is fantastic, so am hopeful about this:

https://scholar.archive.org/

(but surprised that it apparently starts with 'eighteenth-century journals', rather than 17thC journals... #JournalDesScavans is available on #Gallica; #PhilosophicalTransactions is available from #RoyalSociety)

Those interested in scientific visualization (#scivis, #sciviz, #datavis, #dataviz) may enjoy the videos in the #HHMIJanelia Scientific Visualization Interest Group playlist:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfBkfxqisR_dU9RyIeX0I1WbQee86ZTss

These videos include talks from the creators of systems like Agave, ANARI, Datoviz, #napari, Neuroglancer, PyGfx, VizPy, and VMD. Thanks to @billkatz for organizing the series.

My youngest seems to be after my heart #coreidae #schoolproject

With large quantities of heterogeneous data, users performing analyses should be aware of common #DataQuality issues and what to do about them.

Join the Data Use Club for this week's practical session on Data Quality!

📆 16 Nov 2022 @ 15:00 CET (UTC+1)
🔗 https://www.gbif.org/event/2CAcHI4oxVK5ZgMnFszNUD/data-use-club-practical-sessions-data-quality

friend taught me about something recently, known as Gell-Mann Amnesia

quoting this page: https://www.epsilontheory.com/gell-mann-amnesia/

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Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray’s case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the “wet streets cause rain” stories. Paper’s full of them.

In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.

I've been using #AnnotatedEquations in my recent papers. I think it really adds to the readability and understanding of the math.

Here are some examples. It uses #tikz in #latex.

Let me know if you like it. Happy for any feedback.

No idea how this thing works...but here's my first post! Will see how the dumpster fire pans out on twitter.

#neuroscience #scicomm #academia

#introduction: I am obsessed with the biology of #hallucinations and #delusions.

I am a #newPI at the Francis Crick Institute, London. In our lab, the #Psychosis Collective, we study the neural circuits and immune processes underlying unfounded perceptions and thoughts 🐭 👤 . I look forward to great #neuroscience #immunology #neuroimmunology #psychiatry here!

This is me moving to London without ever having been to London before.

Ok, time for an #introduction.

👋🏻 My name is Angela (pronouns: she/they 🌈) — I recently started as an assistant prof. at Mt. Sinai. I’m generally interested in how we learn, and why learning can lead to changes in mental health. For updates from my group, see http://www.dcalab.org. Topics: naturalistic reinforcement learning as a model of mental health dynamics, modeling iEEG data from humans learning and deciding in complex environments.

Brooklyn-based, fan of coffee & science hangouts 🧠 ☕️

@albertcardona Please add our sibling journal to the list: @PNASNexus