Albert Cardona @albertcardona@qoto.org

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I want to tell you the story of Vivienne Malone-Mayes, Texas-born mathemetician and professor, but I don't think you can understand her journey without talking about the #AcademicRacism in which she existed.

We are hiring an editor!

Do you have a background in ecology or evolution, and want to be involved in a broader range of topics than your own research area?

We are particularly keen to extend the geographical representation of our editorial team (see some possible locations in the job ad below).

https://careers.springernature.com/job/London-Associate-or-Senior-Editor%2C-Nature-Ecology-&-Evolution/867909601/

#behavioural time-scale #synaptic #plasticity was discovered by Bittner and Magee a few years ago: https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.aan3846

It was mysterious - how could the time-window for plasticity be so large?

This new paper from the Losonczy lab suggests that it's due to intracellular calcium release from the ER:

https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/science.abm1670

#introduction 🤓

I am a physicist specialized in #fluiddynamics and #solidmechanics with experience in #interdisciplinary research and #neuroscience. I develop modelling tools to predict #fluidstructure interactions in the #brain.

My research focuses on the role of intracranial vessel pulsation in #neurodegenerative diseases. I am highlighting how measurements of intracranial fluid dynamics combined with #biomechanics modelling can help to better understand and characterize brain #ageing.

Hi #ScienceMastodon!

My name is Meike and I am a postdoc studying cerebellar development and its role in neurodevelopmental movement and affective disorders.

Looking forward to meeting you and learning about your cool work!

Follow me for stories about and pretty pictures of the cerebellum.

#Science #Introduction #Cerebellum #womeninstem

🚨 BIG EXOPLANET NEWS! 🚨

Our team has released FIVE papers today on the most COMPREHENSIVE study of an #exoplanet atmosphere to date!

Using #JWST we obtained four transit observations of #WASP-39b early in the telescope's operations to study both the planet itself, and the telescope's capabilities to observe exoplanet atmospheres.

We detected numerous molecules in the planet's atmosphere, including CO2, CO, H2O, and SO2 🧵

The future is here! ⭐ 🪐 🔭 #Astrodon #Science

https://webbtelescope.org/contents/news-releases/2022/news-2022-060

‘Eat local’ is a common recommendation to reduce the carbon footprint of your diet.

But transportation makes up a very small amount of the greenhouse gas emissions from food.

*What* you eat is far more important than *where* your food traveled from.

https://ourworldindata.org/food-choice-vs-eating-local

Such a beauty 🤩 Looking at one of the earliest #Zeiss microscopes 🔬 with #ErnstAbbe’s equation stating the #diffractionlimit in the background at the Museum of #Optics in Oberkochen - It is always fascinating to learn about the history of #science & #technology - #superresolution #microscopy #photonics 👉 https://www.zeiss.com/corporate/int/about-zeiss/history/zeiss-museum-of-optics.html

Defining brain functions is a top-4 challenge for brain research. Conversations with my co-author @amygdaloid have made me realize why. Among the big topics, I suspect that it's the most underappreciated.

Why does it matter? We summarize it here (share link):
https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1g7ZrbotpyLNK

Beautiful #cryoET paper on choanoflagellate #flagella #cilia revealing the enigmatic ciliary vane, new components and similarities to animal cilia
#protist #evolution #EM #choanoflagellate
https://elifesciences.org/articles/78133

@geth Earth is a lot of bacteria 🦠

Today I will blow your mind. 🙂

Most entomologists refer to bees as vegetarian wasps, as bees evolved from carnivorous wasps about 120 million years ago.

But did you know that there exist species of Vegetarian Wasps called Pollen Wasps - Pic 1 (Wikipedia), and Carnivorous Bees called Carrion Bees - Pic 2 (Ricardo Ayala)?

The wasps don't have pollen carrying hairs so they eat the pollen and regurgitate it at the nest.

The bees have special gut bacteria to digest meat.

#bees #wasps #insects

We are excited about the below pull request from @TandonSuyash & team at @AMD, with a #HIP implementation for #RELION, which allows running it on @AMD #GPUs! If this works well, it will become part of #RELION-4.1. 😍
#OpenSoftwareAcceleratesScience #FOSS

https://github.com/3dem/relion/pull/936/commits

After scoping out Mastodon for about a week now, it's probably time for an #introduction

Hi I'm Alex, a Reviews #Editor for @Dev_journal, a community #journal covering #devbio, #stemcells & #regeneration. Development hosts the #devbiol community blog @the_node and is published by the @Co_Biologists.

I'll mostly be tooting about amazing #devbio research and conferences, and occasionally about personal stuff like #books, #reading, #gardening and other adventures on my bike or #kayak.

If you are submitting an abstract to
@CosyneMeeting
this year, especially if its your first time, we at the COSYNE DEIA committee have made this video to help you out: https://youtu.be/0r4Nz7NGmUw

Its interviews from experienced reviewers talking about how they evaluate abstracts

#introduction. I am a plant developmental geneticist. The lab addresses a fundamental biological question: how does morphogenesis translate genotype into form? To this end we study signaling at the plasma membrane - cell wall interface and we investigate how mechanical forces influence tissue shape using 3D digital ovules.

Main interests:
#Arabidopsis #cellbiology #cellbio #cellwall #devbio #devbiol #DevelopmentalBiology #evodevo #imaging #mechanobiology #microscopy #plantbiology