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Albert Cardona

No need to walk far to stumble upon something beautiful. 

Here is a carrot wasp, Gasteruption sp., seen this past July 2022 in Cambridge, UK. The adults drink nectar from flowers of the carrot family–hence the name–and contribute to pollinating them.

Its larval progeny develops as an unwelcomed boarder–a , really, even a predator–in the nest cells of native bees and wasp larvae, consuming the food intended for the host, and likely have started by now. Will only pupate into next Spring.

inaturalist.org/observations/1

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Katharina Dobs

#introduction Hi! I'm a research group leader in cognitive computational neuroscience.

I'm broadly interested in human vision, work a lot on face perception, and I'm excited by the opportunities artificial neural networks offer us to make progress in the field.

I'd also like to see a greener world and academia being more family friendly.

Looking forward to some fun exchange with the science community!

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Björn Brembs

This is an important milestone! Research Assessment is changing in the EU:
research-and-innovation.ec.eur

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Tim Behrens

#introduction I'm a neuroscientist at Oxford and UCL. I spend most of my time thinking about the front of the brain and how it controls behaviour. Sometimes this leads me backwards, but never really further back than hippocampus. I am also deputy editor at eLife so you can shout at me for that if you like.

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Christopher Russo

Hello world!

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Friedemann Zenke

SNUFA 2022 - Happening today and tomorrow.
The largest online workshop on spiking neural networks in #compneuro, #neuromorphic, and #ml.

Invited speakers: Charlotte Frenkel (TU Delft), Priya Panda (Yale), Yiota Poirazi (IMBB), Yonghong Tian (Peking University)

Program: snufa.net/2022/

Free registration eventbrite.co.uk/e/snufa-works

Co-organized by: Katie Schuman, Timothée Masquelier, Dan Goodman, and Friedemann Zenke.

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Alex Wild

Hoelldobler & Kwapich’s “Guests of Ants” is a beautiful book, in the tradition of H&W’s 1990 Pulitzer-winning “The Ants”.

Got a copy yesterday. Also, uh… great photos.👀

#science #books

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subtraho

Hopefully folks here aren't sick of Fairywrens yet, because I don't think I'll ever tire of watching them! Such delightful, beautiful little birds.

#Wildlife #WildlifePhotography #Birds #Birding #BirdPhotography

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Thomas Nowotny

Really looking forward to the SNUFA workshop tomorrow. It's not too late to sign up (free). snufa.net/2022/ - two afternoons packed with great talks on spiking neural networks.

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Laura Helmuth

We're hiring a senior editor at Scientific American to help run our opinion, commentary & analysis coverage. Thanks for applying or recommending the job to people you think would be good candidates. careers.springernature.com/job

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Richard Sever

From the outset, the bioRxiv vision has been to decouple dissemination and peer review. It's a sign of how far things have come that there'll be an entire HHMI meeting on preprint review (Dec 1-2) - which you can stream janelia.org/you-janelia/confer

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Matteo Carandini

Deadline tomorrow! We are hiring postdocs for two projects. One seeks to reveal how neural activity is structured in brainwide patterns to support diverse behaviors in mice. The other aims to relate the activity of a single neuron with that of thousands of presynaptic and postsynaptic neurons across the mouse cortex (w Alipasha Vaziri and Federico Rossi). We are interested in people with diverse backgrounds, not only those with specific experience. tinyurl.com/CortexlabPostdoc. #neuroscience

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Alex Wild

Today, Mastodon is buzzing and happy. A huge chunk of my #twitter community is not just here, but active. feed flows like a waterfall again.

Twitter was never the tech. It was always the people. A moveable feast. And it moved.

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Dr Sam Burgess 🌊 🌍 💸

Europe has just experienced its warmest October on record, with temperatures nearly 2°C above the 1991-2020 reference period ♨️

#ClimateCrisis #ClimateAction

Discover more highlights on October temperatures, sea ice extent and hydrological variables: bit.ly/3ThoQdd

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Annika Barber

Only 10 more days until #flyday! Is it a real holiday? It is if we say it is! So what's your plan to shout the wonders of Drosophila from the rooftops? #w1118 #flyday2022

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Albert Cardona

Beautiful fluorescent capture of a neuron by @chrislet@mas.to lab.

Christophe Leterrier 🔬  
Let's start with a pic from one of our microscopes! Neuron expressing tagged actin (orange) and stained for map2 (blue), spinning disk confocal ima...
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Ruslan Rust

For us establishing new techniques from @JoVEJournal works usually better than from any high impact journal. Wondering if adding obligatory video instructions (for method papers) may improve the overall reproducibility

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Nicole Rust

@albertcardona TIL en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amniote

Sounds intriguing! Might also inform about why smell evokes more powerful and older memories? There's some human work on that but ...

My favorite result of that line is: Both scents and photos can trigger memories, but scents tend to trigger older memories, from childhood (<10 years).
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/196861

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Albert Cardona

@NicoleCRust What a lovely talk. Rather amused, but not surprised, to learn that we find memorable the same things that monkeys do. And that damage to the hippocampus can result in overgeneralization.

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Tom Ratz

Scientists' warning on climate change and insects:

esajournals.onlinelibrary.wile

#climatechange #insect #ecology

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