"A Bloomberg Green analysis of more than 215,000 offset transactions in public datasets over the past decade reveals for the first time that dozens of global brands ... [Credit Suisse. Airlines, online retailers, industrial firms and energy producers] now rely heavily on the cheapest and most suspect type of offset — those tied to renewable-energy projects."
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2022-carbon-offsets-renewable-energy/
(Please boost/share with potential PhD candidates)
Very excited to announce that I am looking for #PhD students to work with @ umich CSE. If you're interested in #causality + #machinelearning and would like to spend your PhD years NOT losing half your income on rent, I strongly encourage you to apply to our PhD program
"Until we see obesity as something that’s been imposed on societies, not as something individuals choose, the fat shaming, magic hacks and bad policies will continue." — You always want to read Julia Belluz, especially on #obesity. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/21/opinion/obesity-cause.html
Interesting cache bug in the Mastodon app: @Gargron The left image is not the image of this screenshot’ed toot, but when clicked it opens the proper image. Closing it goes back to the wrong one. That “wrong” image is the last one I uploaded in a toot of mine, but note I did so from the website, not the app. #mastodon
IMHO the most complete and remarkable site for #womeninscience #womeninSTEM. 1432 portraits !
An extraordinary source of information. Only in spanish but very easy to browse and understand with an online translator (such as DeepL translate)
The UK Butterflies 2022 Photography Competition is now open for entries! Details at https://www.ukbutterflies.co.uk/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=11494&start=0#p174598 Last year's winning photo of Common and Adonis Blues by Katrina Watson:
Hi! 👋
It's time for an #introduction here on #neuroscience mastodon.
I'm Hannah Haberkern and I study flies to learn more about how animals navigate. I'm especially interested in visual orientation and the role of plasticity in #navigation. Currently I'm a postdoc at HHMI Janelia in Vivek Jayaraman's lab.
I'll take this new start as an opportunity to start sharing a bit more #pigeon and #quilting content. Here's me with a semi-recent quilt finish, a quilt that's in progress, and my Boab.
RT @marion_silies
Join us for the Crete Workshop on Neural Circuits and Behavior in Drosophila. Registration is open now: https://qbi.uq.edu.au/event/16789/crete-workshop-neural-circuits-and-behaviour-drosophila
Please RT
It's time all Mastodon users found out about the unparalleled cuteness of baby millipedes! Click to treat yourself!
#SoilBiodiversity #SoilFauna #Millipede #Myriapod #Macrophotography #Nature #SciComm #SoilEcology #NaturePhotography
Neuro-evo conference at HHMI Janelia on May 15-18, 2023. Join us for the third edition!
Application deadline: Jan 27 (11:59 p.m. EST) 2023.
"Historically, with the study of the most convenient animal models —from the giant axon of the squid and the lobster's stomatogastric circuits to Aplysia's synapses and C. elegans' circuits — neuroscientists revealed some of the operating principles of the nervous system, which were then found to apply broadly across phyla. The third instalment of this meeting will once again bring together neuroscientists working on a broad diversity of animal models in an effort to compare circuits across phyla as a means to crack their function."
#NeuroEvo #Janelia #HHMI #conference #science #academia #neuroscience #DevBio #connectomics #connectome
I think about how a collective of agents (animals, neurons, mathematical structures) can solve problems. Additionally, I am interested in what it means to produce a good model and understanding of something.
I am excited to be here to learn and discuss.
#Neuroscience, #CollectiveBehavior #CollectiveIntelligence
#ComputerScience
#maths #mathematics #logic #algebra #CategoryTheory #types
#machinelearning #computervision
#symbolicAI
#CognitiveSystems
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence
Hello world, it's time to do an #introduction! I'm a neuroscientist (postdoc) currently based in Göttingen, Germany. I have broad interests in #neuroscience, including sensory coding, neural circuits, and sensorimotor transformations.
So far, I studied how the retina processes natural scenes using a combination of large-scale electrophysiology and computational modeling.
I'll be soon leaving the tidy entryway to the visual system to venture into understanding cortical processing during decision-making.
Just received another offer to sell @glossa to an unnamed 'publisher' from Singapore. Again made it clear that the journal cannot be sold, as stipulated in its Governance by-rules https://www.glossa-journal.org/site/governance/ Very important for #DiamondOpenAccess journals to make themselves impregnable to this sort of 'invitation'.
Deadline to apply for the HHMI Hanna H. Gray Fellows Program is 12/7/2022 https://www.hhmi.org/programs/hanna-h-gray-fellows-program
Please apply - this is a great program!
We have an exceptional opportunity at our center for a new group leader at VIB in Leuven. We are looking for a new colleague who wants to use computational methods to investigate molecular and/or cellular aspects of neurobiology. This position not only comes with substantial and renewable core funding and start-up package, but it is also linked to a tenure track position at KU Leuven.
More information on our center can be found on our website https://cbd.sites.vib.be/en.
Livestream meeting from @ASAPbio, EMBO and HHMI supporting open feedback on preprints. https://www.janelia.org/you-janelia/conferences/recognizing-preprint-peer-review
Apropos #fMRI and comparing brain areas across subjects: variations of 3.5x for brain cortical area V1-3 across 118 human subjects.
"Variability of the Surface Area of the V1, V2, and V3 Maps in a Large Sample of Human Observers"
Benson et al. 2022 https://www.jneurosci.org/content/42/46/8629
HT: @Whatishealth
#neuroscience #brains
QT: https://mstdn.social/@Whatishealth/109378147645879261
Wow, interactive 3D scans of animals and plants: https://sketchfab.com/ffishAsia-and-floraZia
The paper: "Bio-photogrammetry: digitally archiving coloured 3D morphology data of creatures and associated challenges" by Yuichi Kano https://riojournal.com/article/86985/instance/7883441/
See for example this one of an Asian Giant Hornet, Vespa mandarinia (click and drag with the mouse) https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/asian-giant-hornet-vespa-mandarinia-f9c1f7e3f373491fbf01adf94ec8169e
HT: Rainmaker1973
#entomology #3D #photogrammetry #VespaMandarinia #insects #wasplove
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.