Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@qoto.org
I've worked on all of science, from B cells to T cells.
https://fellowsherpa.com
Joined Nov 2022
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Enteric glia: genomically open, poised, and ready to make neurons https://www.cell.com/trends/cell-biology/fulltext/S0962-8924(23)00046-6?rss=yes&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
Surely not the weirdest thing conceived in a late-night New York City cab ride.
"It might be hard to believe, but the term cognitive neuroscience—born out of a late-night New York City taxi ride (Gazzaniga 2014)—is now 50 years old."
https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/full/10.1146/annurev-devpsych-121318-085124
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As imaging technologies like fMRI and tools like machine learning get more powerful, neuroscientists are gathering data on human brain development from ever larger populations, Fair & colleagues wrote in the Annual Review of Developmental Psychology https://arevie.ws/DevCogNeuro_Review
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Temo q a ciência esteja a ser vítima do seu próprio sucesso: porque funciona, espera-se que seja (sempre) útil.
Tinha este texto “na gaveta”, mas há rumores barulhentos sobre uma fusão entre o IGC e o IMM.
Esta fusão preocupa-me em grande parte porque segue outras decisões que forçam a Ciência a ser cada vez menos fundamental e muito menos independente. O tamanho conta, mas está longe de ser o mais importante.
Em defesa da inutilidade, para a @Almanaque
https://almanaquemag.com/o-maravilhoso-potencial-da-inutilidade/
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A fully-funded, three-year postdoctoral position in theoretical neuroscience is now available at Bocconi University's Department of Computing Sciences in Milan, Italy. The postdoctoral researcher will have the chance to explore various research topics, such as movement modulation of visual responses in mice, integrating connectomes in mechanistic models of brain functions, and building normative models of neural representations, among others. The research will utilize cutting-edge approaches from statistical physics, nonlinear dynamics, and machine learning, and will be informed by the latest electrophysiological and connectomic data. Prior experience with computational neuroscience is a plus, but it is not required.
The postdoc will have the opportunity to become a part of the thriving neuroscience, machine learning, and computer science communities at Bocconi University. To learn more about these communities, please visit https://cs.unibocconi.eu/ and https://bidsa.unibocconi.eu/. The postdoc will be a member of the NSF-funded Accelnet consortium "International network for brain-inspired computation," facilitating international collaborations between a large network of computational neuroscience/AI labs. At Bocconi University, we are committed to fostering a diverse intellectual community and encourage individuals from underrepresented groups to apply for these positions.
Applicants should apply via our on-line application system, which can be found at "www.unibocconi.eu/post-doc" (Publication nr. 65633) by 23:59 of April 17th, 2023 (Italian time).
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me at alessandro.sanzeni@unibocconi.it
#ScienceJobs #job #neuroscience #connectomics #academia #compneuro #computationalneuroscience #ComplexSystems #physics
'Filipchenko was Dobzhansky’s formal and informal research supervisor, and a true friend, despite a twenty-year age difference. He invited Dobzhansky to carry out his genetical research on Drosophila in Leningrad, under very favorable conditions for that time, and later arranged for Dobzhansky to work in Thomas Hunt Morgan’s laboratory in the US (Konashev 2008.) Some of his ideas were also foundational in Dobzhansky’s search for solutions to the problem of species and speciation.'
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10739-023-09709-9
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RT @NathanGrubaugh
📢 Come be my colleague at @YaleSPH @YaleEMD!
Two✌️ Assistant or Associate Prof positions in Infectious Disease Epidemiology open in one of the best epi departments in the world (totally not biased 😉).
More info and link to apply 👉 https://apply.interfolio.com/122824
🙏 RT
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RT @BogochIsaac
Lassa fever is a nasty viral hemorrhagic fever in west Africa with seasonal variation in cases.
It poses a significant challenge to public health & healthcare systems.
Very exciting to see progress toward a vaccine 👇
https://bit.ly/3yYmlFa by Tschismarov et al. in @thelancet
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The impulse to anthropomorphize #ChatGPT remains powerful. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/22/business/media/ai-chatbots-right-wing-conservative.html?unlocked_article_code=OlSWoc67EOG2dVxBrqe9_Ko8At2X3oTRoaDWTwVUN6cMXTXfjpHZdhk0VKxSD4F3x2bZXPWzwv1waULeN6JtCq_FV4NWcdRPM7aIgglfedbeuW1gFpXvV-AY8M2TQPftM2jPndIVPbkAPf0Ppt9uL-0ufw5rWWrvNLzvaeOdEUCCe5Z71rlpn_-Q-8tvo3rphQ3ax39-P2ZWgrCqiq3pjZ070_G3StlqHNGCYcrptTQVjhmHofWzSa0L_GErX3QcIuPGU_hn9JHLGeOKNiez-R3SmFsctqyBVst_DPA0g3QZ-HfUrkcd_-eByFVXrUxTVyZHHSot6UWYPUHk5dJmp-tuobgX_LMppNzOfnQP8ds&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
What sense does it make to ask ChatGPT a question like this, unless you already take it for granted that it’s a conscious entity? What would it mean for it to have a favorite, or to have opinions about politics? And is “carefully” an appropriate word for a nonsentient algorithm?
The context is an article about a right-wing effort to pervert these models in an ideological direction, which is another topic.
On a an arboreal solution to the problem of the ever-growing forest of cell types:
"The end proposal is for a three-dimensional tree representation where the axes are cell lineage, differentiation state, and time, with computational techniques applied to determine when you branch things off (i.e., setting things up for maximum information gain in the display)."
https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/organizing-our-thoughts-about-cells-finally
The LaLaLand of Lisbon's mayor: "affordable" university student housing, rooms/studios from 700 to 1100 euros/month.
For reference, the median monthly wage in the country is under 800 euros, and the current PhD stipend is €1145
'A Swiss pharmaceutical group has scrapped plans to conduct a major drug trial in the UK, damaging government efforts to showcase the country as an attractive destination for investment in life sciences after Brexit.'
https://www.ft.com/content/d7685eaa-5635-4e64-a390-b48908874bfe
@schoppik It plays into a larger translate only framework from Europe - soon it will become like the medieval scholastic tradition here: only translators of previous work, no new ideas
@schoppik Foundation will close IGC and move funding and some groups to the biomedical Molecular Medicine Institute of Lisbon University - which coincidentally is where the new Foundation President and the board member handling this came from (Vice Dean and Dean, respectively, per the piece you cannot open).
@schoppik Yes, especially because they would be dumping a basic science institute in favor of 'translational' research
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You know, if our study of #COVID19 causes us to realize many other viruses also damage our heart, that is an argument for MORE masking, not less. The reaction shouldn't be, “I guess COVID risks are like other viruses,” but “if all viruses are dangerous to our hearts, we need more caution and protection.”
“Growing evidence supports the involvement of other viral infections in the development of arrhythmia.”
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10840-023-01525-9
* in the life sciences, I don't know all of what's out there in other fields.
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Notch1 forms nuclear transcriptional condensates that drive target gene expression https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.03.17.533124v1
Now there are two of them. If the lettuce joins the rebellion, this could get ugly (-ier).
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Very excited to announce that we will soon present the results of the Journal Observatory project.
Register now for our community event on April 25 https://www.journalobservatory.org/event/.
In this community event we will introduce a machine-readable framework for describing the policies and practices of scholarly communication platforms.
To demonstrate the value of this framework, we will present a prototype of the Journal Observatory.
I've worked on all of science, from B cells to T cells.
https://fellowsherpa.com
Joined Nov 2022
