Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@qoto.org

Friday Flyday!

Here's a marvelous ephydrid brine fly I photographed recently along the beach in Warrnambool, Australia, where this species was quite common. Couldn't put a name to it, in spite of the distinctive markings.

#Ephydridae #Flyday #FridayFlyday #Diptera #insects #photography #australia

Hey friends! I’m looking to level up my #mastodon game 😎

Specifically, I’m looking to see more targeted content from #neuroscience, #imaging, #psychology, #statistics, and related communities.

I already follow quite a few people from the bird platform—anything else I can do? Favorite servers you’d recommend? Tags? Anyone experimented with an (gasp) #algorithm?

Thanks in advance 😊 Either way, I’m enjoying the experiment and appreciate seeing so many colleagues trying things out here 🙌🏽

Mariko Mabutsu Chaya #hiroshige #ukiyoe https://www.wikiart.org/en/hiroshige/mariko-mabutsu-chaya

I think I've converged on four phases of #writing large projects like a #nonfiction book. I'm curious to compare notes with others. Mine are:

1) Exploration research -> Outline / book proposal

2) Detailed research -> Chapter outlines

3) Writing -> First draft. All the content is there. And I've made a first attempt at making it readable (but it's not there yet). Here I begin to get some feedback.

I iterate between 2 and 3, chapter by chapter, and push through a draft of the entire book.

4) Refining -> New draft. This round is about readability and storytelling.

How does this compare with your process? @PessoaBrain, @WiringtheBrain,
@markdhumphries, @tdverstynen,
@thomasinselmd, @summerfieldlab, @JamesGleick, @gershbrain, @Iris, @cyrilpedia, @alexh
(Anyone?)

#Cardiovascular #deaths saw steep rise in U.S. during first year of the #COVID19 #pandemic. American Heart Association News https://www.heart.org/en/about-us/heart-and-stroke-association-statistics #COVID19 #heartdisease #publichhealth #CovidDeniers #heart #strokes #healthcare #economy

Introduction! I am a biologist and neuroscientist. I got a PhD in systems #neuroscience in the Portugues lab imaging the brain of #zebrafish larvae, where described a mesmerising circuit for heading direction in the hindbrain (https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.04.27.489672).

I recently moved to the lab of Giuliano Iurilli at IIT (Rovereto, Italy) to follow up in mice my interest in subcortical circuits for naturalistic behavior.

I'm a fan of #openscience, #Python, and unconventional paradigms. Cortex is overrated!

So this is when I am going to miss the bird site and the ability to widely broadcast some cool findings very easily. We have three new Pepper lab manuscripts to discuss. The first to make it online is beautiful work from my graduate student Laila Shehata identifying a critical role for IL4 in memory B cell selection in the GC:
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.01.26.525749v1

Still pondering these important points. As a conceptual follow-up, I'm curious to understand how connectomics enthusiasts (or anyone!) thinks about the relationship between these two Big Ideas in brain research:

Big Idea 1) Fine structural detail of the brain has functional consequences (aka the spirit behind the connectomics effort).

Big Idea 2) Across different individuals, the same functions can emerge from biological details that vary a lot (e.g. Eve Marder's work in the crab stomach).

https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-neuro-092920-121538

@vigji @albertcardona @jason_ritt @csdashm
@schoppik

This is interesting... On the final exam of #Cancer #CellBiology I asked students to make a critical assessment of the classical #HallmarksOfCancer papers by Weinberg and Hanahan, and the students were not kind. OK, I always tell them to learn to be critical, but I did not see this coming.
If you're not familiar with this, the first paper, >20y ago, was a first proper attempt to provide a conceptual framework of Cancer (spoiler: we don't really know what it is). The 1/n

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hallmarks_of_Cancer