Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@qoto.org

I was today years old when I learned that Louis Pasteur referred to the filiform microbe B. anthracis as "vibrions baguettes."

Bacterial breadsticks!

(I know that "baguette" in French is used in a number of contexts beyond the baker's oven, but allow me my moment's chuckle.)

Folks have mentioned that Twitter is an extremely important space for sharing #protest news across the world and as a result we should keep preserving it despite the takeover.

I get it, I am #Iranian, I have relied heavily on twitter for news sharing re protests in #Iran over the years.

But what you are missing is that those same activists and protesters are MOST vulnerable to the new Twitter regime. Misinformation campaigns will be easy, and #Putin/#China/Islamic republic will use it.

Hello Mastodon! #introduction 👋​

I'm a cognitive neuroscientist 🧠​🔬​💻​ at the psychology department in Leiden, The Netherlands 🇳🇱​🌷​

I research how we make decisions 🔀​ and how our brains change as we age 👵​ (both in 🐁​ and 👩​)

Beyond brains, I care & post about #feminism, #openscience and #climateaction 🌍​

Happy to be here!

Infectious Disease Modeler

https://jobrxiv.org/job/swiss-tropical-and-public-health-institute-swiss-tph-27778-infectious-disease-modeler/?feed_id=30547
#ScienceJobs
Allschwil / Basel, #Switzerland #Scientist
https://jobrxiv.org/job/swiss-tropical-and-public-health-institute-swiss-tph-27778-infectious-disease-modeler/?feed_id=30547

"Why don't we share data and code?" Nice and concise infographic about perceived barriers and benefits. Full article: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2022.1113

Oh. This will go well.

Do you know if an ImageJ tool exists for local blob segmentation (you'd click, and get a ROI segmented from the local maximum nearby the cursor?) Please tell me about it on http://image.sc ⬇️ https://forum.image.sc/t/an-imagej-tool-to-manually-select-a-synapse-blob-click-based-local-segmentation/74451

Exciting opportunity to join a vibrant community at @EMBL@twitter.com to develop innovative computational solutions for imaging and spatial omics. https://www.embl.org/jobs/position/HD02308

Another sign Musk is making a Twitter an increasingly unpleasant and less useful forum for scientists: the COVID misinformation policy is gone.

I've been conflicted about Twitter given its important role in sci comm vs the trolling, misinfo, etc. But increasingly hard not to hope the whale fails for good.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/29/tech/twitter-covid-misinformation-policy/index.html

BSCB (British Society for #CellBiology) is looking for nominations for the Raff Medal. This is for PhD students who have made outstanding contributions to UK/IE cell bio.

The awardee gets free registration, accomm and UK/IE travel for BSCB annual meeting. They get presented with a medal and give a short talk. Open to all BSCB #PhD student members who have submitted their thesis in the previous 12 months. Details here https://bscb.org/competitions-awardsgrants/bscb-phd-award-raff-medal/

Supervisors get nominating! Deadline 20th Jan 2023

@leigth @pfred60 @auscovid19 most of their child safety team was also laid off.