Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@qoto.org

A wonderful & rare job opening for an editor at Current Biology!!!

Do you love #biology but not necessarily doing biology? Consider joining our team!

https://nature.com/naturecareers/job/assoc-scientific-editor-cell-press-767972

Hi all, 👋​
I'm new to Mastodon, and even more so to this instance (which I was excited to find), so here is some #introduction (and a question).

My name is Asaph, I'm currently a postdoc in Isaac Bianco's lab at University College London (find us here: http://zebrafishucl.org/bianco-lab)

I'm interested in explaining behavioural variability in terms of neural activity dynamics, by combining whole-brain functional imaging in larval zebrafish with spiking simulations and ML/AI (eg http://zebrafishucl.org/bianco-lab).

I'm also a member of UCL's NeuroAI organising committee and run its Twitter account. I'm thinking about migrating it here, so I've been wondering - is there a policy in place regarding 'institution' accounts? Are they discouraged at this point?

Looking forward to meet and exchange ideas on #neuroscience #Neuroai #zebrafish #microscopy #deeplearning #lightsheet #computationalneuroscience

Fossils reveal the dinosaur era's changing insect soundscape https://www.newscientist.com/article/2351116-fossils-reveal-the-dinosaur-eras-changing-insect-soundscape/

Many journals are innovating in peer review through #preprints. ASAPbio Fellow @AditiSG@twitter.com discusses journal review models that include preprints, such as @EGU_BioGeo@twitter.com's process which allows open community comments in parallel to reviews by invited referees.
https://buff.ly/3FOqhwo

👋 Hi everyone, time for an #introduction as I have recently moved Mastodon instances (and finally feel at home on here).

My name is Tim, I am a Professor at the Institute of Cognitive Science (University of Osnabrück, Germany), where I run an interdisciplinary ML/cognitive computational neuroscience lab.

My team and I focus on understanding visual processing, and information processing more generally, in both brains and machines.

We love to tinker with deep (recurrent) neural networks, and analyse neuroimaging data (mainly M/EEG, and fMRI). I firmly believe that the interdisciplinary space between ML and Neuroscience can teach us lots about how brains operate.

If you are curious about the work we do, this could be a good starting point: https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.03718

Looking forward to exchanging ideas with you all.

#computationalneuroscience #neuroscience #cognitivescience #deeplearning #academia

Marmite: A new neuropeptide family regulating protein appetite.

Great new neuroscience and a fun gene name to boot from @RibeiroCarlitos and team.

#Drosophila #neuroscience #newgene

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.12.12.520095v1?rss=1

In the latest issue of Science (@sciencemagazine), my fellow editors & I review a selection of #ScienceBooks for #YoungReaders as part of a wonderful ongoing end-of-year tradition!

https://bit.ly/Sci_adf7725

#BookReviews

https://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13059-022-02806-8
Pathogen genomics study of an early medieval community in Germany reveals extensive co-infections

This wax model from the 19th century shows the internal structure of the brain, complete with its protective covering, the meninges. Wax models like this were used for teaching anatomy to medical students at a time when it was difficult to find bodies to dissect. They are an example of the combination of art and science that often characterized this period. Photo: Wellcome Collection.

#SciArt #ScienceMastodon #Histodons #Histodon #history #WeirdHistory #WeirdFacts #HistMed #HistSci #MedMastodon

There's still time to apply to our open rank faculty search in the Department of Biostatistics and Dara Science at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. Come join a collaborative and vibrant department at a time of exciting institutional growth.

More details here: https://forms.stat.ufl.edu/statistics-jobs/entry/10087/

#biostatistics #statistics #datascience #publicheatlh #epidemiology #academia

Posted a good bye and signed off of Twitter.

For me, it came down to the ethics of who we surround ourselves as we interact. I benefit from these conversations and I believe my community does too. Individuals should not have to suffer to take part in them. We need inclusive & safe spaces to discuss science, free from hate. On the bird site, hate mongering is coming from the top. That's it - nope out.

Honestly, I appreciate the opportunity to reset and rethink of what we want this to be. And I'm excited to build up an inclusive community here with all of you!

New article by Katharina Ribbeck and coworkers:

Host-derived O-glycans #mucins inhibit toxigenic conversion by a #virulence-encoding #phage in #Vibrio #cholerae

https://www.embopress.org/doi/10.15252/embj.2022111562

Cholera continues to spread in #Haiti. Since the outbreak was reported on 2 October a total of 13 672 suspected #cholera cases have been reported, including 283 deaths.

„The current cholera outbreak in Haiti, combined with the ongoing crisis related to gang violence, social unrest, and insecurity, has strained the health system’s response capacity. The overall risk for this outbreak in Hispaniola is assessed as very high.“

https://www.who.int/emergencies/disease-outbreak-news/item/2022-DON427

from @nslavov

How predicative are transcriptomes of cell fate choices?

This @ScienceMagazine article suggests that transcriptomes have limited predictive power for developmental fates during hematopoiesis.

The highest predictive accuracy from RNA levels was 60% in vitro and 51% in vivo.

https://twitter.com/slavov_n/status/1602370160291188763?s=12&t=TxyaDF81IYtQhPhcQ5MMJQ

Horizontally acquired fungal killer protein genes affect cell development in mosses

-in the Plant journal

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/tpj.16060