Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@qoto.org

Really excited to see @thomasinselmd join us here.

Insel has devoted his career to improving mental health. He is a former Director of the National Institutes of Mental Health in the US, where he oversaw a transition in emphasis to brain-based approaches. Since leaving NIMH, he has focused on supporting behavioral and community based interventions. His central message is that a lot of convincing evidence tells us that those are some of the best interventions we have right now.

Insel's book, Healing, is both empathetic and optimistic. I recommend it to anyone who is suffering or knows someone that is suffering from mental illness.

https://www.thomasinselmd.com/healing

Really looking forward to hearing what Insel has to say here. Follow @thomasinselmd !

Hello all!

I'll post an official introduction (hopefully) in the coming days, but for now I'm keeping it short as I emigrate from Twitter to Mastodon (and specifically to genomics.social thanks to @tim).

In the meantime, please enjoy this punny "ugly sweater" I made for our holiday party!

#molecular #biology #protein #purification #LabLove

How The Washington Post has used flight data:
* To track a former president's emergency landing (in 2022): https://wapo.st/3HGp8IA
* To map out how military helicopters flew over George Floyd protests (in 2020): https://wapo.st/3V3WRie
* To raise questions about Musk's flights (in 2019): https://wapo.st/2RmjE7X
* To investigate The Post's owner Jeff Bezos (in 2018): https://wapo.st/3YmLt3M
* To document extravagant trips on the taxpayer dime (in 2017): https://wapo.st/3HMh9d0 via @drewharwell

*They used to laugh and call him names. Now they're all dead

If science Mastidon should work, we need Mastodon share buton on journals webs

#ArtAdventCalendar
I forget I am a memory
Another abandoned building. Have you noticed a pattern? The way human created things return to baseline is endlessly interesting to me. See my username. #Abandoned #BlackAndWhite

Hi All #Introduction

I'm Tanja, also a recent Twitter migrant ..

I'm a biologist with a focus on neuroscience. In my postdoc in Ole Paulsen's lab (Neuronal Oscillation Group) at Cambridge University (UK) I investigate the role of neuromodulators on synaptic plasticity and memory.
I also like filming stuff and 3D animation, so will occasionally post science videos here, in addition to other science-related posts.
Looking forward to meeting you all here!

🚨JOB ALERT🚨
Our awesome team at Human Technopole in Milan, is hiring a Bioimage Analyst! You can find the job posting below. Applications close December 16th. Come and join us!

https://careers.humantechnopole.it/o/bioimage-analyst-and-research-software-engineer-computational-biology-research-center

A common response to posting peer reviews (e.g. eLife, EMBO J) is it's wasted effort because no-one will read them. Well, breaking news: not many people read the paper either...

EMBO estimate ~10% of readers look at the peer reviews. Given a peer review takes ~5 hours to generate and one would certainly conclude a paper takes >50 hours to generate, then a readers/hour-worked calculation surely argues in favor of posting peer reviews - no?

@Hancock_lab Use this to identify people from your twitter account - it’s easy: https://www.movetodon.org

Looking for more motor and cytoskeleton friends out here in Mastodon, it's slow going so far...

Hi, my name is Ewa and I am a little late to #twittermigration - a lot is happening in my life right now! I have just resigned from the first permament academic position I had in my life @liverpool and I am starting my own lab in Krakow, Poland in January https://echrostek.wixsite.com/website #introductions

I am recruiting a postdoc and a postdoc/lab manager for my 5-year ERC StG grant, so if anyone knows anyone... please, spread the news!

Battersea Power Station in 1936 by Bill Brandt from his famous series of night photographs of London. Inspired by Brassaï's night photos of Paris, this is a masterpiece.

#Drosophila #Advent Day17: On to another genus with Hirtodrosophila confusa. The genus #Hirtodrosophila is paraphyletic https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evab179, but the UK species are all members of single clade. This species lays its eggs in large decaying fungi https://www.jstor.org/stable/2408009, and is often found in large numbers on dryads saddle (Polyporus squamosus). Seemingly very well adapted to the Scottish climate, it is apparently unable to breed above 24°C. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1420-9101.2005.00914.x #Diptera #Fungi