Stephan Saalfeld @herrsaalfeld@qoto.org

RT @JamesGleick:

"""
The new owner of Twitter just told his 100 million plus followers that Alexander “Vindman is both puppet & puppeteer” and said “the question is who pulls his strings.”

So Musk isn’t just allowing anti-Semitism on Twitter. He’s enflaming it.
"""

It should be clear to everyone by now that if you're still active on Twitter you're part of the problem. You can't beat the house. Stop propping up Twitter's stats. Leave.

Why get up so early?

Hello Mastodon friends! #Introduction time…

I study neural networks supporting flexible #Navigation at HHMI’s Janelia Research Campus. Using tractable systems, both biological (flies) and artificial (RNNs), I try to link the structure of neural circuits to their underlying function. In grad school, I studied hippocampal ripples at Caltech, and I love searching for shared operating principles across systems/species.

Here are two of my favorite fly neuron types. Aren’t they beautiful? 🙂

Best health outcomes (based on wide range of data)
1 Iceland
2 Norway
3 Netherlands
4 Luxembourg
5 Australia
6 Finland
7 Switzerland
8 Sweden
9 Italy
10 Andorra
11 Ireland
12 Japan
13 Austria
14 Canada
16 NZ
18 Germany
23 UK
28 Czech Republic
29 US
48 China
55 Cuba
66 Iran
91 Mexico
127 S Africa
145 India
168 Haiti
194 Somalia
Source: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(18)30994-2/fulltext

Fun thing - just realized the @NeuripsConf announcements of outstanding papers includes little short summaries for each paper. Fun to read!

https://blog.neurips.cc/2022/11/21/announcing-the-neurips-2022-awards/

#NeurIPS #NeurIPS2022

Let me introduce myself! My name is Ilenna Jones, I am a computational neuroscientist with keen interest on how dendrites contribute to a singular neuron's ability to compute functions and learn tasks. I build biophysical models of neurons in #pytorch and use #deeplearning principles to investigate how #neuron models can learn and compute given their biologically realistic constraints.

I'm looking for postdocs right now! Feel free to connect if you're looking for someone like me!

I'm very interested in helping other students find resources and guidance as they consider science and #neuroscience in general. Feel free to connect if you're looking for advice/perspectives!

#computationalneuroscience #theoreticalneuroscience #neuroscience #neuralcomputation #learning #modeling #BlackInNeuro #FirstGen #Questbridge

ilenna.com

Translations on fediscience:

the eagle-eyed amongst you may have noticed that, since a few days ago, some posts have a “translation” link at the bottom and that clicking it will replace the post in question with a translated version of itself.

Under the hood this is using the DeepL translation API.

Literally the last story on NYT homepage, very bottom left.

Media dropped it quickly when Gosar, MTG spoke at Fuentes' event, and McCarthy didn't punish.

This is presumptive GOP nominee for '24.

Imagine where this would be if it were President Obama. Or Hillary Clinton in '16.

Want to help redesign one of the most popular and widely-used tools for researchers?

Zotero is hiring a designer: https://www.zotero.org/jobs/ui_designer

Would do it if I could. Ideal for someone else who has great UX / product design chops.

30 Tage Gewahrsam für Klimaaktivist:innen?

Maya Werner und Ralf Poscher vom Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung von Kriminalität, Sicherheit und Recht in Freiburg vertreten im "Verfassungsblog" die Meinung:

Das bayerische Vorgehen ist nicht nur verfassungswidrig. Es ist noch nicht einmal vom bayerischen Polizeigesetz gedeckt.

https://verfassungsblog.de/gewahrsam-als-letztes-mittel-gegen-die-letzte-generation/

#Klima #Klimaproteste #Recht #Verfassungsrecht #Polizeigesetz

If you're like me, then you were really happy to learn about Mastodon's enthusiastic support for image descriptions, and you were really eager to join in.

Then you went to actually write something and realized you have no idea how to present visual information in a way that is helpful/enjoyable to those who are #VisuallyImpaired or #Blind.

I found this guide really informative: https://uxdesign.cc/how-to-write-an-image-description-2f30d3bf5546

Of course, I'd also love to hear any additional tips y'all might have!

#Accessibility

Midi is the SVG of Audio...

#midi #music #audio

Hello #Mastodon, if you know a Black woman student (HS/College/Graduate School) or early career, I am going need you to lend me your ears.

The Sadie Collective, a nonprofit bringing resources and community to Black women in quantitive and social science fields, is award $6000 AWARDS and all expense paid trips to their annual conference.

As someone who participated in this inaugural program, PLEASE PLEASE share widely. #econtwitter #economics #sociology #science #academia #academic

@albertcardona Thank you for so kindly describing Tri Nguyen’s and @lathomas42’s paper. Indeed, Purkinje cells are amongst the most “elegant and luxurious” #neurons extracted out of our EM data.

Folks can see more for themselves here: https://github.com/htem/cb2_project_analysis

#neuroscience #connectomics #cerebellum

"Structured cerebellar connectivity supports resilient pattern separation" Nguyen, Thomas et al. in @darbly's lab https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05471-w

Spectacular work based on connectomic reconstruction from nanometre-resolution volume electron microscopy and computational modelling that contributes novel findings in cerebellar microcircuitry:

"both the input and output layers of the circuit exhibit redundant and selective connectivity motifs, which contrast with prevailing models. Numerical simulations suggest that these redundant, non-random connectivity motifs increase the resilience to noise at a negligible cost to the overall encoding capacity. This work reveals how neuronal network structure can support a trade-off between encoding capacity and redundancy, unveiling principles of biological network architecture with implications for the design of artificial neural networks."

#cerebellum #connectomics #neuroscience #science #vEM #volumeEM #NeuralBetwork

#introduction

I'm a Software Engineer at @HHMI 's #Janelia Research Campus in Scientific Computing. Where I work on software related to microscopy where I mostly use #JuliaLang, #Java, and #Python. I'm interested in Open Science, Open Data, and Open Source Software.

I was formerly a postdoc in Cell Biology at #Northwestern and #UTSouthwestern and a graduate student in Systems Biology and Biophysics at #UTSW and #UCSD. I concentrated in Biological Chemistry and Mathematics at #UChicago.

Email translations:

“I was under the impression”
Translation: I’m furious

“As per my email”
Translation: I’m furious

“With respect”
Translation: I’m furious

“Whilst I appreciate”
Translation: I’m furious

“As I’m sure you’re aware”
Translation: I’m furious