"This article argues that the liturgical tradition of celebrating Christmas on 25 December travelled from the Latin West to the Greek East at the behest of Theodosius I upon his arrival in Constantinople in AD 380. From there it made its way to Cappadocia, Pontus and Syrian Antioch by means of travelling clerics who belonged to a pro-Nicene network."
EDWARDS ROBERTGT. Travelling Festivals in Late Antiquity: How Christmas Came to the Greek East. The Journal of Ecclesiastical History. 2023:1-17. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S002204692300009X #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Article #Christianity #Christmas #Religion #History #Histodon #Histodons #Antiquity #Academia #Academic @histodon @histodons @antiquidons
2023 was filled with exciting discoveries about the brain, so we asked our writers to share one thing that got them excited about neuroscience this year. Their answers ranged from discovering the neurons that make you faint to the fact that chinstrap penguins take as many as 10,000 mini-naps a day.
Read all their answers in our last post of the year: https://pennneuroknow.com/2023/12/21/2023-neuroscience-year-in-review/
See you all again in 2024!
#neuroscience #sciComm #brain #2023
Actually managed a few respectable images of a Goldcrest today. [they are proper hard to find let alone photograph]
#nature #birds #Wildlife #photography #NaturePhotography #BirdPhotography #BirdsOfMastodon #UK
Spectacular timelapse of the Milky Way galaxy and a phenomenon known as airglow seen from the International Space Station.
Watch the full video in 4K on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wMbzylZxEI
Related is also the haptic counterpart: Visual experience is not necessary for the development of face-selectivity in the lateral fusiform gyrus https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2004607117 by @apurvaratan @echodislocation @NancyKanwisher et al.
Greater Spotted Woodpecker
The great spotted woodpecker is a medium-sized woodpecker. It nests in holes that it excavates in trees in broadleaved woodlands, large parks and gardens. It has a distinctive, bouncing flight, but is mostly likely to be heard, rather than seen, as it 'drums' away at a tree trunk during its breeding displays. [Wildlife trust]
#nature #birds #Wildlife #photography #NaturePhotography #BirdPhotography #BirdsOfMastodon #UK
Fast Hebbian plasticity and working memory
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conb.2023.102809
#neuroscience
Ruby Crowned Kinglet.
they are so small and hard to get a photo.
#birdphotography #naturephotography #wildlifephotography #photography
National Eye Institute (NEI) is hosting a virtual event Visual NeuroPlasticity Workshop on January 10, 2024.
Registration is open now.
www.nei.nih.gov/about/news-and-events/events/visual-neuroplasticity-workshop
The strain on scientific publishing
Oooooooooooh! How perfect for #TongueOutTuesday This is the leucistic raven that has been spotted by about a thousand people in the Anchorage area. Photo by Michelle Hanson.
#Alaska #AlaskaWildlife #BirdsOfAlaska #WhiteRaven
When the conference doors close, these scientists rock out.
A Pavlov’s Dogz show has become tradition at the annual Society for Neuroscience meeting.
https://www.thetransmitter.org/community/when-the-conference-doors-close-these-scientists-rock-out/
#neuroscience
YES!
This is precisely what every university (and scholarly society!!) should be doing: have their own instance and drop X like a hot potato:
"an instance has been created [... ] on university servers, which is open to the university's organizational units. The active use of X will be significantly reduced."
https://www.uibk.ac.at/en/newsroom/2023/university-of-innsbruck-focuses-on-mastodon/
We detail all the arguments about precisely why that must happen here:
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.230207
"In fact, research indicates that, in labs where postdocs are more engaged, PhD students can be 4 times as likely to have positive skill development; mentoring by principal investigators had no discernible statistical effect on the same variable"
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3002349
Humans are not rodents: Activity in primate visual cortex is minimally driven by spontaneous movements https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-023-01459-5 Now what are good scientific questions to ask when probing adaptation to visual-to-auditory sensory substitution? #neuroscience
Long-term availability of The vOICe is guaranteed https://web.archive.org/web/20211225143619/https://www.seeingwithsound.com/webvoice/webvoice.htm Internet Archive; #bionic #ethics
Professor of Neuroscience (Johns Hopkins Univ.)
Research interests: cortical plasticity, cross-modal plasticity, synaptic plasticity, metaplasticity, vision loss, visual cortex, auditory cortex
ORCID: 0000-0002-5554-983X