kwitschas @kwitschas@qoto.org

Because there are never enough Green Herons on Mastodon, here's one.

#birds

#silentsunday

Superbloom at Mori Point in #Pacifica. #bloomscrolling #ocean

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Southern lights ignite the sky in geomagnetic glory – in pictures

“Aurora australis has proven to be the weekend’s must-see event, offering the most ‘extreme’ celestial display in two decades.”

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/gallery/2024/may/12/southern-lights-ignite-the-sky-in-geomagnetic-glory-in-pictures

#SouthernLights #Aurora #AuroraAustralis #Image #Images #Picture #Pictures

"Researchers publish largest-ever dataset of neural connections

A cubic millimeter of brain tissue may not sound like much. But considering that that tiny square contains 57,000 cells, 230 millimeters of blood vessels, and 150 million synapses, all amounting to 1,400 terabytes of data, Harvard and Google researchers have just accomplished something stupendous."

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2024/05/the-brain-as-weve-never-seen-it/

#News #Science #STEM #Tech #Technology #Brain #NeuroScience #Data @science

Truly amazing: This 1 cubic mm of human brain tissue, about a millionth of a whole brain, has ~150 million synapses and results in 1.4 petabytes of data! Wonderful renderings in the article, too. #neuroscience

https://www.popsci.com/science/see-the-most-detailed-map-of-human-brain-matter-ever-created/

How the brain 'constructs' the outside world https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-the-brain-constructs-the-outside-world/ "neurons in sensory cortical areas and even in the hypothetical central processor cannot 'see' events that happen in the world."

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R&D Biochemistry Scientist

Biomemory

👩‍🔬👨‍🔬 Opportunity Alert: R&D Biochemistry Scientist at Biomemory (Paris, France) 🌿

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/biomemory-27778-rd-biochemistry-scientist/?feed_id=74843

#biochemistry #bioengineering #biotechnology #enzymology #structural_biology #ScienceJobs #hiring #research
https://jobrxiv.org/job/biomemory-27778-rd-biochemistry-scientist/?feed_id=74843

https://direct.mit.edu/qss/article/doi/10.1162/qss_c_00305/120308/Are-open-access-fees-a-good-use-of-tax-payers

#OpenAccess fees have given >$5b USD 💸 of revenue since 2015 to the biggest for-profit publishers. Also a massive underestimation given the non-serious "conservative" 500k for #MDPI, who easily received >$300m revenue in 2023 alone (285k papers in 2023!). Over 8 years, easily tack on an extr $1b+ USD for #MDPI.

Non-profit funders should just host their own journals at this point. 🫠
#SciPub #ScientificPublishing #AcademicChatter

Research Assistant - phd position - NAU - AI for Cybersecurity

Northern Arizona University

Join Dr. Lan Zhang's network security research team at Northern Arizona University! PhD students and visiting scholars wanted for spring/fall 2024.

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/northern-arizona-university-27778-research-assistant-phd-po...
https://jobrxiv.org/job/northern-arizona-university-27778-research-assistant-phd-position-nau-ai-for-cybersecurity/?feed_id=74108

"[M]any tenured faculty are expected to cover much of their salary with grants, and may be penalized with salary reductions if they do not. That’s what happened at Tufts,"

Some report their pay being cut as much as $95,500 and being relegated to part-time: "'My salary is [about] $60,000,' says cancer biologist Amy Yee, a plaintiff who has been a tenured faculty member at Tufts since 1998."

Now they are suing.

#AcademicChatter @academicchatter
via @klangin https://www.science.org/content/article/university-cut-tenured-faculty-s-pay-they-re-suing

I’m looking for more post-docs to join our team at UCLA ☀️ Please share with your 🧠 #neuroscience networks https://recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF09330

All they need is a trenchcoat to complete the heron costume

'Because a certain domain is present in a protein, you shouldn’t assume that it has a certain function, and IDRs (famously or notoriously) have suffered from this in the past several years. We see many papers where the authors assume that the presence of an IDR means that a protein might undergo phase separation or that they are readily interchangeable. Current work is challenging these assumptions, showing many examples where IDRs are not interchangeable, and revealing many cases where phase separation is not biologically relevant.'

https://www.cell.com/molecular-cell/fulltext/S1097-2765(24)00178-3

I've been thinking about that Sabine Hossenfelder video* that is doing the rounds and I have to say that I mostly don't like it. It raises real issues with how the incentives are laid out in science, yes, but the whole framing is (sometimes explicitly) that that is all academia is and there's nothing of value there. Saying that what is published is mostly bullshit or that academia is not "honest work" (unlike making youtube videos).

1/n

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKiBlGDfRU8

This mama owl has three tiny baby owls in a nesting box and there is a livestream of them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZL6py8uo3w

#owl #birds #livestream

Common raven

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