kwitschas @kwitschas@qoto.org

Yaniv Assaf's LAB. Post-Doc position available:
- PhD in neuroimaging/neuroscience
- Knowledge in MRI signal processing: Image registration, segmentation, 3D visualization, connectome analysis
- Linux, FSL, EDTI, Freesurfer, MRtrix
- Candidates should send their CVs to: assafyan@gmail.com

I can't believe nobody here is posting about this being Superb Owl week! This one is Oliver, a Great Horned Owl I once had in my care. #SuperbOwl #Owls

Boost your brain mycelium? Mushrooms magnify memory by boosting nerve growth https://www.uq.edu.au/news/article/2023/02/mushrooms-magnify-memory-boosting-nerve-growth-0 #neuroscience #connectome

Early hominin Paranthropus may have used sophisticated stone tools https://www.newscientist.com/article/2358821-early-hominin-paranthropus-may-have-used-sophisticated-stone-tools/

"Scientists and artists are both motivated by creativity and curiosity, and science and art can be mutually reinforcing, supporting discovery and innovation. This Community Page highlights resources for individuals, groups, and institutions to advance science–art collaborations."

#SciArt @PLOSBiology

https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3001992

A brief chat with Dr Hunter on my panpsychism chapter in his book:
https://youtu.be/lyoy5NU2AUU

Review at EJI

"Dysregulation or overproduction of IL-6 leads to autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis (MS) and rheumatoid arthritis (RA), in which Th17 cells are considered to be the primary cause of pathology. Given the critical role of IL-6 in altering the balance between Treg and Th17 cells, controlling IL-6 activities is potentially an effective approach in the treatment of various autoimmune and inflammatory diseases."

#Immunology #Treg #Th17 #Autoimmunity

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/eji.201040391

New Ep out tomorrow!

Tomorrow, we discuss with assistant Prof Francesca Grisoni @fra_grisoni who leads @molecularML just how AI is improving drug discovery.

Follow so you don't miss it
https://open.spotify.com/show/4v05ZoBjLLIeUAtgGZIVZK?si=584ba76c319144de

#academia #PhD #phdlife #science #xp @OpenAcademics @AcademicChatter

Hi all! By way of #introduction, I'm a postdoctoral neuroscientist in the Axel Lab at Columbia University's Zuckerman Institute. I study information seeking, knowledge as motivation, and curiosity #inmice using olfactory stimuli

I hope to have my own lab soon to answer questions like "Why and how are humans and animals motivated to learn about the world?"

I care a lot about the structural issues keeping academic science from being inclusive and equitable.

Come and work with us in sunny ☀️🌴​​ and vibrant 💃​🕺​ Marseille!

PhD opportunity in my lab, together with
@laurentperrinet at the Turing Centre for Living Systems.

The deadline is 16 February, fast approaching!

https://centuri-livingsystems.org/phd2023-14/

https://centuri-livingsystems.org/phd-program/

PhD opportunity Abnormalities in proteins and lipids in Lewy body dementia
Newcastle University
Translational and Clinical Research Institute Dr Daniel Erskine, Dr F Lebeau, Dr Lee J. Higham https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/abnormalities-in-proteins-and-lipids-in-lewy-body-dementia/?p154961

As I saw @nazgul point out, the tools for finding your Twitter friends’ Mastodon accounts will likely stop working next week, when Twitter API usage starts costing money.

You may want to run them again to find new accounts since you ran them last.

These are the four tools I’ve seen people use, in case you want to find your way back to the one you tried earlier:

Debirdifier
Fedifinder
Twitodon
Movetodon

Brexit causes collapse in European research funding for Oxbridge
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/feb/04/brexit-causes-collapse-in-european-research-funding-for-oxbridge-universities?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Tomorrow!
𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗯𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆
Neuroscience & Philosophy Salon with Johannes "Yogi" Jäger @yoginho

Including brain network explanations, what do we learn?
Thu Feb 2 at 12pm US-EST.
Register here:
https://umd.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJElf-uqqzMpHdZQqKiND7esShcusj6ym-Hv

Together with the Zechner lab we have pushed live-cell quantitative lipid biochemistry to the single cell level. It works - but some lipids are weird. 🤓
Let us know what you think! https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.01.27.525833v2

I had a very interesting discussion about #human #evolution with Jack, a 9-year-old from the UK. He has surprisingly tricky questions and a refreshing perspective.
In this exchange, we discussed #biology , #development , #crispr , #genetherapy , and some principles of #evolution .
He's doing a #podcast about #future perspectives in various fields, you can find it here:
https://anchor.fm/jacktothefuture/episodes/Episode-11--The-Future-of-Evolution-e1u29j8

1/2 https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_01908
Does does the complex systems perspective, one that entails emergent properties, matter for brain science? This Special Focus begins with this precis of recent book, then proceeds with brilliant and challenging commentary from:
Jennings https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_01930
Uddin https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_01925
Sadaghiani & Alderson https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_01951
Druckmann & Rust https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_01950
Hayden https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_e_01924
Boone, Van Rooy, De Brigard https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_01931