kwitschas @kwitschas@qoto.org

For aspiring physician-scientists, Postdoctoral clinical fellow call at the Crick.

https://www.crick.ac.uk/careers-study/clinical-fellows/postdoctoral-clinical-fellows

Data really is the new oil!

#sciencetracking has become more lucrative than academic #publishing:

"less than half of Elsevier’s revenues come from academic journals"

http://bjoern.brembs.net/2023/03/should-you-trust-elsevier/#comment-5670

With total revenues of 2,909 million £ that's about about 1.7 billion € (or US$) from science tracking in 2022 for #Elsevier.

While the general public doesn't pay to become the product, academics are spending billions for the privilege to serve as a corporate commodity. Smart!

#openscience #openaccess

Nice initiative from @Co_Biologists to plant a tree for every manuscript.

https://journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/136/6/jcs261084/297138/The-Forest-of-Biologists-for-biologists-for

Or first is already there :

https://forest.biologists.com/landscape/?id=85380

#forestofbiologists

Ironically, it's a silver birch to which I am seasonally allergic 🤧

Tracing synaptic connections is hard, even more so in the human brain. We recently developed a new high-throughput circuit tracing approach and are looking for a postdoctoral clinical fellow to apply it to human brain tissue. Interested? Get in touch!

https://www.crick.ac.uk/careers-study/clinical-fellows/postdoctoral-clinical-fellows/positions-postdoctoral-clinical-fellows/specification-and-function-of-neural-circuits

Fancy working in the beautiful city of #amsterdam? In a highly dynamic and collaborative environment? On #translation regulation in #TCells? #immunology

Our #bioinformatician just accepted a position as #assistantprofessor!
#ProudPI !!!

This however also means that we are looking for a #bioinformatician who wants to join us working on an #ERC funded project.

#jobalert.
Contact me if you are interested!

Fixed-term contracts harm research quality

Rahal et al. (2023). Quality research needs good working conditions. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-022-01508-2

#ucurising

Pls RT! There is still time to apply to these faculty positions at the @ubclifesciences , current home to 85 labs. See website for a non exhaustive list of gaps we’d like to fill in our collective expertise. https://lsi.ubc.ca/2023/02/27/six-faculty-positions-at-ubc-in-biological-resilience/

Teaching in the family: my grandmother Göta Sjöstedt, school teacher in Skåne, Sweden.

The perception of time expands and contracts with each heartbeat. Whaaaaaaaat???

https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(23)00174-4

Soraya Meftah Alzheimer’s disease as a synaptopathy: Evidence for dysfunction of synapses during disease progression https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/42526#articles

PhD in Cell biology, Protein trafficking and Microscopy @UNamur

Recruiting a PhD student to study the early secretory pathway and its modulation in health and disease using advanced microscopy

https://jobrxiv.org/job/university-of-namur-27778-phd-in-cell-biology-protein-trafficking-and-microscopy/?feed_id=40074

#ScienceJobs #job #PhD #Acade...
https://jobrxiv.org/job/university-of-namur-27778-phd-in-cell-biology-protein-trafficking-and-microscopy/?feed_id=40074

Hello world! Elon Musk picking a twitter fight with Icelandic philanthropist and man of the year 2022 Haraldur Thorleifsson ended up being the final push that we needed, so now we are here on Mastodon. We don't know how any of this works, but follow us for posts on vision science, cognitive psychology, cognitive science, cognitive neuroscience, and stupid memes.

I've slowly been enjoying this (157 page monster):

In search for an alternative to the computer metaphor of the mind and brain.

It's set up in a clever way, with different authors making the case for different metaphors. I'm not sure if any of the authors are here? Either way, I'd love to hear thoughts, including what strikes you as the most (or least) convincing "new" metaphors.

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2206.04603

Hello all, just a reminder that there is a #PostDoc #Vacancy with @roylelab which is closing today!

It’s a 1.5 year post on intracellular transport vesicle movement and molecular characterisation. Shorter contract due to the current postholder relocating to another country. Very cool project which we are all really excited about. Possibility of extension. Take a look:

https://bit.ly/3jz0JLm

#CellBiology #Microscopy #MembraneTraffic

Interested in memory and prediction? Want research training for a career in science?

@ChrisBaldassano and I are recruiting a jointly supervised research assistant to work on NIH-funded projects examining anticipatory signals in the brain!

See ad for details, and please share! https://tinyurl.com/alyssano

Hi Everyone! 👋

Today let's remember to talk to ourselves like we are our own best friend.

Too often we talk down to ourselves, we chastise, berate, and insult ourselves when we become frustrated or upset.

But we would NEVER let someone talk like that to our friends.

Be kind to yourself. Talk to yourself as if you were defending a friend. Don't accept negative self talk. You have value. You have worth. You are an awesome individual.

Don't forget that.

Happy #Mondog to all that celebrate! I have doggy sat this little doodle bug since he was a wee pup. He’s 8yrs young now. We housetrained him with a bell on the door handle. A quick learner, very intelligent lover boy. #Monday #DogsOfMastodon

On behalf of my colleagues Yuri Pavlov and Faisal Mushtaq:

The #EEGManyLabs consortium will be recruiting for 2 postdoctoral researchers for this international multi-lab replication, project to be based in Leeds, UK, in the very near future. One role (36 months full time) is centred on supporting the delivery of all our replications, harmonisation, and our "meta-projects". The second (33 months, full time) is focussed on leveraging our collective efforts to create open-source tools for the community. If this sounds interesting to you, or somebody you know, please forward to them/get in touch with Faisal Mushtaq (f.mushtaq@leeds.ac.uk). For more information on the project, please read this paper we wrote foreshadowing our in progress efforts to replicate several handfuls of influential EEG studies

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010945221001106.