kwitschas @kwitschas@qoto.org

'The feasibility of artificial consciousness through the lens of neuroscience'

by Jaan Aru, Matthew Larkum & James M. Shine

https://www.cell.com/trends/neurosciences/fulltext/S0166-2236(23)00227-8

Hummingbird sp.

Within a day: OpenAI board in discussions with Sam Altman to return as CEO https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/18/23967199/breaking-openai-board-in-discussions-with-sam-altman-to-return-as-ceo

Friends don't let friends make shitty data plots!
A great guide to 13 common enemies by @chenxinli2.bsky.social

https://github.com/cxli233/FriendsDontLetFriends

Dunstanburgh Castle from 'Canonball Beach'

This is a photo I've been meaning to take for a while but conditions haven't quite been right. Very happy with how this came out.

#SilentSunday #photography #landscapePhotography

"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

The 2024 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List (by Andrew Spaeth, me) has 442 tenure-track positions and 45 teaching positions: bit.ly/facultychemjobs2024 #facultychemjobs

‘The analysis estimates that 1.5–2% of all scientific papers published in 2022 closely resemble paper-mill works. Among biology and medicine papers, the rate rises to 3%."

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03464-x

All talks (but one) from SNUFA 2023 #SpikingNeuralNetworks workshop now available on our Youtube channel:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL09WqqDbQWHHPPOpmHezdxbuQqow6EarR&si=aXigfLRfaL8BhJx2

#neuroscience

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Click through to add these to your SfN program:

Brain-wide atlas of Electrophysiological properties and associated tools: https://www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/10892/presentation/39428

Atlas of intrinsic timescales in the mousebrain: https://www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/10892/presentation/41757

Automating multi-probe insertions to improve the efficiency and reproducibility of electrophysiology experiments: https://www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/10892/presentation/37750

Universal Renderer for Neuroscience: https://www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/10892/presentation/37766

Lightning Pose: https://www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/10892/presentation/37745

Slow internet speeds? In rural America it might be faster to use a pigeon. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/11/10/pigeons-are-faster-than-your-internet/

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY (Tenure-Track)

Georgia college & State University

A teaching and research opportunity in computational biology awaits you. #Biology #bioinformatics #undergraduateresearch #datascience

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/georgia-college-state-university-27778-assistant-professor-of-computational-...
https://jobrxiv.org/job/georgia-college-state-university-27778-assistant-professor-of-computational-biology/?feed_id=64478

are you interested in researching the relationshio between #vision and #sleep #neuroscience? we have a fully funded #PhD opportunity using classic #drosophila #genetics, #connectome and #scRNASeq to investigate! the sutdent will work with Feuda lab @robertofeuda at @NeurogeneticsLeicester

please see further info here and BOOST!!

https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/mibtp/phd/understanding_the_rules_of_life/visually-driven_sleep

How large is science's fake-paper problem?
Massive, finds a new ML text-analysis, by Adam Day (Clear Skies).
It suggests paper mills rise to 1.5-2% of all papers; 3% in biomed. That's 70,000 papers last year alone, >400,000 overall. Day calls that a 'conservative estimate'.
The analysis is unpublished, but seems 'plausible'.
Retractions are orders of magnitude behind this volume, Day adds. “Paper-mill producers must feel pretty safe.”

New paper!
Under anesthesia, sensory signals get to the cortex but don't make it much farther.
Propofol-mediated Unconsciousness Disrupts Progression of Sensory Signals through the Cortical Hierarchy
https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_02081
#neuroscience

Doing enough #sports ? Regular physical exercise is linked to lower #cancer incidence and mortality, and also to a lower rate of tumor recurrence, especially in #colorectalcancer and #breastcancer . This review focuses on immunological effects with a special interest in single bouts of exercise (‘acute’ exercise) versus ‘regular’ exercises (reg. repeated bouts) on anticancer immunity #Immunology #immunotherapy @chfloudas @cyrilpedia
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41577-023-00943-0

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Postdoc available with @ErikClark to doe exciting work on segmentation - apply now! https://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/43726/

About a year ago, we were experience peak migrations from Twitter to mastodon. For those that stuck with it, I’m glad you’re still here. It’s been quite a year.