kwitschas @kwitschas@qoto.org

Update. Kudos to the University of Zurich for refusing to participate in the Times Higher Education World University Ranking.
https://www.news.uzh.ch/en/articles/news/2024/rankings.html

#Rankings #Universities #UZurich
@academicchatter

"Even as obesity treatments Ozempic and Mounjaro continue their surge in popularity, drug hunters are asking whether it is possible for people to lose weight on these glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) agonists without losing muscle."

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-024-02176-5

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http://bit.ly/42xIhoE
10,000 scientific papers retracted in the last year would only be a tip of huge iceberg of #Fraud in #Science
Buying and selling of #AuthorShips in papers, recycled or plain doctored images, tortured phrases, #Plagiarism are just the canary in coal mine...

Google will no longer back up the Internet: Cached webpages are dead https://arstechnica.com/?p=2000802

(Nature) Elon Musk's #Neuralink brain chip: what scientists think of first human trial https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00304-4 Some researchers are concerned about a lack of transparency surrounding the implant, which aims to allow people to control devices through thought alone; #BCI #NeuroTech

What explains the rich exchange of information here on Masto? It's really a great community.

It's a deafening silence over at Bluesky... And the other place is not for many people for obvious reasons.

#neuroscience

The semantic search engine of over 25,000 CD-ROMs from the Internet Archive is back:

http://DISCMASTER.TEXTFILES.COM is once again helping people discover long-lost computer history, forgotten images and music, and endless other buried treasures.

It was gone for half a year. Now it's here to stay. Enjoy.

'Here, we review our present understanding of the various pathways to cell death. The literature is extensive and, at times, confusing and even contradictory. As such, at the risk of missing certain advances, we have chosen to emphasize concepts that have been pressure-tested through a combination of biochemistry and genetics and are therefore likely to stand the test of time.'

https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(23)01332-6

Basic science is not just a foundation | Nature Cell Biology

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41556-023-01308-4

Guinessomics

""The present yeast used to make Guinness stout brewed in Dublin, Ireland, can be traced back to 1903, but its origins are unknown. To that end, we used Illumina and Nanopore sequencing to generate whole-genome sequencing data for a total of 22 S. cerevisiae yeast strains: 16 from the Guinness collection and 6 other historical Irish brewing."

https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-023-05587-3

Long weekend

Do we have any #Danish speaking natural #science enthusiasts in the hus? I'm looking for help identifying which term in this sentence (from #entomologist J.C. Schiodte) could have been translated by "accommodation," as well as what a more direct translation of said Danish term would be.

Please boost if you have Danish contacts. Tak allesammen! 🙂

@biology

Hello to all new friends! If you’re here because of hummingbird photos, I’ve got good news for you…

We're entering peak faculty interview season in my field.

One of the most common ways a candidate is derailed during the interview is not deflecting aggressive questioning during the seminar or chalk talk.

Although this may be a sign to run, the questioner might not even be a part of the interviewing department.

To prepare, I suggest this amazing guide on how to deal with derailing questions during a talk from
UCSF.

https://career.ucsf.edu/sites/g/files/tkssra2771/f/ResearchersSlidesHandlingQandA.pdf

#AcademicChatter #AcademicJob #ChalkTalk

Today's the day the Ultimate Tape Archive upgraded from 4.0 to 4.5. 250 new tapes.

That's many hundreds of Commodore 64 Cassettes released with all the elements scanned, AND I've made them all emulate in the browser (watch out for those loading times).

18gb collection: https://archive.org/details/Ultimate_Tape_Archive_V4.5

Enjoy playing over 2000 of them:
https://archive.org/details/ultimatetapearchive

The amazing #CaiLab is recruiting postdocs:

”The Cai Lab is on a mission to unravel the neural processes behind memory stability and flexibility across the lifetime. If you’re interested in working in these areas, please send an intro and CV to denisecailab (at) gmail.com.” (source: twitter)

https://www.denisecailab.com/

#NeuroJobs #NeuroPostDoc

The road to Christmas.

My @smh @theage cartoon.

#AI cannot be #patent 'inventor', UK Supreme Court rules in landmark case - https://www.reuters.com/technology/ai-cannot-be-patent-inventor-uk-supreme-court-rules-landmark-case-2023-12-20/

Several fully-funded PhD positions are available in the new AI centre of excellence at Sussex. Anyone interested in a project involving neuromorphic engineering, spiking neural networks please get in touch!

https://www.sussex.ac.uk/study/fees-funding/phd-funding/view/1686-Sussex-AI-PhD-Studentship