kwitschas @kwitschas@qoto.org

Feeling stressed?

Walk. Find a rock to put in your pocket. Get your hands dirty in a field or with a potted plant. Stop for birdsong. Sweat.

I find even short breaks outside incredibly restorative. Not only do I think sharper when I’m back, but I also find it easier to filter out garbage on my computer and devices.

🚨#JOB OPENING 🚨

Hey #science people! We are recruiting for a new faculty position at the Center for #Virology and #Vaccine Research at #Harvard and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. It’s for an Assistant or Associate Professor position.

Diverse perspectives are a must so PLEASE FORWARD to your women and underrepresented (#URM) colleagues in particular.

https://jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/619754/assistantassociate-professor

New users: if your home feed is boring/patchy/haphazard, it's because you're not following enough!

Guidelines for getting the most out of #mastodon:

- Follow EVERYONE who has any overlapping interests. You can always unfollow later, but they will boost and give your timeline broader reach. It gets good in the hundreds

- Follow hashtags of interest

- Block hashtags that you don't want (settings > filters) to curate your feed

- Boost lots to improve everyone's feed

#TwitterMigration

Kitties spent #Caturday doing what they do every weekend: trying to take over the world through vigorous napping. #CatsOfMastodon

Is #MicroscopyMonday a thing? This image shows a single #neuron where actin has been tagged (orange), with all neurons of the culture labeled for microtubules in the cell body and dendrites (map2, blue) and for actin (gray).

From the British Neuroscience Association (BNA):
"Nominations are now open where you can help highlight outstanding examples of Credibility in Neuroscience.

There's a cash prize for the student category, while all winners receive passes to our 2023 International Festival of Neuroscience."
https://bnacredibility.org.uk/prizes

#Neuroscience #ResearchAwards #BritishNeuroscienceAssociation #Reproducibility #OpenScience #ReportingGuidelines #RegisteredReports #ResearchCulture #ResearchMethods #Mentoring

📣We're hiring!📣 We got 3 positions (Lecturer or Senior Lecturer) in our Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield (UK), aiming to recruit 1 person with expertise in Social/Health Psych, 1 in typical or atypical Development, and 1 in any area adding to existing strengths.

We've got a fantastic growing group of cog (neuro) & comp folks. Happy to chat if you're interested - pls just reach out!

https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/CWA262/lecturer-senior-lecturer

#hiring #sheffield #psychology #cogpsy #neuroscience #computational

Elon is running a Twitter poll to see if he should stay or go.

It's received nearly 6 million votes.
He's losing by about 15 points.

He paid 44 billion dollars for this opportunity.

The ol' Elon bump. And bump. And bump.

Should I step down as head of the Universe? I will abide by the results of this poll.

Since twitter is now banning having mastodon usernames in your bio, they won't be in bios much longer. So this is a good time to take a last sweep through your followers with fedifinder, debirdify, and twitodon, all of which will find your twitter follows that list mastodon usernames in their bio. You can then output a csv file that you can then import to add anyone you're currently missing (to import, go to 'edit profile', 'export and import', 'import', and be sure to click 'merge' so it will merge these lists with your existing follows rather than replacing your existing follows.
#Neuroscience

the birdsite will officially ban links to mastodon
#birdsite #mastodon

https://twitter.com/TwitterSupport/status/1604531261791522817?t=7IdAZkdwq6585rs1ReT4Vg&s=19

🎶 No need to cry Argentiiina! 🎶
You just won the #WorldCup! 🎵
Congratulions, on your victory, Argentiina! 🎶

Exciting (independent) Postdoctoral Fellow opportunities at the intersection of #Neuroscience and #AI (#NeuroAI) at the Kempner Institute at Harvard. Please boost to increase our reach and diversity.

https://www.harvard.edu/kempner-institute/the-kempner-institute-for-the-study-of-artificial-and-natural-intelligence/opportunities/the-kempner-institute-postdoctoral-fellowship/

#LongCovid #longcovid.social

My partner came up with the idea of creating an instance for #LongCovid in which sufferers, carers, and allies could interact. This is how longcovid.social was born.
He saw how useful the #LongCovid community has been for me during the past two years and wanted to make sure we have a safe space in case the bird site deteriorates.

So here we are, longcovid.social instance is now ready and hopefully will offer each other meaningful interactions and support here.

Manuel Blum and I study #consciousness from a #TheoreticalComputerScience (TCS) perspective.
TCS is a branch of #mathematics concerned with understanding the underlying principles of #computation and #complexity, including the implications and surprising consequences of resource limitations.
For a TCS perspective on #consciousness, see, https://bit.ly/38zAhf6
For a TCS perspective on #FreeWill, see, https://arxiv.org/pdf/2206.13942.pdf

Would you like to learn from some of the best microscopists 🔬 the nuts & bolts of light #microscopy for #lifescience applications? If so, you should check out this free comprehensive #iBiology series with presentations by #RonVale @kurtthorn #NicoStuurman #StefanHell #DanielFletcher #JeffLichtman #EdwardSalmon #ShinyaInoue #RogerTsien & many more covering topics ranging from #imagingformation, #fluorescence, #superresolution & #lightsheet #microscopy to #Optogenetics 👉 https://www.ibiology.org/online-biology-courses/microscopy-series/

Hey new people joining, so nice to see you all! 👋

If you need help getting started on on Mastodon and the Fediverse, have a look at these sites:

➡️ https://fedi.tips
➡️ https://github.com/joyeusenoelle/GuideToMastodon/blob/main/README.md
➡️ https://mastodon.help

If you still need help, @ me and I will help you directly!