kwitschas @kwitschas@qoto.org

The feasibility of artificial consciousness through the lens of neuroscience https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2306/2306.00915.pdf

Does Science Need History? Lorraine Daston in conversation with Samuel Loncar, editor of Marginala - an interesting wide-ranging discussion about science, culture, education, publishing, disciplines, ‘truth’ and more.

Link to the pdf that contains both parts of the published discussion: https://themarginaliareview.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Daston_Loncar_Marginalia.pdf

#histsci #histSTM #HistoryOfScience #philsci #hps #sts #science #history

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Remember those German academics who developed a fraud detector that actually did nothing but look at whether the authors used institutional email addresses, had international collaborators, and were affiliated with a hospital?

And then they concluded, based on this "detector", that a high fraction of the papers out of Asia and the Global South are fraudulent?

And then they got a glowing writeup in Science?

(If you missed it: https://fediscience.org/@ct_bergstrom/110357259338364341)

Turns out there's data on all this.

"After screening some 5000 papers, he estimates up to 34% of neuroscience papers published in 2020 were likely made up or plagiarized; in medicine, the figure was 24%." https://science.org/content/article/fake-scientific-papers-are-alarmingly-common #Science #Medicine #Research #NeuroScience #Academia

Postdoc position - Lipid Network Reconstruction & Computational Modeling

Osnabrück University

The Holthuis Lab at Osnabrück University is looking for a Postdoc to work on LIPID NETWORK RECONSTRUCTION & COMPUTATIONAL MODELING FOR IMDs

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/osnabruck-university-27778-postdoc-position-lipid-network-r...
https://jobrxiv.org/job/osnabruck-university-27778-postdoc-position-lipid-network-reconstruction-computational-modeling/?feed_id=46620

Master or PhD positions

University of Ottawa

Master and PhD in #Canada fully funded positions in #bioinformatics

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/university-of-ottawa-27778-master-or-phd-positions/?feed_id=46627

#ScienceJobs #hiring #research #bioinformatics #machine learning
Ottawa #Canada #PhDStudent #ResearchAssistant
https://jobrxiv.org/job/university-of-ottawa-27778-master-or-phd-positions/?feed_id=46627

58th Inner Ear Biology Workshop & Summit
IEB 2023 London! 2-5 September 2023 ABSTRACT DEADLINE is midnight 31st MAY – under 1 week left!! http://ieb2023.uk/

New paper!
Cytoelectric Coupling: Electric fields sculpt neural activity and “tune” the brain’s infrastructure.

Brain waves carry info and alter the brain on the molecular level. This tunes the cytoskeleton, optimizing network function.

Work by Dimitris Pinotsis.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pneurobio.2023.102465

Great talk by @dbarack on neural manifolds, highly recommend it.

Around min 30 David states that the manifold idea/findings indicates emergence in the sense of being irreducible to individual neurons. Do others think neural manifolds provide interesting evidence of emergence?

If so, along a spectrum of types of emergence, where does it fall?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgP8SipIuHA

@NicoleCRust @DrYohanJohn
@Gualtiero

Please forward to anyone who might be interested: Two (3+y) postdoctoral research fellowships. If you want to work in a multidisciplinary team to study how cells make decisions please get in touch. Ideally you have a background in physics, maths, comp bio, but discipline hoppers also welcome.

https://jobs.unimelb.edu.au/en/job/912480/laureate-research-fellow-in-theoretical-systems-biology

Open positions in Jena, Germany to work on phages

A Postdoctoral fellowship in Viral Ecology: https://twitter.com/BEDutilh/status/1658810066336718850

A PhD student to study Bacteriophage Diversity: https://twitter.com/BEDutilh/status/1658810508022018049

A PhD student to study Microbiome Structure: https://twitter.com/BEDutilh/status/1658810854001745920

THE FREE WILL FALLACY: LIBET'S ERROR
Is there such a thing as free will?
None of the current research provides any evidence for or against.
https://breininactie.com/the-free-will-fallacy/
Have fun,
Peter Moleman
#neuroscience #freewill

Faculty position open at the #MRCLMB in Cambridge, UK:

Group Leader at the Neurobiology division: come join us!

https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/CZP497/research-group-leader-neurobiology-lmb-2136

Delighted by the numbers that have registered to attend our exciting symposium next week! 🙏

But... there are still spaces available... 🥳

Hope you are able to join us in person 🧑‍🏫 or online 💻from anywhere around the 🌎🌍🌏

Details 👉 https://tinyurl.com/3b48py95 #IDMastodon #MedMastodon #Science #Immunology #InfectiousDiseases #academia #symposium #academicchatter #virology #microbiology #antibiotics

05/2023 Issue ➡️ https://bit.ly/3VPM25i
text mining to assemble molecular mechanisms, modular organisation of human #proteome, transcriptional regulation of #metabolism...
Cover (DrawImpacts): IFN-β activation of inflammatory genes from Alex Hoffmann's lab, UCLA
#immunology #signalling #systemsbiology

Science: Fake scientific papers are alarmingly common https://www.science.org/content/article/fake-scientific-papers-are-alarmingly-common "up to 34% of #neuroscience papers published in 2020 were likely made up or plagiarized; in #medicine, the figure was 24%"

#Postdoc position at Aarhus University, Denmark: Electrophysiological measurements for solar cell #retinal #implants https://health.au.dk/en/about-health/vacant-positions/job/postdoc-in-electrophysiological-measurements-for-solar-cell-retinal-implants-2

Are you into 👀 visual processing? Then check out this brand new study on the function of tecto-thalamic inputs to higher areas in visual cortex 🧠 of 🐁. Hot off the press from the Scanziani lab. It was great fun to contribute to this project! Congratulations to the entire team! 👏🎉
https://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273(23)00307-0