kwitschas @kwitschas@qoto.org

Dear Twitter people. Lots of us were once Twitter people too. This place will not spoon-feed you. Passive participation doesn’t work here. This is a very active and buzzing place, but unless you FOLLOW people and INTERACT, it will pass you by.

Follow people. Lots of them. You can always remove them later. But really, follow early, follow often.

In ~2014, my colleague & I argued that social media (esp. Twitter) had become part of the critical infrastructure of disaster response. People were turning to Twitter during crises to share information about impacts and resources. Disaster responders were using the data shared there for situational awareness, and were communicating in real-time with their constituents. Today’s events underscore just how dangerous it is for society to come to rely on private platforms as critical infrastructure.

Throwing my favourite tip for new user into the soup here.

Follow lots of people. but also, *follow hastags*, one of the quickest ways to get your feed lively with activity you're interested.

Click on the hashtag (or search for it), and then click on the Follow button (the person with plus icon) at the top.

#hashtags #feditips #TwitterMigration

A big welcome to everyone new to #Mastodon! 👋

You’re going to like it here.

Unlike #Twitter, this place isn’t set up as a race for RTs & likes & feels more like an ongoing conversation. Engagement is high & on the whole, there’s less outrage & more thoughtful content. I’ve been enjoying the chance to get to meet interesting new folks.

Tip: Start with an #introduction & share your interests. @feditips is a helpful follow to get oriented too.

LOL this is not how you deal with "data scraping," this is how you deal with a catastrophic loss of system capacity.

You limit data scraping by blocking things a human user couldn't do, like access a thousand posts a minute. This is aimed directly at reducing normal activity across the whole system.

Please stop saying twitters troubles are about not paying the Google Cloud bill. They worked that.out earlier this week and supposedly paid. It's not that

@mmasnick Besides, the real answer is likely even *more* stupid than "didn't pay Google bill."

For example, Twitter found a way to DDoS itself, causing an infinite loop of requests prompted by their own blocking. https://waxy.org/2023/07/twitter-bug-causes-self-ddos-possibly-causing-elon-musks-emergency-blocks-and-rate-limits-its-amateur-hour/

We are looking for a postdoc to to help us reveal how neural activity is structured in brainwide patterns to support behavior in mice. The postdoc will study the activity of large populations of neurons in the mouse brain using combined techniques such as #Neuropixels recordings and optogenetics, or rabies tracing and two-photon microscopy. It's an exciting opportunity for research at the interface of computational and experimental #neuroscience. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/cortexlab/positions. Deadline is 29 July.

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Progress on understanding #endometriosis

"In a cohort of women, 64% of patients with endometriosis but <10% of controls were found to have Fusobacterium infiltration in the endometrium. Immunohistochemical and biochemical analyses revealed that activated transforming growth factor–β (TGF-β) signaling resulting from Fusobacterium infection of endometrial cells led to the transition from quiescent fibroblasts to transgelin (TAGLN)–positive myofibroblasts, which gained the ability to proliferate, adhere, and migrate in vitro."
#HostPathogen

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scitranslmed.add1531

"Christof Koch wagered David Chalmers 25 years ago that researchers would learn how the brain achieves consciousness by now. But the quest continues." https://nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02120-8 #Neuroscience #Philosophy #Science @philosophy @science

#ECRs often lack the opportunities to gain #PeerReview skills.
We are here to help!
Take advantage of an opportunity to learn about #OpenPeerReview and help other researchers by giving them helpful feedback on their manuscripts!
Join Crowd Preprint Review groups! 👇

If you are interested in molecular and cellular neurobiology, cancer biology, computational neuroscience, metabolism, or meta-research, check out the link for the details on getting involved!
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScOR3oM_9OOhRKxjQvupN8YLtaGImOfKskkllrveTWIqrJUVg/viewform

As a cell changes size during the cell cycle, why does its density remain constant? https://elifesciences.org/articles/89415?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic_insights

Must read for anybody interested in data forensics. Excel spreadsheets (unsurprisingly) contain a mass of historical information. If the data were tampered with in the same file, there may well be a trace.

I suspect a few of these sorts of analysis will be showing up on PubPeer soon.

https://datacolada.org/109

If you've helped setup the in vivo recording facility of a lab, trained students on how to do surgeries, and advised them on how to do the analysis, what would your expectations be in terms of #CreditAssignment on the first in vivo paper from the lab?

Please respond and boost this, and I'd be grateful if you could share your thoughts on the option you choose 🥺​🙏​

#neuroscience @academicchatter @neuroscience

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Great job for someone who wants to bring down Elsevier

"Do you believe we can break out of the culture of publish-or-perish, and find new and fair ways to evaluate the contributions researchers make to society?

We are seeking a motivated, proactive and organised individual to develop and deliver a research outputs analytics service across the university."

Full time, permanent
£41-50k
Imperial College London Library

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/description/ACA00173/research-outputs-analyst

#OpenScience #REF2028 #ScholComms

Join us next week 🗓️ 20/06/2023 15:00 -17:15 BST 🗓️ our 44th BSCB GenSoc UK CIlia Network e-symposium- free and open to all!

With 1260 folks already registered, this is the place to be but if you are on my list already, don't sweat it💦 , sign up once for the series here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bscb-gensoc-uk-cilia-network-e-symposia-series-tickets-122092125835

Hiring a postdoc to study host-microbe interactions! See flyer and shropshirelab.com for details, and share with anyone that may be interested!

@jobsecoevo #ScienceJobs #PostdocJob #EcoEvo #CellBiology #Genetics #Symbiosis #Bacteria #Insects #Wolbachia #Drosophila

UK Universities Crisis:

🔹 Marking boycott continues across the country

🔹 Cambridge and Queen's University Belfast call on universities' national body to return to negotiations

🔹 Leeds confirms 1,800 staff will commence indefinite strike

🔹 Brighton announces > 100 redundancies

https://www.ucu.org.uk/news

#academicchatter
#news