kwitschas @kwitschas@qoto.org

Wow, this is a super good move for Open and Team Science - Utrecht University abolishes distinction between support and academic staff

https://www.uu.nl/en/news/from-academic-staff-wp-and-support-staff-obp-to-colleagues

✨ jobs ✨ - we are looking to hire for five new roles in our department - please help us share with those who might be interested! 💌

Lecturer in Digital Media and Culture Education
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/073449-lecturer-in-digital-media-and-culture-education-aep

Lecturer in Social and Cultural AI
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/073450-lecturer-in-social-and-cultural-ai-aep

Lecturer in Lecturer in Digital Media
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/073465-lecturer-in-lecturer-in-digital-media-education-and-research

Lecturer in Cultural Computation Education
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/073467-lecturer-in-cultural-computation-education-aep

Lecturer in Digital Economy and Innovation Education
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/073468-lecturer-in-digital-economy-and-innovation-education-aep

#digitalmedia #digitalculture #digitalhumanities #ai #softwarestudies #culturalstudies #algorithmstudies #newmedia #platformstudies #internetstudies #commodon #sts #mediastudies #jobs

If you are drafting figures for a scientific paper or presentation, remember that https://scidraw.io/ exists: a repository of free SVG cartoons for science.

#SciDraw is supported by the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre.

All content on SciDraw is shared under creative commons license (CC-BY) unless stated otherwise.

#inkscape #SVG #science

It's an unspoken fact that freely moving lab mice are not really freely moving. We came up with a method to change this. See the preprint: https://biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.08.30.554672v1 (1/3)

Are you interested in cortico-basal ganglia networks and would like to model them, but only have a basic proficiency in Python or computational modeling in general?

Well then, I’m happy to announce the release of CBGTPy, a software package for running biologically-realistic simulations of the cortico-basal ganglia-thalamic (CBGT) networks in a dynamic range of tasks. The latest tool out of our Exploratory Intelligence group at CMU, University of Pittsburgh, and University of the Balearic Islands (Spain).

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.09.05.556301v1

#computationalneuroscience #neuroscience #AI #neuralnetworks

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Faculty, if you know of tenure-track positions that we should be listing, or see an error, please e-mail us at chemjobber@gmail.com

X (ex-Twitter)’s privacy policy is being updated, and there’s a reason it’s prettier

The two attached screenshots are from (the English-language version of) MuskCo’s new privacy policy, which will take effect on 29 September 2023: https://twitter.com/privacy

Because of the way everything’s hidden in folded-up sections, which you can only see one at a time, it’s actually quite hard to read, despite MuskCo’s alleged efforts to make it ‘short and easy to understand’

(The current version is still accessible via the handy ‘Download PDF’ button)

Changes that might make you think twice about continuing to participate in MuskCo’s dystopian social network:

⚠️ In Section 1.1 (first screenshot), information MuskCo may collect from users now includes

• your *biometric* information (‘based on your consent’) – why?

• ‘employment history, educational history, employment preferences, skills and abilities, job search activity and engagement’ – is this the LinkedIn-ification of MuskCo?

⚠️ In Section 2.1 (second screenshot), in order to ‘[o]perate, improve and personalize [their] services’, MuskCo may now use any of your data to train their *machine learning* or (so-called) *artificial intelligence* models

I’m not sure how all this will play out in Europe, where there are semi-decent data protection laws, but wherever you live, if you’re still a MuskCo customer, now feels like a(nother) great opportunity to get out!

#MuskCo #Twitter #privacy #EmploymentHistory #biometrics #MachineLearning #PatternRecognition #AI

The Cell Biology division at the LMB is recruiting for a new PI. One of the best places in the world to do research. Looks like a truly open search. Great opportunity

https://mrc.tal.net/vx/mobile-0/appcentre-ext/brand-3/candidate/so/pm/4/pl/1/opp/2237-Research-Group-Leader-in-Cell-Biology-Cell-Biology-LMB-2237/en-GB

#CellBiology

All I see now is this giant combinatorial, reentrant integrative architecture

#neuroscience
@cogneurophys

Unprecedented nanometer-scale structures of cristae in >400 individual #mitochondria, by @Hirabayashi_Lab, using a novel deep learning-based analysis of #volumeEM images, (also reveals previously unknown function of OPA1) #PLOSBiology https://plos.io/3OXtPzK

I'm currently developing a new course "Neuroscience for machine learners" that I hope to be able to make publicly available, and I'd love to hear what you think should be in it.

It's aimed at people with a machine learning background to learn a bit about neuroscience. My thinking is that neuroscience and ML have had fruitful links in the past, and may again in the future (although right now they're drifting apart). This course is designed to give students the background they'd need to be able to discover, understand and make use of new opportunities arising from neuroscience (if they do). I'm not trying to tell them only about the bits of neuroscience that we already think are applicable to ML, but to give them enough background to read and understand enough neuroscience to allow them to make new discoveries about what might be applicable to ML. The constraint is that it can't just be an intro to neuro course I think, because I'm not sure how compelling that would be to students with an ML focus. The course is 10 weeks and will have quite a practical focus, with most of the attention on weekly coding based exploratory group work rather than lectures. (Similar to @neuromatch Academy.)

I have thoughts about what should be on this course, but I'd love to know what you all think would be most relevant.

#neuroscience #compneuro #machinelearning #ai

A look into the REM dreams of the animal kingdom

Animals' "active" sleep phases look very much like REM.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/09/a-look-into-the-rem-dreams-of-the-animal-kingdom/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

An elegant visualization of cellular organelle dimensions and surface areas. Lots of useful insights for mechanistic computational modeling of cellular processes. https://felixvis.artstation.com/projects/v1OlWO

Ten new faculty positions at the The Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (with ten more to open by 2026).
Application deadline: October 31, 2023.

https://groups.oist.jp/facultypositions

Registration now open for our 1st NMGN Congenital Anomalies
Cardiovascular Geneboree: From Cardiac Gene Variant to Mouse Model 🗓️ Nov 23-34, 2023🗓️ MRC Harwell Advanced Training Centre, UK (or online)! ❤️ 🧬 🐁 #RareDisease #CongenitalAnomalies #CHD #DiseaseModels #HumanGenetics Register: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/congenital-anomalies-cardiovascular-geneboree-gene-variant-to-mouse-model-tickets-707821602467?aff=oddtdtcreator A workshop for #clinicians, #ClinicalGeneticists & #DevBiologists with an interest in finding new genes for #CHD & validating them in models. We are grateful to #BHF for support. Join us!

Science is international! Cell biology at the nanoscale from Fran Bottanelli.

#Berlin #optobiology #scientist

https://www.bcp.fu-berlin.de/natlab/Wissenschaftskommunikation/NOS/000_videos/03_03_03_Science-is-international/index.html

Postdoc and Postgrad Positions in Computational Biology, Human Genetics, an

Yale University School of Medicine

Postdoc and postgrad positions open in Dr. Renato Polimanti’s group at the Yale University School of Medicine

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/yale-university-school-of-medicine-27778-postdoc-and-...
https://jobrxiv.org/job/yale-university-school-of-medicine-27778-postdoc-and-postgrad-positions-in-computational-biology-human-genetics-an/?feed_id=57050

This collection of links to push back against common statistical myths may be useful to many experimental researchers:

https://discourse.datamethods.org/t/reference-collection-to-push-back-against-common-statistical-myths/1787

Additionally, here are another two great stats resources from my bookmarks:

https://lakens.github.io/statistical_inferences/

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00031305.2019.1583913

#r #rstats #quarto #statistics

Retraction of a PNAS paper by University of Chicago researchers with over 50 PubPeer posts.
#ImageForensics
PubPeer link: https://pubpeer.com/publications/58E5F4120AB02E9565E3B4DE303EC3
Retraction link: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2313213120

You can join the Alliance of World Scientists by becoming a signatory on the paper that declared a climate emergency (https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/70/1/8/5610806), with 26k other scientists: https://scientistswarning.forestry.oregonstate.edu/join_AWS #ClimateChange