Neurofrontiers @neurofrontiers@qoto.org

I won’t be going to #sfn22 this year, but my work will! Please come by board AA.12 on Tuesday morning around 9 am to learn about the anatomical organization of cell types and inhibitory connectivity across visual cortex. Long story short, layer 2 is really different than layer 3, different excitatory neurons have quite different synapse properties, layer 5 has oodles of very specific inhibition, and we found what seems to be a new class of disinhibition specialist interneurons.

Please consider turning them off, flipping the direction (Mastodon->Twitter), or at least disabling RTs and mentions that insert a gazillion twitter dot com links into your feed here. (I don't follow such accounts, and I regret that, because some of them I would like to!)

That's part of making this the New Place and the other site the Old Haunted Place In Which The Mad Billionaire Yells Into The Void.

“Transcending reductionism in neuroscience: The brain is a relational organ that is not just the sum of its parts”

Book review of @PessoaBrain’s The Entangled Brain in Science!

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ade8689

C'mon, this is comedy gold.. how doesnt this have like 100 reboosts by now!

#introduction
I'm a neuroscientist at Oxford and my group investigates neural circuits relating to spatial memory, especially in the thalamus.
Previous research includes defining GABAergic neurons in the hippocampus and medial septum by recording and labelling them in vivo.
We also want to understand the earliest changes in the human brain that lead to the build up of pathological Tau proteins, which correlate with cognitive decline.
Mastodon seems like a great place for science comm so far

A reminder for anyone new to mastodon who might not be happy with some of the racist and bad actors out there on other servers... Just import the fediblock list to your personal blocks and you will be safe from the vast majority of bad actors.

I was not very mindful in setting up and growing a presence on Mastodon - looking to find a way to better understand the culture that was present before me and participate in it, versus colonizing it.

Important reading: https://www.hughrundle.net/home-invasion/

I’m seeing long-time Mastodon folks asking people to please PLEASE use CW on posts about political topics and then I’m seeing almost no one actually do that. It’s so important to keep up with the culture of this space that was established long before many of us got here. Just use the CW!!

#introduction Hi! I'm a research group leader in cognitive computational neuroscience.

I'm broadly interested in human vision, work a lot on face perception, and I'm excited by the opportunities artificial neural networks offer us to make progress in the field.

I'd also like to see a greener world and academia being more family friendly.

Looking forward to some fun exchange with the science community!

In case someone didn't know, two books I've co-authored are freely available online for non-commercial use:

#Bayesian Data Analysis, 3rd ed (aka BDA3) at https://stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/book/ and lectures plus #rstats, #Python and #Stan code at https://avehtari.github.io/BDA_course_Aalto/

#Regression and Other Stories at https://avehtari.github.io/ROS-Examples/ including #rstats and #Stan code

The web sites also have links to the publishers' web stores if you prefer hard copies of these

Lots of discussions around the new serotonin depression paper published last Friday in Biological Psychiatry.

Given that big news outlets like the Guardian already covered the piece, I wrote up the core issues I see with the main conclusions in the paper.

https://eiko-fried.com/clear-evidence-for-serotonin-hypothesis-of-depression/

Chronic physical illness is psychologically draining to those experiencing it.

Increasingly rare to see a general media piece on stress and physical illness identify: (a) that illness causes stress, and not the other way around; and (b) that the stress of physical illness frequently spills over onto caregivers in a very destructive way.

"The Psychological Strain of Chronic Physical Illness"

#health #psychology #medicine

https://www.news-medical.net/health/The-Psychological-Strain-of-Chronic-Physical-Illness.aspx

#introduction I'm a neuroscientist at Oxford and UCL. I spend most of my time thinking about the front of the brain and how it controls behaviour. Sometimes this leads me backwards, but never really further back than hippocampus. I am also deputy editor at eLife so you can shout at me for that if you like.

This is kind of an odd thing to post but I really want to emphasise how important it is to have political content behind a CW tag, and not boost posts that don’t adhere to that convention. Same thing applies with images and alt text. For those of us who have moved over from twitter I think it’s important that we pay attention to this. Mastodon isn’t twitter and we should really try to think carefully about how we interact here

Would you subscribe to a weekly/biweekly newsletter about recommended papers (or threads) that I (biasedly) find interesting/useful about #ComplexSystems #ComplexNetworks #NetworkScience #NetworkMedicine #NetworkNeuroscience #NetworkEpidemiology #HumanBehavior #CollectiveBehavior #PopulationHealth ?

I curate different lists (of things I read) that might be worth sharing.

#poll #survey

More plotting of flies! I call this one "Fruit fly snow angel"

@albinokid

Tip 1: Use hashtags. There's no algorithm to suggest followers or shove posts into your feed in the hopes you follow someone.

Tip 2: Boost (re-post) toots liberally. *You* are the algorithm.

Tip 3: Use CW (content warnings / content wrappers) to discuss politics, the meta.

Tip 4: To create "threads", make the first post public and each reply "unlisted" to prevent clogging up your instance's feed.

Tip 5: Provide text descriptions, even just basic ones, when attaching photos or media.

Tip 6: Use the "report" features for moderating trolls so your admins can take action.

Are you an #earlyCareerAcademic looking for the next step in your career? Why not join us in Bergen, Norway as a tenure-track associate professor in #visualization or #visualDataScience with promotion to full professor after successful evaluation? I have the same position, so let me know if you have any questions!

Applications are due by the end of the month! #academicJob #facultyPosition #academicJobs #ResearchJobs
Learn more here: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/229271/tenure-track-associate-professor-in-informatics-visualization-visual-data-science