Lili 🏳️‍⚧️ @neurolili@qoto.org

what are your favorite rpg games (besides skyrim lol)? excited to hear from the #fediverse

help a gaming newbie find his new favorite game, boost so i can hear recs from lots of people!

#gaming #games #rpg

Today's #megafauna is the intimidating #deinonychus. At 11ft and up to 220lbs, it's not the largest of the cretaceous #dinosaurs, but you wouldn't say that to its face.
With more teeth than T-Rex and a lightweight skull for greater agility, deinonychus was a formidable hunter that may have worked in packs.
If you feared #JurassicPark velociraptors, you really feared deinonychus, which the movie raptors were based on. Real #velociraptors were the size of a dog (and inspired the movie's compys.)

I realized I never did an #introduction!

I'm Grace Lindsay. I'm a new Asst. Prof in #Psychology and #DataScience at New York University. I wrote a popular science book on how & why we use #math to study the #brain.

In my research in my lab I hope to model how #attention works in the brain. I'm also separately working on applications of #MachineLearning to #ClimateChange!

Find out more here! 👇 https://gracewlindsay.com/

Elephant Birds were massive, flightless birds that emerged in Madagascar at least 27 million years ago. Vorombe titan, the largest bird ever, weighed 1600lbs and was nearly 10ft tall--seriously dwarfing their closest living relative, the kiwi.
The lack of predators on their island home allowed elephant birds to lose flight and gain mass without dying out. Their eventual extinction coincides with the arrival of humans on Madagascar, and likely affected extant endemic species.
#otd #megafauna

Please consider contributing to this Kiskstarter campaign to support a documentary on the great #BenBarres, renowned neuroscientist and trans man.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/askthequestionmovie/ask-the-question

The Scientific Computing Associates (SCA) program at #HHMIJanelia has two openings:
. Machine Learning Software Engineer with #OpenScience Software
. Automating Cognitive #Neuroscience Research with the Johnson Lab

https://www.janelia.org/support-team/scientific-computing-software/scientific-computing-associates

This program is a great chance for people with backgrounds in computer science to explore applications in biological research, and for people with backgrounds in other sciences to expand their experience with software development.

Janelia welcomes and values diversity, and encourages applications from people of all backgrounds, including people of color and members of groups traditionally underrepresented in science.

Now that we're all gathering here where the idea is to be nice to each other, let me toot about a 1-page "paper" (not mine!) of Haldun Ozaktas that I just love. Its premises capture the ideal social media mentality so well, and then a moderately silly analysis follows (which is how I like my maths, sometimes). http://www.ee.bilkent.edu.tr/~haldun/young/foolrev.pdf

#OptimalFriends

Also credit where credit is due: I don't think the author is on Mastodon but he exists: http://www.ee.bilkent.edu.tr/~haldun/

Hello Mastodon! Like so many of you, I'm new to the site and as a #paleontologist interested in mammal evolution, I figured what better way to introduce myself than sharing some of my favorite photos of the majestic American mastodon, Mammut americanum? Here it is, at London's #NaturalHistoryMuseum, Toronto's #RoyalOntarioMuseum, LA's #LaBreaTarPits, and the #DenverMuseumofNatureandScience!

🆕 📜 New paper in Journal of #Psychopathology and Clinical #Science. A brief 🧵:

Together with Daniel J. Bauer, Sverre Johnson & Asle Hoffart, we find a critical period for adaptation to the pandemics' contextual changes in relation to #depression symptom expression.

Turns out, how adults were feeling mentally during the #pandemic and some are currently feeling was largely determined within the first 3 months of the pandemic.

[ Link to Open Access Paper:
https://psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2023-15400-006 ]

#MentalHealth

Truly the mega-est of the megafauna #OtD, modern blue whales first emerged around 1.5 million years ago--and have since held the title of largest animal to ever exist.
About 4.5mya, cooling climates created glacial runoff and oceanic upwelling which increased available nutrients for filter-feeding animals. Larger baleen whales can travel further for food, so smaller species died off and the blue whale grew to 380,000lbs and 79ft.
Today, warming climates threaten food sources for blue whales.

Why I think #meditation is an essential #worklifebalance and #mentalhealth skill for scientists (and everyone else too)

Kindly check it out when you have a few minutes

http://www.jmlilly.net/blog/2020/02/09/meditation-for-scientists.html