Stephan Preibisch @preibischs@qoto.org

@preibischs @royerlab fwiw I think we should be putting our efforts in open source models that you can run locally — these are already very close in performance to ChatGPT and have obvious advantages:

https://lmsys.org/blog/2023-03-30-vicuna/

https://www.semianalysis.com/p/google-we-have-no-moat-and-neither

The Scientific Computing group at #HHMIJanelia seeks a software engineer, to work on large-scale electron #microscopy reconstruction and analysis. Come work at the forefront of #imaging and #OpenScience with applications in #Neuroscience and #CellBiology. 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. (#FediHire, #FediHired)

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Today the peer-reviewed version of our preprint is out:

"The #connectome of an insect brain"
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.add9330

Congrats to co-first authors Michael Winding and Benjamin Pedigo, and to all our lab members and collaborators who made this work possible over the years. A journey that started over 10 years ago–and yet this is but a new beginning. So much more to come.

See my #tootprint on the preprint from back in the Autumn: https://mathstodon.xyz/@albertcardona/109422190525090990

The data is available both as supplements and directly via #CATMAID thanks to hosting by the #VirtualFlyBrain:
https://l1em.catmaid.virtualflybrain.org/?pid=1&zp=108250&yp=82961.59999999999&xp=54210.799999999996&tool=tracingtool&sid0=1&s0=2.4999999999999996&help=true&layout=h(XY,%20%7B%20type:%20%22neuron-search%22,%20id:%20%22neuron-search-1%22,%20options:%20%7B%22annotation-name%22:%20%22papers%22%7D%7D,%200.6)

(The "Winding, Pedigo et al. 2023" annotation listing all included neurons will appear very soon in an upcoming update.)

#neuroscience #connectomics #Drosophila #DrosophilaLarva

Latest report from the #OMENGFF #Community describing #OMEZARR, a #CloudOptimized #BioImaging #DataFormat, is out now on #bioRxiv!

If you are having trouble with big, slow, or otherwise unwieldy imaging data, reach out or take a look for a #FAIR-er option.

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.02.17.528834v1

We have an open #postdoc position in #RNA biology. Combine Genomics and proteomics to develop new tools to explore RNA protein interactions. A collaboration with Ilaria Piazza’s lab (MDC Berlin). Come and join us in #Stockholm SciLifeLab Karolinska Institute Deadline 30 Jan. http://pelechanolab.com/2023/01/11/postdoctoral-position-in-rna-biology/

@preibischs interesting experiment which shows, not surprisingly, how the outcome can be biased by the training set. Most of those recipes are quite South German, Bavaria and the Black Forrest area. The type one would see in a American movie depicting German stereotypes.

I do think AI as an enormous potential but I think it's easy to ignore the errors which are only detect by human experts in a particular field.

We are looking for a Technical Assistant in the research lab of Jacqueline Tabler at the MPI-CBG. The Tabler lab investigates the cellular and biophysical mechanisms governing morphogenesis and cell fate in the embryonic mouse skull. Apply here: https://www.mpi-cbg.de/join-us/open-positions/job-offer/technical-assistant

Mastodon gets un-suspended and then goes for the posterizing dunk right out of the gate #tech #socialmedia