tamtamhero @tamtamhero@qoto.org

3,013 neurons, half a million synapses: the complete #connectome of the whole #Drosophila larval brain!

Winding, Pedigo et al. 2022. "The connectome of an insect brain" https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.11.28.516756v1

We’ve mapped and analysed its circuit architecture, from sensory neurons to brain output neurons, as reconstructed from volume electron microscopy, and here is what we found. 1/

#neuroscience #connectomics #vEM #volumeEM

Flights going to Qatar for the World Cup.
Tell me how climate change is going.

So, it would seem that boosting liberally is much more of a standard practice here on #mastadon than retweeting is on #twitter?

Over there, someone who retweeted too much tended to be annoying. But since that's the only way to discover non-followed posts here, it seems to be more accepted. Do I have that right?

Oh my goodness, Greta Thunberg has joined the Fediverse!

She's at @gretathunberg

It really is her:

https://nitter.nl/GretaThunberg/status/1589662802477998086

I lost a lot of regular contacts when I moved from a large (by Polish standards) city to a small house in the forest, where I could freely go around my garden naked, if I wanted to, and no one would see or care. I used to drive to the city quite often at first, then my visits became very rare. So I guess moving from Twitter here won't be much of a problem.

Beautiful blog post reviewing the cognitive capacity of multiple animal species. Their work focuses on #animalwelfare and #cognition. #cognitivescience #behavior #physiology
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/tnSg6o7crcHFLc395/the-welfare-range-table

It is sad to see #Twitter go the way it did. For many users who make their #introduction here this is not easy. A lot of lifeblood went into it #Twitter which may still turnaround. But these are highly non-linear processes & #mastodon #twittermigration may just take off.

So how to deal with this emotionally?

For me, #poetry helps and provides some consolation to remind ourselves of the bigger picture.

"Steps" by Herman Hesse.

Fascinating development now that @Nature@twitter.com has set up a Mastadon account. Will the #science community be moving over? Remains to be seen. https://sciencemastodon.com/@nature