Philipp Schlegel @uni_matrix@qoto.org

2 Postdoc positions in experimental and computational neuroscience

George Mason University

Two postdoctoral positions in neuroscience at George Mason University (Fairfax, Virginia, USA) in the labs of Giorgio Ascoli and Holger Dannenberg

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/george-mason-university-27778-postdoc/?feed_id=89051

#animal_behavior #behavioral_neuroscience #computational_ne...
https://jobrxiv.org/job/george-mason-university-27778-postdoc/?feed_id=89051

The Milky Way over the Avenue of Baobabs, Madagascar.

Photo credit: Amirreza Kamkar / CC BY 4.0

We are pleased to announce the 2025 Paris Spring School in Optical Imaging and Electrophysiological Recording in Neuroscience. AKA the Paris Neuro Course.

The course will run 14-27 May 2025.

https://parisneuro.ovh/

Please boost (with apologies for duplicates).

Getting started with Mastodon. @thecarpentries and @rOpenSci publish a starter kit for researchers. A very usefull resource for scholars who flee from X/Twitter to a sustainable, open and safe alternative https://zenodo.org/records/14170125

Initial conditions:
m1=73.8 m2=145.8 m3=57.4 (solar masses)
v1x=4.822 v1y=4.831 v2x=5.311 v2y=-1.475 v3x=0.924 v3y=-1.48 (km/s)
x1=-4.0 y1=-23.0 x2=28.0 y2=12.0 x3=-18.0 y3=8.0 (AU from center)
Music: Symphony No. 5 (1st Mvmt) – Beethoven

Quick reminder that we are looking for #TheoryFellow|s to join us at @hhmijanelia. The deadline for applications is 1736280000.

https://mastodon.social/@herrsaalfeld/113485051590777523

Guess what % of plastics have been #recycled? No prizes :(

Detecting where you are on a moving train without GPS and entirely offline:

https://blog.transitapp.com/go-underground/

HT https://mastodon.social/@Raf/113547596513398847

#trains #MachineLearning #OfflineComputing

This is great.

https://www.skeletonclaw.com/

Did you know:

"To preserve a livable climate, the average annual carbon emissions per person will need to drop from 6.3 tons (2020) to 2.1 tons by 2030 as recommended by experts."—UN ActNow

UN source: https://www.un.org/en/actnow/transport

Graphic source: https://robbieandrew.github.io/GCB2024/

#ClimateCrisis #ClimateLiteracy

Our World in Data now provides APIs to access their datasets programmatically. Here's a quick example that shows how to use them:

https://www.allendowney.com/blog/2024/11/24/download-the-world-in-data/

Researchers led by Xingcong Jiang, Bill Hansson and Silke Sachse report
that odors are represented in rings in the antennal lobe of migratory locusts, a unique pattern differing from other insects and vertebrates.
https://www.ice.mpg.de/473108/PR_Jiang2

The Rezavall lab is recruting postdocs, PhD students and research assistants:

"Our lab investigates how the brain makes decisions "
https://www.rezavallab.org/

#neuroscience #PhDPosition #PhDJobs

Oxford relying on ‘Deliveroo-style’ contracts with most tutorials not taught by full-time staff

"Data obtained through freedom of information requests by the University and College Union and shared exclusively with the Observer reveals that about 61% of core tutorial teaching is done by academics on fixed-term contracts or in hourly-paid roles. The union says that pay is based mainly on contact hours with students, but once preparation, marking and supporting students are taken into account, this often falls below the minimum wage in real terms."

Proud of my peers Oxford UCU for brining this to light.

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2024/nov/16/oxford-deliveroo-contracts-tutorials-full-time-staff-gig-economy

Mit der Reform des #Schwangerschaftskonfliktgesetzes gilt nun: Bis zu 5.000 Euro Bußgeld drohen bei Belästigung von #Schwangeren vor Beratungsstellen oder Arztpraxen. Gleiches gilt, wenn Ärztinnen und Ärzte, die #Schwangerschaftsabbrüche vornehmen, behindert werden.

The RNA technology that was used to develop most of the covid vaccines is driving an absolute revolution in medicine right now. A vaccine for malaria, the disease that has killed more people than anything else in history. Personalized vaccines for cancers — the list goes on and we're just getting started. Much of this development is locked up in commercial pharma companies — there are papers, of course but replicating them in practice, let alone continuing development, is very hard without active access to the team involved. It's also very expensive. A lot of that development money comes from the US government. Now, yes it's a problem that that funding is going to private companies that are ransoming patients for their life savings in exchange for life-saving medicine, but this is as much a regulatory problem as it is a structural one. As long as those teams exist, the possibilities of these tools exist also.

Having an American government that wants to actively dismantle vaccine-related research and eliminate its funding is an existential threat to humanity:

https://mas.to/@Fitnessfoundry/113484127007301813

Facebook memories reminded me of the one truly viral thing I ever made, this graph, circa 2011.

A cleaned up version appeared in the Guardian and it's now common to find versions of this graph for different countries.

To the very best of my knowledge, my janky copy and paste job was the first.

A whopping (~90%) reduction of progression to Type 2 diabetes with tirzepatide (GLP-1 drug, dual receptor) vs placebo in a randomized trial of >2,500 participants with obesity, absolute reduction of 10/100 treated
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2410819

I stopped using Twitter a year ago, but kept the account active for reasons. Today, I decided I didn't care about those reasons any more.

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2024/11/11/twitter-the-final-exit/