1 Join us for a 4-year PhD in Newcastle on a fun project (literally)!
Building on our recent publication about Drosophila playing on a carousel (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2025.01.025), we will explore:
1) the genetic underpinnings of play,
2) the neuronal circuits involved in play, and its adaptive benefit,
3) how environmental context impacts play behaviour.
This is what we mean when we say the regime is censuring science.
“CDC staff should not be co-authors on manuscripts/abstracts with WHO staff,” nor publish papers on work "funded by WHO.”
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/cdc-who-publication-memo_n_67c1eb34e4b0bf54864084cf
Our story about flies on carousels is out in @CurrentBiology ! After formally engaging the fantastic Clara H. Ferreira and integrating helpful feedback from our reviewers, we now present a more concise story with detailed behavioural quantification and cooler videos: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2025.01.025
Fascinating new research: across 26 countries, #radicalright politicians stand out as spreaders of misinformation. They are systematically poisoning the well of discourse. Hardly surprising, still somewhat shocking to see this backed up by data.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/19401612241311886?m=m
I'm changing jobs in the next few months, and while plans are in motion, I'm curious to hear any leads folks may have. Connectomics, bioimage analysis, ML for scientific discovery. I've ~20 years of dev experience, CS BS, ML/HPC MS, neuro PhD. Mostly interested in research, staff science, or small teams/startups/founders.
Main constraint is family bound to Leipzig, so mostly looking for remote.
It is so funny to hear people in the UK talk about "creating a Silicon Valley" or "turning the UK into a hub of innovation". There are many reasons that this has not happened and will not happen, but one of the simplest reasons is that the UK cannot attract top talent when salaries in this sector are between 20% and 60% those of the US, *including* benefits such as social healthcare.
It is very interesting to think about what these people must be smoking when they say such things...
Cellular and synaptic organization of the Octopus vertical lobe https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.29.635406v1?med=mas
Slides containing thousands of neuroanatomical and embryological sections of species ranging from jawless fish to marsupials are now freely available online.
By Shaena Montanari
John Tuthill @tuthill explains why practical summer courses in neuroscience matter and how this tradition helps researchers rekindle the unfettered joy that initially brought them to the field.
More evidence catching #publishers at gaming their journal impact factor (#JIF).
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.03771
"Sneaked references are references registered in the metadata of publications without being listed in reference section or in the full text of the actual publications where they ought to be found. We document here 80,205 references sneaked in metadata of the International Journal of Innovative Science and Research Technology (#IJISRT). These sneaked references are registered with Crossref and all cite -- thus benefit -- this same journal."
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
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.
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
Quick reminder that we are looking for #TheoryFellow|s to join us at @hhmijanelia. The deadline for applications is 1736280000.
Brains! Brain! Brains! 🧟♂️
Postdoc in Cambridge, UK working on connectomics.