Philipp Schlegel @uni_matrix@qoto.org

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...

Slides containing thousands of neuroanatomical and embryological sections of species ranging from jawless fish to marsupials are now freely available online.

By Shaena Montanari

https://www.thetransmitter.org/evolution/digitization-of-breathtaking-neuroanatomy-slide-collection-offers-untapped-research-gold-mine/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=org-social&utm_campaign=20250122-digitizaion-neuroanatomy-slideshow-research

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.

https://www.thetransmitter.org/craft-and-careers/why-practical-summer-courses-in-neuroscience-matter/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=org-social&utm_campaign=20250113-why-summer-courses-in-neuroscience-matter

Whatsapp, like Facebook, is owned by Zuckerberg's Meta.
Signal is owned by the Signal Foundation. And it's more secure. We have a choice.

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."

#FakeCitations #Misconduct

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/

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