Philipp Schlegel @uni_matrix@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

#introduction To fill in my profile tags, a thread:

#TrakEM2 open source software mostly for #connectomics, and supports manual and automatically montaging and aligning overlapping 2D image tiles (with #SIFT features and rigid or elastic transformation models), and reconstructing by painting volumes or tracing branched neuronal arbors neurons plus synapses to map a #connectome from #vEM (volume electron microscopy).

See: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0038011

Git repository at: https://github.com/trakem2/

Email translations:

“I was under the impression”
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“As per my email”
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“With respect”
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“Whilst I appreciate”
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“As I’m sure you’re aware”
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I'm no Stephen Hawking, but I think what happens is that they cancel each other out.

Hi, we're now on Fediscience! #Introduction

We're an #OpenAccess not-for-profit journal that publishes and reviews #research in the life and biomedical sciences.

We want to improve the way research is practised and shared in part by working with early-career researchers #ECR and supporting #OpenSource technology.

We also just announced our new publishing model that we hope will tackle an overreliance on journal titles and publishing decisions as quality measures for science and scientists.

#introduction

👋 Hello from #Zurich!

I'm a researcher working at the intersection of #neurosciene and #ai. Before joining Google's #connectomics team earlier this year, I did my PhD advised by @jakhmack on simulation-based Inference (#sbi).

Excited to see Mastodon gaining momentum!

‘Eat local’ is a common recommendation to reduce the carbon footprint of your diet.

But transportation makes up a very small amount of the greenhouse gas emissions from food.

*What* you eat is far more important than *where* your food traveled from.

https://ourworldindata.org/food-choice-vs-eating-local

twitter-archive-parser

Python code to parse a Twitter archive and output in various ways.

https://github.com/timhutton/twitter-archive-parser

Wow, interactive 3D scans of animals and plants: https://sketchfab.com/ffishAsia-and-floraZia

The paper: "Bio-photogrammetry: digitally archiving coloured 3D morphology data of creatures and associated challenges" by Yuichi Kano https://riojournal.com/article/86985/instance/7883441/

See for example this one of an Asian Giant Hornet, Vespa mandarinia (click and drag with the mouse) https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/asian-giant-hornet-vespa-mandarinia-f9c1f7e3f373491fbf01adf94ec8169e

HT: Rainmaker1973

#entomology #3D #photogrammetry #VespaMandarinia #insects #wasplove

Do watch this to the end

#Qatar #LGBTQ #football #worldcup

How credible is this? https://twitter.com/capitolhunters/status/1593307541932474368

now I just really need a #biorxiv_neursci account on here and I'll be all set

Happy It's #flyday Friday! Why is 11/18 fly day? Because this is when good old w1118 was discovered! Hear it from the man himself, Gerry Rubin:

This article nicely summarizes how NeuronBridge can be used to go from #connectome circuit to #fly strain by enabling access to large, open data sets. #drosophila #neuroscience #OpenScience
https://www.janelia.org/news/janelia-software-tools-power-fly-brain-research

If you download your Twitter archive it arrives wrapped as a static HTML page, which is not very useful for doing anything with, and worse: it requires the original account to be still active to do useful things like enlarge the images since they use t.co links.

So here's a Python script to convert a Twitter archive to markdown or other formats: https://github.com/timhutton/twitter-archive-parser

Now you can archive your tweets in any way you want.

Scientists move and scientific publishing follows:

@biorxivpreprint
@crossref
@ORCID_Org
@PLOSBiology
@eLife
@PNASNews
@nature
@sciencemagazine

Surely I’m missing many.
#academia #science #scicomm #publishing

@biorxivpreprint @crossref @ORCID_Org @PLOSBiology @eLife @PNASNews @nature @sciencemagazine

Found some more:

@arxiv_bio
@arxiv_cs
@arxiv_math
@arxiv_physics
@tmlrpub
@jmlr

#academia #science #scicomm #publishing

Are you in the U.S.? get out to vote today. Your vote matters, and could even help swing a race. In just one example, the election in our congressional district came down to *SIX VOTES* in the last election.

https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-donald-trump-iowa-mariannette-miller-meeks-elections-e3f235f217707a78fcec059f8e0b4ffa