Philipp Schlegel @uni_matrix@qoto.org

I can't stop posting on Twitter because my followers is the new I can't stop publishing with Elsevier because my career.

The dilemma of whether or not to take individual action when only collective action will solve the problem.

Here is my #introduction. I am a biologist interested in #neuroscience and the #evolution of cells and nervous systems. My research group studies #ciliated marine larvae from a whole-organism perspective, combining behaviour, #connectomics, #imaging, #CRISPR, #modelling and other approaches. We love marine #larvae, their #neurons, #cilia, and #neuropeptides.

Going forward, #DeepLabCut updates will come via medium (and GitHub of course), but not the bird. This is sad, as the science Twitter community, I believe, was so important in getting out the word early on our very first code release and paper. But, it’s not okay anymore 💔…

📣🚨To get the latest updates on our code releases going forward, please see our medium blog http://www.deeplabcut.medium.com and all resources linked on our homepage: http://DeepLabCut.org - take care #deeplabcutters 🙏🏼💜

In Alaska, wood frogs freeze for seven months, thaw and hop away.

https://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-alaskan-frozen-frogs-20140723-story.html

#naturephotography #nature #frogs #alaska

'Using Drosophila melanogaster wing shape, we ask if we can replicate allelic effects of polymorphisms first identified in a GWAS (Pitchers et al. 2019) in three genes: dachsous (ds ), extra-macrochaete (emc) and neuralized (neur), using artificial selection in the lab and bulk segregant mapping in natural populations.'

#Preprint #Evolution #GeneticVariation #Adaptation #Preprint #Drosophila
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.05.12.491649v2

It's really cool that Twitter shuts down in stages over two months so that the Mastodon servers aren't overloaded all at once, very thoughtful of them!

Olfactory sensory neurons (OSNs) “undergo depolarization block as part of their normal physiological function…enter depolarization block at odor concentrations 3 orders of magnitude above their detection threshold, thereby defining receptive fields over concentration bands.“

Lots of implications for perceptual discrimination in olfactory space.
Experiments and modeling in #Drosophila larva.
Tadres et al. 2022, Matthieu Louis lab. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.ade7209
#neuroscience

UC postdocs got a 20% raise:

University of California Academic Workers Partly End Strike

https://nyti.ms/3PjWwH4

Excited to share that our preprint addressing the neural mechanisms of summiting behavior in zombie fruit flies is now available on bioRxiv! 🧟https://biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.12.01.518723v1

“The starting salary of a nurse will be £31,000” Conservative party chairman Nadhim Zahawi just told viewers (unchallenged). It’s complete boll****. This figure includes extra earnings, such as overtime & unsocial hours pay. Basic pay for a newly qualified nurse this year would be about £27,000

https://youtu.be/Ody-XFPy5c4

@albertcardona It is shocking to me Albert when I review multinational grants with UK teams costed- where the Swiss postdoc earns much more than I do as a UK professor, and over 2.5X what the team equivalent in London will earn (with that London bonus)... Switzerland is expensive but on par to London (and most of the UK)- real issue is salary inequity here, how it has stagnated. Factor kids into the equation- a car crash... leaky pipelines- someone needs a real salary in a science household.

We just got back our giant #salamanders, #Andrias japonicus. They've been on loan to a team who've been CT scanning them to study various anatomical features. A picture cannot do their enormity justice. Absolutely remarkable that we are alive at the same time as these giants.

@krisSacrebleu Orcas breaching in stormy seas off the coast of Nova Scotia❤️ - pic taken from a fishing boat a few days ago 🙂

New paper shows (as many papers before) that code that is shared will often not run. This is to be expected - few of us had training in this. But if you share code, go through checklists to prevent the most common mistakes. From the paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-022-01143-6 For some extra suggestions, see my textbook chapter on computational reproducibility: https://lakens.github.io/statistical_inferences/computationalreproducibility.html#some-points-for-improvement-in-computational-reproducibility

Twitter ends the #misinformation policy on #covid. Seems rather irresponsible. Will it contribute to information pollution, questioning of piblic health advice? Will it also be an example of future policies at #Twitter? What will the 🇪🇺 response be to this change?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/11/29/twitter-covid-misinformation-policy/

It's not enough to squat a Mastodon handle that you never use.

It's not enough to automatically repost your Twitter timeline.

You have a chance to be part of something new. Something important. To shape it in the right way.

With all of us.

Breathe life into *this* community and *this* network by posting here, creating here, connecting here.

Be here now.

How did the legs of the octopus squid evolve?
The development of limbs in vertebrates involves old genes inherited from our ancient ancestors, which is also true for the development of limbs in arthropods. Octopuses and squids also developed their legs independently in parallel using the same gene.

https://elifesciences.org/articles/43828

#COSYNE2023 #registration is now open y'all!!!!

https://www.cosyne.org/registration

Please boost!

If you happen to own the cheap but amazing Behringer X-TOUCH mini #MIDI controller, you can use it to navigate in #Fiji 's #N5 #BigDataViewer plugin. The video is an older capture from when I was playing around with the controller but it work's exactly the same. The API works for all #MCU devices but you would have to provide the layout https://github.com/saalfeldlab/n5-viewer/blob/master/src/main/java/org/janelia/saalfeldlab/control/mcu/XTouchMiniMCUControlPanel.java (also, infinity VPots without physical min and max are useful for this). PRs welcome!

To #journalists on #mastodon : Realize that you can embed Toots like you embed Tweets in your stories. Under the 3 dots at the end of a Toot, you will find "Embed" which allows you to embed a toot in your content management system. Another way in which you can now replace #Twitter with Mastodon in your reporting.

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