Philipp Schlegel @uni_matrix@qoto.org

Our preprint "Connectome-driven neural inventory of a complete visual system" (Nern et al., 2024) was published on bioRxiv today https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.04.16.589741. We are looking forward to your feedback on this #Drosophila #neuroscience #prePrint.

In this short thread, I also wanted to highlight a few more resources that we published at the same time. 1/5

Octarine

A new lightweight, WGPU-based 3D viewer for Python.

https://github.com/schlegelp/octarine

You don’t become cooler with age, but you do care progressively less about being cool, which is the only true way of being cool. This is called the Geezer’s Paradox

The Janelia #Unity Toolkit now supports panoramas, back-projected onto a cylindrical screen, updated in real time for a tracked viewpoint within the cylinder. The intended application is #VR for #Neuroscience studies of animals like #Drosophila. The code is a byproduct of another project so it's a bit experimental, but it's fun to watch examples like this one, meant to be displayed with three adjoining projectors. (1/2)

https://github.com/JaneliaSciComp/janelia-unity-toolkit

Update: Elon Musk has announced he’s reinstating the Twitter/X account of far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.

How QR codes are made:

Loren Looger, legendary protein wrangler, who always generously shared their genetically encoded calcium indicators and more while still in development and unpublished, is asking for labs to co-write grants with him:

"Dear science world, I need help, please. If you like the tools and data we generate, and our shareware attitude, can you please co-apply for funding with us? It turns out that I'm terrible at writing grants, and we need $$ or else we can't make more GCaMPs, RCaMPs, SnFRs (we've branched out to neuromodulators and neuropeptides), FPs, viruses, tags, etc. We'll also make whatever you want, but we need $$ to do it. DM or email me, sooner is better. Sorry to be desperate, but we want to keep doing this, and I'm not sure we can."

https://profiles.ucsd.edu/loren.looger

#neuroscience #GCaMP #RCaMP #SnFR #ProteinEngineering #GECIs

This is a statue located in Berlin, entitled "Politicians Discussing Global Warming."

Signal is a nonprofit. But what does this mean in practice? Today we do something most tech co’s avoid: talk money. What does it cost for Signal to play in a lane dominated by billion $ corporations, while rejecting the surveillance business model?

https://signal.org/blog/signal-is-expensive/

Work in progress, but beautiful anyway; EPG neurons in the PB of a tropical bee - moving closer towards comparative connectomics. @ERC_Research

#Verkehrswende #Rücksicht #VisionZero #Autokorrektur

Sign-up to present in our symposium (16-17) "Neuropeptide signalling in insects: diverse and pleiotropic actions" @ice2024kyoto_jp in Kyoto, Japan. We have an exciting line-up of speakers. https://ice2024.org/list-of-accepted-symposia/

Really excited to share the lab's first Drosophila paper and it's a big one. Check out our preprint https://shorturl.at/gqrvO where we present the complete neural connectome of an animal circadian clock . 🧵 (1/8) #Drosophila #neuroscience #connectome

Laboratory Manager - Card Lab

Columbia University

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/laboratory-manager-card-lab-2/?feed_id=57274

#ScienceJobs #hiring #research
New York #UnitedStatesUS #Manager #ResearchAssistant #ResearchTechnician #Researcher
https://jobrxiv.org/job/laboratory-manager-card-lab-2/?feed_id=57274

The #UK #NHS:

"In 2022, nurses were being paid a fifth less in real terms than they were in 2010. There are more than 110,000 unfilled vacancies within NHS England, in part because better paid, less stressful work is available outside the health service. (I know of a ward that lost its clinical support workers because a coffee chain nearby was offering better pay.)"

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/aug/24/voters-are-unhappier-with-the-nhs-than-theyve-been-for-30-years-as-a-gp-i-feel-the-same

New pape from my lab on how the exquisite biomechanical structure of joints, tendons, other doohickeys determine mechanosensory feature selectivity and establish a topographic map of joint angle among proprioceptive sensory neurons in the fly leg. The product of an expansive and fun collaboration across several labs.

https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1hZ6d3BtfH5Mdj

A typical European car is parked 92% of the time. It spends 1/5th of its driving time looking for parking. Its 5 seats only move 1.5 people. 86% of its fuel never reaches the wheels, & most of the energy that does, moves the car, not people.

Sound efficient?

HT @circulareconomy