Dr. Cat @DrJLCatlett@social.cleverlibre.org

This @APoD #picture is really nice. It shows the Wolf's Cave #Nebula, a region where an obscur, dusty nebula (in brown) meets a #supernova remnant (in red). The blue light at the top of the dark nebula is from a massive #star.

Wolf's Cave Nebula
Image Credit & Copyright: Gianni Lacroce

Read more on https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap221115.html

#astronomy #photography #apod

Fencepost garden #lichen #mosstodon #FencePost

earth - a visualization of global weather conditions
forecast by supercomputers
updated every three hours
https://earth.nullschool.net/
#climate #weather #stem #edtech #edutooter #science #data

I’m very excited to be giving a talk on The Garden on Tuesday, November 29 (7:30 pm GMT / 12:30 pm MST) about the East African Rift System and how environmental dynamics may have shaped human evolution!

https://onegarden.com/collection/inner-earth

🚨 BIG DATA RELEASE 🚨 We are beyond excited to announce the release of our Brain Wide Map of neural activity during decision making! It consists of 547 Neuropixel recordings of 32784 neurons across 194 regions of the mouse brain 🐭🧠

All these recordings were performed in a distributed fashion in 12 different labs, spanning Europe and the US 🌎 Rigorous standardization of methods and materials allowed us to pool the data from these labs together into a single gigantic dataset 🐙

Mice are performing our standardized perceptual decision-making task in which they have to position a stimulus in the center of a screen to receive reward. The dataset contains the stimuli and decisions, but also videos from three angles and DeepLabCut pose information. We're even releasing all the raw ephys data!

We know, it's a lot. At your own pace you can read all the details about the experimental setup, the task, processing of the data, and much more in the technical paper which accompanies this data release: https://figshare.com/articles/preprint/Data_release_-_Brainwide_map_-_Q4_2022/21400815

To explore the data at your leisure, visit our visualization website where you can scroll through different recording sessions, look at neural activity during example trials, and see trial-based activity of single neurons: https://viz.internationalbrainlab.org

Do you have itchy fingers to run your models on this humongous dataset? We totally get it! Here you can find how to download the data using our API so you can fire up those computing clusters: https://int-brain-lab.github.io/iblenv/notebooks_external/data_release_brainwidemap.html

This was a collective effort of our stellar team, who all put in so much work to make this monumental achievement possible. Our collaboration consists of 22 PIs, 37 researchers, and 11 staff members who all worked tirelessly to bring these data to you, the community 👏🍾

Oh, and happy #Mondog!

Folly gets rather excited when someone is about to walk in the door, so excited she can almost fly! #dogsofmastodon #jackrussell #dogs

I have cleaned-up & enhanced this remarkable portrait of the 16-year-old Christina Bevan (1897-1981) photographed in colour in the August of 1913, at Durdle Door in Lulworth, Dorset, by Lt-Colonel Mervyn O’Gorman. It is original colour (not colourised).

Voor wie het koud heeft, deze ochtend, oplossing 😺

#goedemorgen #goedemorgentoot #cat #cats #catstodon #energie #prijsplafond #energieprijzen #gas #verwarming

Huggies!

RSPCA Young Photographer Award winner, Molly Tolson for her picture in the 12-15 mobile category of her pet lamb launching himself from a hay bale.

#SheepOfMastadon

Kitten pics of the day. #catsofmastodon

See that small white dot just left of center, you may think it is Venus shining in the evening sky, but it is Earth as viewed from Mars.

Every person alive is in that one pixel.

#Astrodon #Astronomy #mars

Hat tip: (At)ThePlanetaryGuy on the birdsite

Glistening inkcaps #fungi in a bed of Peltigera #lichen on an old fallen beech tree