Dr Michelle @Drosmel@social.cleverlibre.org

Do images tell the truth?

In #science #objectivity and truth in #images are key. Today, #AI in #microscopy is causing some debates: does it depict reality or hallucinates?

Believe it or not, these discussions are not new, but ongoing since scientists started to use drawings for #SciComm

I wrote a perspective for the @J_Cell_Sci XMAS edition:
https://journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/136/24/jcs261837/337758/A-community-driven-approach-to-enhancing-the?guestAccessKey=eb13a893-aad0-4291-a2f6-3748eb1941b4

A brief summary:
https://helenajamborwrites.netlify.app/posts/image_jcs/truthinimages

My annual call!

Please suggest a cool paper/preprint in your field in the last year or so!

For a course I teach, I am collecting papers on: cell/dev bio, microbio, neuro, maths/stats/CS/chem/phys applied to biology.

Students use one paper as the basis for a "research grant application" that they will write. So papers that are cool but also open doors to future study are ideal! Do you know one? It can be your own, I don't mind!

Last year's selection: https://quantixed.org/2023/01/14/papers-for-md9a8-2023-edition/

#ScienceMastodon

For the #INSECT at #Agroscope, we are looking for a #PhD student interested in temporal changes of #insect and #spider communities in Swiss agricultural landscapes

https://jobs.admin.ch/postes-vacants/PhD-student-on-temporal-changes-in-insect-communites-project-INSECT-/57e13ed4-2887-49b5-918a-29e05f3b44f0

More information about the project:

https://www.agroscope.admin.ch/agroscope/en/home/topics/environment-resources/biodiversity-landscape/research-projects/insect.html

#insects
#agriculture
#fieldwork #science
#entomology
#Switzerland
#job
#jobs
#biodiversity
#ecology
#agroecology

Several postdoc and doctoral student positions also in Bayesian modeling, inference, and workflow, Gaussian processes, Bayesian neural networks, prior elicitation, probabilistic programming, etc. at Finnish Center for Artificial Intelligence, Aalto University, and University of Helsinki. I'm also one of the potential supervisors.

See more at https://fcai.fi/we-are-hiring

#Bayes #Bayesian #academicjobs

My colleague Andreas Dräger at the University of Tübingen in Germany has a postdoc opening in his group. They do computational systems biology. Deadline is Dec. 31, 2023. Excellent German language skills are a prerequisite. For more information, please refer to the official job posting: https://uni-tuebingen.de/de/171129

#SystemsBiology

The University of Edinburgh, Research Data Service is recruiting for a Research Data Support Assistant.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/activity-7141067426934280192-HLh5?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

Exploring protein lipidation by mass spectrometry-based proteomics https://academic.oup.com/jb/advance-article/doi/10.1093/jb/mvad109/7475818

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#proteomics #prot-paper

#introduction
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Thank you for taking the time to read my post if you're still reading this!

New FlyBook chapter:
Centromere structure and function: lessons from Drosophila https://academic.oup.com/genetics/article/225/4/iyad170/7336826

I'm going to have TWO full-time one-year #postdocs available from 1 April: one for a historian with knowledge of #medieval Latin #palaeography, one for a computer scientist/#programmer (or someone else with a proven ability to code software). The job descriptions will be out in January, but please re-post this and forward it on to people you think may be interested/qualified. I'm happy to answer questions. @medievodons @histodons

Still some time to apply the PhD project in my lab to work on neurogenetic mechanism underlying visually-driven sleep
https://drosophila.social/@kofanchen/111363717472332404

https://www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate/doctoraltraining/northwestbio/projects/animalbiology/microbiotaandmetabolicdiseasewhatarethebiologicalfunctionsoflipids/

PhD opportunity with Adam Dobson's group in Glasgow UK looking at microbiome-lipid metabolism. Pass on to any great students looking to do a PhD in microbiome-related work!

4-year funded PhD studentship available in our lab! re: compartmentalised synaptic plasticity in the mushroom body. Please spread the word, and email me for informal enquiries
https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/white-rose-bbsrc-dtp-compartmentalised-synaptic-plasticity-underlying-associative-memory/?p160927

Unsolicited advice on thesis or mentorship committees. Many people approach these as if they need to *prove* that they are on track. So they only show the things that are working.

I think this is the wrong approach.

Your committee is presumably a group of experts, who are committed to your success. Show them what is not working and get their help. Tell them where you want to be in 6 months and get their advice on how to get there.

#AcademicChatter #Mentoring #GradSchool

Brown University has open faculty positions:

Neuroscience Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track)​: For full consideration, applications should be submitted by January 2, 2024.
https://apply.interfolio.com/132440

Assistant, Associate or Full Professor in Computational Brain Sciences: Consideration of applications will begin on November 13, 2023.
https://apply.interfolio.com/132928

See more openings:
https://www.brown.edu/carney/open-faculty-searches

#neuroscience #fedihire

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