OnceMagicBrainEel @OnceMagicBrainEel@social.cleverlibre.org

Something more lively! No video embedding here so let's go for a GIF. Mmmh OK there are some strange rules, less than 10 MB, no 1920x1080... Here's a living neuron expressing tagged actin with tickling dendritic spines:

I’m very happy to be part of this review on my favourite taste modality https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-physiol-031522-075853

@albinokid

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OK hi time for a hashtag-athon #introduction post.

I run a behavioral #neuroscience lab in #boston and care a lot about #sabv in basic research and #equity in #academia.

In other realms, just an unapologetic and enthusiastic dilettante. I have an extensive home bar and like making #cocktails. I get excited about #fonts. I am learning to play the #drums. I like taking pictures (#photography) of buildings with my phone. #midcentury design (any medium), yes please.

I really loved Twitter.

Hey #neuroscience #neurotech #neurodon

I'm very excited about a truly distributed community for #neuroscience.

Let's make it easier for new folks (and #twitterexodus #twittermigration) folks to plug into the #neurodon community!

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Some people think Mastodon is too weird to become popular:

I joined Twitter in 2008. We had to put a "d" in front of a tweet to convert it to a direct message and every other day you had some embarrassing private moments exposed because someone forgot about the “d”. Hashtags were just a community hack, introduced by Chris Messina to somehow tag content. Search? Hah, you wish! Tweets via SMS were supposed to be a thing. Oh, and the daily meet and greet with the failwhale. Totally not weird.

Hi folks,
A brief #introduction:
I took the disruption of the pandemic to return to my undergrad degree at #UofT after a 20-year hiatus (poor mental health). I am currently studying Ecology and Evolutionary Biology with a strong interest in sexual selection and behavioural ecology,
I've been keeping neotropical cichlids for ~30 years and have a whole lot of questions about them that I'm SO eager to explore!

Good time to announce that I will be starting my lab at SIDB & University of Edinburgh early next year! 🎉 We will investigate neuromodulation and cortical learning, as well as their dysfunction in mouse models of autism spectrum disorder

Have you visited the #FlyWire website yet? Both for helping proofread and analyze the whole #Drosophila brain #connectome, or simply to admire the beautiful renderings of neuronal arbors: https://join.flywire.ai

(See also the #VirtualFlyBrain for #ontology-driven navigation of the fly brain, and access to images of genetic driver lines, and more: https://v2.virtualflybrain.org/org.geppetto.frontend/geppetto?id=VFB_00101567&i=VFB_00101567 )

Wish I had time or resources to create such a beautiful landing page for the larval central nervous system. The #connectome of the whole larval brain is coming soon. For now, see the #vEM images and some ~3,000 published neurons in this #CATMAID server: https://l1em.catmaid.virtualflybrain.org/?pid=1&zp=108250&yp=82961.59999999999&xp=54210.799999999996&tool=tracingtool&sid0=1&s0=2.4999999999999996&help=true&layout=h(XY,%20%7B%20type:%20%22neuron-search%22,%20id:%20%22neuron-search-1%22,%20options:%20%7B%22annotation-name%22:%20%22papers%22%7D%7D,%200.6)

#connectomics

short #introduction
Neuroscientist fascinated by neuromodulation and cortical learning. Big on open science! Also love nature (i.e., wildlife 🐛 ) and painting strange pictures.

Just because it is Monday morning and the #TwitterMigration is still going on, it may be worth repeating that #science would do well to replace their antique journals with modern technology:
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5526634
The three most important reasons why:
- The most prestigious journals publish the least reliable science:
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2018.00037/full
- Journal prices are tenfold inflated:
https://f1000research.com/articles/10-20/v2
- Open infrastructures for research data, code, models, software, etc. are sorely missing.

🚨 We are hiring a Bioimage Analyst and Research Software Engineer @humantechnopole@twitter.com in Milan. 🚨
I believe we are a really fun team doing great work together. Check us out and apply if you want to join! 👍
We’re looking forward getting to know you!
https://careers.humantechnopole.it/o/bioimage-analyst-and-research-software-engineer-computational-biology-research-center

JOB ALERT (please reblog) -->

Molecular biologist for zebrafish at Janelia Research Campus, HHMI:

https://hhmi.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External/job/Janelia-Research-Campus/Research-Specialist---Ahrens-Lab--Molecular-Biology_R-1568

Casey Schneider—Mizell studies the #mouse cerebral #cortex with #vEM #connectomics at the Allen Brain Institute, and develops software for mapping and analyzing #neuronal #circuits in very large image volumes with nanometer resolution measuring over a cubic millimeter.
#neuroscience

I could maybe also pitch my latest preprint here. Among other things, I discuss the (probably) increasing influence of big tech on #cheminformatics and #bioinformatics research.

"Social and environmental impact of recent developments in machine learning on biology and chemistry research"

https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.00356

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#YoMigroaMastodon

Hello! A brief #introduction - I’m an Asst Prof at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. I study organizational principles of #neuralNetworks. We study #neuralCircuits underlying #motorControl, #sensoryIntegration, and #decisionMaking across species. We also develop methods for synapse-resolution #connectomics. Looking forward to learning more!

Lab: https://www.lee.hms.harvard.edu/