OnceMagicBrainEel @OnceMagicBrainEel@social.cleverlibre.org

This young male elephant seal isn’t quite ready to engage in the kind of bloody territorial battles the adult males engage in. So he resorts to making some funny faces instead.

#wildlife #wildlifephotography #elephantseal #pinniped #funnyanimal #photovember #seal #sealife #photography #california

Dear fellow Mastodoners, To help the #TwitterMigration I only post teazers on twitter with a link to the mastodon content and a short message:
"Join us on the other side. Open, distributed, community driven, no ads, no AI feeding you, no random retweets, full control."
you could do the same

"Structured cerebellar connectivity supports resilient pattern separation" Nguyen, Thomas et al. in @darbly's lab https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05471-w

Spectacular work based on connectomic reconstruction from nanometre-resolution volume electron microscopy and computational modelling that contributes novel findings in cerebellar microcircuitry:

"both the input and output layers of the circuit exhibit redundant and selective connectivity motifs, which contrast with prevailing models. Numerical simulations suggest that these redundant, non-random connectivity motifs increase the resilience to noise at a negligible cost to the overall encoding capacity. This work reveals how neuronal network structure can support a trade-off between encoding capacity and redundancy, unveiling principles of biological network architecture with implications for the design of artificial neural networks."

#cerebellum #connectomics #neuroscience #science #vEM #volumeEM #NeuralBetwork

@albertcardona Thank you for so kindly describing Tri Nguyen’s and @lathomas42’s paper. Indeed, Purkinje cells are amongst the most “elegant and luxurious” #neurons extracted out of our EM data.

Folks can see more for themselves here: https://github.com/htem/cb2_project_analysis

#neuroscience #connectomics #cerebellum

I’m a bit late to the game, but now out, in a more final form: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05471-w

Tri Nguyen, @lathomas42, and our team #cerebellum found neurons sample inputs redundantly and selectively in ways that may help make the network more robust with a minimal loss of encoding capacity.

#neuroscience #connectomics #neuralNetworks

Introduction! I am a biologist and neuroscientist. I got a PhD in systems #neuroscience in the Portugues lab imaging the brain of #zebrafish larvae, where described a mesmerising circuit for heading direction in the hindbrain (https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.04.27.489672).

I recently moved to the lab of Giuliano Iurilli at IIT (Rovereto, Italy) to follow up in mice my interest in subcortical circuits for naturalistic behavior.

I'm a fan of #openscience, #Python, and unconventional paradigms. Cortex is overrated!

#introduction

👋 Hello from #Zurich!

I'm a researcher working at the intersection of #neurosciene and #ai. Before joining Google's #connectomics team earlier this year, I did my PhD advised by @jakhmack on simulation-based Inference (#sbi).

Excited to see Mastodon gaining momentum!

Leave Twitter just because it's systemically broken and run by a toxic white man with unchecked power?

Please, I'm an academic.

#introduction
I am a Max Planck Research Group Leader at the MPI for Biological Intelligence. Our lab explores fundamental questions in developmental #neurobiology related to the generation of cell-type diversity. We combine scRNAseq with lineage barcoding tools and genetic perturbation to explore principles that orchestrate the establishment of neuronal identities.

#theBeeAt3

Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.

No. 8.

Only about 10% of bee species are social. The other 90% are solitary bees. They build individual nests, don’t have a queen and don’t make honey.

‘The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude’
- Voltaire
#bees #bumblebees #solitarybees #savebees #nature #wild #wildlife #facts

#introduction

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I am a neuroscientist interested in the circuit dynamics of adaptive but reliable visually guided behavior.

In our group at the U Bonn, we study

- the stabilization of the neural code in visual perception, learning, and memory

- the pathway-specific processing of sensory and self-motion signals

We emphasize ethologically relevant behavior, longitudinal synapse- and circuit-level optophysiology, and miniaturized and bench-top two-photon microscopy.

www.troselab.de

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Neuro-evo conference at HHMI Janelia on May 15-18, 2023. Join us for the third edition!

Application deadline: Jan 27 (11:59 p.m. EST) 2023.

Apply here: https://www.janelia.org/you-janelia/conferences/neuro-evo-a-comparative-approach-to-cracking-circuit-function-iii

"Historically, with the study of the most convenient animal models —from the giant axon of the squid and the lobster's stomatogastric circuits to Aplysia's synapses and C. elegans' circuits — neuroscientists revealed some of the operating principles of the nervous system, which were then found to apply broadly across phyla. The third instalment of this meeting will once again bring together neuroscientists working on a broad diversity of animal models in an effort to compare circuits across phyla as a means to crack their function."

#NeuroEvo #Janelia #HHMI #conference #science #academia #neuroscience #DevBio #connectomics #connectome

We're hiring a project manager with #neuroscience background & #scicomm skills! Apply latest Nov 30: https://ki.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:559908/ #openscience #datasharing

Hi! 👋
It's time for an #introduction here on #neuroscience mastodon.
I'm Hannah Haberkern and I study flies to learn more about how animals navigate. I'm especially interested in visual orientation and the role of plasticity in #navigation. Currently I'm a postdoc at HHMI Janelia in Vivek Jayaraman's lab.

I'll take this new start as an opportunity to start sharing a bit more #pigeon and #quilting content. Here's me with a semi-recent quilt finish, a quilt that's in progress, and my Boab.

An unusual observation in the wild: a pale-looking large grasshopper nymph, immobile, that started moulting with undulating, rhythmic motions. The head cuticle slowly detached as the new body propelled forward–giving it the appearance of having two heads. Half way through, a yellowjacket wasp attacked!

The wasp munched on the soft, unexpanded wings while the grasshopper helplessly continued its slow moulting procedure into its adult form. Left alive but not unscathed.

Egyptian bird grasshoper, Anacridium aegyptium, on a lemon tree in Hvar island, Croatia https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/91574142

#grasshopper #orthoptera #insects #photography #iNaturalist #wasps #entomology