OnceMagicBrainEel @OnceMagicBrainEel@social.cleverlibre.org

Welcome Emre Yaksi @yaksi_emre !
#neuroscience #zebrafish

I’m super excited that part of my PhD thesis got published today.

Depolarization block in olfactory sensory neurons expands the dimensionality of odor encoding. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.ade7209

We show that olfactory sensory neurons undergo silencing due to depolarization block at ethologically relevant odor concentrations, which has direct implications on how odors are represented at the sensory periphery.
#neuroscience #olfaction #olfactory transduction #electrophysiology #behavior

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For those in #neuroscience or adjacent, I've made an instance at
https://synapse.cafe/

Come join us! We still have capacity for quite a bit more people.

#neurosciencemigration
@neuroscience @neuro

A fantastic group of authors, spearheaded by the amazing
@RebeccaSenft and Barbara Diaz-Rohrer
, have a new preprint for your end-of-year-reading lists! In the 🧵, learn a bit more about "A biologist's guide to the field of quantitative bioimaging"
https://zenodo.org/record/7439284#.Y5s_POzMI0R 1/x

Public Service Warning

Mastodon has a very big surge of new users right now. There's no way to tell if it will be sustained, but at this early point it looks similar to Nov 18 when when Musk pulled the employee purge.

It is very challenging for system administration to accommodate so many new users. If your server starts to struggle, it is not broken and will get sorted out.

We're all in this together. It's our social network. Be patient. What we are building is amazing.

#twittermigration

In 1 hour (3 PM UK time), the Brain Prize webinars on the Circuits for Movement will start!

Register here: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/circuits-for-movement---2/register

Featuring:
* Abdel El Manira (Karolinska Institutet)
* David McLean (Northwestern)
* Marta Zlatic (MRC-LMB)

... who will talk about spinal interneurons and circuits in honour of Silvia Arber, who was awarded the Brain Prize https://www.unibas.ch/en/News-Events/News/Uni-People/Brain-Prize-2022-for-Silvia-Arber.html

#neuroscience #BrainPrize

Hello beautiful people! I'm a computational neuroscientist working on sensory-motor control. Lately, my lab has been working on recurrent neural networks and spiking nets (all still in the pipeline) and I'm here to exchange and learn about these and other topics.

#COSYNE2023 #registration is now open y'all!!!!

https://www.cosyne.org/registration

Please boost!

Over-reliance on English hinders cognitive science: it has led to premature claims of universality (due to over-sampling of English speakers) and limited the cognitive constructs being examined (due to the use of English as a meta-language).

🐦: https://twitter.com/asifa_majid/status/1581244979061874688

Paper: https://www.cell.com/trends/cognitive-sciences/fulltext/S1364-6613(22)00236-4

#linguistics #language #bias #english #TheoryOfMind #CognitiveScience

We're looking for a PhD student (09/23 start) to use computational modelling and deep learning to try to understand how the *physical spatial* arrangement of neurons, synapses & astrocytes contributes to brain learning: https://www.ulster.ac.uk/doctoralcollege/find-a-phd/1455716

(image from https://www.microns-explorer.org/phase1

New server, so new #introduction post —

🚲 ☕ 🧠 🎨

I'm a PhD student in the @kordinglab, studying the intersection of #AI and #neuroscience. My research tends to focus on big data network-science #connectomics but I love living in the space between fields, where the science is the juiciest!

I'm also (currently) one of the neuromatch.social admins, so if you need help or you're lost, ping me!

Hi. It would help me a lot if I could get a HEAP of responses to this poll. The goal is to get a decent enough sample for the results to be predictive of the wider user-base right now. I dislike asking for boots but this is SCIENCE... or something. (Thanks.)

How do you use Mastodon MOST of the time?

On a phone, or other touch screen device?

OR

On a device with a keyboard like a laptop or desktop computer?

(If it's half and half choose the middle option.)

How can we see what neurons deep in the cortex are doing during behavior? Now all cortical layers of a freely moving mouse can be imaged – even in lit environment. Artwork by @somedonkey https://mpinb.mpg.de/en/research-groups/groups/behavior-and-brain-organization/news/neuroscientists-illuminate-how-brain-cells-deep-in-the-cortex-operate-in-freely-moving-mice.html

For those that joined #Mastodon and grabbed the first server they could find, but would prefer to #migrate to a different one, I created a short guide on how to do this quickly and easily.
It also allows you to easily move any followers across to your new profile and leaves a redirection on your old profile for those that find it to help them get to your new one. 😁👍

I'd love if you could share it among your networks to help those that will invariably need it later on.
https://youtu.be/BpI-SplOXVE

Haben Tiere in Bewusstsein? Haben sie ein 'Ich' oder können sie überhaupt nicht zwischen 'selbst' und 'nicht-selbst' unterscheiden? Verschiedene Tiere geben unterschiedliche Hinweise darauf, wie sich unser Selbstbewusstsein in der Evolution entwickelt haben könnte. Mit Eva Jablonka, die hier bahnbrechendes leistet, mit @ZeroNoiseLab und auch mit ein wenig #drosophila #neuroscience
https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/104840-015-A/haben-tiere-ein-ich/

3,013 neurons, half a million synapses: the complete #connectome of the whole #Drosophila larval brain!

Winding, Pedigo et al. 2022. "The connectome of an insect brain" https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.11.28.516756v1

We’ve mapped and analysed its circuit architecture, from sensory neurons to brain output neurons, as reconstructed from volume electron microscopy, and here is what we found. 1/

#neuroscience #connectomics #vEM #volumeEM

This is a fun* website that gives you context for any flights you are planning to take.

https://flightfree.org/flight-emissions-calculator

*fun as in good product design, not that it will make you feel good to use...

30 Tage Gewahrsam für Klimaaktivist:innen?

Maya Werner und Ralf Poscher vom Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung von Kriminalität, Sicherheit und Recht in Freiburg vertreten im "Verfassungsblog" die Meinung:

Das bayerische Vorgehen ist nicht nur verfassungswidrig. Es ist noch nicht einmal vom bayerischen Polizeigesetz gedeckt.

https://verfassungsblog.de/gewahrsam-als-letztes-mittel-gegen-die-letzte-generation/

#Klima #Klimaproteste #Recht #Verfassungsrecht #Polizeigesetz

I've got some time to kill in Los Angeles tomorrow. Does anyone have suggestions what to do or see? I've never been to LA before, and I prefer quirky and weird attractions over the mainstream tourist traps. Thanks