Albert Cardona @albertcardona@social.cleverlibre.org

#introduction: I am a #neuroscience research scientist, studying learning and memory and genetic disorders such as neurofibromatosis type 1 (#nf1). We do a lot of in vivo imaging and genetic experiments in #Drosophila and human induced pluripotent stem cells (#iPSC). The lab recently moved to the University of #Iowa; we are in Neuroscience and Pharmacology / Pediatrics and the Iowa Neuroscience Institute. Lab web site: https://www.tomchiklab.org.

Hi Mastodon! Another migrating neurobiologist here - I’m a sensory neuroscience postdoc at Cornell University working on optimizing functional imaging of #brainstem circuits using #multiphoton #microscopy in awake, behaving mice.
Looking forward to the new chapter here!

I am sympathetic though - reminds me of a hilarious Google UX whitepaper about easing users into a gmail design change. There was a section that basically said "Of course none of this matters, users are going to be frustrated and unhappy whatever level of change we implement."

Hello World!

I'm a neuroeconomist. (Except *shhhh* I'm a psych / consumer behavior / neuro person and not actually an economist at all.) I study how people use information to make decisions when they have too much info (like in a grocery store). Or when they have incomplete info (like during many investment decisions)

Nice to meet you. Nice to be here.

#introduction

Whoa! I know bats are important, but this is insane. An exclusion experiment by Beilke et al shows that forests without bats are *three to five times* as insect-eaten as forests with bats.

#ecology #bats #science

https://phys.org/news/2022-11-young-trees-insect-bugs.amp

Mastodon habits I'm trying to lock in, rather than revert to my Twitter habits:

1) use CWs liberally
2) when threading, set first post to "public" and the rest to "not listed"
3) don't forget the description text when posting images (had to work on that in Twitter too)
4) throw in hashtags like it was Tumblr or Instagram when you want to reach beyond your followers
5) pin and visit hashtags to find more people
6) boost a lot

#open #access #book on scientific visualization (#python + #matplotlib) at https://github.com/rougier/scientific-visualization-book (don't buy the book from Amazon)

#introduction. I am a neuro/cell/dev biologist investigating how the delicate meter-long slender processes of neurons, i.e. the #axons that form the cables wiring our nervous system, can be maintained for a century (or fail in neurodegeneration). As an efficient strategy, I use genetics and neurons of the fruitfly #Drosophila able to deal with the enormous complexity at play (image). For many years I have engaged in #scicomm promoting the importance of fly research (https://poppi62.wordpress.com/publications/)

If you’re a UK-based early career woman scientist who would benefit from £15k to accelerate your independent career, the L’Oréal For Women in Science award is for you!
More info here: https://www.forwomeninscience.com/challenge/show/58
Apply by 02/12. I’m happy to discuss your application and be your cheerleader. #WomenInSTEM

Following the #NeuroscienceMigration - I'm a neuroscientist at Cornell. My recent research focuses on psychoactive drugs such as ketamine and psychedelics. I like a good cup of coffee and going climbing with my kids. #introduction #neuroscience

My #introduction

Living in Edinburgh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

I work at GitHub on data product related things, and, when no-one is looking, try to squeeze the odd academia-related feature in (e.g. citation file support). Previously worked on NASA space telescopes, founding the Data Science Mission Office at STScI in Baltimore (home of HST and JWST).

In my 'free' time, I am the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Open Source Software (http://joss.theoj.org).

Time for my #introduction as well.
I am an electrical engineer by training, but got interested #neuroscience since grad school. After joining the lab of Christof Koch (now at @AllenNeuroLab) in 1994 I got hooked on the #neuromorphic approach of Carver Mead, and started my "understanding by building" journey. To this day we are building #spiking #neuralnetworks with analog electronic neuron and synapse circuits to investigate #intelligence #plasticity and other primitives of neural computation.

Honestly, the categorization of the #solarpunk vision as "Utopic" bothers the hell out of me as a Greek person. The use of utopia as a word has been a linguistic tool against optimism for as long as we've agree to hold onto it.

Ουτοπία (utopia) literally translates to "a place that can never exist", and our complacency to accept it as the opposite of dystopia is doing us harm by perpetuating this idea that a society built on "good" cannot happen; is impossible.

Believe it or not, there is a word for something which I believe describes solarpunk and our vision perfectly: Ευτοπία (Eutopia / Pronounced eff-topia), "the best POSSIBLE place" and we might as well adopt it

Since everybody is doing their #introduction ...

I'm a professor of #neurogenetics at University of Regensburg in Germany. In our lab, we do #neuroscience research on spontaneous behavior and learning from the consequences of such behavior: operant learning.

I've also been involved in infrastructure modernization towards #OpenScience for some time now, advocating to finally replace 17th century scholarly journals with 21st century technology.

My #introduction is overdue. I’m a professor at Penn who studies memory using systems and computational approaches. I’m also writing a book: When it comes to understanding the brain, what are we trying to achieve? What’s our plan to get there? What challenges do we face? #neuroscience #author

Writing has deepened my appreciation for community-based progress. I’m excited to be on this inclusive platform where we can leverage collective intelligence, and work through conceptual blocks together.

Learned about #Mastadon this week from the bird app & fell in love, so prob good to join in for #FollowFriday. I'm a neurobio postdoc w/ a mechE background doing a lot of calcium imaging & analysis in Python and ImageJ. I also ride bikes, a lot. Probably too much if you ask my academic mentors.
A few rad ppl to follow:
@Russpoldrack
@weinberz
@SherlockpHolmes
@PracheeAC

I read that Mastadon is more interactive than bird app & I'm looking for ppl to follow, so maybe say hello if that's you?