Albert Cardona @albertcardona@social.cleverlibre.org

🚨 BIG DATA RELEASE 🚨 We are beyond excited to announce the release of our Brain Wide Map of neural activity during decision making! It consists of 547 Neuropixel recordings of 32784 neurons across 194 regions of the mouse brain 🐭🧠

All these recordings were performed in a distributed fashion in 12 different labs, spanning Europe and the US 🌎 Rigorous standardization of methods and materials allowed us to pool the data from these labs together into a single gigantic dataset 🐙

Mice are performing our standardized perceptual decision-making task in which they have to position a stimulus in the center of a screen to receive reward. The dataset contains the stimuli and decisions, but also videos from three angles and DeepLabCut pose information. We're even releasing all the raw ephys data!

We know, it's a lot. At your own pace you can read all the details about the experimental setup, the task, processing of the data, and much more in the technical paper which accompanies this data release: https://figshare.com/articles/preprint/Data_release_-_Brainwide_map_-_Q4_2022/21400815

To explore the data at your leisure, visit our visualization website where you can scroll through different recording sessions, look at neural activity during example trials, and see trial-based activity of single neurons: https://viz.internationalbrainlab.org

Do you have itchy fingers to run your models on this humongous dataset? We totally get it! Here you can find how to download the data using our API so you can fire up those computing clusters: https://int-brain-lab.github.io/iblenv/notebooks_external/data_release_brainwidemap.html

This was a collective effort of our stellar team, who all put in so much work to make this monumental achievement possible. Our collaboration consists of 22 PIs, 37 researchers, and 11 staff members who all worked tirelessly to bring these data to you, the community 👏🍾

📢We are advertising two #PhD projects on #genomics and #evolution in the magnificent #SoaySheep of St Kilda. Interested in wild #immunology or #recombination?

Project 1: Investigating action and evolution of #immune loci. DL 5th Jan 2023.
https://www.ed.ac.uk/e4-dtp/how-to-apply/supervisor-led-projects/project?item=1527

Project 2: How and why recombination varies, with a focus on sex differences. DL 5th Dec 2022.
https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/eastbio-genomics-and-evolution-of-recombination-rates-in-the-soay-sheep-of-st-kilda/?p148166

Please DM or email Susan.Johnston@ed.ac.uk

#Soay #StKilda #Edinburgh

"Try reading the following out loud:

Hashtag screenreaders for the hashtag blind and hashtag VisuallyImpaired read every hashtag HashTags out loud and so it's hard for people with hashtag VisualImpairment to get the sense of the post because it's being constantly interrupted by well-meaning hashtag accessibility hashtag allies.

Easier to read with a block of hashtags at the bottom:
#screenreaders #VisuallyImpaired #blind #allies #Hashtags #accessibility"
--original author unknown

I want to write and use more of this so this is an #introduction.

I'm a #computerScience and #computerEngineering bs. Later I studied #bigdata and #computerGraphics. Worked in #medical #ImageAnalysis and I am still deciding if I am going to stay in #academia or leave for industry.

I love open technology, and art, and music and science and learning languages. So I love #Blender and my friends think I am crazy because I go around convincing people to let me teach them how to use it hahah.

Since it proves challenging to find everybody at #mastodon, I thought it would be useful to add a little #introduction to my profile!
I am a neuroscientist, heading the research group Olfactory Coding at the MPI in Jena and interested in olfactory circuits, sensory processing and plasticity in #Drosophila. Key techniques are 2P functional imaging, SSR, anatomical tracing, neuronal reconstructions, neuro-/ optogenetics and diverse behavioral assays to study innate/ learned olfactory behavior.

@manlius @PessoaBrain @dbarack @DrYohanJohn @NicoleCRust By the way the video that slowly zooms out from the low-level #GameOfLife to the higher-level one that the low-level implements is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP5-iIeKXE8

We have an open PhD position to work on neurite pruning in the fly PNS! Perks - international lab, state-of-the-art microscopes, beautiful city. https://www.uni-muenster.de/Rektorat/Stellen/ausschreibungen/st_20222909_sk1.html

Hello Mastodon!

Here our #introduction:

We are a community-driven, platinum open access (i.e. free) journal, overlay on arxiv.

We aim at maximal inclusivity of research fields, topic, and community representatives.

Get in touch, send us your papers, talk to us!

Find more info and papers at our website https://nbdt.scholasticahq.com/

#ScienceMastodon ASAPbio are running a survey ahead of their Recognizing #Preprint #PeerReview meeting. Help to inform the discussion by telling them your experience with posting, receiving, and reusing public feedback on preprints. 5 minute survey.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd1HZa2A9bSCpcQF_Gkpm6T5nUkLsaCjwvxzIYP8_kkNZ2PBQ/viewform

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.

@simon Even more impressively for web developer folks, iNaturalist.org is a open source Rails app with worldwide localized websites that feed observation data to the iNaturalist network: https://www.inaturalist.org/sites/network

It has iOS & Android native apps & a separate privacy/kid-focused iOS/Android React Native app called Seek: https://github.com/inaturalist/

They're all well-maintained projects that AFAIK accept contributions. It's a truly fantastic community project reputable funding: https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/about

We are recruiting lecturers in a wide range of topics in Biology including developmental/stem cell biology, #mechanobiology and single cell #omics approaches-come and join us! Deadline: 19th December 2022
More details here: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/CUV141/lecturer

Hello world! If you care about neuroscience (especially auditory flavored), shoot me a toot!

We’re looking for in vivo rodent electrophysiologists interested in complex behaviour to come and work in beautiful Glasgow. Advert to appear shortly, but meanwhile, if you’re interested and will be at at #sfn2022, come and find me! (Both postdoc and tenured positions available)a

#introduction

I’m a postdoctoral scientist studying #imageanalysis 🔬at the Broad Institute.

Interested in #opensource software for #biology, #dataviz (mostly with #RStats ), and #videogames 🎮👾.

I love using my expertise to help generate biological insights from data. 📊

Hmm. I am usually the last to join a new technology/trend (refused cell phones for years, didn't want to upgrade from windows 3.11 to 95 😃 and kept Keynote9 for way too long). So moving to mastodon so early makes me nervous.

Consider this my @introduction. I am tentatively here :).

Computational neuroscientist by training (RL FTW), now comp psychiatry & psychotherapy (human behavior & individual diff FTW), and on sabbatical learning & practicing CBT! Lab @ Princeton full of wonderful people.