Albert Cardona @albertcardona@social.cleverlibre.org

Registration for the drosophila research conference:
https://genetics-gsa.org/drosophila-2023/abstract-submission/

Applications are open for the 2023 Wellcome Optical Biology PhD Programme at UCL. Deadline is January 9, 2023 (https://opticalbiology.org/apply).

Can someone induce forgetting of an unpleasant memory without knowing it? YES!! With Zijian Zhu and Yingying Wang, we report a method that induces forgetting without drugs, brain stimulation or awareness #PTSD #forgetting #memory.
@mrccbu https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-34091-1

@WorldImagining @albertcardona

Or is it? We just published this article proposing that fear extinction, at least in mammals, is actually mediated by active forgetting. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41386-021-01131-1

In my course MCB111 "mathematics in biology", we just learned about Hopfield networks and the Hebbian learning. Can anyone give a critical reading of this paper for us?

Another one is The B Lane Swimmer (HT @KaraLMarshall@twitter.com): https://holly.witteman.ca/the-b-lane-swimmer/

Hi all #introduction
I’m a graduate student at max planck institute for biological cybernetics Tübingen working at the intersection of behavior, systems and computational neuroscience. Our model organism of interest is zebrafish. For now I am here to connect/ interact with people from #neuroscience and #ml ..

C++ Core Guidelines: "guidelines for using C++ well" (Bjarne Stroustrup)

https://isocpp.github.io/CppCoreGuidelines/CppCoreGuidelines

#introduction post! My name is Sonia Roberts (she/her) and I'm a postdoc at Northeastern University developing knitted sensors that could be used to make soft, fully knitted robots. My PhD work was on legged robots running around in the desert -- and if you've ever gone on a beach run, you know why that's hard. I have also done some science and technology policy work. I like to learn about what's going on in other fields so I try to follow a lot of academics in different areas!

Checked the #Patreon page for #Mastodon again just now. We are tantalizingly close to the current fundraising goal, with $11,375 of $12,000 raised. Join me in donating. We can hit the target easily if enough of the #twittermigration #twexit #influx chip in. Let's get @Gargron and team to $12k per month.
https://www.patreon.com/mastodon

A spooky specimen from the London Natural History Museum: a fish forever entombed inside a pearl! This fish, perhaps a pearlfish, known to parasitize bivalves, tried to make a home in a pearl oyster and died. The oyster dutifully set about encasing it in nacre (mother of pearl, a form of aragonite). Natural pearls are fairly rare, and are essentially an immune response by bivalves to encase a foreign object and protect themselves from infection. #clamfacts

Incoming.

#entomology #insects #bees #photography