Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

On jargon - is it useful?

Is it necessary and useful for scientists to say "mnemonic" to refer to "memory" and "affect" to talk about "emotion"?

In other words, given that everyone understand emotion and mood and no one really understands what "affect" is until you are really deep into things, why is the term affect useful and important at all? And should we reserve it for deep dives (as opposed to public facing websites and such)? And does anyone call themselves an "emotion researcher?" or a "mood researcher?"

@PessoaBrain @knutson_brain

On a completely different subject: foreigners who bought a house in Japan! What are some things you wish you had known in advance?
Also if you're married please mention if you did everything yourself or if your Japanese spouse did most of the paperwork.

Trade card of Richard Middleton, coffin maker and undertaker - 19th century.

#histodons #histodon #funeral #undertaker #funeralscience #mortician #history

Wow, this is a super good move for Open and Team Science - Utrecht University abolishes distinction between support and academic staff

https://www.uu.nl/en/news/from-academic-staff-wp-and-support-staff-obp-to-colleagues

📢New 'Featured Resource' on the Node

Find out more about Euro-BioImaging ERIC, a gateway to over 170 #imaging facilities across Europe 🔬— any researcher from anywhere around the world can get access to imaging technologies, image data services & training:

https://thenode.biologists.com/euro-bioimaging-europes-gateway-to-biological-and-biomedical-imaging-excellence/

My first post in Mastodon!
I'm Nosrat, I'm doing my PhD in computational neuroscience in university of Geneva.
I’m working on understanding underlying dynamics via direct measurement of neural spiking under the supervision of Timothée Proix.
A repost would be amazing as I’m finding my network here in Mastodon.
#neuroscience #computationalneuroscience

This is scary, but I'm not surprised at all: It’s Official: Cars Are the Worst Product Category We Have Ever Reviewed for Privacy

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/articles/its-official-cars-are-the-worst-product-category-we-have-ever-reviewed-for-privacy/

#Privacy #Cars #Mozilla

Me, leaving a party.

The incidence of cancers in people age <50 keeps increasing, but we keep using the same age >50 as sole factor for mass screening

New today (79% increase over past 3 decades)

https://bmjoncology.bmj.com/content/2/1/e000049

Reviewed here
https://erictopol.substack.com/p/how-to-upend-cancer-screening

“The worst offender was Nissan, Mozilla said. The carmaker’s privacy policy suggests the manufacturer collects information including sexual activity, health diagnosis data, and genetic data, though there’s no details about how exactly that data is gathered. Nissan reserves the right to share and sell “preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes” to data brokers, law enforcement, and other third parties.”

https://gizmodo.com/mozilla-new-cars-data-privacy-report-1850805416

"So if you hear that 60% of papers in your field don’t replicate, shouldn't you care a lot about which ones? Why didn't my colleagues and I immediately open up that paper's supplement, click on the 100 links, and check whether any of our most beloved findings died? The answer has to be, “We just didn't think it was an important thing to do.” We heard about the plane crash and we didn't even bother to check the list of casualties. What a damning indictment of our field!"

https://www.experimental-history.com/p/im-so-sorry-for-psychologys-loss

"Here we find, in a clinical cohort of at-risk infants, broad spectrum antibiotic treatment, including cephalosporins, increased the risk of late-onset sepsis in neonates in comparison to penicillin base treatments"
#Preprint #Immunology #MucosalImmunology

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.09.04.23295031v1

'In 1961, at the National Congress on Medical Quackery, the U.S. Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare pointed out that, along with actual snake oils and other nostrums, bottled seawater was being sold for up to twenty dollars a gallon as a “panacea for virtually all human ailments.”

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/06/26/relyvrio-als-fda-approval