Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

🌟To early career women PIs with one NIH grant:
Check out this supplement! Can provide up to $70K to offset 'critical life events' including birth, adoption, or other caregiving. Maybe could help offset some of the burdens people have faced during COVID
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-23-032.html

Hello world. (Uh, something about bagels so you know it’s me…)

Can gastrointestinal hormones modulate our reward responses? @cecivez and I ventured into the available data and literature to find that
🎯 ghrelin enhances reward responses within the motivational circuit! w/ @nbkroemer

Find more in our pre-print: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.11.30.518539v1

#gutbrainaxis #reward #fMRI #ghrelin #GLP1

So happy to see that you can use a .gif for your header here. Having a little fun with that to show y'all the full look at one of my favorite microscope images of a #macrophage (#immune cell) in the process of slurping up the bacteria that causes #Lyme disease. Showing that here alongside my favorite single slice.

#Drosophila #Advent Day2: The other UK member of the melanogaster group is D. suzukii, or “Spotted Wing Drosophila” #SWD. A fearsome #soft-fruit #pest with a saw-like ovipositor https://academic.oup.com/jee/article/114/5/1950/6369578, Dsuz originated in the far east and has recently spread around the world https://academic.oup.com/mbe/article/37/8/2369/5821433, being first recorded in the UK in 2012 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/280066071_First_record_of_Drosophila_suzukii_Matsumura_Diptera_Drosophilidae_in_Great_Britain. Dsuz is very cold tolerant compared to its relatives, with a larger, darker, tougher over-wintering adult form https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ece3.6517

Wrapping up an Intro course with one of my favorite topics: Consciousness (C)!

I really like how @anilkseth parses the conceptual space of C in this essay (a precursor to his recent book, Being You):
https://aeon.co/essays/the-hard-problem-of-consciousness-is-a-distraction-from-the-real-one

There's:
C level (awake vs coma);
C content (awareness);
C self (that little person in our heads who is driving it all; free will).

On the topic of free will & the brain, do you know of references appropriate for early undergrads? (No Penrose please).

New job opening for a Research Fellow in Outbreak Analytics at MRC Gambia, joining the wider Epiverse initiative. Deadline 12 Dec: https://jobs.lshtm.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx?ref=MRC-MRC-2022-09

A Gull photobombs a panoramic view of Marseille. Marseille, a port city in southern France, has been a crossroads of immigration and trade since its founding by the Greeks circa 600 B.C. At its heart is the Vieux-Port (Old Port), where fishmongers sell their catch along the boat-lined quay.
https://pixels.com/featured/marseille-scenes-8-john-hughes.html
#BuyIntoArt #Marseille #France #gull #bird #birds #BirdsOfTwitter

Our new review of engineering NK cells for cancer immunotherapy
@BiologyOpen@twitter.com
@Co_Biologists@twitter.com
#immunotherapy #NKcells #CARNK
https://journals.biologists.com/bio/article/11/12/bio059396/284640/The-prospect-of-genetically-engineering-natural

Lovely post by Darren Dahly on not being a 'real' statistician, but the importance of 'applied' statisticians, and why we need more of them: https://statsepi.substack.com/p/im-not-a-real-statistician-and-you. As a 20% statistician myself, I could not agree more!

Mondrian Crescent

I love it when train doors align at the end of a tunnel. The red tiles at Green Park station make this the ideal location to capture this moment.

It wasn't luck though, instead I froze the moving train with a fast shutter. It took ages to get it centred.

This final image resembles an abstract art painting by Piet Mondrian.

#art #mastoart #abstract #architecture #photography #potd #symmetry #london #underground #londonunderground #railway #mondrian #tiles #photo

#Neurolgy #neuroscience Lecanemab slows speed of cognitive decline, but possible links to serious brain hemorrhages concern and new antibody treatment for Alzheimer’s, safety and benefit questions persist @aaas
https://www.science.org/content/article/hail-new-antibody-treatment-alzheimers-safety-benefit-questions-persist

2 open PhD positions and 1 technican position in Barcelona, at the Brain, Circuits and Behavior lab.

https://braincircuitsbehavior.org/

Deadline: December 20th, 2022.

Apply: https://braincircuitsbehavior.org/news-posts/open-position-animal-technician-ndfrp

PhD project 1:
"Circuit mechanisms of priors and learning during decision making"

PhD project 2:
"The neural basis of working memory history biases as components of statistical learning"

Technician:
https://braincircuitsbehavior.org/news-posts/open-position-animal-research-lab-technician

#neuroscience #neurobiologia #PhD #academia #science #ciència

The worst: Mole ponders how to deal with rejection and provides guidance on how to review a paper - "Be nice, please!"
https://journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/135/22/jcs260666/282115/The-worst
#cellbiology #research #J_Cell_Sci #peerreview