Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

In August 1936 Robert Capa left for Spain with the intention of documenting the Spanish Civil War on the front line. Capa is passionate about the anti-fascist cause, takes a stand, becomes a militant, telling like no other the strength and courage of men in struggle and the difficulties of an afflicted and innocent people. The photo, known as “The Falling Soldier”, was taken on the Cordoba front, in Cerro Muriano, during a Loyalist offensive

#photography

We are looking for an Experienced #MATLAB Software Developer to work on the #hMRI Toolbox (https://hmri.info) with us at MPI-CBS in Leipzig (https://www.cbs.mpg.de/en) and international team inc. @LukeJoelEdwards @MR_Siawoosh and others not on #mastodon.

Great opportunity if you are interested in #OpenScience #OpenSource #software development in #neuroimaging / #neuroscience / #MRI.

https://www.cbs.mpg.de/vacancies/open-positions;
Job number: SD 33/22;
closing 15th Jan. 2023

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Human gene linked to bigger brains was born from seemingly useless DNA
Researchers discover how DNA sequences must mutate to free their RNA to make proteins https://www.science.org/content/article/human-gene-linked-bigger-brains-was-born-seemingly-useless-dna

The annual recruitment campaign of the INRAE (French National Institute for #Agriculture #Food and the #environmental will open 30/01/2023 - these are permanent full time #research positions.

https://jobs.inrae.fr/en/open-competitions/open-competitions-research-scientists-job-profiles-crcn

#job #AcademicJobs

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In this Future Leader #Review, Nidhi Yadunandanan Nair and colleagues discuss how endothelial #actin structures and actin-mediated force generation coordinate the multi-step angiogenic process:

https://journals.biologists.com/bio/article/11/12/bio058899/285132/Actin-cytoskeleton-in-angiogenesis

Find out more about how to propose your own Future Leader Review here:

https://journals.biologists.com/bio/pages/reviews

#Angiogenesis #Vasculature #Endothelium #Science #BiologyOpen #Biology #AcademicMastodon

You see a European artist's worktable from mid seventeenth century. These worktables were places where paper was used, a place where ink, quills, and paper was stored and handy. Let's focus on this in more detail, a short thread for friends of #paperhistory.

Access the print at the BM: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1848-0911-4

#histodons #history

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Public Domain content of a 1799 map of the island of Ireland, which has been digitally enhanced.
A fine 1799 map of Ireland by the English map publisher Clement Cruttwell. Map shows Ireland's four provinces, which remain the same to this day. In the north is Ulster, Connaught in the west, Leinster in the east, and Munster in the south.
https://pixels.com/featured/map-of-ireland-john-hughes.html
#BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #Ireland #map

Update: I was fired. I loved working at ORNL's Climate Change Science Institute and am devastated, but am also more determined and hopeful than ever. We have incredible power to affect change together.🌱

I still plan to continue with both research & activism, to the extent possible.

To my wonderful colleagues: My temporary affiliation is LSCE. Please use my personal rather than my work email, which I no longer have access to. Thank you for all of the support so far ♥️

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/10/opinion/scientist-fired-climate-change-activism.html

The latest episode of the #EMBOPodcast is out.

I spoke with Steve Quake, the new head of science at CZI (taking over from @CoriBargmann) about his career, #OpenScience, cell atlases, imaging, @ReviewCommons and lots more.

You can listen to it at the link below or on any podcast app.

#SciencePodcast #SciComm

https://www.embo.org/podcasts/the-biologists-were-pretty-darn-good-with-their-microscopes/

The Social Code—Deciphering the Genetic Basis of Hymenopteran Social Behavior. @Amy_L_Toth @sanrehan @WaspWoman @Wyatt1Chris and @EmelineFavreau set out to uncover early genetic changes on the path to sociality. https://buff.ly/3k8cXL7

If you're a group leader interested in writing an 'In preprints' article for @Dev_journal about #preprint(s) you think the #devbio and stem cell community would find interesting, please get in touch!

You can see the growing collection of #preprintCuration articles here: https://journals.biologists.com/dev/collection/7815/In-preprints

Picking up on some of the BIG IDEAS in brain research, which was wonderfully chaotic when we last discussed in December under the hashtag #BrainIdeasCountdown, e.g. https://neuromatch.social/@NicoleCRust/109557289393362842

Here's an attempt to fill in some blanks, and let's flip the hashtag: #BigBrainIdeas. I'll focus on the notion that there are facts, ideas and then there are "Big Ideas" and I'll focus on the last one. Please join in!

I'd argue that one of the most influential Big Ideas about the brain in the latter half of the 20th century is the is the notion that:

The neocortex of the brain is made up of a generic functional element that is repeated again and again and from this repetition, all of cortical function emerges

I'm talking about the cortical column, first described by Vernon Mountcastle in 1957. The unit contains ~10K neurons and humans have ~25 million of them. The rapid evolution of humans is proposed to have followed from a rapid expansion of cortex that happened because it has this repetitive crystalline structure. The gist behind the "functional" bit is that each unit always does the same generic computation, and the different functions of different brain areas result from the different inputs that these units receive. @TrackingActions very nicely summarizes the ideas here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41583-022-00658-6

So what does this generic functional unit do? Proposals vary. One idea, also reflected in deep convolutional neural networks, is that it does two(ish) things: selectivity and invariance, stacked repetitively to support things like recognizing objects. Other proposals suggest that the brain is a prediction machine and each unit contributes a little bit to those predictions in a manner that relies not just on feedforward connectivity, but also feedback. Some proposals suggest that the function of the unit varies along a gradient as a consequence of biophysical properties like receptor expression: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41583-020-0262-x.

Among brain researchers, this Big Idea is polarizing - obvious to some and misguided to others. Where are you in terms of your 'buy in' with this big idea?

2 #PhD projects on the trophic #ecology of #MarineMammals Univ #Exeter, #UK with @luishuckstadt

1) Understanding the effects of rapid #EnvironmentalChange on the ecology of a key Southern Ocean predator, the #Antarctic fur seal
2) Monitor the status of coastal ecosystems in South West England: from #RemoteSensing to marine top predators

https://www.luishuckstadt.com/blog/two-fully-funded-phd-projects-in-our-lab-please-share-widely

#job #academia
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