Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

"Most scientific-journal articles come from wealthy countries in the global north. Often, well-funded researchers initiate short-term projects in southern countries — which are typically poorer and often have a history of colonial occupation — frequently without seeking substantive local input or expertise. Dubbed parachute or helicopter research, this is a long-standing tradition steeped in colonialism, say those campaigning for change."

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02313-1

Hi everyone! New to this server, here's a few lines to introduce myself.

Postdoc researcher working on metal-organic frameworks, my goal is to use single-crystal total scattering analysis to determine the non-periodic atomic structure of porous materials. I looove patterns and crystals, and I cannot resist sharing those I find most beautiful!

I am also a passionate mental health and diversity advocate, deeply convinced that it's always worth letting our quirkiness shine out bright!

Cheers

@AllenNeuroLab I’m optimistic about the potential of groups like @neuroscience and @neurobuzz. But I’m still experiencing the same issue as you are, partly because this instance makes it difficult to find or follow people on other instances. I’ll keep trying. At least I get the @biorxivpreprint feed.

@AllenNeuroLab @neuroscience @neurobuzz @biorxivpreprint in theory there is a @biorxiv_neursci but in practice it isn’t working yet (for me, anyway).

Geologist Marie Tharp was born #OTD in 1920.

She built the first accurate map of the Atlantic Ocean floor, discovering the Mid-Atlantic Ridge that provided evidence for seafloor spreading and plate tectonics.

Image: Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

An Anoplius blue/black spider wasp carries away a spider she has paralyzed. Tennessee.

#Insects #Pompilidae #Wasps

Links 7/30/23 https://mikethemadbiologist.com/2023/07/30/links-7-30-23/

Today is PIE CHART DAY!

#TodayinHistory #datavis #historicaldatavis #Onthisday #OTD
📅
Jul 30, 1801 William Playfair introduced the pie chart in the _Statistical Breviary_.

But not the way we use them today. It was to solve a problem depicting the population of the Turkish empire, shaded by continent, requiring 3 segments.

Dear Mastodon #neuroscience folks. I’ve been trying to switch my SciSocial time from Twitter/X. However, I have not found there to be much in the way of scientific conversations or community on this platform (some from people I already knew on Twitter/X mostly). Posts don’t seem to drive conversations, and finding posts takes a lot of effort here but not there. What am I missing? Honest question. Thanks for any replies! (btw, not wanting platform ethical comparisons for this post)

@AllenNeuroLab honestly? There's something different about this place. I think there's less status signaling and more depth which perhaps doesn't lend itself to the sort of "finding" that we're both missing. That said, I'd follow @cyrilpedia @NicoleCRust if you aren't already and the cheat code to populate your feed with awesome is to follow @lisamelton and @dgoldsmith and @mekkaokereke and @talia_christine and their friends at beige.party whatever the heck that is

@schoppik Thanks for including me in this list of awesome people! 💖

@AllenNeuroLab @cyrilpedia @NicoleCRust @dgoldsmith @mekkaokereke @talia_christine

Happy to have joined synapse.cafe. The Effort Lab is a neuroscience/psychophysiology lab at Liverpool John Moores University, UK, examining determinants and mechanisms of effort investment in goal-directed behavior. #introductions

Hello again Mastodon/fediverse, any good topics about the brain to discuss today?? 😅

Bioinformatics Specialist
City of Hope

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/bioinformatics-specialist/?feed_id=52805

#ScienceJobs #hiring #research
Duarte #UnitedStatesUS #Bioinformatician #ResearchTechnician #Researcher #Scientist
https://jobrxiv.org/job/bioinformatics-specialist/?feed_id=52805

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2807639

With commentary by @michael_hoerger

via @MoriartyLab and @kashprime

“New study in @JAMANetworkOpen shows that the reintroduction of universal #masking in #Ottawa #schools in spring 2022 reduced student absenteeism.

#Students gained nearly 2,000 days of learning in the schools studied.

The study likely considerably underestimated the real benefit of masking and enormously underestimated the potential benefit of masking.”

🙉🙈Ignorance is not bliss.
'The virus is still lurking and it's dangerous to be complacent. It’s a long time since many had their booster jabs, and the poor weather in July may have encouraged crowding in poorly ventilated spaces.' 💯Prof @LawrenceYoung11 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/07/29/covid-19-uk-infections-virus-coronavirus-rise-booster/

The most recent Podcast I produced for EMBO was with Pavel Tomancak (and EMBO's Thomas Lemberger). One detail that might get missed in a wide ranging conversation about science, policy, science fiction and more was Pavel's passing comment on how one important consideration in his decision to return to Europe after a very productive time at UC Berkeley were serious reservations about the US healthcare system.
#Drosophila #OpenScience #DevelopmentalBiology #EMBOPodcast

https://www.embo.org/podcasts/who-reviews-the-reviewers/

'Radick uses counterfactual history to perform an experiment. He outlines a curriculum for an introductory biology class that does not begin and end with Mendelian inheritance, but instead emphasizes developmental contexts. Students who took this class — Radick ran the experiment at the University of Leeds, UK — came away with a less gene-centred and a more enquiring approach to biology than did those who took a more Mendel-focused course (A. Jamieson & G. Radick Sci. Educ. 26, 1261–1290; 2017).'

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02310-4