Stephan Saalfeld @herrsaalfeld@social.cleverlibre.org

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French authorities declare the use of Microsoft Office and Google Docs illegal in schools and education markets, as they don’t follow GDPR and might disturb later competition by making students used to these proprietary solutions.

https://questions.assemblee-nationale.fr/q16/16-971QE.htm

Unbelievable, multiview-reconstruction & BigStitcher have finally lost their Imglib1-dependency! And all processing is now virtual thus scaling to larger volumes ... @herrsaalfeld

https://github.com/preibischlab/multiview-reconstruction
https://github.com/PreibischLab/BigStitcher

RS-FISH was just released as open access article in @naturemethods

RS-FISH is a user-friendly software for accurate spot detection that is applicable to smFISH experiments, spatial transcriptomics, and spatial genomics. The approach enables fast spot detection in even very large volumetric datasets.

https://github.com/PreibischLab/RS-FISH
https://github.com/PreibischLab/RS-FISH-Spark

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41592-022-01669-y

If you want a sneak-peak of my portion of the #NeurIPS 2022 tutorial on Creative AI, here it is: https://youtu.be/QBolMllrNp0

It's a 30' primer on story, poetry, and humor generation.

Don't forget that Janelia's Computation & Theory area is looking for both [Senior] Group Leader candidates (https://www.janelia.org/our-research/our-labs/group-leaders) and Theory Fellows (https://www.janelia.org/our-research/overview/theory-fellows)! Are you working on interesting computational and theoretical approaches to address fundamental biological questions? Talk to us!

friend taught me about something recently, known as Gell-Mann Amnesia

quoting this page: https://www.epsilontheory.com/gell-mann-amnesia/

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Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray’s case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the “wet streets cause rain” stories. Paper’s full of them.

In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.

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Join our #fly neuroscience lab.

4 year fully funded #phD fellowship to study how animals make decisions during conflicting situations. #neuroscience #drosophila

Deadline 20th Jan
Get in touch with questions.

https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/mibtp/pgstudy/phd_opportunities/neurosciencebehaviour2023/conflictingoptions

Honored to be 1 of 40 recipients of a 2-yr #cziscience #EOSS5 grant to continue work on #OMENGFF 🎉

#OME #Zarr @GerBI and #NFDI4BIOIMAGE are dedicated to the development of scalable data repositories for #bioimaging

https://chanzuckerberg.com/eoss/proposals/ngff-democratize-access-to-next-generation-bioimaging-data/

Since it proves challenging to find everybody at #mastodon, I thought it would be useful to add a little #introduction to my profile!
I am a neuroscientist, heading the research group Olfactory Coding at the MPI in Jena and interested in olfactory circuits, sensory processing and plasticity in #Drosophila. Key techniques are 2P functional imaging, SSR, anatomical tracing, neuronal reconstructions, neuro-/ optogenetics and diverse behavioral assays to study innate/ learned olfactory behavior.

Job ad: Group Leader position in computational neurobiology https://cbd.sites.vib.be/en/join-us#/job-description/51111

Place: VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease Research, Belgium.

Notice there are many other advertised job positions at that same research center, including lab tech, postdocs, #electronmicroscopy experts (#vEM), #proteomics specialists, administrative, and more: https://cbd.sites.vib.be/en/join-us#/job-list

#neuroscience #science #academia #job

@simon Even more impressively for web developer folks, iNaturalist.org is a open source Rails app with worldwide localized websites that feed observation data to the iNaturalist network: https://www.inaturalist.org/sites/network

It has iOS & Android native apps & a separate privacy/kid-focused iOS/Android React Native app called Seek: https://github.com/inaturalist/

They're all well-maintained projects that AFAIK accept contributions. It's a truly fantastic community project reputable funding: https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/about

For neuroscientists attending #sfn22: don’t miss the poster by Mitya Chklovskii’s group describing the completion status of the whole brain #connectome of the fairy wasp #Megaphragma, of expected completion early in 2022. Find the poster tomorrow Monday morning, number 328.16 / YY35.

Mitya kindly shared the poster image publicly elsewhere.

This tiny #wasp is famous for being the size of a large paramecium (a unicellular organism) and for enucleating the vast majority of its central neurons while pupating. The adult has less that 10,000 neurons in its central brain yet it isn’t missing any organ or body part. See the paper that jumpstarted this effort:

Polilov AA. The smallest insects evolve anucleate neurons. Arthropod structure & development. 2012 Jan 1;41(1):29-34. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1467803911000946

#neuroscience #connectomics

If you download your Twitter archive it arrives wrapped as a static HTML page, which is not very useful for doing anything with, and worse: it requires the original account to be still active to do useful things like enlarge the images since they use t.co links.

So here's a Python script to convert a Twitter archive to markdown or other formats: https://github.com/timhutton/twitter-archive-parser

Now you can archive your tweets in any way you want.

MIT has some great postdoc positions for scientists from underrepresented minorities: https://engineering.mit.edu/the-mit-postdoctoral-fellowship-program-for-engineering-excellence/

#job #fellowship #postdoc

Please help spread the news!

Open call for 3 #postdocs at the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research #KLI #KLIAustria

Theme: “Evolutionary theory in #interdisciplinary context”

https://kli.ac.at/content/en/the_kli/open_calls/view/10

#EvoMed #EvoBio #PublicHealth #EvoEco #Conservation #EvoNeuro #neuroscience #psychology #BioculturalEvolution #PhilSci #PhilBio #Histbio #EcoEcon #CulturalEvolution #KLIFellowships #EvoTheory #EvolutionaryBiology

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Why should we always clean up after harmful tech rather than implementing our imagination of a technological future that serves us?