kwitschas @kwitschas@social.cleverlibre.org

In case you missed it

📢New episode !

We interview Dr Elisabeth Bik (@MicrobiomDigest ) on fraud in scientific publications

Listen here:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5Wo8cdlEap9jq8s4MvBhiK?si=16a9f0786af140bd

#academia #PhD #science #xp @OpenAcademics @AcademicChatter

So Meta AI (aka Facebook research) came up with a large language model for science: galactica.org. And I came up with a game: Ask it for the theorem that you have proved! Anyone out there who can explain my theorem to me? Does it even make sense?

Show me yours!

Postdoc position Models of evolution, development, gene networks @gneifd

Interested in evolution. Interested in theory and concepts yet into actual nature.

Join us for a postdoc in Barcelona @gneifd

https://jobrxiv.org/job/autonomous-university-of-barcelona-27778-postdoc-position-models-of-evolution-development-gene-networks/?feed_id=29436
#ScienceJobs
Barcelon...
https://jobrxiv.org/job/autonomous-university-of-barcelona-27778-postdoc-position-models-of-evolution-development-gene-networks/?feed_id=29436

MIT are looking to build a more equitable and inclusive culture, and have created 15 postdoctoral fellowships for engineers from groups that have been historically excluded from MIT. The scheme is open to international scholars. #WomenInSTEM #BlackInSTEM #Inclusivity
Find out more and apply by 31/01/23: https://engineering.mit.edu/the-mit-postdoctoral-fellowship-program-for-engineering-excellence/

Hi there! I make #sciart about the brain.

A few recommendations for life on Mastodon:

1) Follow anyone you think looks potentially interesting; you can always unfollow later, and they may lead you to new people via boosted posts.

2) Boost posts you think are worthy, so others can discover new content.

3) Don't obsess on replicating your Twitter follows on Mastodon; let it be its own experience, and grow it organically. Obvs follow anyone you miss from Twitter, but this isn't a 1:1 replacement; have fun, follow your instincts.

#womeninscience
Women scientists maybe you thought were men

Maud Menten (Michaelis–Menten equation)
Yvonne Barr (Epstein-Barr virus)
Marilyn Kozak (Kozak consensus sequence)
Tsuneko Okazaki (Okazaki fragments - with her husband Reiji)
Helen Quinn (Peccei–Quinn theory)
Phyllis Nicolson (Crank–Nicolson method)
Hilde Mangold (Spemann-Mangold organizer)
Laura P. Bautz (Bautz–Morgan classification )
Katharine B. Blodgett (Langmuir–Blodgett (LB) film)
Martha Chase (Hershey–Chase experiments)

Happy #WetNoseWednesday !

Ari is keeping my seat warm this morning. #dogsofmastodon #dogsonmastodon

Job alert! Sustainability Conferencing and Communications Officer

Do you love science?

Care about protecting our planet?

Want to make a difference by promoting sustainability in science?

Interested in improving the sustainability of scientific meetings?

This could the perfect job for you. Join the friendly team at the Company of Biologists, a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to supporting and inspiring the biology community

https://www.biologists.com/about-us/work-for-us/

Someone asked me for great professional concept/scifi artists to follow on Mastodon. Here are a few:

@ianmcque
@utopieselective
@Robmccallum
@artofsoulburn
@Saltybretzel
@eldritch48
@Ailantd
@alexconnolly
@badgertracks
@alexriesart

Other artists: don't hesitate to wave in comments. I'll do a better list next week :)

#introduction toot!! I am a neuroscientist at Instituto Cajal in Madrid, Spain. My lab studies how the 🧠hippocampus generates activity patterns (theta, gamma and ripple oscillations) in service for memory function. We target cell-type specific microcircuits and basic neurophysiological mechs in health & disease (e.g., epilepsy). We use #ephys #neuropixels #miniscopes #uLEDs #optogenetics #computationalneuroscience #machinelearning and love developing new #openscience tools & #neurotechnologies

UW Immunology is hiring up to TWO Assistant professors and ONE Associate professor! Big and vibrant scientific community in Seattle, amazing quality of life, and great colleagues. Come join us! Intended start date September 2023. Diverse candidates encouraged to apply!

Assistant Professor: http://apply.interfolio.com/115480

Associate Professor: http://apply.interfolio.com/115764

You can make a Github 'business card' at https://crd.so/
Here's mine:

Also: if you're looking for a #postdoc position exploring individual differences in plasticity in blindness, come find me!

Do you follow too many people?

Do you want to organise your Mastodon home timeline into several themed mini-timelines that are easier to navigate?

You can do this on Mastodon using the "Lists" feature, and here's a guide all about it:

https://fedi.tips/how-to-use-mastodon-and-the-fediverse-advanced-tips/#UsingListsOnMastodon

You can use Lists on third party apps like Tusky for Android or Metatext for iPhone/iPad, or on your server's website.

#Mastodon #Lists

🚨 BIG DATA RELEASE 🚨 We are beyond excited to announce the release of our Brain Wide Map of neural activity during decision making! It consists of 547 Neuropixel recordings of 32784 neurons across 194 regions of the mouse brain 🐭🧠

All these recordings were performed in a distributed fashion in 12 different labs, spanning Europe and the US 🌎 Rigorous standardization of methods and materials allowed us to pool the data from these labs together into a single gigantic dataset 🐙

Mice are performing our standardized perceptual decision-making task in which they have to position a stimulus in the center of a screen to receive reward. The dataset contains the stimuli and decisions, but also videos from three angles and DeepLabCut pose information. We're even releasing all the raw ephys data!

We know, it's a lot. At your own pace you can read all the details about the experimental setup, the task, processing of the data, and much more in the technical paper which accompanies this data release: https://figshare.com/articles/preprint/Data_release_-_Brainwide_map_-_Q4_2022/21400815

To explore the data at your leisure, visit our visualization website where you can scroll through different recording sessions, look at neural activity during example trials, and see trial-based activity of single neurons: https://viz.internationalbrainlab.org

Do you have itchy fingers to run your models on this humongous dataset? We totally get it! Here you can find how to download the data using our API so you can fire up those computing clusters: https://int-brain-lab.github.io/iblenv/notebooks_external/data_release_brainwidemap.html

This was a collective effort of our stellar team, who all put in so much work to make this monumental achievement possible. Our collaboration consists of 22 PIs, 37 researchers, and 11 staff members who all worked tirelessly to bring these data to you, the community 👏🍾

Happy #MonDog!!
#DogsOfMastodon

Ari is ready to play!