kwitschas @kwitschas@social.cleverlibre.org

The space fiction calendar: 2022/2025
New update with a completely crazy month of March 2023.
==> http://ow.ly/ox8W50M03wt
#scifi #spacefiction

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ChatGPT without a doubt is not a pure language model. It is a hybrid system that coordinates between an intuitive language model and many interpreters and search engines. I've written about the viability of this kind of architecture here: https://medium.com/intuitionmachine/the-coordination-of-intuition-and-rational-thought-bb4b9e3e1ac8

Using light to manipulate neuron excitability https://news.mit.edu/2022/neuron-excitability-optogenetics-1207 "A new #optogenetics-based tool allows researchers to control how neurons respond to electrical input"; #BCI #neuroscience

#ChatGPT has created a new wave of amateur futurists who've made some bold and nonsensical predictions based on nothing more than their being surprised at the output. When you show people where it fails spectacularly, they seem to shrug it off as though a couple more tweaks and everything will be fine. The cost of failure is low for the ChatGPT demo but in the real world, these failures can have devastating consequences. Another great article by @garymarcus raising the alarm. https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/ais-jurassic-park-moment

Interested in a PhD in AI, robotics or neuromorphic computing?
https://sussex.ac.uk/study/fees-funding/phd-funding/view/1403-Leverhulme-Doctoral-Scholarship-Programme:-be.AI---biomimetic-embodied-Artificial-Intelligence
Apply to the be.AI Leverhulme Doctoral Training Centre in biomimetic embodied AI http://sussex.ac.uk/ccnr/be_ai Application deadline 23 Feb '23

We are recruiting our last cohort of 6 PhD students for a September 2023 entry. Join a fantastic team featuring
@InsectNav @ProfAndyP
and me as directors, supervisors from @SNAC_Sussex @SussexEASy
and wider @EngInfSussex, at the beautiful Falmer Campus of
@SussexUni

Work with me, an amazing team at #ASM, and leading researchers and editors at #mBio, #mSphere and mSystems in making these #OpenAccess journals indispensable to everyone interested in the microbial sciences. US-based, remote work possible.

Please share broadly.

#microbiology #MicrobiologyJobs #openscience #sciencepublishing

https://recruiting.ultipro.com/AME1097AMESO/JobBoard/20f80d94-2e8b-41f1-81bd-2808157c95e1/OpportunityDetail?opportunityId=a230dbb9-d33f-4166-b20a-34e1d60e3d92

In synthetic biology classes, I ask students what biological function they want to create, and one popular answer is "photosynthesis in mammals".

Now, it's achieved! The authors transplanted membrane-coated thylakoids into chondrocytes and mice! Congrats!

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05499-y

We want to teach scientific rigor at scale. Major NIH funded initiative. We will teach a small curriculum. And ridiculously overengineer all materials (and test, teach, optimize etc). For that we look for manager/admin: https://t.co/tw3kyq5ONf and curriculum developer https://t.co/c0pebGMNzv roles. Please lmk if any of you have a lead

Dear Mastadon hivemind:

The http://www.BiodiversityStripes.info website is highlighting biodiversity loss, globally and regionally using a similar concept to the climate stripes.

We are looking for other sources of biodiversity data which can be turned into stripes to highlight this critical issue.

Any leads for long & coherent time series welcome!

#BiodiversityStripes #COP15

We have 4(!) permanent, full-time lecturer posts available here at Royal Holloway

https://jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx?ref=1122-517

Open to all fields of psych & neuro -

We're a fast-growing, fun and friendly department that consistently punches above its weight! Start your lab with us :)

Open to DMs for informal chats

In episode 42, we interviewed science integrity consultant Dr Elisabeth Bik (@MicrobiomDigest ) on Fraud in Scientific Publications.

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

Listen & Enjoy 😊
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5Wo8cdlEap9jq8s4MvBhiK?si=7edaeec4af9c4f6d

@jocelyn_etienne I'm coming to a point in my life where I empathize so much with the effects of all the systemic and bureaucratic barriers that #womenInSTEM like Perey surmounted, that reading their stories makes me feel more fatigued than inspired.
But for the younger at heart, here is another accessible description of her achievements. Marguerite Perey, or how lab techs are also scientists & we must dismantle classist as well as racist and sexist barriers.
https://blog.sciencemuseum.org.uk/marguerite-perey-and-francium/

4 lectureships in #neuroscience in Bristol, UK. (2 junior, 2 senior).

Offers £39,745 - £68,823. (Not a typo, unfortunately.)

Not wanting to single out Bristol here, note all UK universities offer these ridiculously low salaries. The expectation, I can only guess, is that your partner with a higher salary subsidises the university via the institution of marriage, or you are independently wealthy, or choose not to have a family.

https://www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/details/?jobId=297479

tho always weird to give a seminar to myself, it's done! have a listen here if you like: https://youtu.be/i0GAhB3a2F8
the 2nd half is *unpublished* data on #tissue #CD4 #Tcells during #influenza and how they fit into a network of #CD8 #Bcells, #IgA & #NKcells.

I've received feedback from someone working on tumors that some of it brings new perspective on his data. In return I learned some new stuff about bladder cancer.

This open exchange of ideas is why I'm a scientist.

"A haven for creatives" - did I tell you we're looking for postdocs? Ask me at #CellBio2022!
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/02/t-magazine/wanderlust-marseille-france.html

Vascular #SmoothMuscleCell dysfunction in #Neurodegeneration

Vasculo-neuronal-inflammatory triad

Hypercontractile VSMC
⏬Clearance receptors for Aβ
Autoimmune-related SMC degeneration in #AlzheimersDisease

Dr. Genevieve Hayes lab @FrontNeurosci 2022
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnins.2022.1010164/full