kwitschas @kwitschas@social.cleverlibre.org

Not going to be on social media for the next couple of days. So Merry Christmas to all my friends. Happy day seven of Chanakah and Happy Holidays to those who are celebrating other traditions at this time of the year. 🎄🎅🖖🕌💒🕍✝️☦️🕉☪️🕎✡️

🇬🇧🇬🇧:
Merry Christmas!

🇫🇷🇫🇷:
Joyeux Noël!

🇪🇸🇪🇸:
¡Felix Navidad!

🇵🇱🇵🇱:
Wesołych Świąt!

🇩🇪🇩🇪:
also eigentlich☝️ist heute ja noch gar nicht Weihnachten, sondern Heiligabend🧐

The German word "Bescherung" describes the handing out of Christmas gifts. But it's also used for a mishap or mess.

So, the sentence "Da haben wir die Bescherung" can mean
- "That's when we hand out the gifts"
or
- "There you are, what a mess!"

And the sentence "Das ist ja eine schöne Bescherung!" can mean
- "That is a beautiful Christmas celebration!"
or
- "What an incredible mess!"

For Xmas, I wish you all the former, not the latter, enjoy your Bescherung - and our language!

I’m hiring a post-doc to work on modeling mechanics in bioengineered cells/tissues using particle dynamics @unipv@twitter.com near Milan, Italy. Strong coding skills and a background in computational biology, physics, mathematics or software engineering required. DM me for info.

The @snsf_ch's Data Team is looking for a Data Scientist. If you're interested in supporting evidence-based science policy decisions, here is the link to apply: https://recruitingapp-2829.umantis.com/Vacancies/728/Description/2?lang=eng #RStats #research #Jobs #data #datascientist

🎺 #postdoc #academicjob #SHARE

A really exciting position; a computational social/ communication scientist; for a postdoc with freedom to (co)design and build infrastructure for online data collection. Substantively focused on #news consumption and democratic outcomes.

🌆 : Amsterdam
🎓: @uva_amsterdam
👥 : ASCoR and @algosoc

Join us 🎯

🗓️ Deadline February 1

@communicationscholars @politicalscience @PolComm @academicchatter

Bonus points for #mastodon applicants 😉

https://vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/Postdoc-Computational-Communication-Science/760852202/

The theme for my one off #followfriday party will be “Geeks at Christmas”
Get your memes and gifs ready
Friday 23 December at 14:00 ET.

"Conscious machines may never be possible". My short piece/prediction for #WiredWorld https://www.wired.co.uk/article/intelligence-consciousness-science

Asked this last month (+ got lots of great answers), but now I have lots more followers :-)

Please suggest a cool paper/preprint in your field in the last year.

For a course I teach, I am collecting papers: cell/dev bio, microbio, neuro, maths/stats/CS/chem/phys applied to biology.

Students use a paper as the basis for a "research grant application" that they will write. So papers that are cool but also open doors to future study are ideal. Do you know one? It can be your own, I don't mind!

Only 4 days till Christmas and I haven’t gotten Jesus anything.

That weird paper using T instead of error bar is now retracted.
https://www.hindawi.com/journals/amse/2022/9758123/
But it's drawn attention to the rest of the special issue....
It's a happy hunting ground for those interested in papermill outputs

We have a 4-year postdoc position in #NLProc available in the Language Technology Group at the University of Oslo – come join us!

Full announcement here: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/237075/postdoctoral-research-fellow-in-language-technology

The department of computer science of the Université du Québec à Montréal (https://info.uqam.ca) seeks highly qualified candidates for one tenure
track position in Parallel, Concurrent, Distributed and High Performance Computing. The official announcement is here: (https://www.rhu.uqam.ca/AffichageProfs/21007008.pdf).

Hello Mastodon, just moved over from twitter. Hopefully this will be a good place to find papers now! Here’s my cat Roy learning immunology to get started #introduction

Feeling stressed?

Walk. Find a rock to put in your pocket. Get your hands dirty in a field or with a potted plant. Stop for birdsong. Sweat.

I find even short breaks outside incredibly restorative. Not only do I think sharper when I’m back, but I also find it easier to filter out garbage on my computer and devices.

🚨#JOB OPENING 🚨

Hey #science people! We are recruiting for a new faculty position at the Center for #Virology and #Vaccine Research at #Harvard and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. It’s for an Assistant or Associate Professor position.

Diverse perspectives are a must so PLEASE FORWARD to your women and underrepresented (#URM) colleagues in particular.

https://jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/619754/assistantassociate-professor

New users: if your home feed is boring/patchy/haphazard, it's because you're not following enough!

Guidelines for getting the most out of #mastodon:

- Follow EVERYONE who has any overlapping interests. You can always unfollow later, but they will boost and give your timeline broader reach. It gets good in the hundreds

- Follow hashtags of interest

- Block hashtags that you don't want (settings > filters) to curate your feed

- Boost lots to improve everyone's feed

#TwitterMigration

Kitties spent #Caturday doing what they do every weekend: trying to take over the world through vigorous napping. #CatsOfMastodon

Is #MicroscopyMonday a thing? This image shows a single #neuron where actin has been tagged (orange), with all neurons of the culture labeled for microtubules in the cell body and dendrites (map2, blue) and for actin (gray).

From the British Neuroscience Association (BNA):
"Nominations are now open where you can help highlight outstanding examples of Credibility in Neuroscience.

There's a cash prize for the student category, while all winners receive passes to our 2023 International Festival of Neuroscience."
https://bnacredibility.org.uk/prizes

#Neuroscience #ResearchAwards #BritishNeuroscienceAssociation #Reproducibility #OpenScience #ReportingGuidelines #RegisteredReports #ResearchCulture #ResearchMethods #Mentoring