kwitschas @kwitschas@social.cleverlibre.org

Good Morning
Happy Sunday 🖖

New #Art! Two new #neuroscience inspired
#Watercolors
@Curator #painting
https://www.etsy.com/shop/artologica/?etsrc=sdt&section_id=7361651

You need to read this gorgeously written article about meltwater and accelerating ice loss in #Greenland.

Glaciologist Alun Hubbard writes about how meltwater rivers are fracking the ice sheet and deteriorating its internal structure as water pours through. It's both new research and a broad look at the forces speeding up Greenland's ice loss.

The #photos and #video from inside the Greenland ice sheet are pretty mind-blowing.

https://theconversation.com/meltwater-is-hydro-fracking-greenlands-ice-sheet-through-millions-of-hairline-cracks-destabilizing-its-internal-structure-207468

#climatechange #Arctic #science

Reading about people trying to post to #Twitter, #BlueSky & #Threads along with #Mastodon — and that doesn't sound like fun at all.

I'm so glad I settled on Mastodon as my only social media platform back last December — and have seen no need to revise that strategy. I've had time to focus on Mastodon & build a nice community of familiar folks and ones new to me. I have what I want: a chronological timeline filled with a variety of interesting, engaging stuff — provided by people who support and encourage each other.

“You, boy, what social media website am I posting from?”

Useful if academics want to encourage their universities to join Fedi:

https://netzpolitik.org/2023/a-call-to-action-universities-of-the-world-into-the-fediverse/

New #painting: #watercolor cells in blues and greens #sciart @Curator https://etsy.me/3K9i6wD

📢New #SciArt profile

Kimberley Snowden has a background in plant molecular and developmental biology, and makes science-inspired polymer clay artwork ☘🌳🌿

Have a look at the mesmerising polymer clay art and find out more about Kim:
https://thenode.biologists.com/sciart-profile-kimberley-snowden/

Come and work in Montpellier in a super team.

"Structural variants in the adaptation of plants to climate change"

Tenure track position + startup package of 300k

https://ecoevo.social/@evoldir@botsin.space/110665693604975539

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Dear Twitter people. Lots of us were once Twitter people too. This place will not spoon-feed you. Passive participation doesn’t work here. This is a very active and buzzing place, but unless you FOLLOW people and INTERACT, it will pass you by.

Follow people. Lots of them. You can always remove them later. But really, follow early, follow often.

In ~2014, my colleague & I argued that social media (esp. Twitter) had become part of the critical infrastructure of disaster response. People were turning to Twitter during crises to share information about impacts and resources. Disaster responders were using the data shared there for situational awareness, and were communicating in real-time with their constituents. Today’s events underscore just how dangerous it is for society to come to rely on private platforms as critical infrastructure.

Throwing my favourite tip for new user into the soup here.

Follow lots of people. but also, *follow hastags*, one of the quickest ways to get your feed lively with activity you're interested.

Click on the hashtag (or search for it), and then click on the Follow button (the person with plus icon) at the top.

#hashtags #feditips #TwitterMigration

A big welcome to everyone new to #Mastodon! 👋

You’re going to like it here.

Unlike #Twitter, this place isn’t set up as a race for RTs & likes & feels more like an ongoing conversation. Engagement is high & on the whole, there’s less outrage & more thoughtful content. I’ve been enjoying the chance to get to meet interesting new folks.

Tip: Start with an #introduction & share your interests. @feditips is a helpful follow to get oriented too.

LOL this is not how you deal with "data scraping," this is how you deal with a catastrophic loss of system capacity.

You limit data scraping by blocking things a human user couldn't do, like access a thousand posts a minute. This is aimed directly at reducing normal activity across the whole system.

Please stop saying twitters troubles are about not paying the Google Cloud bill. They worked that.out earlier this week and supposedly paid. It's not that

@mmasnick Besides, the real answer is likely even *more* stupid than "didn't pay Google bill."

For example, Twitter found a way to DDoS itself, causing an infinite loop of requests prompted by their own blocking. https://waxy.org/2023/07/twitter-bug-causes-self-ddos-possibly-causing-elon-musks-emergency-blocks-and-rate-limits-its-amateur-hour/

We are looking for a postdoc to to help us reveal how neural activity is structured in brainwide patterns to support behavior in mice. The postdoc will study the activity of large populations of neurons in the mouse brain using combined techniques such as #Neuropixels recordings and optogenetics, or rabies tracing and two-photon microscopy. It's an exciting opportunity for research at the interface of computational and experimental #neuroscience. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/cortexlab/positions. Deadline is 29 July.

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Progress on understanding #endometriosis

"In a cohort of women, 64% of patients with endometriosis but <10% of controls were found to have Fusobacterium infiltration in the endometrium. Immunohistochemical and biochemical analyses revealed that activated transforming growth factor–β (TGF-β) signaling resulting from Fusobacterium infection of endometrial cells led to the transition from quiescent fibroblasts to transgelin (TAGLN)–positive myofibroblasts, which gained the ability to proliferate, adhere, and migrate in vitro."
#HostPathogen

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scitranslmed.add1531