kwitschas @kwitschas@social.cleverlibre.org

Hello to all of my lovely new followers 👋 I've been trying to make #AcademicTwitter work (I miss the good old days, so many great communities and learnings), but it's changed too much.

I'm an experimental social psychologist, mainly studying addictive behaviours & social cognition, and my true love is #openresearch 💜

I'm aiming to be posting more on here, & it feels good to be back!

Hello! A new intro for a new instance.

I lead a research group trying to figure out axonal transport and neurodegeneration. A big emphasis on the microtubules and their motors, but really the transport of anything that doesn't have a membrane around it. For this we use a lot of single molecule methods and live cell imaging. I also post about research culture.

#introduction #kinesin #dynein #microtubules #neurodegeneration #AxonalTransport #neurobiology #SingleMolecule #CellBiology

Okay, this question came to mind earlier today while discussing with someone who feels there is a relative lack of #philosophy activity on #Mastodon.

It's a very simple question:

Who are the largest *active* philosophy accounts on Mastodon?

Please boost so we get as wide a range of responses as possible.

@philosophy

How does the brain do symbols: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301008223001120

The Biology Dept at the University of Iowa has two tenure-track assistant professor searches this year - one in cell biology (#74891) and one in neuroscience (#74892).

https://jobs.uiowa.edu/content/faculty/

Hey all, along with our other open positions, our publishing team at Arcadia Science is hiring for the following positions. Please share if you know anyone who would be a good fit!
- Data Viz Designer
- Scientific Editor
- Science Illustrator
https://jobs.lever.co/arcadiascience

Do you use #Zotero to manage your academic reading?

Are you interested in participating in a crowdsourced paper recommendation service?

ZoteroRecommender is a new service that recommends papers based on what other participants are reading.

If you'd like to learn more or are interested in participating, visit the link below:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSduCVXVJl8qjjse066rc8xT0UqVjWwxPSHHnaC1HD8pNMJJzQ/viewform?usp=sf_link

#Ecology #Evolution #EvolutionaryBiology #Microbiology #Academia #AcademicMastodon #AcademicChatter

With Twitter rebranding itself out of existence, millions of websites will have to update their "follow" and "share" buttons.

A perfect opportunity to finally add Mastodon or Fediverse buttons.

@manisha @Neurograce @neuroscience @cogsci @cogneurophys @PessoaBrain

@cian comment in thread reminded me:

@kordinglab recent talks on how #computationalneuroscience #ml methods, while spread across labs & papers, still face #neurotheory proven grounds:

Does the #brain do #gradientDescent ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5hATeCZQnU

#causality for #neuroscience & beyond
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUD69JshQTk

#philosophyofneuroscience
#systemsneuroscience
#mindbrain

ps: IMHO #ml yea: best when for discovery, not causality

TAFKAT

The app formerly known as #Twitter

Usage: “Good grief! You are not still on TAFKAT are you?”

#X #Prince #Rebrand #Fediverse #JoinMastodonDay

Pitt neuroscientist at forefront of artificial vision https://inside.upmc.com/pitt-neuroscientist-at-forefront-of-artificial-vision/ about Xing Chen, visual prostheses; #BCI #NeuroTech #neuroscience

Breaking: The porn industry complains that Twitter changing its name to X sullies the industry’s brand.

Apparently the most sound psychological advice you'll get this weekend is to not watch "Oppenheimer" and "Barbie" on the same day. Seems like that would be self-explanatory, but just in case. the various Barbenheimer memes are cool, though.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/jul/22/barbie-oppenheimer-double-feature

#Barbenheimer

I made a thing! Every Scottish castle that's on Wikipedia mapped.

https://ScottishCastles.xyz

I'm neither a coder nor a web developer so this was quite a challenging project for me, but I learned a lot and it was fun.

Just a warning, the map's not great on a mobile because some of the pop-ups are quite large.

#scotland #castle #python #cartography #gis #webdev

First year of grad school versus the seventh year as an Associate Prof

@PLOS is launching a new Complex Systems journal!

https://plos.org/complex-systems-research-journal/

@wonderofscience This is some of my wonderful sunsets that I have seen in Brandon Mississippi (USA). I have many more posted on my Mastodon page should you be interested.

@beechsundowner #sunset #photography #nature #naturephotography #pictures

Hi everyone! I'm a computational chemist and a drug discovery researcher. I'm currently doing an industry postdoc at the UT MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. Looking to connect with fellow compchemists and drug discovery researchers here.