kwitschas @kwitschas@social.cleverlibre.org

Great talk by @dbarack on neural manifolds, highly recommend it.

Around min 30 David states that the manifold idea/findings indicates emergence in the sense of being irreducible to individual neurons. Do others think neural manifolds provide interesting evidence of emergence?

If so, along a spectrum of types of emergence, where does it fall?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgP8SipIuHA

@NicoleCRust @DrYohanJohn
@Gualtiero

Please forward to anyone who might be interested: Two (3+y) postdoctoral research fellowships. If you want to work in a multidisciplinary team to study how cells make decisions please get in touch. Ideally you have a background in physics, maths, comp bio, but discipline hoppers also welcome.

https://jobs.unimelb.edu.au/en/job/912480/laureate-research-fellow-in-theoretical-systems-biology

Open positions in Jena, Germany to work on phages

A Postdoctoral fellowship in Viral Ecology: https://twitter.com/BEDutilh/status/1658810066336718850

A PhD student to study Bacteriophage Diversity: https://twitter.com/BEDutilh/status/1658810508022018049

A PhD student to study Microbiome Structure: https://twitter.com/BEDutilh/status/1658810854001745920

THE FREE WILL FALLACY: LIBET'S ERROR
Is there such a thing as free will?
None of the current research provides any evidence for or against.
https://breininactie.com/the-free-will-fallacy/
Have fun,
Peter Moleman
#neuroscience #freewill

Faculty position open at the #MRCLMB in Cambridge, UK:

Group Leader at the Neurobiology division: come join us!

https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/CZP497/research-group-leader-neurobiology-lmb-2136

Delighted by the numbers that have registered to attend our exciting symposium next week! 🙏

But... there are still spaces available... 🥳

Hope you are able to join us in person 🧑‍🏫 or online 💻from anywhere around the 🌎🌍🌏

Details 👉 https://tinyurl.com/3b48py95 #IDMastodon #MedMastodon #Science #Immunology #InfectiousDiseases #academia #symposium #academicchatter #virology #microbiology #antibiotics

05/2023 Issue ➡️ https://bit.ly/3VPM25i
text mining to assemble molecular mechanisms, modular organisation of human #proteome, transcriptional regulation of #metabolism...
Cover (DrawImpacts): IFN-β activation of inflammatory genes from Alex Hoffmann's lab, UCLA
#immunology #signalling #systemsbiology

Science: Fake scientific papers are alarmingly common https://www.science.org/content/article/fake-scientific-papers-are-alarmingly-common "up to 34% of #neuroscience papers published in 2020 were likely made up or plagiarized; in #medicine, the figure was 24%"

#Postdoc position at Aarhus University, Denmark: Electrophysiological measurements for solar cell #retinal #implants https://health.au.dk/en/about-health/vacant-positions/job/postdoc-in-electrophysiological-measurements-for-solar-cell-retinal-implants-2

Are you into 👀 visual processing? Then check out this brand new study on the function of tecto-thalamic inputs to higher areas in visual cortex 🧠 of 🐁. Hot off the press from the Scanziani lab. It was great fun to contribute to this project! Congratulations to the entire team! 👏🎉
https://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273(23)00307-0

@NicoleCRust @WorldImagining @kinleyid

Rapid list of some cool young pioneers that I follow/interact in this site & from different backgrounds/focus.
+All with huge career paths ahead !

@Natalie
• #neuroscenius #neurodon migration help

@PhiloNeuroScie
• transcriptomics + #fmri qa

@aazad
• #neuropods commentary

@neuronakaya
• mental health + #neuroasia community advocate

@ilennaj
• single neuron/dendrite comp modeling

@lili
• https://synapse.cafe/about

@vineettiruvadi
• #neurodon list

Dobromir Rahnev Measuring metacognition: A comprehensive assessment of current methods https://psyarxiv.com/waz9h

Just created a new universe where everything is reversed. The cows meow, the birds bark, and humans are actually nice to each other. Let's see how that plays out.

The Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing in Cologne is recruiting a junior PI
#ScienceJobs

https://recruitingapp-2695.de.umantis.com/Vacancies/447/Description/1

Finally, a solution to the unfairness of authorship ordering in scientific papers! 😂

"Every Author as First Author"

https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.01393

STM is looking for an editor with experience in cardiovascular/vascular research.

'The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and Science Translational Medicine are seeking a talented scientist, physician scientist or clinician interested in biomedical/translational research to join the Science Translational Medicine editorial team, preferably in our Washington, DC, USA or Cambridge, UK offices.'
#ScienceJobs #ScienceCommunication

https://www.aaas.org/careers/senior-editor

@cyrilpedia @NicoleCRust I totally agree with this as an issue. In general, there is a worrying trend that today's academic grants want to achieve *all* the things: not just cool research projects, but more/better communication &outreach, be translational, pursue open science, achieve gender equality... All of these goals are worthwhile, but expecting every scientist/project to achieve everything at once is misguided. Having targeted programs addressing these could be much more impactful.

Have you seen our new program website? 👉🏽 https://algosoc.org

Check it out. Including new #phd and #postdoc positions

#academicchatter #commodon #ai #law #justice #health #publicvalues @academicchatter @computationalsocialscience @politicalscience @communicationscholars @ICA_HMC @ECPR_PolCom @poli_com

FTC guidance on generative AI:

◼ Consumer deception regulation applies to new technologies like AI chatbots
◼ Don't fire your AI ethics or trust and safety teams
◼ Conduct risk assessments, mitigations, and study actual use of tools
◼ Watch Ex Machina

https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/blog/2023/05/luring-test-ai-engineering-consumer-trust

Next: "Dr. Hinton said he has quit his job at Google...so he can freely speak out about the risks of A.I."
Pay attention to this.
It seems: The most qualified researchers in the world are not able to say what the future might hold for AI because they are gagged, implicitly/culturally if not directly censored, by short-term profit at the hands of Sundar.
If Google is doing this, it's pretty dismal for humanity. Sundar gets rich now, but everyone else *may* experience serious issues long-term.