kwitschas @kwitschas@social.cleverlibre.org

"Christof Koch wagered David Chalmers 25 years ago that researchers would learn how the brain achieves consciousness by now. But the quest continues." https://nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02120-8 #Neuroscience #Philosophy #Science @philosophy @science

#ECRs often lack the opportunities to gain #PeerReview skills.
We are here to help!
Take advantage of an opportunity to learn about #OpenPeerReview and help other researchers by giving them helpful feedback on their manuscripts!
Join Crowd Preprint Review groups! 👇

If you are interested in molecular and cellular neurobiology, cancer biology, computational neuroscience, metabolism, or meta-research, check out the link for the details on getting involved!
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScOR3oM_9OOhRKxjQvupN8YLtaGImOfKskkllrveTWIqrJUVg/viewform

As a cell changes size during the cell cycle, why does its density remain constant? https://elifesciences.org/articles/89415?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic_insights

Must read for anybody interested in data forensics. Excel spreadsheets (unsurprisingly) contain a mass of historical information. If the data were tampered with in the same file, there may well be a trace.

I suspect a few of these sorts of analysis will be showing up on PubPeer soon.

https://datacolada.org/109

If you've helped setup the in vivo recording facility of a lab, trained students on how to do surgeries, and advised them on how to do the analysis, what would your expectations be in terms of #CreditAssignment on the first in vivo paper from the lab?

Please respond and boost this, and I'd be grateful if you could share your thoughts on the option you choose 🥺​🙏​

#neuroscience @academicchatter @neuroscience

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Great job for someone who wants to bring down Elsevier

"Do you believe we can break out of the culture of publish-or-perish, and find new and fair ways to evaluate the contributions researchers make to society?

We are seeking a motivated, proactive and organised individual to develop and deliver a research outputs analytics service across the university."

Full time, permanent
£41-50k
Imperial College London Library

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/description/ACA00173/research-outputs-analyst

#OpenScience #REF2028 #ScholComms

Join us next week 🗓️ 20/06/2023 15:00 -17:15 BST 🗓️ our 44th BSCB GenSoc UK CIlia Network e-symposium- free and open to all!

With 1260 folks already registered, this is the place to be but if you are on my list already, don't sweat it💦 , sign up once for the series here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bscb-gensoc-uk-cilia-network-e-symposia-series-tickets-122092125835

Hiring a postdoc to study host-microbe interactions! See flyer and shropshirelab.com for details, and share with anyone that may be interested!

@jobsecoevo #ScienceJobs #PostdocJob #EcoEvo #CellBiology #Genetics #Symbiosis #Bacteria #Insects #Wolbachia #Drosophila

UK Universities Crisis:

🔹 Marking boycott continues across the country

🔹 Cambridge and Queen's University Belfast call on universities' national body to return to negotiations

🔹 Leeds confirms 1,800 staff will commence indefinite strike

🔹 Brighton announces > 100 redundancies

https://www.ucu.org.uk/news

#academicchatter
#news

The feasibility of artificial consciousness through the lens of neuroscience https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2306/2306.00915.pdf

Does Science Need History? Lorraine Daston in conversation with Samuel Loncar, editor of Marginala - an interesting wide-ranging discussion about science, culture, education, publishing, disciplines, ‘truth’ and more.

Link to the pdf that contains both parts of the published discussion: https://themarginaliareview.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Daston_Loncar_Marginalia.pdf

#histsci #histSTM #HistoryOfScience #philsci #hps #sts #science #history

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Remember those German academics who developed a fraud detector that actually did nothing but look at whether the authors used institutional email addresses, had international collaborators, and were affiliated with a hospital?

And then they concluded, based on this "detector", that a high fraction of the papers out of Asia and the Global South are fraudulent?

And then they got a glowing writeup in Science?

(If you missed it: https://fediscience.org/@ct_bergstrom/110357259338364341)

Turns out there's data on all this.

"After screening some 5000 papers, he estimates up to 34% of neuroscience papers published in 2020 were likely made up or plagiarized; in medicine, the figure was 24%." https://science.org/content/article/fake-scientific-papers-are-alarmingly-common #Science #Medicine #Research #NeuroScience #Academia

Postdoc position - Lipid Network Reconstruction & Computational Modeling

Osnabrück University

The Holthuis Lab at Osnabrück University is looking for a Postdoc to work on LIPID NETWORK RECONSTRUCTION & COMPUTATIONAL MODELING FOR IMDs

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/osnabruck-university-27778-postdoc-position-lipid-network-r...
https://jobrxiv.org/job/osnabruck-university-27778-postdoc-position-lipid-network-reconstruction-computational-modeling/?feed_id=46620

Master or PhD positions

University of Ottawa

Master and PhD in #Canada fully funded positions in #bioinformatics

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/university-of-ottawa-27778-master-or-phd-positions/?feed_id=46627

#ScienceJobs #hiring #research #bioinformatics #machine learning
Ottawa #Canada #PhDStudent #ResearchAssistant
https://jobrxiv.org/job/university-of-ottawa-27778-master-or-phd-positions/?feed_id=46627

58th Inner Ear Biology Workshop & Summit
IEB 2023 London! 2-5 September 2023 ABSTRACT DEADLINE is midnight 31st MAY – under 1 week left!! http://ieb2023.uk/

New paper!
Cytoelectric Coupling: Electric fields sculpt neural activity and “tune” the brain’s infrastructure.

Brain waves carry info and alter the brain on the molecular level. This tunes the cytoskeleton, optimizing network function.

Work by Dimitris Pinotsis.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pneurobio.2023.102465