kwitschas @kwitschas@social.cleverlibre.org

Postdoc position at EPFL on understanding functional alteration in retinas of patients with retinitis pigmentosa https://emploi.ophtalmique.ch/?page=advertisement_display&id=1163

As an experimentalist, I'm tired of being told that my role is to "validate models". No, it isn't. It's my job to find out what nature is actually up to, which is almost always more nuanced, surprising and intricate than the modellers thought, and for them to see if they can accurately simulate the consequences computationally.

The game here is to understand nature, not to be convenient.

#SmallRant #science

We are looking for a new colleague to lead the microbiology & immunology section of @PLOSBiology!!

Do you have micro/immuno expertise (including virology of course) & a passion for science away from the bench? This could be for you

Get in touch w/ any Qs!

Associate or Senior level

Applications will be assessed upon receipt

Boosts greatly appreciated!

#editing #careersinscience #microbiology #virology #immmunology

https://us232.dayforcehcm.com/CandidatePortal/en-US/plos/Posting/View/288

Chris Stefan at #LMCB #UCL is looking for a postdoc to study membrane organisation in hepatocyte and epithelial cell architecture. #CellBiology

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/search-ucl-jobs/details?jobId=14681&jobTitle=Postdoctoral+Research+Fellow

For #FluorescenceFriday, here's an SMLM kaleidoscope!
#notthecover from
our recent article https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crmeth.2023.100571

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I didn’t start photography until I was in my late thirties. It’s cool to discover interesting hobbies at this stage in my life when I’ve lived long enough to be able to appreciate them.

I have a bunch of hummingbird photos but this one is special because of the lighting and the neatly contrasting backdrop, which is the hanging fronds from a fan palm.

Wow, this is a super good move for Open and Team Science - Utrecht University abolishes distinction between support and academic staff

https://www.uu.nl/en/news/from-academic-staff-wp-and-support-staff-obp-to-colleagues

✨ jobs ✨ - we are looking to hire for five new roles in our department - please help us share with those who might be interested! 💌

Lecturer in Digital Media and Culture Education
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/073449-lecturer-in-digital-media-and-culture-education-aep

Lecturer in Social and Cultural AI
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/073450-lecturer-in-social-and-cultural-ai-aep

Lecturer in Lecturer in Digital Media
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/073465-lecturer-in-lecturer-in-digital-media-education-and-research

Lecturer in Cultural Computation Education
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/073467-lecturer-in-cultural-computation-education-aep

Lecturer in Digital Economy and Innovation Education
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/073468-lecturer-in-digital-economy-and-innovation-education-aep

#digitalmedia #digitalculture #digitalhumanities #ai #softwarestudies #culturalstudies #algorithmstudies #newmedia #platformstudies #internetstudies #commodon #sts #mediastudies #jobs

If you are drafting figures for a scientific paper or presentation, remember that https://scidraw.io/ exists: a repository of free SVG cartoons for science.

#SciDraw is supported by the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre.

All content on SciDraw is shared under creative commons license (CC-BY) unless stated otherwise.

#inkscape #SVG #science

It's an unspoken fact that freely moving lab mice are not really freely moving. We came up with a method to change this. See the preprint: https://biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.08.30.554672v1 (1/3)

Are you interested in cortico-basal ganglia networks and would like to model them, but only have a basic proficiency in Python or computational modeling in general?

Well then, I’m happy to announce the release of CBGTPy, a software package for running biologically-realistic simulations of the cortico-basal ganglia-thalamic (CBGT) networks in a dynamic range of tasks. The latest tool out of our Exploratory Intelligence group at CMU, University of Pittsburgh, and University of the Balearic Islands (Spain).

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.09.05.556301v1

#computationalneuroscience #neuroscience #AI #neuralnetworks

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Faculty, if you know of tenure-track positions that we should be listing, or see an error, please e-mail us at chemjobber@gmail.com

X (ex-Twitter)’s privacy policy is being updated, and there’s a reason it’s prettier

The two attached screenshots are from (the English-language version of) MuskCo’s new privacy policy, which will take effect on 29 September 2023: https://twitter.com/privacy

Because of the way everything’s hidden in folded-up sections, which you can only see one at a time, it’s actually quite hard to read, despite MuskCo’s alleged efforts to make it ‘short and easy to understand’

(The current version is still accessible via the handy ‘Download PDF’ button)

Changes that might make you think twice about continuing to participate in MuskCo’s dystopian social network:

⚠️ In Section 1.1 (first screenshot), information MuskCo may collect from users now includes

• your *biometric* information (‘based on your consent’) – why?

• ‘employment history, educational history, employment preferences, skills and abilities, job search activity and engagement’ – is this the LinkedIn-ification of MuskCo?

⚠️ In Section 2.1 (second screenshot), in order to ‘[o]perate, improve and personalize [their] services’, MuskCo may now use any of your data to train their *machine learning* or (so-called) *artificial intelligence* models

I’m not sure how all this will play out in Europe, where there are semi-decent data protection laws, but wherever you live, if you’re still a MuskCo customer, now feels like a(nother) great opportunity to get out!

#MuskCo #Twitter #privacy #EmploymentHistory #biometrics #MachineLearning #PatternRecognition #AI

The Cell Biology division at the LMB is recruiting for a new PI. One of the best places in the world to do research. Looks like a truly open search. Great opportunity

https://mrc.tal.net/vx/mobile-0/appcentre-ext/brand-3/candidate/so/pm/4/pl/1/opp/2237-Research-Group-Leader-in-Cell-Biology-Cell-Biology-LMB-2237/en-GB

#CellBiology

All I see now is this giant combinatorial, reentrant integrative architecture

#neuroscience
@cogneurophys

Unprecedented nanometer-scale structures of cristae in >400 individual #mitochondria, by @Hirabayashi_Lab, using a novel deep learning-based analysis of #volumeEM images, (also reveals previously unknown function of OPA1) #PLOSBiology https://plos.io/3OXtPzK

I'm currently developing a new course "Neuroscience for machine learners" that I hope to be able to make publicly available, and I'd love to hear what you think should be in it.

It's aimed at people with a machine learning background to learn a bit about neuroscience. My thinking is that neuroscience and ML have had fruitful links in the past, and may again in the future (although right now they're drifting apart). This course is designed to give students the background they'd need to be able to discover, understand and make use of new opportunities arising from neuroscience (if they do). I'm not trying to tell them only about the bits of neuroscience that we already think are applicable to ML, but to give them enough background to read and understand enough neuroscience to allow them to make new discoveries about what might be applicable to ML. The constraint is that it can't just be an intro to neuro course I think, because I'm not sure how compelling that would be to students with an ML focus. The course is 10 weeks and will have quite a practical focus, with most of the attention on weekly coding based exploratory group work rather than lectures. (Similar to @neuromatch Academy.)

I have thoughts about what should be on this course, but I'd love to know what you all think would be most relevant.

#neuroscience #compneuro #machinelearning #ai

A look into the REM dreams of the animal kingdom

Animals' "active" sleep phases look very much like REM.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/09/a-look-into-the-rem-dreams-of-the-animal-kingdom/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social