Neurofrontiers @neurofrontiers@social.cleverlibre.org

So here's the thing. You can only violate people's legal rights and your own word so far before they lawyer up and come after you.

I really do hope Musk changes his mind and does the right thing - the employees deserve that. But it'll be fun as hell if he doesn't.

Hello again, all you wuffly people, and happy #ThrowbackThursday

I hope your week has been going great. The weekend is so close now!

Since it's December now, my throwback picture was Dad's attempt last year to get a photo for the family Christmas card. You can tell from my face I'm not amused.

Have a great rest-of-your-day, frens. See you tomorrow ❤️ 🐶

#Dog #Dogs #DogsOfMastodon #BorderCollie #AustralianKelpie #Christmas #SantaPaws #DadWillPayForThis

Is there no end to these speculative studies?

"Brains of post-pandemic teens show signs of faster ageing, study finds"

'Ageing' here could as easily be read as 'maturing', perhaps what you'd expect in teens who live through societal challenges.

Brain imaging studies are often ambiguous, underpowered & peculiar to a specific time/place. This study, focusing on a target group of 64 Californian 16-year-olds, tells us very little of substance.

#Psychology #covid #brain

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/dec/01/brains-of-post-pandemic-teens-show-signs-of-faster-ageing-study-finds

The Canine Brains Project has finally joined Mastodon! Here's our #introduction! 🐶 🧠 🎓

We are scientists from Harvard's Hecht Lab who are studying dog #neuroscience and #behavior. We are interested in how #genes, #neuroanatomy, #dogtraining, and lifetime experiences shape dogs' minds. We also study how dog brains and behaviors #evolve.

#dog #dogsofmastodon #evolution #EvolutionaryBiology #evolutionaryneuroscience #animalbehavior #ethology #MRI #neuroimaging #workingdogs

So this paper came out last month claiming to find evidence of #quantum entanglement in the BRAIN! Of course it' s making a big splash in the popular press. My gut reaction is to be highly skeptical. Does anyone know enough #MRI #physics to judge what's going on?
#neuroscience
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2399-6528/ac94be

@ekmiller

As I replied on Twitter (wickedly since I believe that we all should leave it) after a postdoc with Larry Weiskrantz I applied for jobs at Sheffield University and Sussex University in the UK and failed to get them. Then I got a permanent job at Oxford.

3,013 neurons, half a million synapses: the complete #connectome of the whole #Drosophila larval brain!

Winding, Pedigo et al. 2022. "The connectome of an insect brain" https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.11.28.516756v1

We’ve mapped and analysed its circuit architecture, from sensory neurons to brain output neurons, as reconstructed from volume electron microscopy, and here is what we found. 1/

#neuroscience #connectomics #vEM #volumeEM

Remember to say No to 90% of the things someone asks you to do. To things where "help is needed". To things that you know you could rock.

You have neither the time nor the energy to do it all.

Is what I said to myself today, too.

Just published
@ScienceMagazine

A universal influenza mRNA vaccine effective against all 20 lineages of influenza A and B, protective in experimental models
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abm0271

If you're like me, then you were really happy to learn about Mastodon's enthusiastic support for image descriptions, and you were really eager to join in.

Then you went to actually write something and realized you have no idea how to present visual information in a way that is helpful/enjoyable to those who are #VisuallyImpaired or #Blind.

I found this guide really informative: https://uxdesign.cc/how-to-write-an-image-description-2f30d3bf5546

Of course, I'd also love to hear any additional tips y'all might have!

#Accessibility

New! Now published in the latest issue of 'Brain' >> our article on why it is dangerously wrong to attribute postural tachyardia syndrome (POTS) to psychogenic processes.

Or in plain language:

This symptom of #MECFS and #LongCovid reflects central neurological dysfunction...it is not "all in the mind".

#Psychology #medicine #pwME

https://academic.oup.com/brain/article/145/11/e111/6713530

Understanding #Mastodon gets easier once you get the basic idea that federation between servers can be understood as homeomorphisms across hyperplanes between the Riemannian manifolds of toots, whereas the servers represent countable finite sets of discrete entities.

For environmental reasons, I will not be leaving coal in anyone's stocking this year.

Those on the naughty list will instead get a 1 month subscription to #Twitter Blue.

Right now everyone is still engaged in making connections and introductions, but as @PessoaBrain mentioned, we should think about ways to stimulate good #neuroscience conversations (especially sans timeline algorithm).

I don't think there is any magic formula, so I'd encourage everyone to just post what fascinates them: stray thoughts, quotes from papers and books, diagrams, contentious topics, and perhaps my favorite: 'dumb' questions. 🤓

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did you know it’s free to say, “I don’t know enough to weigh in” and skateboard away like bart simpson