julia kuhl @somedonkey@social.cleverlibre.org

Cricut cutting machines, ubiquitous in schools, libraries and makerspaces, can be used to make embossed or stenciled tactile graphics. A Braille embosser costs at least $1500 — Cricuts cost a fifth of that or less. Today I learned that I can handle the hardware and make great stencils: all that holds a Blind maker back is a set of unlabeled controls in the software. Does anyone know somebody at Cricut I could talk to about making the interface more accessible? Boosters beloved on this one!

#introduction

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I am a neuroscientist interested in the circuit dynamics of adaptive but reliable visually guided behavior.

In our group at the U Bonn, we study

- the stabilization of the neural code in visual perception, learning, and memory

- the pathway-specific processing of sensory and self-motion signals

We emphasize ethologically relevant behavior, longitudinal synapse- and circuit-level optophysiology, and miniaturized and bench-top two-photon microscopy.

www.troselab.de

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To bring some color into November:

The foam grasshopper (Dictyophorus spumans) native to South Africa doesn’t spring: Its bright colours warn predators that it is inedible. They feed on poisonous plants and store those toxins in their bodies. In case a particularly hungry animal should try to eat them, they produce a disgustingly smelly foam behind their head. .

#biodiversity #insects #NaturePhotography #nature
#conservation #SouthAfrica

#introduction: I am a cognitive neuroscientist at the Ernst Strüngmann Institute in Frankfurt, Germany. I like structure and beauty and somehow that draws me to #oscillations in the brain, mainly recorded with #electrophysiology.

when I have time, I like to make animations of concepts related to that: http://mnemai.org/demos

maybe starting on a new platform will allow for more playfulness again, which I enjoyed at lot in the beginning on twitter. 🙂

#CognitiveNeuroscience

Introduction! I am a biologist and neuroscientist. I got a PhD in systems #neuroscience in the Portugues lab imaging the brain of #zebrafish larvae, where described a mesmerising circuit for heading direction in the hindbrain (https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.04.27.489672).

I recently moved to the lab of Giuliano Iurilli at IIT (Rovereto, Italy) to follow up in mice my interest in subcortical circuits for naturalistic behavior.

I'm a fan of #openscience, #Python, and unconventional paradigms. Cortex is overrated!

Allen’s hummingbird

Multi-scale Truchet on a radial form of the elongated triangular tiling :)

#Introduction. I'm a theoretical neuroscientist at U Mainz Medical Center and co-affiliated with U Bonn Medical center. Primary focus on cortical circuits, their network activity, synaptic plasticity and protein dynamics in dendrites. Broadly interested how circuits learn e.g. neuro/AI interface and want to understand how neural networks compute, both algorithmically and intracellularly. Occational posts about societal and academic issues.

Re: my last few boosts — it does feel like people are starting to loosen up around here and have more fun with the platform and its affordances. I strongly approve. Fun and play are key to intrinsic motivation and keep people coming back for more. Dang it, now I’ve gone sincere again

Listen. dear #SfN2022 people. My incredible amazing wife
@analog_ashley wrote and published an amazing book in the pandemic while teaching biology labs over zoom & shipping homemade science experiment kits to students. She never got to celebrate her book launch

I don't know what you get up to at your fancy neuroscience party but this book NEEDS to be celebrated. Check out her panel on monday at 3pm (https://abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/10619/session/266) and consider sharing this great book with your students 🙏🧠

Initial impression of Mastodon…

PS medieval and earlymodern elephant taxonomy: http://uliwestphal.de/elephas-anthropogenus/

#medieval #earlymodern #humanities #mastodon

#introduction: I am obsessed with the biology of #hallucinations and #delusions.

I am a #newPI at the Francis Crick Institute, London. In our lab, the #Psychosis Collective, we study the neural circuits and immune processes underlying unfounded perceptions and thoughts 🐭 👤 . I look forward to great #neuroscience #immunology #neuroimmunology #psychiatry here!

This is me moving to London without ever having been to London before.