Philipp Schlegel @uni_matrix@social.cleverlibre.org

New paper shows (as many papers before) that code that is shared will often not run. This is to be expected - few of us had training in this. But if you share code, go through checklists to prevent the most common mistakes. From the paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-022-01143-6 For some extra suggestions, see my textbook chapter on computational reproducibility: https://lakens.github.io/statistical_inferences/computationalreproducibility.html#some-points-for-improvement-in-computational-reproducibility

Twitter ends the #misinformation policy on #covid. Seems rather irresponsible. Will it contribute to information pollution, questioning of piblic health advice? Will it also be an example of future policies at #Twitter? What will the 🇪🇺 response be to this change?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/11/29/twitter-covid-misinformation-policy/

It's not enough to squat a Mastodon handle that you never use.

It's not enough to automatically repost your Twitter timeline.

You have a chance to be part of something new. Something important. To shape it in the right way.

With all of us.

Breathe life into *this* community and *this* network by posting here, creating here, connecting here.

Be here now.

How did the legs of the octopus squid evolve?
The development of limbs in vertebrates involves old genes inherited from our ancient ancestors, which is also true for the development of limbs in arthropods. Octopuses and squids also developed their legs independently in parallel using the same gene.

https://elifesciences.org/articles/43828

#COSYNE2023 #registration is now open y'all!!!!

https://www.cosyne.org/registration

Please boost!

If you happen to own the cheap but amazing Behringer X-TOUCH mini #MIDI controller, you can use it to navigate in #Fiji 's #N5 #BigDataViewer plugin. The video is an older capture from when I was playing around with the controller but it work's exactly the same. The API works for all #MCU devices but you would have to provide the layout https://github.com/saalfeldlab/n5-viewer/blob/master/src/main/java/org/janelia/saalfeldlab/control/mcu/XTouchMiniMCUControlPanel.java (also, infinity VPots without physical min and max are useful for this). PRs welcome!

To #journalists on #mastodon : Realize that you can embed Toots like you embed Tweets in your stories. Under the 3 dots at the end of a Toot, you will find "Embed" which allows you to embed a toot in your content management system. Another way in which you can now replace #Twitter with Mastodon in your reporting.

<Please Boost so more reporters see this>

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

#introduction To fill in my profile tags, a thread:

#TrakEM2 open source software mostly for #connectomics, and supports manual and automatically montaging and aligning overlapping 2D image tiles (with #SIFT features and rigid or elastic transformation models), and reconstructing by painting volumes or tracing branched neuronal arbors neurons plus synapses to map a #connectome from #vEM (volume electron microscopy).

See: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0038011

Git repository at: https://github.com/trakem2/

Email translations:

“I was under the impression”
Translation: I’m furious

“As per my email”
Translation: I’m furious

“With respect”
Translation: I’m furious

“Whilst I appreciate”
Translation: I’m furious

“As I’m sure you’re aware”
Translation: I’m furious

I'm no Stephen Hawking, but I think what happens is that they cancel each other out.

Hi, we're now on Fediscience! #Introduction

We're an #OpenAccess not-for-profit journal that publishes and reviews #research in the life and biomedical sciences.

We want to improve the way research is practised and shared in part by working with early-career researchers #ECR and supporting #OpenSource technology.

We also just announced our new publishing model that we hope will tackle an overreliance on journal titles and publishing decisions as quality measures for science and scientists.

#introduction

👋 Hello from #Zurich!

I'm a researcher working at the intersection of #neurosciene and #ai. Before joining Google's #connectomics team earlier this year, I did my PhD advised by @jakhmack on simulation-based Inference (#sbi).

Excited to see Mastodon gaining momentum!

‘Eat local’ is a common recommendation to reduce the carbon footprint of your diet.

But transportation makes up a very small amount of the greenhouse gas emissions from food.

*What* you eat is far more important than *where* your food traveled from.

https://ourworldindata.org/food-choice-vs-eating-local

twitter-archive-parser

Python code to parse a Twitter archive and output in various ways.

https://github.com/timhutton/twitter-archive-parser

Wow, interactive 3D scans of animals and plants: https://sketchfab.com/ffishAsia-and-floraZia

The paper: "Bio-photogrammetry: digitally archiving coloured 3D morphology data of creatures and associated challenges" by Yuichi Kano https://riojournal.com/article/86985/instance/7883441/

See for example this one of an Asian Giant Hornet, Vespa mandarinia (click and drag with the mouse) https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/asian-giant-hornet-vespa-mandarinia-f9c1f7e3f373491fbf01adf94ec8169e

HT: Rainmaker1973

#entomology #3D #photogrammetry #VespaMandarinia #insects #wasplove

Do watch this to the end

#Qatar #LGBTQ #football #worldcup

How credible is this? https://twitter.com/capitolhunters/status/1593307541932474368