Alex Weber @weberam2@social.cleverlibre.org

𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗱𝗲𝗲𝗽 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻? 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗵𝘆𝗽𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘀𝗶𝘀
Today! Join presentation with Jaan Aru followed by discussion of the paper below in the Neuroscience & Philosophy Salon
Nov 22, 12:30pm (US eastern)
Register here:
https://umd.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAuf-yuqT0jGtztlME6tDuMBpMX32iIEx0Z

Scientists paid large publishers over $1 billion in four years to have their studies published with open access.

Nature Comms and Sci Reports cornering the market.

Open access = good.
Extortionate APCs with little or no actual editorial service = bad.

https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2023-11-21/scientists-paid-large-publishers-over-1-billion-in-four-years-to-have-their-studies-published-with-open-access.html?outputType=amp

How is anyone NOT using @mozilla #Firefox by now? Between this and intentionally slowing #YouTube traffic for Firefox/uBlock users, #Google is officially evil. Please support an #open #decentralized non-profit #Internet !

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/11/google-chrome-will-limit-ad-blockers-starting-june-2024/

#tech #Technology

Neural activity across cortex is high-dimensional and ... complicated. Still, those fine neural features can be predicted from orofacial behaviors in mice! Great work by Atika Syeda et al in the lab!

Try out the all-new keypoint-based #facemap, paper here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-023-01490-6

In press! 📣 The surprising result that basolateral amygdala has a more crucial role in learning meaningful changes in the reward environment than orbitofrontal cortex. Check our paper to find out how! 🤓 #neuroscience #CompNeuro https://www.jneurosci.org/content/early/2023/11/13/JNEUROSCI.0622-23.2023

"#Microglia mediate these non-linear activity #dynamics via #circuit refinement"
Reorganization of adolescent #prefrontal #cortex #circuitry is required for #mouse #cognitive #maturation: Neuron https://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273(23)00805-X

I emailed an author of a *2009* paper asking if they had code still around, AND THEY DID.

A reminder to myself to ask more often.

Radfem anti-trans literature I’ve read:

Gender Hurts: A Feminist Analysis of the Politics of Transgenderism, by Sheila Jeffreys

The Transsexual Empire: The Making of the She-Male, by Janice Raymond

I haven’t read Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters by Abigail Shrier just yet but it’s on my list.

See, unlike radfems who refuse to read trans-positive literature and who refuse to read intersectional feminist books that (gasp) defend men, I am not afraid to read books by people I disagree with.

It’s why I’m able to debate radfems so well – I’ve read their literature. They haven’t read mine, and are often completely unaware of the criticisms of the history of their own movement.

If you would like to read some trans-positive books and intersectional feminism, check out these books:

The Will To Change: Men, Masculinity and Love by bell hooks

On Intersectionality: Essential Writings, by Kimberlé Crenshaw

Stone Butch Blues, by Leslie Feinberg

And, one book that isn’t specifically under the umbrella of intentional intersectional feminism. I include this one because it was so influential on me as a young teen when I read it:

I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

If anyone has additional trans-positive or intersectional feminism books they recommend, please put them in the comments below!

https://hadeantaiga.wordpress.com/2023/03/30/radfem-anti-trans-literature-ive-read-gender/

#feminism #feministLiterature #intersectionalFeminism #intersectionality #transLiterature

"If Tetris has taught me anything, it's that errors pile up and accomplishments disappear."

It is well-understood that stars like our sun synthesize elements up to Iron (Fe) through nuclear fusion. Many of the elements heavier than Fe are forged in highly energetic events such as supernovae and neutron star mergers in a set of nuclear reactions known as the r-process.
The graphic below shows the cosmogenic origin of each element in the Periodic Table.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-process
#JWST #Tellurium
4/n

A woman. An immigrant. A scientist.
A Nobel Prize winner. And thanks to her pioneering research, a #COVID19 vaccine.

Dr. Katalin Karikó. https://www.statnews.com/2020/11/10/the-story-of-mrna-how-a-once-dismissed-idea-became-a-leading-technology-in-the-covid-vaccine-race/ #HistoryRemix #science #history