Alex Weber @weberam2@social.cleverlibre.org

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

20 yrs ago @PLOSBiology opened its digital doors to start a revolution in #LifeScience communication

Through 2023, we have explored what the next 20yr will bring in different fields & landmark PLOS Biology papers through the lens of time

This month we feature articles on #SciencePublishing & #OpenScience. We hope you find food for thought & inspiration to enact positive change

https://collections.plos.org/collection/plos-biology-20th-anniversary/

A huge thank you to our authors, reviewers, editors, readers. YOU are PLOS Biology

Do we really need more evidence before implementing open peer review? A comment on a recent article in PLOS Biology. https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article/comment?id=10.1371/annotation/2b0d72d9-b22b-41f5-ac5d-6c8a65d1d5ad
#PeerReview #fraud #papermills

Helen Joyce’s recent book Trans repeats Bilek’s “Jewish billionaires” theory without citing her by name. Joyce was then reviewed by anti-trans commentator Jesse Singal in the New York Times, and Singal—while calling Joyce’s book “an intelligent, thorough rejoinder to an idea that has swept across much of the liberal world seemingly overnight”—

https://xtramagazine.com/power/far-right-feminist-fascist-220810

“publishing review reports aims at greater transparency of review processes for readers” #academicchatter https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3002255

Our answer to the question of reproducibility, transparency and innovation in academic publishing

42 co-authors, 94 datasets from 18 sites, 5 interactive figures and an award-winning dashboard, all bundled in our most ambitious NeuroLibre preprint yet.

Check it out at the link below!

https://preprint.neurolibre.org/10.55458/neurolibre.00014/