Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

#Papertime! I've been so busy last week, that I am late posting about my PhD candidate's latest (& last for her PhD!) paper:

"Observing the onset of the accretion wake in Vela X-1" by C. Diez et al., including me, @fuerst & @pkretsch

Vela X-1 is an X-ray binary that consists of a neutron star and a massive stellar companion. Here, we focus on using the X-rays produced close to the neutron star to study the accretion structure. 1/

#astrodon #astromomy #astrophysics #XraysAreTheBestRays

It's become increasingly clear that the big book publishers will not stop until libraries are dead. They claim they love libraries, but their actions speak much louder:

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/03/22/book-publishers-wont-stop-until-libraries-are-dead/

GNOME 44 is here, it's time to party 🥳! Are you holding a release party? Let us know! Share your event with the community: https://discourse.gnome.org/t/gnome-44-release-parties/14611

Don't forget to tag us in your posts! #GNOME44 #GNOMERelease #GNOME

Stream at Burrator in the low cloud a couple of weeks ago #Dartmoor #Devon #mosstodon #photography

Cough them up, you fucking mutt!

#ArrestTrumpNow

An appeals court has ordered Trump’s attorney to turn over documents in connection with an investigation into whether classified information was mishandled after he left the White House https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-22/trump-attorney-ordered-to-turn-over-documents-to-special-counsel

Circa-Mid-1850s. One of the earliest photos of a Native American, this one showing a pet wolf. Unlike the many fearsome myths created about wolves by settlers, Native Americans maintained a close and respectful relationship with wolves and had domesticated them to become pet and working animals for hunting and carrying packs.
Source : Indians and Thier Dogs.#nativeamerican #Indigenous

U.S. President Joe Biden has proclaimed the establishment of Avi Kwa Ame National Monument in southern #Nevada. An excerpt from his proclamation reads: "the area’s exceptional dark skies, rare in highly populated Clark County, have been noted for the excellent stargazing opportunities they offer."

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2023/03/21/a-proclamation-on-establishment-of-the-avi-kwa-ame-national-monument/

#DarkSkies

The next episode will be extremely disturbing. With ALL the trigger warnings, and for a good reason. I went through previous UN reports and the most recent Italian government findings about Russian atrocities in Ukraine, just published by La Repubblica.

Seriously, though, I'm not joking about the trigger warnings. Working with this, is giving ME nightmares, and you know how jaded I've become.

https://www.repubblica.it/esteri/2023/03/20/news/ucraina_prove_laia_crimini_russi-392883965/

A fully-funded, three-year postdoctoral position in theoretical neuroscience is now available at Bocconi University's Department of Computing Sciences in Milan, Italy. The postdoctoral researcher will have the chance to explore various research topics, such as movement modulation of visual responses in mice, integrating connectomes in mechanistic models of brain functions, and building normative models of neural representations, among others. The research will utilize cutting-edge approaches from statistical physics, nonlinear dynamics, and machine learning, and will be informed by the latest electrophysiological and connectomic data. Prior experience with computational neuroscience is a plus, but it is not required.

The postdoc will have the opportunity to become a part of the thriving neuroscience, machine learning, and computer science communities at Bocconi University. To learn more about these communities, please visit https://cs.unibocconi.eu/ and https://bidsa.unibocconi.eu/. The postdoc will be a member of the NSF-funded Accelnet consortium "International network for brain-inspired computation," facilitating international collaborations between a large network of computational neuroscience/AI labs. At Bocconi University, we are committed to fostering a diverse intellectual community and encourage individuals from underrepresented groups to apply for these positions.

Applicants should apply via our on-line application system, which can be found at "www.unibocconi.eu/post-doc" (Publication nr. 65633) by 23:59 of April 17th, 2023 (Italian time).

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me at alessandro.sanzeni@unibocconi.it

#ScienceJobs #job #neuroscience #connectomics #academia #compneuro #computationalneuroscience #ComplexSystems #physics