Netherlands-based folks (or people willing and able to travel to Noordwijk): The registration for the ESA/ESTEC Open Day for people with disability is now open: https://www.esa.int/About_Us/ESTEC/Register_now_ESTEC_Open_Day_for_people_with_disability Please pass the info on to folks who may be […]

#memory #neuorscience folks, just thinking out loud here and will appreciate any pointers. Did any experiment (animal model preferred) investigate the relationship between the half life of a memory and the level of error during training? ie does how many times one makes mistakes during learning […]

"Researchers may cite an infrastructure as a necessary part of their work in a grant proposal, but funding flows only to the researcher and research project, not the repository." https://issues.org/open-data-research-%20infrastructure-gibson-thaney/

Comparing NIH intramural vs extramural funding and productive, as explained by @Drugmonkey https://drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2026/08/05/nih-intramural-versus-extramural-research-efficiency/

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> Nature can't stop inventing seahorses So the sea horse equivalent to Carcinization (the convergent evolution of crabs, the other surprisingly common marine body plan) would be ... Hippocamping? (Joking aside, these fish belong to a family called the Sea Muppets. For real!) […]

Do you already have cleared-brain image stacks, but don't know what to do with them? Or maybe you want to learn which parameters are important before embarking on an imaging campaign? In this intensive 2-day hands-on workshop you will learn how to handle 3D […] [Original post on mstdn.science]

Over on Bluesky, Alex Ip - a reporter with The Xylom - noticed the date for FY2024-FY2025 of the USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub is missing. This is public data on employers who have submitted petitions to employ H-1B nonimmigrant workers. We got in touch and added the partial copies he managed to […]

RE: https://spore.social/@yoginho/115918117109281530 "Re-Engineering Wimsatt for Limited Beings" is now out in #ActaBiotheoretica as part of a special issue on Bill's work and legacy. https://link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007/s10441-026-09534-7 It's so paywalled I can't even get the PDF as an […]

Yogi Jaeger@yoginho.spore.social.ap.brid.gy · 7mo ago

We have a new preprint out! And one that is especially dear to my heart: "Re-Engineering Wimsatt for Limited Beings" https://zenodo.org/records/18293424 Bill Wimsatt is possibly the most underrated philosopher of science of our times. In this paper, I attempt […] [Original post on spore.social]

Do you already have cleared-brain image stacks, but don't know what to do with them? Or maybe you want to learn which parameters are important before embarking on an imaging campaign? In this intensive 2-day hands-on workshop you will learn how to handle 3D […] [Original post on mstdn.science]

For anyone interested in #OpenScienceNetwork, the flavor of @Bonfire, we have a matrix room now: https://matrix.to/#/#osn:matrix.org (thanks @ivan) For more context, see: https://fedihum.org/@lavaeolus/117009903990716948

We are not dead yet 👋 Capacities re public communication have been low, but internally work has continued. We're currently restructuring and have a couple of announcements: 1. We're cooperating closely with our friends at @tibhannover (namely @Lambo, @lipogg, @julian, @mickylindlar, @yala […]

#Variability is often treated as noise to be minimized — an inconvenience that obscures the "true" signal in biological data. Yet a growing body of evidence across every level of #complexity tells a strikingly different story: the capacity to vary is not a bug, but a feature: a deeply conserved […]

Ich bin sehr begeistert vom Begriff #Zugangswohlstand, den @domi_nik entwickelt. Ausgangspunkt der Herleitung des Begriffs ist die Frage, wie der Befürchtung von Verzicht vorgegriffen werden kann, sobald man z.B. neue Wohnformen entwickelt. #Zugangswohlstand bedeutet, bestmöglichen Zugang zu z.B […]

My (unplanned) hiatus is over & it feels good to be back. Missed you people of the wider fediverse 💜 One major change happened in the meantime: I'm leaving @HumboldtUni and Berlin. My next station will be #Mainz, doing #DigitalHumanities at @unimainz and the University of Applied Sciences, in […]

Idly musing how the academic grantwriting system makes me posture as an academic hunter, when I'd much rather be an academic gatherer #academia #grantwriting

Hey professional #astrodon folks! A pretty unique chance to become my colleague at #ESA - working as a project scientist on our newly adopted galactic archaeology mission Arrakihs: Job details: https://jobs.esa.int/job/Noordwijk-Project-Scientist/1414232033/ More about Arrakihs […]

Das Crowdfunding bei @riffreporter ist gestern Abend zu Ende gegangen und wir sind baff. Es kamen 91.045 Euro von 954 Personen zusammen. Damit waren wir nahe dran am äußerst ambitionierten Maximalziel. An dieser Stelle: Danke liebe Menschen im Fediverse, ihr habt es mit möglich gemacht, dass […]

Was thrilled to learn last week that the @Co_Biologists funded our workshop proposal: Playing Dice: Chance as a Biological Strategy where we will bring together #research from all levels of complexity exemplifying the crucial role variability plays across #biology. So now I'm starting to […]

If you're attending #fens2026 come buy Ipek and Friðrik at their poster at board 444 to learn about the #neuroscience behind the regulation of habits in #Drosophila. If you're not attending, you can download all our posters at […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Posters on molecular mediators of learning, dopamine and habit formation at #FENS2026 This year, our entire lab is attending the FENS 2026 meeting in Barcelona. Four of our students present their projects on three posters. Graduate student Julia Schulz shows her work identifying additional […]

Master student Daniel Döringer in front of his poster on dopamine neurons that change their valence coding over extended periods of operant control at #fens2026 Get all our posters here […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Don't miss Addgene's own poster tomorrow at #FENS2026, July 8! PS04-08PM-680, 2:30-5pm: "Addgene Data Hub: A Platform for Sharing AAV and Antibody Characterization Data" Plus talks and posters from our Ambassadors discussing work done with amazing tools available at Addgene!

Our postdoc Tina's daughter Mila is getting ready to present her first poster at #fens2026

Here are my slides for #fens2026 “A versatile and affordable array tomography workflow” https://jekelylab.codeberg.page/FENS_Array_Tomography_Barcelona_July2026.html#/title-slide for the 'Expanding Horizons: Array Tomography in Neuroscience for All' […] [Original post on biologists.social]

I'm in Barcelona for #FENS2026, and presenting a poster (7PM-130) on Tuesday July 7. Pass by if you want to talk about high-throughput social decision-making in mice, Neuropixels recordings in the prefrontal cortex and brain-wide activity labeling! […]

Ready and excited for #fens26 Watch out for our posters tomorrow, Wednesday and Friday morning! #neuroscience.

@moritz_negwer We're here!

Super excited about the five-day neuroscience extravaganza that is #FENS2026 in Barcelona, starting today! Anyone else going?

RE: https://mastodon.online/@neuroinformatics/116851125455601659 I'll be in Barcelona for #FENS2026 next week, presenting a poster about https://movement.neuroinformatics.dev/, and also hanging around our team's other posters (details in quoted post). Drop by if you want to chat about any of […]

When I was looking into how bees sleep like this I found out about "festooning" this is something honeybees do and it's not well understood. When they are mapping out their honeycombs they may form chains with their bodies. Of course army ants also make these […] [Original post on sauropods.win]