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albertcardona

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How does the brain work? Someday, we'll figure it out.
Group Leader, MRC LMB, and Professor, University of Cambridge, UK.
#neuroscience #Drosophila #TrakEM2 #FijiSc #CATMAID #connectomics #connectome #vEM #iNaturalist #entomology
Born at 335 ppm.
Brains, signal processing, software and entomology: there will be bugs.

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b0rk, to random
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so far "How Git Works" has sold more on its first day than any other zine except "The Pocket Guide to Debugging" and it's only been 3 hours https://wizardzines.com/zines/git/

appreciate you all, hope the zine helps with your git woes ❤

davidrevoy, to linux
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Here is my new GNU/Linux distribution guide about Debian KDE 12, the right GNU/Linux distribution for professional digital painting in 2024! Also about three major problems with GNU/Linux distros that will drive away all professional artists, IMO, and how I got kicked out of the Fedora KDE ecosystem with F40, which imposed Plasma6 and Wayland. I hope it helps other artists here!

Blog post: https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1030/debian-12-kde-plasma-2024-install-guide

vicgrinberg, to Astro
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Did you know that it's actually NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope? Even though it is often referred to as "NASA" only.

European Space Agency has contributed the NIRSpec instrument, half of the MIRI instrument, and the launch (including the payload adapter & launch site services) and has 15 scientists working at the science and operations center. , the Canadian Space Agency, has contributed the NIRISS instrument.

Graphic from launch kit: https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Webb/James_Webb_Space_Telescope_launch_kit

HelgavanLeur, to random
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I posted this once 5 years ago and it suddenly came up again. And unfortunately more topical than ever....

We're in this together! What if... instead of endless wellies, we just take the safest alternative? Discussing is fine, but please off the rails... 😎

christianp, to random
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I've seen discussion around several in-person only events lately, where the organisers justify it by saying they can't get the best quality of conversation online.

Well, you can't get any of my conversation at an event I can't get to.

An in-person event that you have to travel to excludes people with caring responsibilities, disabilities, and limited funds.

katvogt, to random
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We wrote a "little" review about odor coding across phyla, now out in @nature review neuroscience
Enjoy reading here: https://rdcu.be/dJgF7
With Kara Fulton, David Zimmerman, Aravi Samuel and @Datta_Lab

TatianaIlyina, to climate
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Edinburgh banned SUV and airline ads as a step-up in action to tackle #climatechange.
Can this be #Hamburg?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidrvetter/2024/05/30/this-scottish-city-just-banned-suv-and-airline-ads-heres-why/

christianp, to random
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I'm running the #BigMathOff again, this July.

The Big Internet Math-Off is a just-for-fun tournament that I and a few friends have organised on @aperiodical, ostensibly to find the World’s Most Interesting Mathematician.

Some great people have already signed up but I still need a couple more to complete the list.

I'm particularly keen to represent a range of genders, nationalities and backgrounds.

There's more information about the competition at https://aperiodical.com/please-take-part-in-the-big-internet-math-off/

If that sounds like fun and you'd like to take part, please tell me!

cnrs, to random French
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🗞️ Une étude internationale vient confirmer que les injections d’eaux usées industrielles sont à l’origine de la sismicité détectée dans les Pyrénées-Atlantiques, dont la cause exacte n'était pas clairement identifiée jusque-là.

👉 https://www.cnrs.fr/fr/presse/lacq-linjection-deaux-usees-industrielles-identifiee-comme-principale-responsable-des

alexmurray, to random
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If you are new or even old to Linux, know that imposter syndrome never goes away. I have been using Linux for software development for over 20 years yet was only today years old when I learned about vipe. How have I never come across such a useful command before? https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/noble/en/man1/vipe.1.html

RuthMalan, to random
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"I built a web of interesting papers. I identified 50 papers that seemed worth reading and read them all."
— Hillel Wayne as live-tweeted by @mathiasverraes from DDDEU

They’re here: https://hillelwayne.com/talks/ese/ddd/ “

Via @mathiasverraes

Source: https://x.com/mathiasverraes/status/1796126916514062578

gutenberg_org, to books
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American writer Randolph Silliman Bourne was born in 1886.

Bourne's career was marked by his prolific writing and his engagement with contemporary social and political issues. His essays and articles were published in influential magazines like The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic, and The Dial. His incisive critique of World War I and his vision of a pluralistic America have left a lasting impact on American thought and cultural studies.

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/54325

Title page of History of a literary radical, and other essays by Randolph Silliman Bourne

gutenberg_org,
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"The secret of life is then that this fine youthful spirit should never be lost. Out of the turbulence of youth should come this fine precipitate—a sane, strong, aggressive spirit of daring and doing. It must be a flexible, growing spirit, with a hospitality to new ideas, and a keen insight into experience. To keep one's reactions warm and true, is to have found the secret of perpetual youth, and perpetual youth is salvation."

"Youth" (1912)

~Randolph Bourne (1886-1918)

kim_harding, to fuckcars
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This moral panic about killer cyclists is hateful and wrong — it's drivers who kill people https://www.standard.co.uk/comment/killer-cyclists-regents-park-london-car-deaths-b1160094.html

A very powerful piece by Chris Boardman, he is absolutely right on this!

#FuckCars

jobRxiv, to random
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Research Technician in Systems Neuroscience Lab

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

The Auerbach lab is seeking a part-time research technician to help us in our studies of auditory perception and plasticity.

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/university-of-illinois-at-urbana-champaign-27779-research-technician-in-syst...
https://jobrxiv.org/job/university-of-illinois-at-urbana-champaign-27779-research-technician-in-systems-neuroscience-lab/?feed_id=76299

EUCommission, to random
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📯 Attention all doctoral candidates!

We’ve just launched a €608.6 million call to train doctoral candidates through the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions.

We will fund more than 160 excellent doctoral programmes in all scientific fields, that will:

✅ train and develop the skills of around 2,400 doctoral candidates,
✅ boost their innovation-related competences and employability,
✅ provide excellent supervision and career guidance.

ℹ️ https://europa.eu/!JM3Kwj

RestPoll, to random
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👀 Are you interested in doing research in the field of pollinators? 🐝 Seeking a highly motivated, enthusiastic junior scientist to study wild pollinator toxicology in the EU Horizon Europe project WildPosh. Interested to apply? Find out more via [https://www.nature.uni-freiburg.de/ressourcen/themen-abschlussarbeiten-pdfs/stelle-wildposh]

dahukanna, to random
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Foundations day at #dddeurope badge unlocked: Keynote presentation glitch because of geo-politico-socio-technical bureaucracy visa issues.
Fascinating to me is observing that we have shared social vocabulary, social behavior using existing technical video conference tools to use as “get out of jail” alternative to enable this interaction.
I enjoyed the thought-provoking presentation by Michael Feathers - https://2024.dddeurope.com/program/design-discovery-in-existing-systems/
Realised so many connections between UX design and Technical design.

dahukanna,
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At #dddeurope, Domain pattern by Carola Lilienthal (https://2024.dddeurope.com/program/domain-pattern-how-the-domain-influences-the-architecture/) classification of legacy systems brings the design squiggle (https://thedesignsquiggle.com/about) to mind for mapping & world-building.

  1. Big ball of mud==squiggle rat’s nest
  2. Technical layering==squiggle concepting bumpy loops
  3. Domain driven modules==squiggle design with clarity & focus with validated & decided opportunity costs.

Big ball of mud, technology layering & domain driven modules mapped to design squiggle diagram.

EMBLEvents, to random
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The clock is ticking if you want to be a part of and present your work! 😱⏰

You only have until 10 June to submit your abstract and be a part of this growing community of researchers interested in the four dimensional reconstruction of mammalian development. 🥼 🧬

💻 https://s.embl.org/imd24-01
📆 2 – 5 September
📍 EMBL Heidelberg and Virtual

lana, to random
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Overleaf, primarily used to write scientific papers, encouraging its users to use AI text. What could go wrong! I am even less open to reviewing papers now. Waiting for Evilsevier to release its "AI for peer reviewers" tool so that we can live in the most boring world ever for a few years. Just until the next generation, with better BS detectors than us, start doing real science again

kellyromanych, to nature
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Could you use a bee field guide with color photos?

Reposting from pollinator.org, Colorado State Univ. Extension, and USDA: A Beginner's Guide to Identifying Bees.

65 pages. Covers common genera in Colorado & East Plains. Genera can also be found in other parts of North America.

https://www.pollinator.org/pollinator.org/assets/generalFiles/BeginnerBeeFieldGuide_11March2022_LowRez.pdf

gutenberg_org, to books
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American lexicographer, editor, and author Noah Webster died #OTD in 1843.

His early contributions to education include a series of textbooks known collectively as the "Blue-Backed Speller." His first dictionary, A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language, was published in 1806. However, his most significant achievement came with the publication of An American Dictionary of the English Language in 1828.

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/139

#books #dictionaries #lexicography

gutenberg_org,
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"Language is the expression of ideas, and if the people of one country cannot preserve an identity of ideas they cannot retain an identity of language."

A Dictionary of the English Language: Intended to Exhibit... : in Two Volumes (ed. 1832)

~Noah Webster Jr. (October 16, 1758 – May 28, 1843)

carnage4life, to random
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Google’s CEO talks about AI overviews in search and leaves us with two gems.

  1. Hallucinations are not a solved problem. LLMs are not the best approach for getting facts.

  2. People click on links in AI overviews more than if they were one of the ten blue links

I wonder how much people would click through links in AI overviews if those summaries could be trusted? It would be ironic if LLM hallucinations end up as the main reason Google search keeps sending sites traffic despite AI overviews.

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ZachWeinersmith, to comics
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Am I right??

Full comic here: http://smbc-comics.com/comic/apply

#smbc #hiveworks #comics #webcomics #science

embunnik, to photography
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Walking around with my camera + macro lens looking for small stuff has been a great way to discover species I had never even heard of. This long-horned bee is a great example! Super big and hairy (look at those hind legs!), covered in pollen, it was slowly moving from one flower to next and spent just enough time near me to capture a few shots.

Species: Svastra sabinensis, female

ramikrispin, to datascience
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(1/2) Shiny Apps for demystifying statistical models and methods 🚀

This is a cool website that explains different statistical concepts with the use of interactive Shiny Apps. Ben Prytherch made this website from the Department of Statistics at Colorado State University.

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