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elduvelle

@elduvelle@neuromatch.social

#Neuroscientist - postdoc - researching how the brain does spatial memory & flexible #Navigation in rats
For Neuroscience-oriented posts, check: https://neuromatch.social/@elduvelle_neuro
For coding, games, academia, nature, polls, lots of random boosts, and importantly, saving the planet 🌍: stick to this account!

Warning: I boost a lot, and I boost all rat posts 🐀

Posts mostly in EN but sometimes FR

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keithwilson, to random
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A lot of European countries have this weird addition to dairy and egg. What’s up with that? 🤔 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68944117

elduvelle,
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@keithwilson well.. it’s tasty

elduvelle, (edited ) to random
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@IceCubesApp why can’t I go back all the way in my notifications? I can see like back 7h and that’s it…
Edit: Ok, never mind, it’s probably just that I didn’t have internet access 😅

elduvelle, to random
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So the staff at is apparently not allowed to tell individual students that they support the strike 🤔

Also, just in passing - I support the strike and all its demands, actually I think the demands are really not going far enough, did you known the PhD students are not even paid for the teaching they do??

elduvelle,
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Postdocs should really strike together with the students. Did you know that postdocs at only have 14 days of holidays per year??

elduvelle,
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It’s interesting that the argument for not treating any of us properly is that “we are trainees”. As we all know, trainees are here to learn and are not really useful until they’re not trainees because they need constant supervision. Maybe we should see how academic research progresses if all “trainees” stopped “being trained” for some time… 🤔

elduvelle,
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“Oh but if we had to pay PhD students a proper salary then where would we find the money”
Well… among other solutions… just hire less of them, after all they are trainees so less burden on you? 🤔

elduvelle,
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@jonny nope :(

aheadofthenerve, to random
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me: WHY ISNT THIS MODEL WORKING
also me, 40min later: oh lol wanted a value to be .00000055 but somehow deleted the decimal so it was 00000055 which is 55 lololol stabs self

elduvelle,
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@aheadofthenerve 😂 there should be a warning for this “are you sure you really want so many useless zeros in this variable”

SRLevine, to random
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I realize yelling at a traffic engineer is pointless (and I kept my voice even and calm!), but damn was that a frustrating phone call. I had to explicitly state that "I care more about a pedestrian or cyclist getting hit than someone in a car having to wait at the light a little longer" when he was like "we try to keep cars moving on University". Apparently there are two protected lefts in that cycle currently and only one also gets a pedestrian signal during school hours maybe?

1/2

elduvelle,
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@SRLevine me or my colleagues keep having near-misses with cars at a crossroad next to our uni because there’s one of these stupid “cars don’t have to wait for green light to turn right” rule. The cars pay attention to other cars but absolutely don’t care about pedestrians. It’s really annoying, stressful and dangerous.
In France at least red means red and everything is clear!

elduvelle, to random
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At we have our own protests… and overly exaggerated response from the authorities:

“At 1:30 a.m., the Hanover Police Department announced that 90 people were arrested during the protests. Individuals were arrested for “multiple offenses” — including criminal trespass and resisting arrest” 🤔

“armored vehicles spotted on campus” 🤔🤔

https://www.thedartmouth.com/article/2024/05/campus-encampments-live-updates-police-start-taking-students-away

neuralreckoning, to random
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Three grant rejections in one week. Sigh.

elduvelle,
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@neuralreckoning 😢 I got my first fellowship application rejected! Solidarity 🤗

elduvelle, to random
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The reality | the ad | the… “justification” 🤔

A closer look on the packaging sees a very small dark green text on light green background in a corner saying “Enlarged to show detail”

David, to Japan
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Dear neighborhood community leader,
You're a very nice guy, but is the leafblower on a Sunday afternoon, really that necessary? Or a leafblower at all? These dead leaves belong to the ground where they fell (and their goal is to fertilize it) not in an incinerator.

elduvelle,
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@David I know… the most useless, annoying and polluting machine…

elduvelle, to random
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Here are some very interesting suggestions for having a good IT system in your lab (Github, Wiki, website, emails etc.). I’m sure the Mastodon crowd will love these:

https://fraserlab.com/2024/04/22/IT-suggestions-for-new-faculty/

Source: future PI slack, from the

elduvelle,
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@adredish ahahaa yeah I can believe that :)
How can you make sure that your system remains up-to-date as time passes though? Yearly review to clean it up and try to improve the parts that can?

elduvelle, (edited ) to Flowers
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Spring in 🌸

(Let us know if you know their names!)

Edit: names have been promptly found - thank you!

  1. Bluet (HT @otterX)
  2. and 4) Hepatica Nobolis (HT @ambivalena )
  3. is a Red Trillium (HT @WestLawns and @LorenAmelang )
elduvelle,
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@ambivalena thank you!!

elduvelle,
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@WestLawns indeed, it does look like the Red Trillium! Thanks!

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/red-trillium-eric-drumm.html

jwildeboer, (edited ) to random
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    elduvelle,
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    @EU_Commission that’s great! So do you mean you’ll just join another server?

    @jwildeboer @EDPS

    da5nsy, to glasgow
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    Looks like I'm gonna be spending this weekend eating my way around 's places.
    Ticked off Mono and Stereo yesterday, today eyeing up The Alchemy Experiment and Serenity Now 😋

    elduvelle,
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    @da5nsy Oh I might go there soon! What’s your opinion on each? Nice to see that there are different options.

    foaylward, to Pubtips
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    ‘We need to slow down scientific publishing’

    'We focus on metrics to evaluate a scientist’s career: how many articles they have published, how many times they were cited, what was the impact factor of all these articles. '

    https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2024-04-26/elisabeth-bik-expert-in-scientific-integrity-we-need-to-slow-down-scientific-publishing.html

    #publishing #science #stem #academicchatter

    elduvelle,
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    @foaylward @ElisabethBik cool article!

    neuralreckoning, to academia
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    So oral exam at end of PhD. Good idea or just a tradition that doesn't make any sense any more? What are the good things about them? If we didn't do them, how else could we get those good things?

    elduvelle,
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    @lana @neuralreckoning 👆This! And also pretty much the first time (possibly only, if people move on from academia) when you can gather some specialists to talk about topics that interest you and who also consider you an expert. So closure, recognition, exchange of ideas. (At least that’s what it is in France, I heard the UK one was more like an exam and is not public, that’s probably not as nice to experience)

    arstechnica, to random
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    No surprise—Russia vetoes UN resolution reaffirming ban on nukes in space

    "The United States assesses that Russia is developing a new satellite carrying a nuclear device."

    https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/04/no-surprise-russia-vetoes-un-resolution-reaffirming-ban-on-nukes-in-space/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

    elduvelle,
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    @arstechnica why does Russia still have veto power at the UN ??

    aheadofthenerve, to random
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    got an email today addressed to two Drs and then to "Hannah." The other Drs are my PI (senior prof) and a research prof. Is this a seniority thing or did I just get .... not-doctored

    https://www.theswaddle.com/why-women-academics-with-ph-d-s-are-often-not-called-dr

    elduvelle,
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    @aheadofthenerve 👏 Nicely done!
    @justafrog

    sashin, to random Japanese
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    In Mastodon, if you type @ in a post and then start typing a person's name does it autocomplete?

    I feel like it did before, but now it's not working.

    elduvelle,
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    @sashin it works for me most of the time, but not always, for some reason

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