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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

searchable (see https://www.tootfinder.ch/)

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

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? #academia #academicchatter

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)

elduvelle, to random
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#Hippocampus neuroscientists:
Do you think that hippocampal #Replay can truly represent a future planning trajectory?
Or that all replay trajectories are actually related to consolidation / generalization / other memory-oriented mechanisms?

Discussion & questions welcome!
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Poll in Post 2 ⤵️​

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

susanleemburg, to random
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But susaaannnn we never get anything

elduvelle,
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@susanleemburg :blobrat_aww:

musiciankate, to random

I'm in one of my rotations where I remember that the Fediverse exists and I actually open the app/website, look at things, and post occasionally again. I might forget about it again at any point and not see notifications for a while, but I'll be back again eventually. 😂

Happy Monday everybody!

elduvelle,
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@musiciankate 👋

keithwilson, to random

Inconclusive. 😄
https://fediphilosophy.org/@keithwilson/112291368474379437

elduvelle,
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@keithwilson you could come to our instance (https://neuromatch.social/home) - it’s neuroscience-oriented but we would welcome a philosopher! And it has a 10000 character post limit 😉

elduvelle,
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@keithwilson we are running the “glitch” branch which has some extra perks (like markdown formatting, I don’t remember the other ones) and we also have search and hashtag follow. I have to say the search has its limits but I don’t think that’s specific to our server.
Our admins are also working on getting fetch all replies to work. They’re very, very nice :)

elduvelle, to random
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🥳

Ukraine Russia war: US House passes crucial Ukrainian aid deal worth $61bn https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-68848277

elduvelle, to random
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“Scientists push new paradigm of animal #consciousness, saying even insects may be sentient”
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/animal-consciousness-scientists-push-new-paradigm-rcna148213

Interesting read, good to see mentalities evolving about this!

elduvelle, to random
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Just tried to activate the pedestrian light at a crossroads with.. my lab card 🤦

caiocgo, to random
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    elduvelle,
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    @caiocgo 🤔

    ZaneSelvans, to random
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    I do like the idea of being able to invest in smaller sustainability and community oriented companies directly. Say, a small urban delivery company that uses cargo e-bikes through a crowdfunding platform. And apparently I'm not alone!

    https://cyclingindustry.news/cargo-bike-logistics-firm-pedalme-crowdfunds-again-to-meet-rapid-expansion/

    elduvelle,
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    @ZaneSelvans “Pedal Me” 😂

    danielagawehns, to Neuroscience

    Call for paper contributions! Donate your preprint/ paper/ repository to the Neuroscience Reprohack on 7 and 8 May in Amsterdam.
    Authors will get a free reproducibility check and feedback on their efforts. Participants will get to learn from your work and hands-on experience with reviewing other peoples' code.
    Check https://www.reprohack.org/event/29/ for more event details and how to submit your work

    elduvelle,
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    @danielagawehns a free reproducibility check? Is that just the figure-making code or will someone actually (try to) redo the experiment?

    sashin, to random Japanese
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    Is there an alternative for Google maps on android that also shows public transport info?

    elduvelle,
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    @sashin Looks like does it! But it’s only for specific cities. It’s a great app though!

    https://www.androidpolice.com/google-maps-vs-citymapper/

    lina, to ai
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    Dark Visitors maintains a list of AI web agents (chatbots, scrapers, search crawlers) and provides an API for updating your robots.txt

    https://darkvisitors.com

    @jonny and I said "mhmm", so we made a github action that regularly creates PRs for our mastodon fork if there's any updates

    https://github.com/NeuromatchAcademy/mastodon/pull/41/files

    and here's a version with comments to help you make it work for other websites

    https://gist.github.com/hobgoblina/c885b7f502307802f2b034fabf312223

    consent shouldn't be opt-out, but ai bros are dicks. so here we are

    elduvelle,
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    @jonny @lina I am very flattered but also have no idea what it is supposed to be 😅 (could be because I just woke up)

    elduvelle,
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    @jonny @lina OH of course!! - I was looking at it on my phone and just seeing the left part of it - without the most important: the tail! 😅😍 :ratDance:

    debivort, to random

    My 4 best shots from Fredericksburg, TX

    a dramatic, cloudy sky with a sliver of partially eclipsed sun visible between two dark clumps of cloud
    a partial solar eclipse, just before totality seen in a cloudy sky with multiple layers of clouds
    a total solar eclipse. The view is somewhat blurred, as it is viewed through clouds. Three pink prominences can be seen between the right edge and the bottom of the disc of the sun

    elduvelle,
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    @debivort really beautiful with those clouds!

    cian, to random
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    the only valid reasons I can think of to discard old neuroscience papers are:

    • the experimental techniques used cause artefacts that undermine the scientific conclusions
    • field knowledge has moved on to the point that assumptions made in study are no longer valid

    otherwise, fair game.

    imo many or maybe most older studies don't fall victim to either of these two problems, so can contain valuable data, conclusions, or ideas.

    elduvelle,
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    @cian yeah, age on its own is not a reason to see a paper any differently from any other paper…

    elduvelle, to linux
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    Why is it that there is no version / distribution of that does exactly what does? Well, without the bad aspects like spying on you.

    I wonder if Microsoft is somehow suppressing this possibility… otherwise everyone would be using Linux 🤷

    elduvelle,
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    @locha Is it on Win 11? I hate it… when you see the direction Windows is taking that’s also why I wish there was an easy to switch to Linux alternative..
    @mezz

    elduvelle,
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    @carla time… I waste so much time doing even minor things in Linux. That’s mostly because I’m used to the windows way of things of course. But also some things don’t work as easily on Linux (I tried Ubuntu). I made a quick and incomplete list there: https://neuromatch.social/@elduvelle/112244187699065839

    I’d just want a Linux distribution that works like Windows so there is no learning curve involved to use it.

    elduvelle,
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    @deltatux thanks for the long answer. Don’t worry about those problems I had - I’m not using Linux anymore.

    Yes, definitely, the two system are very different. Still, given the versatility of Linux, it should be possible to make a distribution of it that acts like Windows.. for me the main problems with windows are that it’s funding a giant corporation and that they’re trying to spy on you more and more, for example forcing you to log in with your microsoft account in Win 11 or forcing their fake AI stuff on you. Other than these kind of things, I like the way it works and I would love to use a Linux version of it that has the good aspects without the bad ones. But it looks like that’s not really possible..

    elduvelle,
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    @dirkdierickx you could… but more than 70% of computers don’t use MacOS, they use Windows. Clearly the large majority of people prefer Windows. I thought that one of the goals of Linux was to be used by more people. So why isn’t there at least one distribution of Linux that is exactly like Windows?

    Still, I agree: why not also extend the question to MacOS, there are also more computers with MacOS than with Linux so why isn’t there one distribution that mimics MacOS? They’re both Unix based right, so it should be even easier to make it?

    neuralreckoning, to random
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    Someone is proposing to delete the @briansimulator wikipedia article because the software is "not notable". Please do join the discussion if you are a wiki editor and feel that it is notable.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Brian_(software)

    elduvelle,
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    @neuralreckoning @briansimulator isn’t it possible to get a list of papers that use it? That should show that it’s pretty “notable”…

    jasonkoebler, to random
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    A loose group of teenage hackers who largely grew out of Roblox and Minecraft communities have been kidnapping, robbing, and bricking each other's homes in an increasingly violent internal 'world war'

    https://www.404media.co/inside-the-com-world-war-robberies-brickings-and-drama/

    elduvelle,
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    @jasonkoebler so weird

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