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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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David, to random
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Short : I've seen Ms. Crow quite a bit for the past three days, but she's always in a hurry. Also Mr. & Ms. Crow call each other with their "come quick, hurry" call as soon as food is found.
It can only mean one thing: BABY CROWS!!!! right? right?

elduvelle,
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@David 👀👀👀

joeinwynnewood, to random
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If you are a non-white person in America and thinking it really doesn't matter who gets elected, please read this.

Trump and his allies find a new way to be extra racist
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/4/4/2233086/-Trump-and-his-allies-find-a-new-way-to-be-extra-racist

elduvelle,
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@joeinwynnewood Also, anyone should be concerned about not electing racists, regardless of how much they might be personally affected by it

neuralreckoning, to random
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If you're considering a life in academia it's worth watching this video and deciding if it's worth it to you or not. All of this is true.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKiBlGDfRU8

For me the answer is yes, despite all the problems, for two reasons.

Firstly, I'm lucky enough that I do have considerable freedom to work on the things that I'm interested in. If I was more interested in success or if I was on a 'soft money' position and forced to chase constant grants, I don't know if that would be true. But, such luck is rare.

Secondly, as a socialist I would feel very uncomfortable spending my creative energy on most of the non-academic things I'm qualified for: advertising and surveillance (i.e. tech companies), finance, or startups (making venture capitalists even richer). I could imagine academia getting bad enough that I'd make that choice, but for me it's not there yet. I completely understand that it is that bad for others and I mean no criticism of them.

In a way I suppose this is a sort of defence of academia, but it's a half hearted one at best. I think it's absolutely tragic and depressing that academia has become like this. Doing research should be one of the most joyful and creative things anyone could do with their lives.

elduvelle, (edited )
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@NicoleCRust what would you say specifically doesn’t apply to a universal academic experience from the video?

Personally I think it’s important to expose the reality of the current academic system to anyone who might want to enter it. When I decided that what I wanted to do with my life was research, I thought the path to permanent researcher was straightforward: masters, Phd, permanent position. Haha.

Would I have not entered “academia” had I known how convoluted, compromise-based and basically unscientific getting a permanent position was - a position which doesn’t even involve doing that much research in most cases? I don’t think so personally but I know many others would go a different way if they had the full picture. Plus the general public is the one basically funding this system and should be made aware that it’s not going well and needs to be improved somehow!

@neuralreckoning

elduvelle,
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@NicoleCRust @neuralreckoning I see, yes these are a bit over-the-top, they would probably be more realistic if more nuanced…

In my experience (i.e. in my field) they definitely have some truth to them… the exploitation of postdocs and phd students… the pressure to get grants… the need to ask for funding for “cool & quickly feasible” projects that may not be the ones you’re actually interested in… the papers that get published with misleading or just wrong results because that’s what the “top journals” demand… 😕 I know that not all researchers submit to this system but there is no question that some do, I guess the question is: to what extend does this happen?

ciredutempsEsme, to random French
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Je suis trop contente d'être en vacances. C'est fête du slip et pizzas.
(Je travaille lundi mais c'est l'esprit qui compte)

elduvelle,
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@ciredutempsEsme moi je suis malade mais du coup c’est presque comme des vacances 🥳😬

manisha, to random
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ugh, with ddg getting enshittified, I'm switching to https://www.startpage.com

elduvelle,
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@kofanchen Probably that they are adding an LLM search engine to their browser: https://mstdn.social/@rysiek/112217886303492342

@manisha

caiocgo, to mastodon
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    elduvelle,
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    @caiocgo
    Yes, @IceCubesApp (on Iphone) has been doing that since some updates ago. It wasn’t doing before that. I wish it would stop or that at least there was a way to go back to the post that you were reading!

    antoinechambertloir, to random French
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    Non, mais m… elle va la fermer, oui ou non?

    https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/le-biais-d-aurelie-jean/le-biais-d-aurelie-jean-chronique-du-mardi-26-mars-2024-5747798

    elduvelle,
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    @antoinechambertloir “intelligence analytique”… 🤪

    elduvelle, to programming
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    in question:
    This should be easy, but I can’t find a straightforward solution anywhere. How can one ask the user to select one **or more ** directories using a graphical interface?

    There is “tkFileDialog.askdirectory()” in the Tkinter module but it only allows to select one directory. Any implementations of that function that allow for directory multiselection?
    (Yes, I could do a loop and call the same function multiple times but I wouldn’t call that straightforward)

    elduvelle,
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    @diazona Oh I don’t mind if there’s a function that does this in any toolkit / module, as long as it does what I want…

    elduvelle,
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    @jonny it’s just a script (not in a notebook), no gui.
    Basically I want to add an option to spike sort several sessions together instead of just one at a time.. but I need to ask the user which sessions.

    elduvelle,
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    @esnyder I’ll check it out! Thanks!
    @diazona

    elduvelle,
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    @jonny oooh what did you just code this?!

    elduvelle,
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    @jonny thank you!!

    elduvelle, to Montreal
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    Once again, the Fediverse doesn’t disappoint! Thanks all for the great tips! And if anyone wants to visit you’ll finds lots of things to do or see in there ⬇️

    From: @elduvelle
    https://neuromatch.social/@elduvelle/112162835919317182

    emma_cogdev, to random
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    Updated that rejected manuscript and submitted it somewhere else today. Excited to get some new feedback on it, and to put it out of mind for a little while and focus on new projects.

    elduvelle,
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    @emma_cogdev 👏

    elduvelle, to Montreal
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    Hi… what is there to see as a tourist in or around ?! Particularly:

    x nature-related things, like natural parks with moose
    x good vegetarian/ vegan restaurants
    x a nice cinema

    Thanks / Merci! 🇨🇦

    Edit: formatting

    elduvelle,
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    @evan ooh I just realized Montreal was on an island!! Thanks!

    elduvelle,
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    @evan thanks!!

    elduvelle,
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    @evan very cool! Thanks again :)

    stux, to random
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    It should be super simple:

    Billionaires should start paying their fair part of taxes

    elduvelle,
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    @stux it shouldn’t be possible to be a billionaire really…

    eRatt, to random
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    showing off his dramatic side. :blobratheart:

    elduvelle,
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    @eRatt He’s just missing a cigarette and a hat..

    BorisBarbour, to random
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    https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00816-z

    elduvelle,
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    @BorisBarbour great….

    ninokadic, to random
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    Yesterday, I felt a lot of depression or anxiety, like a knot in my chest, and it started overwhelming me somehow. I lost my vision and hearing and passed out, hitting my head on the door. I'm fine now, though. I wonder why something like that happened to me. I'm not usually prone to feeling sad or anxious.

    elduvelle,
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    @ninokadic ooh.. that must have been scary. I hope you can check with a doctor that it’s nothing serious.

    foon, to random
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    Positive Covid test, after four years!! Dang I really hate to see it.

    elduvelle,
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    @foon oh no! Sorry to hear that! You’re the third person I’ve heard of who got it for the first time ever in the space of 4 days… scary

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