jonny

jonny, 5 hours ago to random

$1.81 in 2024 money for a single bean in a decorative box is a bargain
https://botsin.space/@NoveltyBot/112438861775517550

terri, 10 hours ago to Birding

Need some bird help!

My 6 year old says he saw a kiwibird, but we live in Oregon, USA. I'm trying to find similarly shaped birds to show him so we can figure out what it was but although we loved the woodcock dance videos (thanks Mom!) they don't live on this coast. Any other ideas?

Boosts great if you've got birder friends who might have good ideas!

#birding

jonty, 16 hours ago to random

Wales has launched their own "metaverse" and it is indistinguishable from Second Life circa 2006.

There is a big dragon. There are small dragons. You can ride a cable car. I have met exactly one other player.

https://visitwales.com/metaverse

elduvelle_neuro, 15 hours ago to random

What do #Electrophysiologists who record raw data from many channels (#NeuroPixels, #Hyperdrives…) do for data backup and storage? I just bought 2 x 4Tb external drives and it looks like they won’t be enough (at all). Is there a cheap and reliable AND huge storage way to do this?

#Ephys #NeuroMethods #DataManagement

mhoye, 1 day ago to random

We've all seen the IBM presentation saying, a computer can never be held accountable therefore...

but if you rotate and adjust the gamma settings on the best versions of that image on the internet you can see further text through the page.

https://cohost.org/a-hungry-mouth/post/4039145-chosting-my-reply-be

The header is called THE COMPUTER MANDATE and it is incredible reading.

afouxenidis, 1 day ago to politics

In the University of California system, the union representing 48,000 grad students and other academic workers is about to strike in protest of repression of campus protests. It’s a watershed for labor and for the Palestine solidarity movement.
#politics
https://jacobin.com/2024/05/uc-uaw-palestine-strike-free-speech/

DAIR, 1 day ago to random

"I’ve written about relationships between tech companies and the military before, so I shouldn’t have been surprised by anything I saw or heard at this conference. But when it ended, and I departed DC for home, it felt like my life force had been completely sucked out of my body."

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/may/17/ai-weapons-palantir-war-technology

kirstinfheise, 1 day ago to Kurzgesagt

Dear 🧠​ Hive Mind,

what do you consider currently the most convincing or most effective experimental paradigm to probe episodic memory?

#episodicmemory #memory #learning #cognition #cognitivescience #neuroscience #brain

shauna, 1 day ago to random

Hey #PyConUs! Looking to take a break from the con with a little light reading? Stop by the #TurnTheTables booth to learn about your rights as a tech worker and how to organize!

#PyCon

kjaymiller, 2 days ago to random

Okay time for the big announcement. @blackpythondevs is officially operating as a US Non-Profit under the @Gnome foundation! #PyConUS.

You can now contribute directly to our efforts.

Learn more about our descision here - https://blackpythondevs.com/2024-05-17-non-profit-announcement/

futurebird, 2 days ago to random

yeah moss is great but how about a vascular plant that has basically ... gone back to the way of the moss...

Azorella compacta

It's... it's a carrot that has given up on having leaves...

Imagine a hostile planet with plants like this... could you tell that they once grew in less cold and arid climates? What if flora of the twilight days of a planet look like the earliest life... but when you look closer there are abilities, and structures that tell their history....

It looks exactly like a tuft of green moss.

pierre_dv, 1 day ago to France

👋 We have extended the deadline for this post-doc position in our lab! 👇

I am looking for candidates for 2-years #postdoc position, working on my #ERC project, developing a new statistical method to infer the distribution of the effect sizes of QTL. More information here :
https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/225408

Exciting opportunity to work in Paris, in the middle of the Jardin des Plantes!

Please boost!

#Job #France #Evolution #EvolutionaryBiology #Genetics #Genomics

@jobsecoevo

pradyunsg, 1 day ago to random

It's a bit of a curse that N95 masks are less effective if you cry into it.

laurentperrinet, 2 days ago to random

Congratulations to @antoine_grimaldi for successfully completing his PhD thesis yesterday! Excellent work on using precise spike timing in neural networks and efficient use of delays to perform robust and energy-efficient computations!

Thanks a lot to the jury: Dan Goodman, Barbara Webb, Sonja Gruen, Andrea Alamia, Martin Vinck, to the co-director of the thesis Jean Martinet... and to all the crowd at the Institut de Neurosciences de la Timone for making it a success 👏

https://laurentperrinet.github.io/post/2024-05-16_soutenance-antoine-grimaldi/

chris, 2 days ago to spain

In the 1920s and 1930s, Unions were at the forefront of the battle against the rise and taking power of fascism.

In the 2020s and 2030s, Unions are and will be at the forefront of the battle against the rise and taking power of fascism.

(pictured -- I believe -- is my Spanish grandfather and his father 1940s)

#Fascism #Unionism #Democracy #Spain #Canada #USA #EU #world #UN #leftist

black_intellect, 2 days ago to random

Cherokee Nation medical school graduates its first class - https://www.statnews.com/2024/05/16/medical-school-cherokee-nation-native-american-doctors/

neuromatch, 3 days ago to random

Announcing our new Research Partnerships Program!

We offer expert assistance in research software development, machine learning pipelines, and cloud tool deployment.

Focus on your research, save time by partnering with experts for these services.

Visit our website to tell us about your project and let us find you the perfect match.

evacide, 4 days ago to random

If you own a Tesla, your car is covered in cameras that take images reviewed by Tesla employees, who share them with each other, joke about them, and make them into memes.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/tesla-workers-shared-sensitive-images-recorded-by-customer-cars-2023-04-06/

futurebird, 3 days ago to random

Cats keep trying to start a union— but it’s too easy to attract scabs with offers of scritches and greenies. And every single cat thinks they are “union leadership” — add to that their intractable negotiation skills and the problems are obvious.

jk, 3 days ago to random

its kind of an indictment of space that the main reason to go to space is to look at the earth

CurrentBiology, 3 days ago to random

Early Jurassic origin of avian endothermy and thermophysiological diversity in dinosaurs https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(24)00525-6?rss=yes&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

heretical_i, 3 days ago to Israel

About 20%.
"UC investments in entities with ties to weapons makers, #Israel, #Blackrock, #Blackstone and 24 other companies targeted by divestment proponents amount to about $32 billion of #UC's $175 billion...

...Weapons: $3.3 billion

Israel: $12 billion in US Treasuries

Blackrock: $163 million
Blackrock managed investments for UC: $2.1 billion
Blackstone: $8.6 billion
24 targeted firms (Disney etc): $3.2 billion" https://www.instagram.com/p/C695RBiPy9f/ #StudentSpring #StudentIntifada #Divestment

hammerhead, 4 days ago to random

pov: you have found the naughty girl who should not be outside but very much is

xinicit, 4 days ago to random

Everyday I have to choose between drinking water and mummification and I’m frickin’ tired of it.

futurebird, 4 days ago to writing

Writing Prompt: In a future time your grave is robbed. Who is the theif? How do they see the “treasure” of your grave as salvation? How do they find it cursed? What is one thing in the grave that they do not dare disturb?

(a grave need not be a physical thing and treasure could be gold or information or anything rare)
#writing #writingprompt