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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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elduvelle, (edited ) to random
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Where are you on the political scale? Please boost wildly!* 😃​

(*) Yes I mean Wildly not just widely

elduvelle, to random
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What do people use nowadays as ? (Does the concept even still exist?)

It’s to keep track of relevant of interest as my main source used to be… Twitter and ResearchGate, which I’ll both be leaving before 2024

elduvelle, to random
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So just made an agreement with... the predatory publisher

I know not everyone liked it but I was actually finding ResearchGate quite useful. Now this is completely trashing the little reputation they had left in the toilet. MDPI might have a few good journals but it is overall famously known for its predatory practices like not listening to the reviewers and not having enough time for proper review between submission and publication.

This is a really disappointing move from ResearchGate that's really not in their interest. I guess they got a big check for it? Makes you wonder what other unscientific content are they getting paid to promote.

I'm going to write to them (e.g. press@researchgate.net) to ask that they cut all ties with MDPI and any other predatory publishers. I hope that many users will complain too. If it has no effect, I'll just have to close my account and never go there again...

"MDPI’s commitment to delivering a high-quality service for our authors" :rofl:​

I guess you could say that not having proper peer-review is a service to the authors in a way?? 🤔​

source: publisher announcement from ResearchGate

elduvelle, (edited ) to mastodon
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Anyone knows of a app that allows you to do drafts one or more ? (Not facebook - actual threads)
@feditips ? 🙏

Edit: to be more specific: I’d like to be able to create a thread in the app, so a sequence of posts (not just 1 post) that can each have text, images etc. and are in a specific order, and if need be save it and come back to update it later, and eventually post it.
Also, I am using iOS and desktop (Windows). If you check the comments you’ll see that Fedilab seems to allow this but for Android.

Thanks for all the input so far!

elduvelle, (edited ) to academia
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People who write : do you write about

  1. projects that you’ve already almost completed (hiding the fact that they’re almost completed, so that you can use the funding for completely new projects), or
  2. new projects that you haven’t really started yet (for which you might just have some preliminary data)?

Do you think 1) is unethical? Do you think 1) is necessary? Do you think 1) has the highest chances of funding? Please comment :)

elduvelle, (edited ) to Futurology
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So is this the deal with the new @eLife system:
1- you send your preprint
2- it is reviewed (if they so choose)
3- you eventually upload a final “version of record”
OR
4- you send the reviewed preprint (+reviews) to another journal for publication

Has anyone tried that step 4? Do the “other journals” accept to publish something that’s already been reviewed by eLife?

Of course, you could do 3 instead but does having an eLife paper under the new system “count” for your CV?

Edit 1: here’s an explanation of the new eLife process: https://elifesciences.org/peer-review-process

Edit 2: clarified the link between step 3 and 4 (either/or, not both)

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, to academia
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Grant-writing question - isn’t it weird / stressful to put all your ideas out there, for a 10% chance to be funded, while at the same time taking the risk that other researchers (intentionally or not) might use these ideas for their own benefit?

(Of course this wouldn’t be a problem if we weren’t all competing with each other.. but we currently are)

elduvelle, (edited ) to academia
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Question for all tenure-track or tenured of any field:
Do you have to teach (at least some) in your current position?
Would you prefer not to do any teaching?

Question for the comments: do you think research and teaching should be done by separate people?

elduvelle, (edited ) to linux
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I am back using and am already (figuratively) crying after 10 min because I simply want to install something but clicking on the downloaded install file doesn’t install it, nope, it just tries to open it as a text file, and I just wonder WHY do they have to make everything SO DIFFICULT

elduvelle, to python
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Question for :
Getting tired of my version that relies on different versions of Python modules than the ones I need for coding…

What is your favourite for Python (and why?)?

elduvelle, to productivity
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I know this is not Linkedin, but I’m curious: what are the tools that help your personal the most?

[.] What works for me:

+] this basic pomodoro from @clive: http://text-pomodoro.glitch.me/ when I really need to focus

+] Zotero as a reference manager: https://www.zotero.org/, I would be lost without it

+] Github (desktop): my coding became much more focused, organized and reusable thanks to it: https://desktop.github.com/

+] GanttProject to realize how little time I have left… : https://www.ganttproject.biz/#is-easy

[.] What I tried but didn’t work for me:

-] Tasks “manager”: tried Obsidian, One Note, Google Keep, Notebook… I can’t seem to find The One that works for me (and syncs with my laptop & phone). Taking suggestions!

-] Something to read and annotate pdfs: I got a Remarkable2 tablet, and then an Onyx Boox Note Air 2, and they’re just too slow and do not easily sync with my laptop and Zotero. For the most important papers I have to say I might prefer paper.. Also taking suggestions for this.

Edit: trying to make the bullet points not disappear in is still hard

elduvelle, (edited ) to random
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Thread of cute things that do:

  • Slow-motion licking

1/

elduvelle, (edited ) to python
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Please help question 🖥️
I am trying to install (4) on Windows (10) (I know, I know).

It works on one of my Win10 computers, but doesn’t on any other ones that I’m trying to install this on.
When running ‘pip install mountainsort4’ I get this error: “command ‘some_path_on_my_comp\cl.exe’ failed with exit code 2”

I also get this error: " C:\some_path\Local\Temp\pip-install-kykt_efl\isosplit5_3fce77eb41cf47b4a1d4ca22afae35a2\src\isocut5.h(19): fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'stdlib.h': No such file or directory"

I have googled this to death and tried everything and it just won’t fix itself. The cl.exe path exists. I added it to the environment variables (but maybe not properly?). It’s a Visual Studio function.
Seen this before? Any suggestions? 🙏

Edit (and thank you for all answers so far!):

  • I have tried running it in the visual studio console, it shows the same error.
  • I have tried running it in as administrator, same error..
  • I have tried replicating the conda environment from the computer that works onto the others, but it comes up with the same errors as when I install manually. The only detectable difference is that the working install has an older version of conda / anaconda.
  • I asked the repo owner and they said to use it on Linux (or using the windows subsystem for Linux), but I’d like to try and keep things as simple as possible (both for me and other users), and this is NOT simple. I know it can work on Win10 so I just want to replicate that.

Edit 2: I reinstalled Visual Studio stuff using these instructions
NOW I do not get the error about the missing stdlib.h anymore, and I can actually install isosplit5 which is a dependency of mountainsort, BUT - when I go back to running pip install mountainsort4 it now has new errors! (progress?) They look like syntax errors as described in this issue and they still end in the cl.exe error. At the end it said that it did build mountainsort4 but not isosplit5 and when I try to actually run mountainsort functions they say it's not installed. so Fail.

Edit 3: I am so desperate that I have created a Question on StackOverflow, yes yes
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/76887010/how-to-fix-missing-stdlib-h-file-and-failed-cl-exe-command-when-installing-m

Edit 4: Am I just using the 'wrong' version of those Visual Studio functions for the code? Like the code has not been adapted to current versions? But how can I know which version the code wants?

Edit 5: if I manage to install isosplit5... why does mountainsort try to 'build the wheels for isosplit5'? Is there a way to tell it to use the one that is already installed?

Edit 6 (Aug 15): I tried my pipeline in the Windows Subsystem for Linux. It had a C++ problem at first, but it worked after I ran sudo apt install build-essential.

Anyone knows about an equivalent to that instruction in Windows?
I think that would fix my problem... if it exists

elduvelle, to twitter
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So let me get this right..

1-Scientists go to Twitter, invest time and effort in it to build their profile, post cool content, help optimize it, attract readers to it etc.

2-Jack Dorsey (& others) sells Twitter to Elon Musk

3-Elon Musk destroys Twitter

4-Jack Dorsey creates a new platform, Bluesky

5-Scientists go to BlueSky, invest time and effort to build their profile … … …

…am I missing something? Why are they doing it again? 😳

Edits: sorry, acting up with my formatting again

elduvelle, to movies
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Suggestions for a “fun, not boring” movie? Not very specific, I know…

elduvelle, (edited ) to mastodon
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Do you think that is more “siloed” than ?

Accounts of personal experiences welcome - we might use them in a article…

Please boost around!

elduvelle, (edited ) to mastodon
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is really great isn’t it?!
If you could improve one thing with it, what would it be?

(Personally I’m leaning towards the possibility of having a “bespoke” algorithm in an additional timeline)

(Edit: typo)

elduvelle, to Neuroscience
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question: anyone recognize these signals? The wavy thing? It’s supposedly in rat cortex (above hippocampus), when the rat is immobile, possibly sleepy. Recorded with .
The x-axis scale for each of the two columns is 1s.

elduvelle, (edited ) to python
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As a (broadly-speaking), which language do you prefer for your data processing and data analysis?

I’m particularly interested in understanding why so many people seem to use R these days - comments welcome!

#R

elduvelle, (edited ) to Neuroscience
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How to best sound-proof a door between two rooms?

Say I have a rat maze experiment that involves sounds and I don’t want to disrupt my colleagues’ experiments.
Or say my rats get distracted by the noises next door and I don’t want to have loud white noise during my task.
In this case the door is almost never in use, although it would be ideal if it could work on a door that’s in use as well.

PS: I cannot replace the door. The sound seems to come from the space between the door and the door frame.

elduvelle, (edited ) to random
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question: what software do you use for “slicing” with a Resin printer? I currently use Chitubox but it seems a bit limited… (not too bad either for a free program)
Edit: added resin

elduvelle, to academia
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What’s the most difficult question you ever had in a job interview? @academicchatter

elduvelle, (edited ) to random
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How’s your SFN poster preparation going?

elduvelle, (edited ) to Futurology
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Another question for tenure-track or tenured :

Did you choose this job mostly for the teaching aspect? The research aspect? Or both?

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