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📣NEURO FACULTY JOBS! 🧠 University of Oxford opened *2* positions for Associate Professors of Neuroscience! Come be our colleague! Applications due: noon, 18 Nov 2024 More info: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit… University of Oxford Department of Physiology Anatomy & Genetics (DPAG) Oxford Neuroscience Pembroke College St Hilda's College

Fellow Fly Folks - registration for the Crete Fly Circuits meeting just opened! This will be a fun and exciting conference for everyone working on neural circuits & behavior in Drosophila 🪰. June 15 - 21/2025. And yes, the venue is right by the sea 🌊. sites.google.com/view/crete-fly…

working day and night on a proposal and searching for something else ran into this nice interview between my graduate advisor Clay Reid Clay Reid and fellow labmate at the time Prakash Kara Prakash Kara : spiedigitallibrary.org/journals/neuro…

strong reuse of open FlyWire and FAFB image & manual tracing data in this interesting-looking segmentation effort: arxiv.org/pdf/2401.03043… Idea seems to be to embed features from small pre-segmented fragments and train them to hook up correctly using FlyWire & FAFB ground truth

Interested in working on a state-of-the-art connectomics pipeline at its birthplace as a postdoc? We’d love to hear from you! :) mrc.tal.net/vx/mobile-0/ap…

I've combined some of these together into a new #neuro #visualization "In the eye of a fly": Using the FlyWire visual system wiring diagram, #Brian2 spiking #neuron simulator, and #blender. Information flow through the chiasms, across a topographic map.

Tom Reese has passed. He was a truly pioneering explorer of neuronal ultrastructure, and really nice guy to talk to. I am grateful to have known him. mbl.edu/news/obituarie…

Protists are awesome! Neat to see the biochemical & structural mechanisms for rapid cell shape change start to get worked out. :)

My first-author paper is out today Nature Communications ! We investigated how oligodendrocytes produce myelin. Using volume EM, we characterized oligodendroglial ER (magenta) in developing myelin and explored nonvesicular lipid transport involved. #lipidtime doi.org/10.1038/s41467… (1/n)

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For Reasons it just came to mind that retina great peter sterling Peter Sterling (computer-based volume EM circuit reconstruction in 1984!) was also a Freedom Rider. penn.edu/news/peter-s... ryehistory.org/stories/pete...

The $3B Human Genome Project was started under a Republican administration and later acknowledged by the Obama admin to have returned $141 to the economy for every $1 spent. Science has a higher ROI than any other category of government spending.

Thanks Davi Bock for taking a pic the moment I first saw our cover of nature! A magical time to be at Society for Neuroscience (SfN) #sfn 2024. To the future!

Whole-brain spatial organization of hippocampal single-neuron projectomes science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Final week to register for the Crete meeting - judging from the people who already signed up, this is shaping up to be a super exciting week for Drosophila circuits enthusiasts.

This is a really heroic experiment recording associative learning neurons in the fly brain over two hours while two flies interact with one another. This device and this approach can generally enable many more kinds of social interaction experiments

The BRAIN Initiative has driven unprecedented progress in neuroscience, but a 40% funding cut threatens this momentum. Restoring funding would help solve more mysteries of the brain and developing life-changing treatments. #studyBRAIN nature.com/articles/s4159…

"The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory." 4/4 Howard Zinn, "The Optimism of Uncertainty" (2004)

This to me signals a serious escalation on the assault on free speech. usermag.co/p/hasan-piker-…