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Science writing internship; BS or higher; paid, can be virtual intranet.broadinstitute.org/communicatio...

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We're #hiring! The Kavli Foundation is looking for a Grants and Contracts Manager to join our team. Interested? Learn more and apply here: www.kavlifoundation.org/careers/ Plus, check out our other open positions! #GrantsManagement #JobOpening #STEM #NonprofitJobs

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Some non-Americans are expressing a sense of helplessness watching the US. My personal recommendation to those feeling that way is to work to steel up the science infrastructure, funding, and culture in your own country. We need everyone to harbor knowledge and incubate progress while the US can't!

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This year again in person: the Systems Vision Science Summer School & Symposium! Come and connect with other #vision and #neuroscience researchers from around the world. 🗓️ Aug. 11-22, 2025 📍Tübingen, Germany ⏰ Apply until March 31! 👉https://buff.ly/3EplK5u

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hey for anyone who might want to actually own their kindle books instead of renting them, or who might be thinking of switching to kobo etc and will want to convert them to epubs, you now only have one week before amazon kills your ability to download its ebooks www.theverge.com/news/612898/...

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🚨Preprint Alert New work with @martinavinck.bsky.social We elucidate the architectural bias that enables CNNs to predict early visual cortex responses in macaques and humans even without optimization of convolutional kernels. 🧠🤖 🧠📈

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Rare chance to work as a Postdoc with one of the nicest people and a world expert in Neurovirology. The position is to investigate the connection between viruses and #Parkinson (more relevant than ever) and funded by philanthropy, so independent of government funding.

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I don't often collect my paper mail, so only saw this just now. "the strength of our Nation is defined in part by the boldness of its science, the quality of its research, and the progress it brings forth." Exactly!

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Great reporting @npr.org! Cuts to NIH Indirects Costs could disrupt cancer Clinical Trials. Includes a patient 1st perspective. www.npr.org/2025/02/11/n...

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"it’s very scary to think the concentration of plastics in my brain will go up several percentage points before we have answers,” www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Warming stripes on an electric bus in Kiel, Germany. #ShowYourStripes @edhawkins.org

submitted 16 days ago • 7 comments

For every important election, Germany’s Federal Agency for Civic Education releases an online tool that asks your opinion on the most important topics and matches your responses with the statements given in the platforms/programs of all political parties. The newest one will go live in 1 minute.

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Americans taught us Germans about freedom. After defeating a genocidal Nazi regime, they and regime survivors strongly influenced our constitution. Art. 5 guarantees uncensored freedom of speech & public information, and protections esp for: journalists, artists, professors, and scientists. #SciComm

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Ab morgen, den 2. Februar 2025, gilt die weltweit strengste KI-Gesetzgebung, der #AIAct der #EU. Digitalrechtsexperte Erik Tuchtfeld erklärt, worauf sich Entwickler und Anbieter einstellen müssen - und was das für uns bedeutet www.mpg.de/24096506/faq... #KI @erik.d-64.social @mpil.de

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The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

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Academic workers across the country are organizing to call on our congressional representatives on Thursday, 1/30, at 3pm ET / 12pm PT to demand these restrictions be lifted immediately. There will be a training over zoom at the beginning of the event. Join us! form.jotform.com/250226137228...

submitted 30 days ago • 17 comments

„Für die Wissenschaft sei Bluesky mit seiner Transparenz und Offenheit „ein Paradies“ […]“ - @tuda.bsky.social legt erste umfassende Studie zu #Bluesky vor

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Hey #energysky #climatesky et al. - I'm looking for a #heatpump science experiment or demo session appropriate for an elementary/middle school aged audience for an event I'm planning later this year. Basically, 20 mins of fun for kids re heat pumps! No luck with internet searching, any suggestions?

submitted 32 days ago • 2 comments

Hearing that a lot of NIH study section and council meetings are being cancelled. In the spirit of @nicolecrust.bsky.social ‘s call to action for scicomm, if you have found yourself with a few extra hours today, consider making a video or writing an op-ed on why research matters. 🙏

submitted 35 days ago • 2 comments

I have a post-doc position to study the effect of AI on education. How can we ensure that AI tools enhance natural intelligence? The position is a part of the Estonian Centre of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence. Please repost - not easy to get people to work in Estonia 🥶 #edusky #neuroAI

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Maybe a good time to remember that mice have tiny hyperconnected brains. An estimated 97% of all possible connections between brain areas exist in mice, vs ~62% in macaques and marmosets. No wonder everything is everywhere in mice, they have all-to-all connectivity! doi.org/10.1093/cerc...

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More than 60 German universities and research institutions leave X due to incompatibility with scientific integrity, transparency and basic democratic values.

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Come work as a postdoctoral researcher in our research group at KU Leuven in Belgium and help us unravel the visual factors underlying aesthetic image preferences! www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...

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It is truly heartbreaking to explain to bright young scientists from abroad how much money it takes in the States to afford basic necessities like health care and child care. It does not have to be this way.

submitted 52 days ago • 1 comment

Looking to see who’s here on BlueSky? We’ve complied a list of cartoonists, publications and organizations to help you find people to follow. www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/20...

submitted 99 days ago • 44 comments

A new Feed just dropped to complement this community-centered campaign: Public Facing Science Please post your public-facing contributions to science with one of these tags to inspire us all: #SciPublic #SciAdvocate #SciOutreach and consider following this feed: bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Vision science has lost one of its pioneers, Eileen Kohler. My research was inspired and guided by hers. She was the first recipient of the Vision Science Society Davida Teller Award, and I had the privilege of serving with her on the Board of Directors of the Vision Science Socity.

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(1/3) 🌟New preprint with @lynnkasorensen.bsky.social and Jim DiCarlo When animals learn new object discrimination tasks, how much does their IT cortex change? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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If you are a scientist (including graduate students) or professional science communicator who is at least 18 years old and are using Bluesky for any kind of professional purposes, please consider taking our survey. Link: umiami.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... Please help share. 🧪🌎 #SciComm

submitted 58 days ago • 26 comments

Scientists! We are trying to get 1000 of us into the volunteer database by Jan 1. You'll be volunteering to speak with classrooms over video chat about your work, and answer their questions! You can volunteer for up to 5 sessions per semester. Sign up here! www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html

submitted 58 days ago • 23 comments

Not telling anyone what to do, just saying that if @realscide.bsky.social gains a mere 68 new followers over the next few days, it will have won back 5,000 followers during its first year on this platform.

submitted 59 days ago • 2 comments

This year, we worked swiftly to save legacy media sites Vice.com and MTVNews before decades worth of valuable journalism could be erased. These sites are now searchable on the Wayback Machine! Help us in saving these resources:: https://archive.org/donate/?origin=blsky-eoy2024

submitted 60 days ago • 56 comments

What's your "Paper of the Year"? Join us and link your favorite one and let's create the best reading list ever :) @petrovadmitri.bsky.social Here's my favorite of 2024: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39481381/

submitted 62 days ago • 3 comments

Post your most popular art from the bird app... secret lives of synapses #sciArt #synapses #neuroscience #neurons

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📣 Ende Februar bin ich voraussichtlich wieder im Großraum Nürnberg unterwegs. Möchte am 31.01. oder 03.02. zufällig eine Frau aus der Gegend, die im weitesten Sinne mit Informatik zu tun hat, ein Interview für den Podcast "Informatik für die moderne Hausfrau" mit mir führen?

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Really happy to share our preprint now on @elife.bsky.social on quantifying patterns in a large behavioral dataset from >100 socially-housed marmosets elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre.... We hope this data be useful for identifying atypical patterns of behavior in disease models in our lab and others.

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With “Tübingen Women in Machine Learning”, Claire Vernade and her team have created a local community. Their aim is to empower women and make them more visible. Read more on our blog: www.machinelearningforscience.de/en/a-network... @twiml.bsky.social #TWiML #WiML

submitted 70 days ago • 1 comment

computational/theoretical neuroscientists, how important it is to you that you can be in the same building w/ experimentalists who are interested in conducting new studies to directly test your ideas / predictions? or u think outside collaborators + analyzing existing datasets are just as well?

submitted 77 days ago • 5 comments

Let’s use this as an excuse to top up our lists of freelance science illustrators - among which @somedonkey.bsky.social is exquisite. Who else? Please respond with a blurb/link so we can bookmark. Or maybe there’s a starter pack?

submitted 78 days ago • 3 comments

All Protocol Observed There are only 10 people at The Continent and we want to be the most reliable source of African news for anyone, anywhere. For that, we need your help. Please fill out our reader survey. Kidogo kidogo we’ll get this right 👇

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