Austin E. Soplata, PhD

Anyone doing #python development on #macos #osx : the latest "Xcode Command Line Tools" (16.3) seems to be causing maaajor slowdown for many Python operations. Seems to be resolved for now by downgrading to 16.2 from developer.apple.com/download/all...

Want a high-level overview of how HNN works? Check out this short comic by our lab manager Joyce (@kermieeart.bsky.social)!

tinyurl.com/27xrksez

#compneuro #sciart #comics

HNN Pre-Workshop Information Workshop Overview The Human Neocortical Neurosolver (HNN) is a user-friendly software tool for interpreting the cell and circuit level origin of human MEG and EEG signals. In this virtual event, we ...

We invite you to join us at our 2025 Spring Online Human Neocortical Neurosolver (HNN) Workshop! This workshop will be on Wednesday, April 9th from 9 AM - 3 PM (ET). Find out more and sign up 👉 tinyurl.com/hnn-workshop....
Seats are limited! #compneuro

Big news: we are setting up a new non-profit organization to run bioRxiv and medRxiv. It's called openRxiv [no it's not a new preprint server; it's dedicated organization to oversee the servers] openrxiv.org 1/n

Walls, A., Tortorici, M., Bosch, BJ. et al. Cryo-electron microscopy structure of a coronavirus spike glycoprotein trimer. Nature 531, 114–117 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature16988

Kirchdoerfer, R., Cottrell, C., Wang, N. et al. Pre-fusion structure of a human coronavirus spike protein. Nature 531, 118–121 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature17200

NIH/NIAID/NIGMS research, training, *and* equipment grants made possible the first two atomic-resolution structures of coronavirus spike proteins, all the way back in 2016. But sure, tell us NIH-funded research isn't high-impact.

The Human Neocortical Neurosolver is on Bluesky! HNN is a user-friendly computational tool to develop & test hypotheses about the neural circuits underlying EEG/MEG signals. Our aim is to make comp neuro accessible to a broad community. Follow for HNN science, workshops & development! 🧠 👩‍🔬 #compneuro

More from inside NIH:

Per a source with knowledge, for all internal research (of which there is like $10 billion worth or so), ALL purchasing shut down as of yesterday.

That means gloves, reagents, anything involved with lab work, which means a lot of that work will stop.

The Trump Administration Appears to Be Holding the NIH Hostage Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.

Here's a short piece with a bit more on the apparent purchasing freeze/hostage situation at NIH

Adam Curtis Title Card: We Too Are Trapped In A System. Text over a background of a large office building

THREAD

This Is The Story Of The The Pernicious Rise of AI-Generated Papers and their Online Impact

An Incomplete History Told In The Voice of Documentarian Adam Curtis
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Wow. Here is one to brighten up your morning. The first images of the restored interior of Notre Dame cathedral. Breathtaking. In just five years France did it

How the Web of Science takes a step back <p>The Web of Science, a major commercial indexing service of scientific journals operated by Clarivate, recently decided to remove eLife from its Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE). eLife will on...

Great blog by Bodo Stern (@hhmi.bsky.social) about the recent Clarivate decision on @elife.bsky.social’s impact factor. www.coalition-s.org/blog/how-the...

Links to professor uni webpage is the highest probability for link rot

"Please find the important data annotation files here:
`www.university.edu/~professormike/links`"

Zenodo, GitHub, anything but this