Matt Kirkcaldie

Who is the GOAT?

Well said!

Just needs someone to file a lawsuit making the argument that labor laws would apply to conscious entities, you’d find they suddenly became a lot clearer on the issue.

More of a joke that our “diverse” rodent models are more closely grouped with the primates than any other mammals!

There’s always Silgard for high purity optical type stuff - castable very clear silicone.

I don’t think anyone interested in neuronal types would have ignored their functional roles, from Cajal onward.

Or at least, euarchontoglires biology

Orange coloured fungal balls that have a honeycomb-like pattern growing on a moss and lichen covered branch.

A younger patch of the fungal fruit. This one has a lot more of the "balls" but a large proportion have not opened so look a matt apricot colour. Some have opened to reveal the orange honeycomb-like indents. These probably have a name, but I don't know what it is.

"Myrtle oranges" are a really striking #fungus (Cyttaria gunnii). The myrtles (Nothofagus cunninhamii) at a roadside stop on the #Tasmanian west coast were being hammered by these.

sigh

and too many mentors, friends and colleagues to make a coherent post without fear of omitting someone!

A good day to highlight women whose science has educated, challenged and delighted me - Leah Krubitzer, Nicole Le Douarin, Patricia Goldman-Rakic, Almut Schüz, Kathleen Rockland, @shubhatole.bsky.social, Ruth Benavides-Piccione, @kdmicheva.bsky.social, @sherculanohouzel.bsky.social, Barb Finlay

yikes

Never change, Tasmania.

#JUNO #Jupiter orbiter
#JIRAM Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper

Perijove 72 Target: #Jupiter

atmos.nmsu.edu/PDS/data/PDS...

NASA/JPL/SwRI/JIRAM/ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI ASTROFISICA/j. Roger

Every one with its own kingdom

I’m really, really sorry.

Lumineers

Today I'd like to honor the memory of my mentor and friend, Roger Tsien, born 1952 February 1. Today would have been Roger's 74th birthday.

Most know Roger for his 2008 Chemistry Nobel Prize with Shimomura and Chalfie. Roger made GFP into the versatile imaging method it is now.

Foundational text

You don't have to dirty your soul to be a successful academic or a scientist. Have some fucking pride. Have some fucking principles.

If you think you DO need to do that, all I can say is that I beg you not to go into academia or science.

Minority here!

‘Tour de force’ study flags fount of interneurons in human brain The newly discovered cell type might point to the origins of the inhibitory imbalance linked to autism and other conditions.

Enormously significant if it holds up - lifelong inhibitory cortical neurogenesis via resident SVZ population in humans. What a potential avenue for addressing disorders attributed to cortical E/I disproportion. Via Holly Barker in @thetransmitter.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/spectrum/tou...

A red Alfa Romeo 159 Ti TBi sedan in dappled shade

Devastated for your loss, that's a glorious car to have owned.
This is still my daily driver (2011 159 Ti TBi)

Head-direction cells as a neural compass in bats navigating outdoors on a remote oceanic island Animals and humans rely on their navigation skills to survive. However, spatial neurons in the brain’s “navigation circuit” had not previously been studied under real-world conditions. We conducted an...

The study, from the Ulanovsky lab and first-authored by
@shakedpa.bsky.social, was published a few months ago in Science: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Feels almost like science fiction to me, tracking the internal representation of direction and how the animals assembled maps over time.

How Animals Build a Sense of Direction | Quanta Magazine Researchers documented the activity of neurons that shape directional navigation as bats explored a remote island off the coast of Tanzania.

Amid the hype around prattling "AI" models, astonishing research into living minds gets overlooked. Wonderful piece by @yaseminsaplakoglu.bsky.social in @quantamagazine.bsky.social about bats navigating in a natural environment, decoding the sense of direction. www.quantamagazine.org/how-animals-...

“Some forms of speech generate days of outrage, wall-to-wall commentary and urgent demands for action. When Aboriginal peoples are targeted with an explosive device in a public square, the response barely registers. Lives are not valued on the same scale.”

Just staggering, really. Watching the beacon of attention sweeping ahead of an exploring rat.

Any comment from @ausgov.bsky.social of @vicgovau.bsky.social on this?

Your multiple, excited press releases about your collab with Moderna for vaccine tech in '24-'25 should now be defended LOUDLY. If there's no pushback to JFK's misinformation, we might as well all pack up and go home.

Cover of Marian Stamp Dawkins' book "Who is Conscious? A Guide to the Minds of Animals" showing a forest glade lit by a shaft of light, surrounded by dark tall trees.

Excited to discover that the renowned Prof Marian Stamp Dawkins recently released a book addressing one of my most pressing interests – consciousness in nonhuman animals – and that it's available open-access from Oxford University Press. Will read with great interest. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

stop using AI to do your research. it hallucinates too often. if you want an answer to something, post something arrogant on the appropriate subreddit. something like: "this item performs 10% better than everything else. only idiots deny this." this will bait nerds into doing your research for you.