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Enjoyed reading @juleshoward.bsky.social’s Infinite Life, evolution through the eyes of eggs

This bit: quentinatkinson.substack.com/p/15-create-...

How not to run a university | Quentin’s Substack | Quentin Atkinson | Substack A case study of one university’s managerial misadventures, why it is happening and what we can do about it. Click to read Quentin’s Substack, by Quentin Atkinson, a Substack publication. Launched a mo...

My colleague Quentin Atkinson wrote this piece - How Not To Run a University. It is an insanely good read about how managerialism is destroying universities.

Make time for it. Talk about it. Share it.

quentinatkinson.substack.com/s/how-not-to...

Thank you very much for allowing us to contribute, honored to be part of his volume!

“Good morning, Dave”

I’d love to hear more ideas about this. I’ve been brainstorming for my own teaching. How to we stop teaching the brain as a domino chain (where disorders are broken dominos) but instead as a multi-level dynamical system? Starting at the earliest stages? Please chime in! A few thoughts …

Second, I understand there’s a movement in education to think about things like ecology and climate as big holistic dynamical systems (even in grade school). We can learn from that. Anyone w/ pointers, please chime in!

Thank you for starting this discussion thread. I was hoping you would!

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Karolinska is looking for 20 (!!) assistant professors and offering 6 year appointments with ~1M USD startup packages.

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Finished reading @nicolecrust.bsky.social’s Elusive Cures. Very interesting. I wonder, how do we change the way we train our students to help implement the new Grand Plan?

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lol. I always thought FSL needed a glass brain

Mine’s coming out soon ;-)

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Although I guess that is consistent with our own transcriptomic work ;-)

Interesting. I have reading up to do then

I agree that’s possible as well. Hard to talk about target or outcome, though. But I think there are probably very few genes acting on a particular neural systems? But I am very much not the expert on that

A problem we needed solving for a long time got solved by Austin

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Would something like the Linnean Society be an option?

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This incredible community, on whose backs our #Drosophila labs depend, can't be left out to dry.

'A life-changing experience in my career' - reflections on OxCIN Global Scholars We speak to OxCIN Global Scholars participant Kamilla Souza about her time on the scheme.

"I've always aspired to be a catalyst for change in my research field in Brazil, and OxCIN Global Scholars has made this goal more attainable."

Kamilla Souza talks about her Global Scholar experience and her work with @neuroecologylab.bsky.social on dolphin brains: tinyurl.com/bdcva2zv

Totally agree! New data, and importantly a framework to deal with them, allow us to ask better questions.

We tried to address this a bit in some studies. In the case of the human temporal lobe compared to that of chimpanzee and macaque, is there more of the same or different types of organisation: Eichert et al, 2020, elife

Tell me about it ;-)

I think that a general measure of encephalization says very little about behavioral abilities

It's not that size has no role, it's that using whole brain size is too crude a proxy to correlate with any specific behaviour.

I would argue that Krubitzer's work shows most convincingly that changes in function have very specific effects at many different levels of organisation (large areas, more areas, changes in connections, etc).

Asking @dickretired.bsky.social to join the conversation.