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Dimos Karamanlis
@dimokaramanlis.qoto.org.ap.brid.gy
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Neuroscientist postdoc. Interested in ethologically-relevant neural coding, vision and decision-making. Currently based at the Department of Basic […]

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srlevine.neuromatch.social.ap.brid.gy
Someone defending their PhD thesis next week slacked the group this morning with this link.

https://research.wmz.ninja/projects/phd/index.html

#academia
PhD Simulator - A Text-Based Game by Mianzhi Wang
A completely random event based text game. Simply make your choice at the beginning of each month and see if you can graduate in time. All outcomes are determined by the random number generator and do not take them seriously. Sometimes the RNG can be brutal :)
research.wmz.ninja
May 23, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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niksirbi.neuromatch.social.ap.brid.gy
As part of this week-long event, I will be hosting a 2-day “Animals in Motion” workshop in London, with the generous support of @SoftwareSaved.

It’s for anyone who wants to get hands-on experience with using open-source software to track animals from video footage and analyse their motion […]
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neuromatch.social
April 17, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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niksirbi.neuromatch.social.ap.brid.gy
This was among the most fun projects I’ve worked on! Borrowing some methods from MRI and applying them to whole-brain microscopy data of outstanding quality.

Check out these beautiful (and magnetoreceptive) bird brains!

#anatomy #neuroscience

From: @adamltyson […]
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neuromatch.social
March 11, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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dgkontopoulos.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy
Thrilled to share my first main #paper from my #embo #postdoc fellowship that is out today in #FunctionalEcology: https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1365-2435.14739 🥳

Read on to learn about the #Evolution of #torpor among #mammals and #birds!

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January 6, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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jonny.neuromatch.social.ap.brid.gy
I never heard of these whole ass deeply evolutionarily preserved organelles in my cell bio class. Anyone know what these dang things are?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vault_(organelle)
Vault (organelle) - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org
December 15, 2024 at 12:46 AM
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highergeometer.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy
I wonder if the tools of digital stylometry can detect what people seem to sense when presented with AI-generated text. I don't mean using deep learning to have built up an internalised semantic picture of what type of text LLMs generate, but just purely examining style with eg the count of […]
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mathstodon.xyz
December 14, 2024 at 7:39 AM
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elisabethbik.bsky.social
Didier Raoult now published a 'preprint' claiming I am 'close' to Gates Foundation - citing a France Soir article as the reference.

He also suggests that my poor facial recognition skills are linked to autism, with 'serious psychosocial consequences'.

What a sad man.

hal.science/hal-04795904/
Highlighted text from the article: "This platform has been widely used by Elisabeth Bik, a biologist with a scientific background who has a self-proclaimed "fraud hunter" whose funding for this activity is totally obscure and is close to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (9). She recently confessed in an interview (10) , she was a victim of face blindness also call prosopagnosia, a condition link to autism in 36% of cases (11) and which may have serious psychosocial consequences. She said his brain has the uncanny ability to spot retouched or doctored images in a fraction of a second. She explains that his neurons, by a strange mechanism, launch themselves in search of repetitive patterns, replicated angles, points or similar lines scattered throughout the pages. She manages to spot copy-paste even when an academic has taken care to flip the original image or edit it in Photoshop (10). "Before, I thought everyone was like me...". “I only recently realized that I had some kind of special ability. ». This donation will push her to flush out scientific fraud using the PubPeer platform."
December 2, 2024 at 5:46 AM
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jesseskinner.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy
Boost this toot if you're planning on sticking around Mastodon whether or not it's more popular than Bluesky.
November 18, 2024 at 3:17 PM
dimokaramanlis.qoto.org.ap.brid.gy
The latest piece of my PhD work is now published! Check it out at https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08212-3

We explain how correlated responses in the retinal output may arise when nonlinear receptive fields are stimulated with natural scenes. We think […]

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Summary of visual responses of marmoset retinal ganglion cells stimulated with natural visual scenes with gaze trajectories recorded in actual marmosets.
November 25, 2024 at 6:13 PM