Another exciting opportunity to join our department: Incoming Prof. Dr. Jing Zeng is looking for a #PhD student with a background in #computational#communication science 👩🏻💻
I think I'm over COVID enough to get cracking on my research proposal and I want to start as I mean to go on - by centering critical, Black, indigenous and queer perspectives.
Two years ago, Dan Akarca & I wondered: Could the various features we observe in brains across species be caused by shared functional, structural & energetic constraints? 🧠⚡️
With our now published spatially embedded RNNs we show this is true!
NEW PAPER! "GenomeMUSter mouse genetic variation service enables multi-trait, multi-population data integration and analyses" from my colleages at The Jackson Laboratory where I am interning this summer 🌞
This is a HUGE meta-analysis of genetic research in mice (#GRCm38) with a new searchable interface for #genetics researchers
PS: They're hiring! If you're a #computational#scientist interested in #biology#compbio and #genetics, please take a look at open positions like this one for an Associate Computational Scientist ($96,945 - $162,310 DOE):
An MIT student asked AI to make her headshot more ‘professional.’ It gave her lighter skin and blue eyes.
“I was like, ‘Wow, does this thing think I should become white to become more professional?’” said Wang, who is Asian American.
@meredithw@Wolven I think social sciences could actually use ”jailbroken” LLM’s (without the guardrails making them civic) to construct quantitative proof models pointing out the many forms #structural#racism in a clear & reproducable manner.
I find there’s not enough #computational branches in the #humanities. Economy is one, but they like to think they’re not a behavioral science. Tsk.
Our great current PreDoc-Interns Ahmed, Bruna, Cornell and Marcelo. The call for next Pre-Doc fellowships has just opened, so apply now to be the next.
Interesting to see how that changes the dynamics of people in the field. Phenomenology as a ”hard science” has always been a slightly problematic concept.
With different types of people now starting to wrestle with the same topics, we might get some incontestable replicatibility onto the field. Or maybe not, but interesting times nevertheless!
I am a neuroscientist based in sunny Marseille (France).
After a PhD in NYC in the lab of JL Pena, and a postdoc with Zach Mainen and the #InternationalBrainLab, I recently joined the #CNRS as a tenured researcher.
My work combines #experimental and #computational approaches to study the neural dynamics of flexible behavior in mice. My research is supported by the Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain (#SCGB).
Do you want to start a #PhD in #computational#materialsscience? Are you interested in predicting properties like conductivity or catalytic performance? Want to live in #Berlin and work in #academia? Do you want to be part of a new and ambitious project? Then apply here:
I posted an #introduction but then moved to fediscience.org, so let me introduce myself again.
I'm a #computational neuroscientist at Boston University. I make circuit models of cognitive-emotional interaction in the #limbic system. I shifted to #Julia from Matlab recently (and I love it!).
On the birdsite I tend to post a mix of neuroscience, philosophy, history, math, literature and... not-quite-serious musings.
I'm interested in public scientific communication and education too.
#introduction I'm a Post-doc working on mathematical and statistical model of malaria and COVID-19. I was actually trained as field marine ecologist, and only started picking up on my quantitative skills during my PhD in 2016, in which I drifted towards #infectious disease. Nevertheless, I love both #epidemiology and #ecology word, and hope to contribute to both domains using my #computational and #quantitative skills. I am #rstats enthusiast, but also speak #python and #cpp if I have to 😅