LorenAmelang

elduvelle, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to Flowers

Spring #Flowers in #NewHampshire 🌸

(Let us know if you know their names!)

Edit: names have been promptly found - thank you!

1. Bluet (HT @otterX)
2. and 4) Hepatica Nobolis (HT @ambivalena )
3. is a Red Trillium (HT @WestLawns and @LorenAmelang )

LorenAmelang, 2 months ago to random

Seems this is going to be stuck in my brain until I understand it... I saw
https://neuromatch.social/@North@chaos.social/112266660391474182
with one post from Apr 13, 2024, 17:08.

The post was in my Neuromatch timeline because of a boost by @axoaxonic which is displayed with her icon in IceCubes but not in the web version of Neuromatch.

I opened the original post on chaos.social, and found five replies, which clarified and expanded the initial thought. Is there some way to see those without opening the original post on the original server?

I thought when I clicked to expand a post within Neuromatch, it would fetch all the replies. Sometimes I can notice the delay as it fetches in real time. Are there some conditions where it won't fetch? Maybe @manisha knows?

PessoaBrain, 4 months ago to random

Is it possible to increase the preview in our instance? I'm not sure what determines how much gets shown but sometimes is just a few lines and then "show more".

I mean, assuming other people feel he same.

@jonny ??

LorenAmelang, 4 months ago to random

Finally found the secrets of #FeaturedHashtags

I've seen that setting for ages and couldn't tell what it does.

https://box464.com/posts/mastodon-profile-hashtags/

You must be viewing the page as an unauthenticated user

You must be viewing the page on a larger screen or in landscape view.

Even then, if you don’t have your browser window stretched out past 1180px width - it is hidden.

Even if you get this far, if you have the advanced web interface enabled, it doesn’t show.

Unless you use #IceCubesApp or #Phanpy where they just show up between your profile data and the list of your posts. On any server even if you're logged into it!

Clicking one filters the list of posts to just the ones with that tab.

rimu, 4 months ago to accessibility

Hi #accessibility mastodon,

I’ve been building a #fediverse web app, “PieFed”, for the last few months and recently put a bit of effort into making it more accessible. It is almost WCAG 2.1 AA compliant now.

However I have no lived experience of using the web with disability so any feedback in this area is most welcome. Please give it a try at https://piefed.social and let me know what you think, from an accessibility perspective.

elduvelle, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to mastodon

Do you think that #Mastodon is more “siloed” than #Twitter?

Accounts of personal experiences welcome - we might use them in a article…

Please boost around!

elduvelle, 6 months ago to productivity

I know this is not Linkedin, but I’m curious: what are the tools that help your personal #productivity the most?

[.] What works for me:

+] this basic pomodoro from @clive: http://text-pomodoro.glitch.me/ when I really need to focus

+] Zotero as a reference manager: https://www.zotero.org/, I would be lost without it

+] Github (desktop): my coding became much more focused, organized and reusable thanks to it: https://desktop.github.com/

+] GanttProject to realize how little time I have left… : https://www.ganttproject.biz/#is-easy

[.] What I tried but didn’t work for me:

-] Tasks “manager”: tried Obsidian, One Note, Google Keep, Notebook… I can’t seem to find The One that works for me (and syncs with my laptop & phone). Taking suggestions!

-] Something to read and annotate pdfs: I got a Remarkable2 tablet, and then an Onyx Boox Note Air 2, and they’re just too slow and do not easily sync with my laptop and Zotero. For the most important papers I have to say I might prefer paper.. Also taking suggestions for this.

Edit: trying to make the bullet points not disappear in #IceCubes is still hard

elduvelle, 6 months ago to random

Can we please collectively agree to write references the informative way in our papers? 🙏
I mean [ThisPerson et al., 2010] instead of [5]

What is even the point of having references as numbers? The only reason is non-scientific: saving space. But it actually makes it more difficult to read or review properly - either you just don’t bother checking the refs (bad), or you spend additional time checking them (annoying). With the informative format, you can just read seamlessly if you recognize the ref and mentally check if it makes sense in context, or you can decide to spend the time looking it up if you don’t know it. Or, if you don’t care, you can just visually skip them. Come on!

elduvelle, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to Neuroscience

How to best sound-proof a door between two rooms?

Say I have a rat maze experiment that involves sounds and I don’t want to disrupt my colleagues’ experiments.
Or say my rats get distracted by the noises next door and I don’t want to have loud white noise during my task.
In this case the door is almost never in use, although it would be ideal if it could work on a door that’s in use as well.

#SoundProofing #Neuroscience #BehaviouralNeuroscience

PS: I cannot replace the door. The sound seems to come from the space between the door and the door frame.

petersuber, 7 months ago to random

Interesting argument that the recent decline in the #OpenAccess #citation advantage (#OACA) might be due to #SciHub.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-023-04792-5

"Thus, paradoxically, although Sci-hub may seem to facilitate access to scientific knowledge, it negatively affects the #OA movement as a whole, by reducing the comparative advantage of OA publications in terms of visibility for researchers."

LorenAmelang, 8 months ago to languagelearning

Most of my "Translated by DeepL" results try the wrong source language and fail.

My Ice Cubes GitHub says, "If your text is translated via DeepL and you haven't manually forced that in the settings by pasting your API key this is the translation service your mastodon instance provides. We send a request to your instance by default and can't select the translation service in that case."

Whenever I check, the poster has configured the post language correctly, and DeepL ignores it and guesses wrong.

But Neuromatch knows the configured language... Could you send that to DeepL along with the request?

Maybe in the web app you could even let us manually correct the source language if the poster is using an alternate from what they configured?

#DeepL #Translate #Language

elduvelle, 8 months ago to academia

Great tool to find out papers relevant to your own research, for example to make sure that you’re not forgetting a relevant citation when writing a new paper:

https://meshb.nlm.nih.gov/MeSHonDemand
Paste your abstract and be amazed!
#PaperWritingTip #Academia

NicoleCRust, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago) to random

What’s your take on the “Are mental disorders brain disorders?” debate?

@awaisaftab and I summarize our positions here:

https://awaisaftab.substack.com/p/advancing-neuroscientific-understanding

Curious to hear your thoughts as well. Is it overblown? Even if so, once we set aside the obvious, what interesting questions remain? Top down causation? The right conceptual framework to think about what is going wrong? Something else entirely?

elduvelle, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago) to linux

I am back using #Linux #Ubuntu and am already (figuratively) crying after 10 min because I simply want to install something but clicking on the downloaded install file doesn’t install it, nope, it just tries to open it as a text file, and I just wonder WHY do they have to make everything SO DIFFICULT

elduvelle, 10 months ago to random

Interesting questionnaire about what type of modality your inner thoughts have:

https://uwmadison.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3NMm9yyFsNioVhz
(By Hettie Roebuck)

Post your results and I’ll post mine!

breadandcircuses, 11 months ago to ocean

Deep-sea mining… 🤔

Sure, why not? Every other industry we’ve tried has made money for capitalists, had no side effects, and never caused problems. Right?

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"The biggest gold rush in history is about to start in the deep sea – leaving devastation in its wake"

The deep sea is estimated to contain billions of tons of nickel, cobalt, manganese and other minerals, mainly in potato-sized black nodules, which are seen as essential for a transition to a green terrestrial economy, for use in electric cars, wind farms, and other purposes.

Commentators have noted that all the scientific evidence points to huge environmental risks. In a state of alarm, a growing number of countries have demanded a moratorium, as have hundreds of marine scientists.

All of us should be deeply alarmed. The environmental impact of deep-sea mining could be catastrophic. Massive machines will scour the ocean bed to pick up polymetallic nodules, destroying everything in their path and creating sediment plumes that can suffocate coral reefs and other organisms hundreds of miles from the mining site. Mining will damage the ocean’s ability to act as a carbon sink, accelerating global warming.

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FULL STORY -- https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/07/gold-rush-deep-sea-devastation-seabed-oceans

#Ocean #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Pollution #Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual

neuronakaya, 11 months ago to random

Twitter's algorithm is so shitty that I no longer see many academic discussions. Many academics have been offline. I was relying on this platform to connect with scientists and read their research papers but I now hardly see them. What twitter has become is fucking depressing.

elduvelle, 1 year ago to random

Thinking about having a separate account for #Neuroscience stuff and one for everything else. But having 2 accounts seem like a lot of work. If you have tried multiple accounts, would you recommend it?

LorenAmelang, 1 year ago to Autism

#Introduction

The kids I grew up with knew I was "different", but my parents and school insisted I was normal. Now I've explored #Autism #Prosopagnosia #Alexithymia and #Aphantasia and have an idea what was going on, but then I thought everyone saw the world like I did, just coped better. I coped by becoming a #PluralSystem by age three when I realized my girl self would have to be hidden. After six "guy" IDs, I'm now back being that girl. Still running the system, but with more E and less T...

Age nine I was forced to wear #Bifocal #PlusLensTheory glasses every waking moment. Shattered my body sense and #CognitiveMap - https://www.psychoros.com/consumed-by-the-light/ Spent endless days of lonely boredom exploring the ~30° wedges of #SpatialViewCells and the flat dioramas between them. Now I'm rebuilding a 3D world around my body, where #HeadDirectionCells can have a single basis and #DorsalStream depth can pop out of the flat distance like content from a random dot stereogram.

Despite all that, I've been online since #ARPAnet and #DJNR, wrote the first magazine article with simultaneous code distribution (via 8" floppies in the post), coded fab robots to move 6" & 8" Silicon wafers, built my (almost) independent #SolarPV and #SolarThermal house (7K lines of C++ from 1998, 42 device outs), and evolved an audio system with bandwidth from DC to a half MHz. Helped raise four unique kids, as adult minds in young bodies. Still mystify most of the adults I encounter...

LorenAmelang, 1 year ago to random

I seem to remember someone here posting a question about the relative vividness of dreams versus waking life. Can't find it now. But it has made me think while writing my dream notes...

From this morning:

I think I found it digging in an old equipment collection, a complex device that supposedly controlled temperature for some bigger system. About 6" diameter, there was a setting lever that moved 180° around a serrated red pre-plastic circle at the bottom. That rotated the vertical rod mechanism that extended up about 7" at the center of the device. Maybe an inch out from the bottom of the rod, on a mount that didn't rotate, was a tiny motor with an inch of exposed ~1/32" shaft extending above its top, angled to point toward the top of the main center rod. Seemed it was supposed to rotate more mechanism via a rubber wheel touching it, but I never found that. A long way from understanding the thing.

Most of those details were not images, or at least were instantly converted to logical conclusions and lost to "vision".

But clearly I saw a vivid picture image of the black handle at the end of the lever and the red serrated semicircle it moved around, to the point it was obviously not modern smooth shiny bright red plastic, but the flat grainy orange-red "bakelite" from my childhood. It was a single still image that stayed the same as I moved the lever back and forth between its limits - the lever disappeared from attention and only logically moved.

And I saw a vivid image of the tiny motor shaft, its perfect shiny finish and its angle (but the image did not extend to include the bottom half of the motor, or the top of the device it pointed at, that conclusion was only "felt"). The rest of the device was only "seen" as a vague memory of first touching it, general size and shape, not enough light or detail to resolve any of the internals.

The problem with any conclusions from this is that my daily vision works the same way - each object has an "icon view" (saved from my first encounter with the object) with a current spatial reference to my entry path into the room, or the front of the house, or north. More detailed views are tiny snapshots located only by #SpatialViewCells, no connection to #HeadDirectionCells or objective directions except that I remember where the icon currently is. (At least that's how I explain it to myself...)

LorenAmelang, 1 year ago to random

Listened to the "Library of Alexandra" podcast last night - much more than I expected! A live, in-person interview with Alexandra Elbakyan at her mother's home in Kazakhstan. How Sci-Hub was born. The real story about why new papers are not appearing on Sci-Hub (a court case in India led by a young volunteer). Her strategy and hopes for the future of accessible science...

https://radiolab.org/podcast/library-alexandra

#SciHub #OpenAccess #AlexandraElbakyan

India case notes:
https://infojustice.org/archives/42977

Text of another Alexandra interview:
https://science.thewire.in/the-sciences/interview-alexandra-elbakyan-sci-hub-elsevier-academic-publishing-open-access/

benjaminhollon, 1 year ago to random

I was curious how federated my followers are, so I wrote up a script to get a list of all of them so I can do analysis. I need to figure out a good way to do statistical analysis, but for a very basic beginning, here are the top 10 instances y'all are coming from:

fosstodon.org: 684
mastodon.social: 62
infosec.exchange: 24
hachyderm.io: 19
mstdn.social: 19
mas.to: 16
writing.exchange: 13
social.linux.pizza: 12
mastodon.online: 11
mastodon.sdf.org: 10