SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .Mar 13th, 2025

  The greatest obstacle to our understanding of the US Constitution is our familiarity with it. Vol II No 65 412 links Curated Breakthrough ...

#Roadmap towards #Standardized
#NeuroImaging approaches
for human #ThalamicNuclei

» There is currently no #consensus in the field as to which #thalamic #nuclei can be reliably imaged or how to exploit emerging techniques that can potentially allow more robust delineation
...
we have formed a consortium:

The Thalamus Nuclei Neuroimaging Group #TANGO
...
inspiration from #HippocampalSubfields Group ..development of consensus protocols for segmenting «

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/385008273

#neuroscience

#Standardized #NeuroML model of the day (2024-09-11):

Models of Neocortical Layer 5b Pyramidal Cells Capturing a Wide Range of Dendritic and Perisomatic Active Properties, Hay et al 2011

See if on #OpenSourceBrain here:

https://v1.opensourcebrain.org/projects/l5bpyrcellhayetal2011

and on #GitHub here: https://github.com/OpenSourceBrain/L5bPyrCellHayEtAl2011

#ComputationalNeuroscience #ComputationalModelling #Neuroscience #Cortex #Layer5B #FAIR #OpenScience #AcademicChatter

Learn more about NeuroML here: https://docs.neuroml.org

Overview - Layer 5b Pyramidal cell - Hay et al. 2011 - Open Source Brain

Open Source Brain is a resource for sharing and collaboratively developing computational models of neural systems.

@brokenix@emacs.ch @indianewswatch

https://lifestyle.livemint.com/news/talking-point/how-a-bihari-lost-his-mother-tongue-to-hindi-111646978905376.html

British quest for #standardized #language in #India was pragmatic politics.

#LinguisticCleansing of #Hindi, #Urdu, & #Tamil was nefarious politics.

I fully agree with Alok Rai (author of Hindi Nationalism, cited by author in linked article) that these sectarian ploys brand the ENTIRE Hindi-speaking population as "language chauvinist."

Blame goes to ideologies such as #BJP #Hindutva as much as it does to #DMK #AntiHindi in politicizing Hindi

How a Bihari lost his mother tongue to Hindi

The pitfalls of forcing the use of Hindi on non-Hindi states have often been commented upon. But the hegemonic project is also threatening to subsume languages like Magadhi and Bhojpuri in the northern belt

Mintlounge

"#WMO's Early Warnings for All Initiative is strengthening member capacity to develop and deploy impact-based warnings.

This includes updating guidance on #heat health warning systems; and developing #standardized terminology and definitions for #ExtremeHeat. Harmonized approaches and categorization of #heatwave intensity will standardize and help scale up the implementation of impact-based #forecasts and #warnings worldwide."

https://public.wmo.int/en/media/news/heatwaves-show-importance-of-health-early-warnings-and-action-plans

Heatwaves show importance of health early warnings and action plans

The World Meteorological Organization is stepping up efforts to strengthen heat-health early warnings and integrated action plans for heatwaves, which are amongst the deadliest natural hazards.

World Meteorological Organization
More Teaching Less Testing Act would loosen federal standardized testing requirements for schools

The Every Student Succeeds Act of 2015 spells out the federal standardized testing requirements for students in public schools. It mandates that states: The current requirements were reduced from the…

GovTrack Insider
Annoying #Standardized Computerized #Tests in schools are pointless. They don’t help kids. They don’t give an honest look at what kids know and can do. They just make $ for #test companies & talking points for politicians, at the expense of actual #learning time for #students, & they are made by people who don’t actually work with the children.
@Janina@mstdn.social @dani This is a "yes but" the only #standardized are #matrix and #xmpp. It is possible to use these disconnected from any metadata tracking company. It is not possible with the other privative and not-standardized systems.
Bob Shepherd: This Is What a Generation of “Standards and Testing” Has Done to ELA Teaching

  Bob Shepherd—teacher, author, textbook writer, assessment developer, etc.—posted the following here as a comment while discussing the negative effects ofCommon Core and other efforts to stan…

The One Size Surprise

If we sit beside one another in the classroom
Does that mean we both learn the same lesson?
What connects in my mind depends on my brain's loom,
Weaving my knowledge with stuff from this session.

You sit there beside me with your own separate view
Of that blackboard before us with the teachers scrawl.
Then comes the test. Which answers are true?
The moment we find out, "One size does not fit all."

#SmallPoems
#Standardized
#Education