The slime mold video to end all slime mold videos is out! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_GTIL7AECQ

#slimemold #blob

I taught two 8-wk courses this fall @johnshopkinssph and wanted to share the resources (built in #quarto !) in case others starting in #Rstats #DataScience find it useful

🤩 Intro to R
https://stephaniehicks.com/jhustatcomputing2022/schedule

💃 More adv R #Git #CommandLine #SQL #APIs
https://stephaniehicks.com/jhustatprogramming2022/schedule

This is fascinating! The Braille Institute has developed a font - free to download - that's designed to be clearer for readers with lower vision.

An example of one of the aspects of low legibility that they tackled attached.

It's named Atkinson Hyperlegible. Atkinson was the Institute's founder - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Robert_Atkinson

Here's where you can read about the font and download it: https://brailleinstitute.org/freefont

#Accessibility

Via @tombofnull

RT @MGStowers
Thrilled to share a preprint of Shuonan He's final thesis chapter demonstrating a molecular basis for segment polarity in the sea anemone Nematostella.

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.01.09.523347v1

Open Science #OpenScience #OpenData #neuroscience #astrocytes #zebrafish

We published whole-brain neuron+glia light-sheet calcium imaging data...

... from Mu et al., Cell 2019, 12 fish, 5.9 TB, >1,000,000 cells total + behavior, NWB format

Data: https://dandiarchive.org/dandiset/000350

Paper: https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(19)30621-X

Thank you CatalystNeuro + authors for implementing, and
Simons Foundation Global Brain for supporting this effort!

Data is open for everyone to use. We are also happy to actively collaborate!

Beautiful work by @opourquie & co implicating NAD+/NADH ratio in species specific rate of the segmentation clock

Lots of fascinating data

Intriguingly inhibition of protein degradation doesn't affect oscillation period. Argues Hes7 negative feedback not mechanism for period

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05574-4

Nice summary by Ken Zaret of our (@[email protected]) recent work investigating the genomic mechanisms interpreting SHH morphogen signaling in the neural tube

Two ways to skin a new cell fate https://www.cell.com/developmental-cell/fulltext/S1534-5807(22)00846-2#.Y716CdxYzO8.twitter