Moritz Negwer

@moritz_negwer@mstdn.science
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Neuroscientist by training, tinkerer by nature. Now scanning transparent mouse brains with light-sheet microscopes. Microscopy, clearing, data crunching, tinkering.

Working as postdoc at @radboudumc with Nael Nadif Kasri and Corette Wierenga, looking at neuron-distribution differences in mouse models of ASD.

Married, father of two. Toots in English, German, Dutch. Boosts a lot.

opted into tootfinder for full-text indexing. Check it out: https://www.tootfinder.ch/index.php?join=1

Moritz Negwer6h ago
Ars Technica6h ago
The controversial “Dragon Man” skull was a Denisovan
After years of mystery, we now know what at least one Denisovan looked like.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/06/the-controversial-dragon-man-skull-was-a-denisovan/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
Moritz Negwer8h ago
Nicole Rust8h ago

Wonderful to chat with Paul on Brain Inspired, where we discuss many things. Among them: What are we brain researchers trying to do here (wrt causality)? I also stick my neck out to predict the next big breakthrough in emotion research.

0:00 – Intro
6:12 – Nicole’s path
19:25 – The grand plan
25:18 – Robustness and fragility
39:15 – Mood
49:25 – Model everything!
56:26 – Epistemic iteration
1:06:50 – Can we standardize mood?
1:10:36 – Perspective neuroscience
1:20:12 – William Wimsatt
1:25:40 – Consciousness

Thanks for having me!

https://braininspired.co/podcast/214/

Moritz Negwer8h ago
naturepoker8h ago
Yikes, ONT pulled out of #ASMicrobe2025. What a year this is shaping out to be.
Moritz Negwer13h ago
Lisa Westerveld1d ago

1,6 miljard bezuinigen op onderwijs is een politieke keuze. Met enorme schade.

Daarom dienen we dit amendement in. Het draait de bezuinigingen terug mét financiële dekking (dus geen gratis bier).

Het is nu aan politici die zéggen niet te willen bezuinigen: voeg daad bij woord!

Moritz Negwer13h ago
Dr. Anna Latour13h ago

🟥 Call to action from FNV:

Yesterday (June 17), opposition parties GL-PvdA, SP, Denk, Volt, and PvdD submitted a proposal to reverse the cuts to education. This is *the moment* to prevent the worst damage on our education.

📅 Today (June 18), the House of Representatives will debate this proposal. Next week on Tuesday (June 24), the vote will follow. These days are critical to raise the pressure. That’s why FNV has launched an *email action*.

📧 *With just a few clicks, send an email to the party leaders of D66, VVD, NSC, CDA, CU, and JA21*: https://www.fnv.nl/cao-sector/overheid/onderwijs-onderzoek/kabinet-sloopt-hoger-onderwijs/stop-de-sloop-van-ons-hoger-onderwijs#mail-partijen. To Ask them clearly: Will you choose to invest in our future or continue the destruction of higher education?

✊ Together, we can stop the cuts. 

#WOInActie #FNV #HigherEducation #AcademicMastodon #StopTheCuts #DutchPolitics #KabinetSchoof #KabinetSlooptHogerOnderwijs

Stop de sloop van ons hoger onderwijs - Mail de partijen

De bezuinigingen op het hoger onderwijs moeten van tafel. Zo help jij mee.

Moritz Negwer13h ago
Show threadChristof Schöch13h ago

@josch

Looks like #Japan is discovering the mechanism of the #German #WissZeitVG: "Universities reported that this rule -- originally intended to promote job stability -- often instead results in employment terminations just before a worker reaches 10 years under contract, leaving many academics unable to build stable, sustained research careers."

Moritz Negwer13h ago
Helena Klara Jambor13h ago

I gave in! After students asked for one for years, I have now made a simple figure design checklist.

To help all scientists w/o graphic design training create clearer, more accessible, and truthful charts!

--> Out in @nature Cell Biology: https://rdcu.be/erwl4
--> link to blog: https://helenajamborwrites.netlify.app/posts/25-6_ncb/
(with link to download checklist as pdf)

#DataVisualization #PhD #SciComm

Thx my reviewers Beth Cimini & 2 anon, and early comments from Tracey, @steveroyle, James Saenz, and Alenka Gucek

Moritz Negwer15h ago
Technische Universität Berlin2d ago

❗ Machtverhältnisse & #MentalHealth in der #Wissenschaft: Eine Abhängigkeit von Betreuenden kann belastend sein für Promovierende & Studierende & sich negativ auf die Karriere und Leistung auswirken.

Austauschmöglichkeiten & Bewältigungsstrategien dazu gibt es am
📅 18.06. um 17:30 Uhr in einer Veranstaltung an der #TUBerlin

➡️ https://programm.zewk.tu-berlin.de/de/events/01964322-57cb-7638-b23e-fc0054efc8f2?scopeFilter%5Bpublicly_visible%5D=true&scopeFilter%5Bhidden_in_lists%5D=false&scopeFilter%5Bended%5D=false

Moritz Negwer1d ago
Show threadChristopher Kyba 🇨🇦🇪🇺2d ago

That question from the journalists had a major impact on my research career, and I’ve spent several years trying to understand the amount that different types of light sources radiate into the night environment.

That led to an EXTREMELY COOL research paper: https://doi.org/10.1177/1477153520958463

The city of Tucson, Arizona alternatively dimmed and brightened nearly their entire street light network (tens of thousands of lights!), in order to see how much light comes from the streetlights, and how much comes from other lights.

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Moritz Negwer1d ago
Show threadChristopher Kyba 🇨🇦🇪🇺2d ago

First off, some background. In 2017, I published a paper that showed that most countries in the world are getting brighter at night in nighttime satellite observations: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1701528

A number of journalists who reported on that paper asked me “what is actually changing on the ground?” Are streetlights getting more numerous or brighter? Or is it because bike paths are getting lit up now? (seriously got that question from multiple journalists…) Or is some other kind of light changing?

I realized that not only did I not know the answer, but that no one even knows how much the different light types contribute to the brightness of the ground (as seen from space), or the brightness of the night sky (as seen from the ground).

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Helena Klara Jambor13h ago

I gave in! After students asked for one for years, I have now made a simple figure design checklist.

To help all scientists w/o graphic design training create clearer, more accessible, and truthful charts!

--> Out in @nature Cell Biology: https://rdcu.be/erwl4
--> link to blog: https://helenajamborwrites.netlify.app/posts/25-6_ncb/
(with link to download checklist as pdf)

#DataVisualization #PhD #SciComm

Thx my reviewers Beth Cimini & 2 anon, and early comments from Tracey, @steveroyle, James Saenz, and Alenka Gucek

Show threadMichelle Barker13h ago
@helenajambor Thank you for this, I’m going to share it with my data scientist colleagues! ❤️ @steveroyle @nature
Show threadHelena Klara Jambor13h ago
@michelle Thank you! I always tell my students your readers are broader than you expect - you made my point :)
Show threadPhillyFan10h ago
@helenajambor Thank you for sharing and saving future generations from incomprehensible graphics and presentations!
Show threadHelena Klara Jambor6m ago
@gjholmes here is to hope! 🙂