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@eLife

“we analyzed simultaneous recordings of more than 10,000 pyramidal neurons during 1–2 hr in visual cortex of awake mice (seven mice, nine recordings, recording duration 1.52 ± 0.51 hr), performed and first reported by Stringer et al., 2019.”

Now that’s a data set that keeps on giving! Outstanding.

#neuroscience

"If she says they're good, then I am ready to go."

Before his 1962 orbital flight, John Glenn was wary of trusting his life to a machine's trajectory calculations and asked that Katherine Johnson check them. #BHM

More on mathematician Katherine Johnson: https://go.nasa.gov/3Ef1sbX
#NASAhistory

"Productivity jumped as offices closed, and stayed high through 2021. When companies started mandating a return to the office, productivity dropped sharply."

The return to the office could be the real reason for the slump in productivity. Here’s the data to prove it | Fortune
https://fortune.com/2023/02/16/return-office-real-reason-slump-productivity-data-careers-gleb-tsipursky/

💥 Roof top solar grows by a whopping 114% in the UK in 2022.

Highest number of installations reported by MCS since 2015 when subsidies were cut by 65%.

High energy prices and cost reductions in solar modules have driven up demand since.

https://www.solarpowerportal.co.uk/news/last_year_sees_114_increase_in_mcs_certified_domestic_solar_installations

Antarctic sea ice extent setting a new record every day recently

user reports curl doesn't work on his system, gets annoying cert error

turns out user is indeed getting MITMed so the check worked exactly as intended

https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/10551

Remember the time jimmy Carter helped prevent a nuclear meltdown?

#jimmycarter

https://www.military.com/history/how-jimmy-carter-saved-canadian-nuclear-reactor-after-meltdown.html

I just discovered this video from
Transport Canada related to #DroneSafety. Every single statement about how privacy laws apply to recreational pilots is incorrect. Every. Single. One. I think I'll have to do my own video on privacy law and recreational UAV pilots. https://youtu.be/bfA5kKh4K1E

Life is way too fucking short to worry about that one person you feel like you have to walk on eggshells around. They’re not your friend. They’re a narcissist who gets what they want from people through manipulation and fear. You don’t need their approval.

Introduction: I collect all kinds of PDAs. Mainly Apple MessagePad and Palm. But also some Psions or other exotics.

Wow. WaPo digs into why the South has the lowest credit scores in the country (adding to individual consumers' borrowing costs, freezing then out of credit at all). The answer: Medical debt. Because the South didn't expand Medicaid.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/02/17/bad-southern-credit-scores/

Second attempt #Twitter #Mastodon #comic #drawing

I recently discovered this divide between chemistry and astronomy and had to make the meme.

#chemistry #astronomy

The real story behind all those UFOs the Air Force was shooting down last week is quite embarrassing.

I’m guessing someone at NORAD has now figured out why the sensitivity settings on the radar was turned down in the first place.

https://aviationweek.com/defense-space/aircraft-propulsion/hobby-clubs-missing-balloon-feared-shot-down-usaf

Eucalypts in the evening sun are some of my favorite things

"Hobby group may have the answer to what the US shot down over Canada last week" by Politico / Matt Berg / Lee Hudson - More on Northern Illinois Bottlecap Balloon Brigade (NIBBB), #K9YO and their educational #HamRadio #balloon projects https://www.politico.com/news/2023/02/16/mystery-object-balloon-illinois-biden-00083355 #military #aviation

#ClimateChange

Yeah nah the Masto insto at aussie aussie aussie dot oi oi oi is farked mate. Completely up the swanny. The admin fair dinkum cracked the shits and buggered off