Excited to share our new #biorxivpreprint:
“Sexual dimorphism in the complete connectome of the Drosophila male central nervous system” www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We describe the #connectomics reconstruction and analysis of an entire adult #maleCNS #drosophila central nervous system. 1/10
The male CNS is out with a number of papers to follow!
I know there's a 𝒍𝒐𝒕 going on right now, but I couldn’t be prouder to share this long-incubated labor of love: the complete connectome of the male 𝐷𝑟𝑜𝑠𝑜𝑝ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑎 optic lobe 🧠🪰
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
TensorStore (github.com/google/tensorstore) has had a huge 2024 and continues to power checkpointing for much of the largest ML work at Google, including Gemini, and support major Google Cloud customers training models on GCP. Read on for some specific 2024 updates!
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We are looking for a Scientific Computing Associate to develop AI/ML methods to identify the ancestors of genes of unknown origin, an exciting project with the Stern lab @ HHMI Janelia.
We are looking someone with AI/ML experience.
hhmi.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...
@hhmi.bsky.social
I love audiobooks and because of them, I've found the time to enjoy more wonderful short stories and novels. We should also distinguish audiobooks of dramatic adaptations vs narration of unabridged works. For me, the latter is just a format change.
John E. Stone made a similar point about shape perception in his talk for the Janelia Scientific Visualization Interest Group (organized by @wthang.bsky.social), although he uses ambient occlusion instead of path tracing for performance reasons.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vzx0...
Neurons from the Drosophila SMP region, first with shadows from global illumination, then without.
I like to use #GlobalIllumination ( #PathTracing ) for #SciVis ( #SciViz ) because it creates the cues our visual systems use to perceive 3D shapes. For example, without shadows it is almost impossible to see the bulge in the middle of these SMP neurons from #Drosophila #Neuroscience data.
AI@HHMI teaser saying "AI@HHMI | Accelerating Innovation in Biology". The backdrop is an artistic rendering of the compute graph of a network architecture for semantic image segmentation that I think looks really cute.
We are looking for exceptional #AIScientist|s to join our #AI@HHMI initiative at #HHMIJanelia. We want to uncover fundamental principles underlying complex biological systems that are inaccessible without new innovations that combine #AI with experimental design.
ai.hhmi.org#join-our-team
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FlyWire #Neuroscience data (green) is now in neuronbridge.janelia.org for matching against #Drosophila light #microscopy data (magenta). Thanks to Cristian Goina, Hideo Otsuna, Rob Svirskas, Konrad Rokicki. See a match in the browser, using mixed surface / volume rendering implemented with #threejs.
Did you know a fruit fly’s brain has its own internal compass? Studying these neurons helps scientists explore how brains process spatial information, offering insights into navigation across species.
This image is from HHMI’s Beautiful Biology initiative.
⬇️ ℹ️: www.hhmi.org/beautifulbio...
We couldn't do the Connectomics research we do without the advances in deep learning over the last decade. Blockchains aren't just databases, they're distributed ones with observable provenance.
I've seen the most absurd arguments and stupidity from anti-vaxxers. A favorite is that Long COVID only appears in those who get the jab. When I point out that medical papers describing Long COVID were published well before mRNA vaccines were available, they either say I'm lying or ignore that fact.
Later research shows measles can cause an immune system reset, leaving victims more susceptible to later infections. Anti-vaxxers championing "natural immunity" and "hygiene hypothesis" issues due to isolation predictably ignore the erasing of a lot of those supposed gains.
asm.org/articles/201...
Early in his polemic he writes: "This is all on top of an $83.3 million fine Trump must pay for allegedly defaming the writer E. Jean Carroll."
Allegedly defaming? After a jury's verdict isn't there a better adverb? He could have added "after allegedly sexually assaulting..."
