Chris Salmon

Postdoc in comparative connectomics with Sebastian Seung and Mala Murthy @PrincetonNeuro

Previously: synapse formation and astrocyte nanoarchitecture @McGillU

[Chris Salmon @cksalmo]

We are excited to share our paper "Organizing principles of astrocytic nanoarchitecture in the mouse cerebral cortex," a #volumeEM study, out in @CurrentBiology today! An odyssey of #astrocyte segmentation and remote work for a big team. A🧵with videos:
https://t.co/R1Vllz3nzS

[Zetta AI @zettaconnectome]

Body & brain wired

[Sebastian Seung @SebastianSeung]

A wealth of connections, now in the BANC! Congrats to this international consortium for a massive new data release shedding light on brain-body interactions.

[Sebastian Seung @SebastianSeung]

Interactive brain-body connectivity at the Codex. Click on thorax, salivary gland, etc, and see the neurons associated with that body part! H/T @mottcallie https://t.co/5KZxJTVdqx

[Chris Salmon @cksalmo]

The first “brain-and-cord” connectome is out! Excited to have played a minor role :) See the thread and preprint for exciting findings on how info flows btwn the brain, VNC and periphery in flies. Congrats @as_bates, @jasper_tms, Minsu Kim, Helen Yang, @darbly & team!

[FlyWire @FlyWireNews]

Introducing The BANC (Brain and Nerve Cord) connectome preprint! Thanks to all who helped make this synapse-resolution map of an adult fruit fly central nervous system possible!

Preprint: https://t.co/aQUyKkIHWD

The BANC is publicly available in Codex: https://t.co/dUBuTa4Ilz

[Chris Salmon @cksalmo]

exciting day for people interested in hippocampal circuits and cell types! #connectomics #hippocampus #CA3

[Zhihao Zheng @zhihaozheng]

Excited to share a connectomics dataset of hippocampus CA3.
Explore the dataset: https://t.co/FpgI5YyUzG
Paper introducing the dataset and some of our discoveries: https://t.co/ORqWNuc2d3

[bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv_neursci]

Connectomic reconstruction from hippocampal CA3 reveals spatially graded mossy fiber inputs and selective feedforward inhibition to ... https://t.co/rbHgcItFf3 #biorxiv_neursci

[Chris Salmon @cksalmo]

And thanks to @papouinlab and Julius Kirkegaard for insightful reviews!

[Chris Salmon @cksalmo]

Glad to have this review on computational tools for studying #astrocyte #ultrastructure out. If you're interested in how we might eventually integrate astrocytes into larger @vEM and #connectomics projects, have a read!

https://t.co/WkJKQgs26Z

[Chris Salmon @cksalmo]

Thanks to Tabish Syed for hammering out the majority of it with me! Tabish is on the job market for any departments looking for an expert in applying computer vision to biological problems.

Thanks to Keith Murai, Yoshi Kubota, and Youssef Mohammed for their contributions.

[Chris Salmon @cksalmo]

We had an amazing time in Lyon this week “Linking Brain Structure and Function at the Nanoscale.” Thanks so much to @ADenizot for gathering such a great group of scientists to talk about #vEM, computational models and #astrocytes!

[Chris Salmon @cksalmo]

Can't wait for this workshop at @Inria_lyon hosted by @ADenizot and the AIstroSight team. Going to be lots of great #volumeEM, #compneuro and #astrocytes! Free to register for the virtual side of the event! @volumeEM @volumeEM_fr

[Audrey Denizot @ADenizot]

Interested in #neuroscience & #astrocytes 🌟? Join us on 🗓️ September 26-27 in our hybrid interdisciplinary workshop! Registration is open & free: https://t.co/PszUAUh3Zz. More information here: https://t.co/v6GHCThIgM #neurotwitter #AcademicTwitter #compneuro

[Professor Booty PhD @ProfBootyPhD]

I hear neuro people talking about "oh you need to report what mouse chow you used and what kind of water your mice got because these can affect behavior" and I'm like, maybe don't work in this field?

[The Transmitter @_TheTransmitter]

Tyler Sloan discusses why neuroscience needs to overcome its legacy of minimalism and embrace the contemporary challenge of representing whole-nervous-system connectivity.

By @quorumetrix

https://t.co/JzyIKwL1Ve

[allen institute @AllenInstitute]

College educators, check out these lesson plans that use real datasets from the Allen Brain Map to teach data science to undergraduates. Each lesson can be completed within a single class period and is suitable for in-person, hybrid, or virtual learning.
https://t.co/2QiPfXU4bI

[Current Biology @CurrentBiology]

Our latest issue is out!

It's a special issue with primers, reviews and essays on Restoration.

Earth's biosphere has been degraded by humans, now is the time to restore, regreeen, rewild.🌿🐺🦫

Most articles are freely accessible!
Check it out! 👇
https://t.co/ngUIJ6YS6M

[Chris Salmon @cksalmo]

@ClimateDefiance no room for your ageism in this movement. smarten up

[Chris Salmon @cksalmo]

Spine apparatuses everywhere!!

[Hanieh Falahati هانيه فلاحتى @HaniehFalahati]

We show its conservation from🪰to humans thanks to @FlyWireNews. Interestingly, it’s only present in a small # of🪰neurons: the rare ones w/ actin-based spines similar to vertebrate spines. This hints that SA is co-evolving with the actin-based spines (2/n)

[NedergaardLab @NedergaardLab]

We are excited to share a new study from our lab, published today in @ScienceMagazine. Using a genetically encoded bioluminescence protein we measured cerebral oxygen dynamics in the awake mouse brain @mrfelix @temp2spec a thread:
https://t.co/RGl01BHbJD

[Henrietta Bennett @hennybennettphd]

Someone asked me to compare postdoc pay to the median Canadian wage, here it is after taxes:

TriAgency PDF: $32-36k/yr
Average PDF: $41k
Canadian median: $68.4k

Avg rent 1BR: $26k/yr

When rent is 60-80% of your income, can you afford a research career?