Hey all, I hope you're having a great start to the week.

I try not to get ahead of myself, but I can't help getting excited about the prospects of Spring. There's something special about the woods coming alive after a long winter.

That said, winter is still my favourite season - it can be so varied and rewarding when everything aligns perfectly.

Here's an image from a cold morning in January.

#woodland #trees #LandscapePhotography #nature #art #PhotoMonday #mosstodon #forest #winter

I met a Siren by the lake. #aicinema #aiphotography #aiportraits #stablediffusion #digitalportraits

did someone say birds time???

I agree with Sun Tzu.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

In the Heart of the Rosette Nebula

Image Credit & Copyright: Lyman Insley

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230206.html #APOD

Remember, monsters aren't real. Ghosts aren't real. They're just in your head, forever.. you can never escape them.

Also don't tell this to kids they get super scared.

Here is some color for you all!

#butterflies #color #flowers #gardening #Nikon #art #Sunday #photo #photography #nature #naturephotography #insects

#Bougainvillea is everywhere in #Melbourne #Australia!

This gorgeous specimen snapped in the evening sunshine just now, in #Elsterwick.

#Gorgeous!

#urbanflora #flora #gardening #garden #melbourne #FebruaryFun #aesthetichedonist #gardeningAU #gardening #narrm #victoria #Australia #godmustbeabotanist #makesmehappy

Natasha my curly girl #donkeysofmastodon

The #ForbiddenCity, located in #Beijing, China, was the imperial palace for the Ming and Qing dynasties from the 15th to the early 20th centuries. The dragon head tiles are particularly noteworthy and are often carved in great detail, depicting the dragon's open mouth, curled whiskers, and fierce eyes.

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/1-ayearforart-dragon-tile-screen-wall-steve-estvanik.html

#FebruaryFun r #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #Art #ArtMatters #MastoArt #FediGiftShop
#BuyArtNotCandy
#Chineseart #forbiddencity #beijing #dragon

#Squirrel of the Day for February 5, 2023, dug up a walnut for Sunday brunch #Squirrels #NaturePhotography

Dr. Mae Jemison, MD, the first black woman in space and first actual astronaut to appear on a Star Trek show, one of the very few people on this planet of whom two pictures can be posted depicting them doing their job on a spaceship with entirely different contexts.
#StarTrek #BlackHistoryMonth

Just moved to neuromatch.social, so here it goes (again), #introduction :

Hi everyone, I'm a last year undergrad in #Neuroscience & #ComputerScience at McGill. I'm doing #ComputationalNeuroscience research in the Baillet Lab at The Neuro (MNI), focusing on whole-brain dynamical models of coupled neural masses calibrated to #MEG #Neuroimaging data (more details @ https://neurolife77.github.io/ if anyone is curious).

I am also the VP of the #MachineLearning committee at PharmaHacks, a hackathon that blends #Biology & #DataScience with a focus on #Pharma.
@neuroscience #neurodon

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Since I have the space to put it in the same post now, thanks to the freedom in post length from this new server, here's a bonus:

I regularly share links to preprints that catch my attention and tag them with: #arxivfeed

I started doing this because I thought that the arxiv bots on mastodon were not super efficient, but after doing it for about a month I'd say it's also a good way to keep some form of history of my nightly exploration of the literature in my fields of interest. I usually share stuff about #ComputationalNeuroscience, #Neuroimaging, #DynamicalSystems, #MachineLeaning, #ArtificialIntelligence, etc.

Disclaimer: I usually only read the abstract or skim through them at the time of posting.
Disclaimer 2: I am definitely not consistent.

Without a lab, access to research libraries/university facilities, entomologist Charles Henry Turner (1867–1923) died with a personal library of 1,000+ books, having published 50+ scientific papers; he revolutionized our knowledge of ants (Earth’s most abundant animal); he was 1st to prove insects can hear& distinguish pitch, alsi 1st scientist to achieve Pavlovian bug conditioning, training moths to beat their wings when he whistled #BlackHistoryIsHistory h/t @mariapopova

A picture of Cambridge every day since 2010. (No 4699) Monday 6th February 2023.

#photography #Cambridge #CambridgeUK

I was forgetting to mention, I'll go to @pycon for the first time this year (April 19-27). 🤓🐍

I'll give a talk: ⭐ Introducción a @FastAPI ⭐

Come and practice your Spanish with me. Or just come and say hi, I'm shy. 😅

Y si hablas español, chévere, guay, copado, buenazo! 😎

As a kid, I’d eat yeast and sit in the oven.

That’s just how I was raised.

Whoa, almost stepped on a cladonia city today - and a new species for me I believe, Cladonia verticillata. The pixies really went crazy when they built this one, I counted 5 stories in some of the buildings!

#inaturalist https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/148069331
#LichenSubscribe

They're a Weird Mob.
Hill End NSW

Alien archeologists digging up the ruins of a long forgotten human civilization. Trying to figure out why they all just disappeared...
Midjourney 4 AI Art
#stablediffusion #dalle2 #dalle #aiart #nightcafe #midjourney