Fish and chips sheet into the light
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Are you interested and passionate about fish & chips, imaging, coding, and trying to understand how the brain works? Then please come and join us and apply for a fully-funded PhD position in computational neuroscience at the TU Braunschweig or spread the word. Thank you! (PDF tinyurl.com/5n8k97x4)
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It is with profound sadness that I have learned of the passing of my beloved PhD supervisor, John Gurdon. We have lost a true giant, an incredible mentor, kind and generous, whose contributions to science will inspire generations. He changed my life, and the lives of so many others.
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Can this system also be used in an upright position, i.e. with the light sheet emanating from the top rather than bottom?
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We present multi-immersion Oblique Plane microscope (miOPM), a light-sheet platform that can be adapted to a wide range of applications, from sensitive live cell imaging to imaging organs and cleared tissues.
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How is valence computed in the brain? Check out our new preprint about a single cell that integrates excitatory and inhibitory input across modalities according to valence and impacts behavioral decisions. An exciting collaboration across many labs. Enjoy reading!
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A multisensory, bidirectional, valence encoder guides behavioral decisions
A key function of the brain is to categorize sensory cues as repulsive or attractive and respond accordingly. While we have some understanding of how sensory information is processed in the sensory pe...
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Are you interested and passionate about fish & chips, imaging, coding, and trying to understand how the brain works? Then please come and join us and apply for a fully-funded PhD position in computational neuroscience at the TU Braunschweig or spread the word. Thank you! (PDF tinyurl.com/5n8k97x4)
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Who is still listening, or continues to listen, or even changes their mind when the data speaks a story that does not fit a particular world view?
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For those interested, back in May 2016, the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research has also published a documentation entitled "Dark Years: The Legacy of Euthanasia" that can be accessed here youtu.be/umuTD2md1uE?...
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Dark Years: The Legacy of Euthanasia
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from German occupied countries (in particular Poland), including children. These brain samples were then used for research and teaching (and in which publications[?]) long after the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945, and some were apparently discovered only recently.
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eager to profit from the Nazi killings (termed “euthanasia”) domestic and abroad by collecting, staining, and analysing hundreds of brain samples from people with mental disabilities or psychiatric disorders, prisoners of war, forced labourers, or civilians (jewish as well as non-jewish)
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German neuroscientists, e.g. Hitler appointed Professor Julius Hallervorden, and their research institutions, e.g. the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt (founded in 1914 as the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für Hirnforschung in Berlin), were not only complicit but also seemingly
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In her Perspective, Emilie Snell-Rood discusses the value of basic science, using the Morpho butterfly as an example of how this type of research has driven later innovation & highlights the value of government and institutional support for basic research

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A photo of six butterflies which depicts the many different colours and patterns of butterflies in the genus Morpho. The top left is Morpho menelaus, the top middle is Morpho helenor, the top right is Morpho cypris. On the bottom left is Morpho rhetenor, the bottom middle is Morpho sulkowskyi, and the bottom right is Morpho hecuba. Photo credit: Emilie Snell-Rood.
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at least for a couple of years (if not more).

Besides Hans Jonas who were the other Jewish students of Heidegger again?
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So possibly you are quite right that Arendt did not want Heidegger and Heidegger’s philosophy to be entirely dismissed by later generations due to the fact that he
served as fascist chancellor of the Freiburg University and sympathized with Nazi ideology
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And perhaps she also felt somewhat indebted to Heidegger. Take that and add some more perennial love to it and you may well end up with a fateful mixture of sorts.
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Thus, your point 1 seems pretty valid to me. And she is probably not alone thinking so. For Karl Jaspers, for example, H’s philosophy laid down in Sein und Zeit (Time and Being) was of utmost importance. Same goes for Arendt’s friend Hans Jonas.
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and then continues with “… man zahlt einen Preis für die Freiheit, aber ich kann nicht sagen, dass ich ihn gerne zahle” meaning like that there’s a price to pay for (personal) freedom but I cannot say that I am happy paying it).
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but life itself did often not leave her with much choice, e.g. in the great Gaus interview there’s a passage where she says “Philosophie war kein Brotstudium, sondern eher dass Studium entschlossener Hungerleider, die gerade deshalb recht anspruchsvoll waren”
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I don't think that Arendt was defending Heidegger and also Heidegger's philosophy, I guess, from a feeling of superiority, or because she liked being a contrarian (your points 2, 4, and 5; may be she also did not like to be a contrarian after all,
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