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Giorgio Gilestro

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Neuroscientist & Professor (Reader) at Imperial College London. Geek. Curious. Opinionated. https://lab.gilest.ro | lab website, science blog https://giorgio.gilest.ro | politics and science comms https://drosophila.social/@giorgiogilestro | mastodon

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Giorgio Gilestro @giorgio.gilest.ro · Feb 26

Wanna learn what we know about why we need to sleep? Here's a fun podcast I recorded for the excellent @npr.org "Seeking a scientist" show, conducted by Kate the Chemist. Enjoy!

@imperiallifesci.bsky.social @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social

www.kcur.org/podcast/seek...

Why do we need to sleep?

Humans spend one-third of their life sleeping, yet the purpose and function behind this regular state of unconsciousness remains a biological mystery. Sleep researcher Giorgio Gilestro is trying to un...

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Greg Jefferis @jefferis.bsky.social · 3d

Exciting news for #drosophila #connectomics and #neuroscience enthusiasts: the Drosophila male central nervous system connectome is now live for exploration. Find out more at the landing page hosted by our Janelia FlyEM collaborators www.janelia.org/project-team....

Male CNS Connectome

A team of researchers has unveiled the complete connectome of a male fruit fly central nervous system —a seamless map of all the neurons in the brain and nerve cord of a single male fruit fly and the ...

www.janelia.org

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Giorgio Gilestro @giorgio.gilest.ro · 5d

Palestine Action was labeled a terrorist organisation for spray painting walls. X, on the other hand, a platform where countless people claim "mustache guy was right" is still legitimised by the government that uses it as one of their official platforms. Let's think about that.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 6d

Big protest at Place de la République in Paris against Israel’s seizure of the Global Sumud Flotilla.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 6d

Colombia has expelled the Israeli diplomatic delegation after the Gaza flotilla interception.

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Junior European Drosophila Investigators @fly-jedi.bsky.social · 12d

Dear JEDIs,
as we are self-organizing using the #EDRC as a nucleator we decided it is time for a JEDI database to boost our network! If you identify as a JEDI, please contact us here or send a mail to [email protected] to be added to our database.
#Drosophila
@fly-eds.bsky.social

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Giorgio Gilestro @giorgio.gilest.ro · 9d

Unless they actively want to end up like the Tories, the labour party must change all their leadership, now.

Starmer and Mahmood may as well walk across the aisle and join Farage.

Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 9d

Just fuck off with this. How about start the conversation by highlighting how much immigrants contribute to the UK - not least by propping up the NHS and social care system!

Also - forced volunteering is not volunteering, it's unpaid labour.

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Giorgio Gilestro @giorgio.gilest.ro · 10d

Keir "island of strangers" Starmer

Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @leftiestats.bsky.social · 10d

🗳️ BREAKING | Starmer is now the most unpopular Prime Minister in history - WORSE than Truss

🔴 Starmer – 13% satisfied, 79% dissatisfied

🔵 Liz Truss – 16% satisfied, 67% dissatisfied

Via @Ipsos_in_the_UK, 11-17 Sep

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David Cassatt, PhD @cassattdr.bsky.social · 12d

Pretty remarkable analysis. The authors admit that the effect of vast cuts may be an underestimate. Grant funding also supports graduate and post-doctoral research careers. I’ve worked in biotech and all of our projects came from NIH-funded research.

Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 12d

This may be the most important paper ever published about NIH funded research.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

What if NIH had been 40% smaller?

Replaying history with less NIH funding shows widespread impacts on drug-linked research

www.science.org

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The Onion @theonion.com · 19d

Netanyahu: ‘These So-Called Genocide Experts Have Probably Never Committed A Genocide In Their Lives’

JERUSALEM—In response to an independent United Nations inquiry concluding that Israel is committing an ongoing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a defiant...

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Ann Kennedy @antihebbiann.bsky.social · 19d

And we are live!

Excited to announce the 2025 Multi-Agent Behavior Challenge on cross-lab supervised action recognition in mice 🐁🐀🖱️

Running on Kaggle until December 15th, with a $50,000 prize pool going to the top five submissions!

www.kaggle.com/competitions...

https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/MABe-mouse-behavior-detection

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Giorgio Gilestro @giorgio.gilest.ro · 20d

I am not even sure why I had an account to be honest. Just deleted it though. Thanks.

Giorgio Gilestro @giorgio.gilest.ro · 20d

He was pretty much an official political actor last year this time. He is isolated now and certainly does not have the same protection he had before.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 21d

Mini-scoop: After resisting pressure to strip Elon Musk of his fellowship for months, the Royal Society is meeting on 1 October to discuss his removal – following his decision to address Tommy Robinson's far-right rally on Saturday.

www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-r...

Royal Society to debate throwing out Elon Musk

One of the most prestigious scientific bodies in the world is considering expelling Musk after his appearance at Tommy Robinson’s extremist London rally

www.thenewworld.co.uk

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Giorgio Gilestro @giorgio.gilest.ro · 22d

In a few months, he went from a landslide to be 10+ points behind the worst party and leaders this country has ever seen; he has managed to alienate 2/3 of his voters with misplaced right wing rhetoric; he is having one resignation a week. May is actually way too late for him to go.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 23d

Another thing I love about the present moment - Musk regularly goes 'don't worry, we are going to change THAT' whenever Grok produces an answer that doesn't align with his priors, yet the British Labour government thinks that they are going to be able to land an argument on there in 2029.

ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 23d

Grok is being sent to the reeducation camp

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Giorgio Gilestro @giorgio.gilest.ro · 24d

900 arrests for elderly and disabled people peacefully opposing genocide.

9 for drunk thugs attacking the police.

BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 25d

They are attacking the Police again, at the 'peaceful march'.

Imagine if Pro Palestine supporters did this (they never do), they would all be instantly in jail.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 24d

Elon Musk has gone completely out of his mind.

He's ranting and raving violently by the hour now.

I believe this is what is called stochastic terrorism. It is a direct attempt to incite mass violence. He even reposted a *hit list*.

As dangerous a man as America has ever seen.

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 25d

Esp given assassination of Kirk in US i find Musk's intervention here, calling for dissolution of parliament and a new govt, really scary .

Also UK govt bodies should get the fuck off X.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 25d

Elon, speaking at the Tommy Robinson march today: “This is a government against the people and not for the people, this is why everyone is gathered here today…we don’t have another four years…there’s got to be a dissolution of parliament”

And the government just…continues to use X.

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Giorgio Gilestro @giorgio.gilest.ro · 28d

Triage Is not good news as it's generally a trick to make the success rate appear larger than it is

Giorgio Gilestro @giorgio.gilest.ro · Sep 8

PSA: #Google charged me £300+ for having generated 4-5 images in Gemini last month. Even though I have a paid subscription to the service as #gemini pro user. Try nano banana, they said. They should have pointed out the price is not included perhaps!? Goodbye Gemini.

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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · Sep 2

Another day, yet ANOTHER stupid, pointless announcement on immigration from this stupid pointless government.

Today: you are a student - we're going to write you a stern letter about how you better not be thinking of staying!

Insanity. Racist, cowardly, insanity. #r4today

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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · Sep 1

Today Nick Ferrari asked if treaties like the ECHR & the Refugee Convention that were drawn up in the wake of WWII are still relevant to modern Britain.

I said the context of racial hatred towards Muslim immigrants now echoes the hatred of Jewish immigrants in the 20th century. We need these laws.

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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · Aug 30

This whole summer only one story has dominated our entire politics & it comes down to literally 30,000 people in hotels. Ridiculous.

The government needs to get a GRIP it’s pathetic.

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Giorgio Gilestro @giorgio.gilest.ro · Jul 28

The email says it's been inactivated indefinitely. The only thing he cares about are his Minecraft things. He did not use it for anything else.