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Jan Lause

@janlause.bsky.social

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data science postdoc in Tübingen 🧬🖥️🧠 scRNA data analysis, UMAP/tSNE & retina neuroscience | science journalism on AI & sustainability 🤖❤️🌍 | easily sidetracked by small plot details & cool birds 📈🔍🦜

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Jan Lause @janlause.bsky.social · Feb 18

I just defended my PhD on single-cell normalization and visualization methods in neuroscience! 🧑‍🎓 🖥️ 🧬 🧠

Thanks a lot to @hippopedoid.bsky.social, @philipp.hertie.ai and everyone in the lab for supporting me ❤️

Now looking forward to my postdoc on what Amacrine cells are computing in the retina 👀

me in front of a screen presenting a slide with a tSNE on it

me very happily holding my PhD hat with lots of funny stuff glued on top

Group picture with me and my supervisors (philipp and dmitry)

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Freiheitsrechte.org - GFF @freiheitsrechte.org · 2d

Die auf EU-Ebene geplante #Chatkontrolle verletzt das Recht auf #Privatsphäre und schreckt Menschen davon ab, ihre #Kommunikationsgrundrechte wahrzunehmen. Die Bundesregierung muss deshalb bei ihrem Nein zur Chatkontrolle bleiben!

Deutsches Ja zu Chatkontrolle? CCC & Co. warnen vor Grundrechtsgefährdung

Vor der entscheidenden Abstimmung im EU-Rat appellieren NGOs an die Bundesregierung, bei ihrem Nein zur Chatkontrolle zu bleiben. Sonst drohe eine Katastrophe.

www.heise.de

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Frederik Obermaier @frederikobermaier.com · 5d

In a digital world, talking to sensitive sources is nearly impossible without encryption. The EU’s #ChatControl plan is an attack on accountability journalism - and a gift to surveillance

Signal @signal.org · 5d

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

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Tübingen SNS 2025 @snstuebingen.bsky.social · 22d

✨ Meet our speakers! ✨

Among our speakers this year at #SNS2025 we have Simone Ebert (@simoneebert.bsky.social) & Jan Lause (@janlause.bsky.social), from Hertie AI Institute, University of Tübingen

Read the abstract here 💬 👇
meg.medizin.uni-tuebingen.de/sns_2025/abs...

#neuroskyscience

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Max Czollek @maxczollek.bsky.social · Aug 28

Die Zeit lässt ja aktuell die Frage diskutieren, ob links Schuld ist an AfD und der aktuellen CDU/CSU. Statt Selbstverantwortung der Wähler*innen oder gar (mediale) Selbstkritik der vermeintlich erfolgreichen Erinnerungskultur gehts also um Schuldzuweisung. Man kennts ja nicht anders. 1/

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Florian Sandhaeger @fsandhaeger.bsky.social · Aug 26

It's still possible to register - join us in tuebingen for this very exciting lineup!
#neuroskyence #compneurosky

Tübingen SNS 2025 @snstuebingen.bsky.social · Jul 8

🔵 Tübingen Systems Neuroscience Symposium 2025 is here! 🔵

#SNS2025 brings together leading international researchers in system neuroscience 🧠

Join us for plenary lectures, poster sessions and social events on 6️⃣-7️⃣ October 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣5️⃣

registration is open here 👉 meg.medizin.uni-tuebingen.de/sns_2025/

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Jan Lause @janlause.bsky.social · Feb 19

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Jan Lause @janlause.bsky.social · Feb 19

Ich hoffe das (M)auslieferungsgesuch wurde abgelehnt 🥲 🐭

(tolle Bilder!!)

Jan Lause @janlause.bsky.social · Feb 19

Danke :)

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · Feb 19

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Jan Lause @janlause.bsky.social · Feb 19

Thank youu!

Jan Lause @janlause.bsky.social · Feb 19

Thanks :)

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Marlen Fröhlich @marlenfroehlich.bsky.social · Feb 19

🚨Come work with us in charming Tübingen and become a member of our growing Freigeist group! We offer a 2-year postdoc position on the communicative plasticity in wild and captive bonobos, fully funded by @volkswagenstiftung.bsky.social. Applications open until March 15th. bit.ly/4gVa5Je

Postdoctoral Researcher (f/m/d, E13 TV-L, 100%)

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Jan Lause @janlause.bsky.social · Feb 18

Staying in Tübingen with @philipp.hertie.ai for now, for projects with @teuler.bsky.social @simoneebert.bsky.social and others :)

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Jan Lause @janlause.bsky.social · Feb 14

Great Friday read about cell type evolution in the brain! 🧠 🧬 🖥️ #neuroskyence

Cedric Boeckx @cedricboeckx.bsky.social · Feb 14

Three fantastic @science.org papers on convergent development & evolution of neurons + their connections in the bird &
mammalian pallia, by @kaessmannlab.bsky.social @steinaerts.bsky.social & Fernando García-Moreno.
Expertly synthesised by @giacomogattoni.bsky.social & Maria Antonietta Tosches 🧪🧠

Constrained roads to complex brains

Neural development and brain circuit evolution converged in birds and mammals

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Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · Feb 14

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European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu · Feb 7

Hello, Bluesky! ☀️

We fund frontier research in Europe—bold ideas, unexpected discoveries and science that shapes the future. So it’s only fitting we’ve landed here. Sorry for being late.

Follow us for updates on ERC funding, research policy, and our grantees' discoveries.

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Jan Lause @janlause.bsky.social · Jan 30

Nach gestern sollte man die Entscheidung wohl besser nicht der CDU überlassen oder?

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pavlinpolicar.bsky.social @pavlinpolicar.bsky.social · Jan 29

Can LLMs replace human teaching assistants in grading homework assignments?
This semester, we ran a study in our Bioinformatics course with 100+ enrolled master's students, whose assignments were graded by 6 LLMs. 1/

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Jan 26

“efforts to demystify AI may inadvertently reduce its appeal, indicating that maintaining an aura of magic around AI could be beneficial for adoption.”

M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · Jan 26

Quite the indictment of AI products: they are more appealing to people who don't understand how they work and see them as magical

The paper concludes: "businesses may benefit from targeting those with lower AI literacy" and "maintaining an aura of magic around AI" ✨

tinyurl.com/ynefd8zk

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Jan Lause @janlause.bsky.social · Jan 26

Kann man eigentlich irgendwo nachlesen, wie hoch das Spendenaufkommen pro Partei insgesamt ist? Mit euren Werten könnte man dann auch das Verhältnis Groß vs Kleinspenden anschauen! Fänd ich auch sehr spannend. Danke für eure Arbeit @lobbycontrol.bsky.social !

Jan Lause @janlause.bsky.social · Jan 25

Pretty much how @nytpitchbot.bsky.social had said it I guess

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Celia Ford @celiaford.bsky.social · Jan 23

Hi, Vox reporter here: If you've had a study section, NIH travel, or other NIH-related meeting cancelled (or not), raise your hand! Reply or DM me, and repost for visibility if you're able.

#academicsky @drugmonkey.bsky.social

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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · Jan 23

Worth also pointing out that there are many "tests so easy no AI system can pass them".

Moravec's paradox remains.

E.g., arxiv.org/abs/2404.12390

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Investigate Europe @investigate-europe.eu · Jan 22

Revealed: France, Greece & others lobbied to weaken European AI Act

Governments secured loopholes in new law, enabling AI-powered surveillance in border zones and public spaces for 'national security', internal docs obtained by Investigate Europe reveal: www.investigate-europe.eu/posts/france...

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