Nazi Propaganda & The Beer Hall Putsch: An Examination of the Shift of Nazi Tactics for Political Propaganda from 1920-1933

The Beer Hall Putsch in 1923 served as a steppingstone for the Nazi party to gain national attention, and made the Nazis focus more on propaganda and activism than on revolution to gain political power. This poster examines an example of Nazi propaganda after the Putsch, analyzing the political essay “Why Do We Want to Join the Reichstag,” by Joseph Goebbels, published in April 1928 for the May parliamentary campaign. In this essay, Goebbels’s anticipated how the Nazis ran for the Reichstag and how the Nazis were a political party that was against the government. Goebbels’s essay highlighted the rhetorical shift the Nazis had embraced since the Putsch: from revolutionaries to political activist party. This poster demonstrates how Nazi propaganda and goals shifted after the failure of the Beer Hall Putsch, showing the Nazis more versatile propaganda tactics after 1923

Communist Involvement in the French Resistance

This presentation focuses on the memoir Outwitting the Gestapo by Lucie Aubrac in 1984 and translated in English in 1993. Aubrac was a communist-aligned individual in the French Resistance who fought against the German occupation. Outwitting the Gestapo written as her diary that is the account of her resistant activities from February 1943 til about February 1944. The important part of this account is her rescue of her husband and other resistance fighters from the Gestapo. Her husband was held captive by Klaus Barbie. Barbie was the head of the Gestapo in Lyons and is known infamously as the “Butcher of Lyons”. Aubrac successfully broke everyone out of prison, all the while being several months pregnant with their second child. This is connected to my project by showing firsthand how Communists were resisting and worked well with other groups

Global Spatial Risk Assessment of Sharks Under the Footprint of Fisheries

Effective ocean management and conservation of highly migratory species depends on resolving overlap between animal movements and distributions and fishing effort. Yet, this information is lacking at a global scale. Here we show, using a big-data approach combining satellite-tracked movements of pelagic sharks and global fishing fleets, that 24% of the mean monthly space used by sharks falls under the footprint of pelagic longline fisheries. Space use hotspots of commercially valuable sharks and of internationally protected species had the highest overlap with longlines (up to 76% and 64%, respectively) and were also associated with significant increases in fishing effort. We conclude that pelagic sharks have limited spatial refuge from current levels of high-seas fishing effort. Results demonstrate an urgent need for conservation and management measures at high-seas shark hotspots and highlight the potential of simultaneous satellite surveillance of megafauna and fishers as a tool for near-real time, dynamic management

25th annual computational neuroscience meeting: CNS-2016

The same neuron may play different functional roles in the neural circuits to which it belongs. For example, neurons in the Tritonia pedal ganglia may participate in variable phases of the swim motor rhythms [1]. While such neuronal functional variability is likely to play a major role the delivery of the functionality of neural systems, it is difficult to study it in most nervous systems. We work on the pyloric rhythm network of the crustacean stomatogastric ganglion (STG) [2]. Typically network models of the STG treat neurons of the same functional type as a single model neuron (e.g. PD neurons), assuming the same conductance parameters for these neurons and implying their synchronous firing [3, 4]. However, simultaneous recording of PD neurons shows differences between the timings of spikes of these neurons. This may indicate functional variability of these neurons. Here we modelled separately the two PD neurons of the STG in a multi-neuron model of the pyloric network. Our neuron models comply with known correlations between conductance parameters of ionic currents. Our results reproduce the experimental finding of increasing spike time distance between spikes originating from the two model PD neurons during their synchronised burst phase. The PD neuron with the larger calcium conductance generates its spikes before the other PD neuron. Larger potassium conductance values in the follower neuron imply longer delays between spikes, see Fig. 17.Neuromodulators change the conductance parameters of neurons and maintain the ratios of these parameters [5]. Our results show that such changes may shift the individual contribution of two PD neurons to the PD-phase of the pyloric rhythm altering their functionality within this rhythm. Our work paves the way towards an accessible experimental and computational framework for the analysis of the mechanisms and impact of functional variability of neurons within the neural circuits to which they belong