Monthly archives: February, 2024

Personal self-satisfaction is the death of the scientist.

Jacques Monod

In science, self-satisfaction is death. Personal self-satisfaction is the death of the scientist. Collective self-satisfaction is the death of the research. It is restlessness, anxiety, dissatisfaction, agony of mind that nourish…



Neuroscience with particle physics level confidence

Bubble chamber data.

PART 1. Our tools are imperfect. When I first got into neuroscience, I started deep down into neural circuitry: individual neurons and synapses. It was exciting to get glimpses…