There are some open access journals that seem to have relativley loose editorial standards. And by “editorial” I mean “ethical”, and by “relatively loose”, I mean “no”. These publishers have been called “predatory” open…
Here’s a BCG Matrix for scientific papers. One paper is plotted on the graph. At Nature’s Action Potential blog, the editor explains why they accepted it. This is…
Success rate for all grants at NIH in 2011 = 18 %
Success rate for New Investigators = 15%
More stats at Sally Rockey’s blog.
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The lasers used in multiphoton imaging deliver their photons in pulses. Many commonly used systems pulse at 80 MHz. However, there are good reasons to try different frequencies.
In 2007, Donnert, Eggeling, and Hell published a Nature Methods paper where they used low frequency pulses to get more…
In a previous post, I gave the two line MATLAB code to generate a Gabor patch. At the other end of the spectrum, this web page spends an entire MATLAB tutorial on…
The newest voltage sensor is from Adam Cohen’s lab and based on a microbial rhodopsin, a class of light sensitive proteins already being put to use in optogenetics.
In this case, they’ve…
If you live in Japan, then you’ve already been updated by the nightly news over the past few weeks. For those of you for whom this has slipped under the radar: Olympus, the 92-year-old…
The vast majority of the time, I buy what I intend to. Like the old maxim from construction: “Measure twice, cut once”, I always take care to ensure I’m ordering the right thing. At least when things are expensive. When they’re cheap, I’m…
Greg Dunn, a grad student at Penn, is a gifted artist. His work combines the geometry of neuronal arbors with the spare aesthetics of east Asian watercolor art.
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Ars Technica has a short, but nice article on the US Government’s role in AT&T’s decision to release Unix to a…
The subject of prolificacy came up in lab the other day. A study from the 80s (pdf) plotted the number of papers from a lab versus the number of people…
Labrigger has been going for one year now.
105
Blog posts to date. That’s 0.29/day.
12.2%
Average monthly increase in traffic. This is excluding…
Acquisition news. In May 2007, CVI bought Melles Griot for $60 million. CVI was itself owned by Norwest Equity Partners. The new CVI Melles Griot then…
Funding is tight all over. The question is only: How tight? The White House released its budget today. It’s just a proposal, and…
My Ph.D. program had a more traditional, comprehensive written qualifying exam following the coursework. However, many of my contemporaries in different programs had the new…
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