From Rob Campbell. Here’s a link to the job posting.
The Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, UCL, is recruiting an in vivo multiphoton specialist who will be based in the Advanced Microscopy Facility but work throughout the Centre….
It has been heartbreaking watching my daughter get excited about robot toys– and all of their fantastic behaviors that she has read about and seen in fictional shows — only to be ultimately disappointed at how lame they are in…
There are so many campus murders, usually with guns, that most of us are not too removed from them. Maybe you’ve been on campus during a shooting, and if not, then maybe you are colleagues or personal friends with people who have been though that trauma. How many degrees of separation are you from…
The meeting hall for a student club.
An interesting study recently came out:
Diversifying Society’s Leaders? The Determinants and Causal Effects of Admission to…
Scientific publishing is essentially a solved problem.
Research dissemination is almost free. For hundreds of years, humankind relied on printed material and postage or shipping to share their work. That hasn’t been…
This post will probably mean more to me than it means to any of you dear readers. But maybe someone will recognize a bit of themselves in it. Or maybe I’m underestimating how…
What drives you?
I’ve been speaking with undergraduates a lot recently, consulting about their career plans, and the discussions can be interesting.
I tinkered a lot as a kid– taking things apart, modifying them, doing crude experiments. Maybe you did similar things. One time I found something interesting and shared it with mother. She asked, “When…
From Dall-E, via Bing. The prompt was something about the Santa Barbara coastline with Washingtonia robusta palm trees and Lemon Gum Eucalyptus trees in the style of an Ansel Adams photograph….
About 13 years ago, I wrote a blog post on here about using catalogs as textbooks. I still do that, but catalogs are fading — fewer companies create…
I saw this quote, as a photograph of it jotted down on a whiteboard, and it made me smile.
I looked up the source. It’s freely available online. It’s an 1893 book on microscopy. It’s…
In my optics classes, I often give a brief historical account of Galileo’s telescopes. A point I want to make in this post, is that part of the high performance of Galileo’s telescopes was obtained through careful final adjustments. We do the same thing with our optics, designing in correction collars, adjustable air gaps, and…
Humphrey is a gentleman. We relax together after an intense day.
This is post is about suits. Most Labrigger readers will want to skip reading this one. I did a post…
Worldwide spending on all advertising is on the order of 1 trillion USD per year (source: statista). Web ad companies capture large fractions of this. For example, Meta gets about 10%, and Google gets about 20%. Then those companies invest heavily in R&D of various types, including for machine learning (ML) / artificial intelligence (AI)….
It is both fascinating and frustrating. Large-scale receptive field remapping in V2 neurons: Work by: Sachira Denagamage, Mitchell P Morton, Anirvan Nandy
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.05.01.539001v1
Our eyes are in constant motion, yet we perceive…
