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,…
Ikuko Smith taught me that me that Japanese people judge others by the way they wring out a washcloth. “It says a lot about how a person was raised.” That was a new thing for me to be self conscious about, but addressable. Unlike my technique for eating corn-on-the-cob. This Iowa boy is stuck in…
There are different types of pulse compressors, this is clever single prism design.
Here’s a quick question I received via email that might be worth sharing: Does using a pulse compressor make a…
Many are aware of the burden of bureaucratic administrative tasks on professors. A colleague of mine called it “Death by 1000 paper cuts.” It takes time away from research and other scholarly activities, and oftentimes the time commitment is substantial, taking 20-40% of a professor’s time, depending on who you ask and what items are…
Academics don’t typically receive much advice in time management during their training. Then they get a tenure-track position and are expected to figure it out. Most do indeed figure it out, but there can be pain involved. Here are some simple bits of advice, take what you find useful, ignore the rest.
The best system is…
For those who might find it useful, I am sharing some grant-writing advice. It is specifically for writing NIH R01 grants, but many of the principles are more broadly applicable.
Private universities have many fewer undergraduate students compared to public universities. From Wikipedia, mostly 2021 numbers.
People generally understand the difference in governance between public and private schools, but they might…
Making good use of those indirect cost returns
Spending a lot of money on a big purchase can be time consuming. Whether it’s a high-power laser, an imaging system, or something else, the…
This piece from Eve Marder resonantes with me. Just a couple of notes to elaborate on it.
Pages from Oliver Smithies’ lab notebook
Write it down. I tell people in my…
I might be alone in this, and I’m willing to die on this hill, but here it is:
Vertical histograms are better than all of these: violin plots, box plots, kernel density plots, beeswarm plots. (if you don’t know those terms, simply do a web search for them for examples)
Just show me the naked distribution….
If you’re looking for a lab/prof to sponsor your grad work or post doc, it can be difficult to find a match. Responding to advertisements is one way. Cold emails are another way.
Like a lab, but no ad? Apply anyways. Almost everyone I know is almost always looking to hire good…
It can be confusing navigating accounting in academic research, and thankfully there are admin pros that do most of that work for us, but it’s good to know some basics. I…
There are a couple of postdoc jobs to share.
In San Francisco,
Andrea Hasenstaub’s lab is hiring. Andrea does exceptional work on the cellular and synaptic aspects of neural circuitry in vivo,…
A postdoctoral position is available for a highly motivated candidate to join the Ikuko Smith Lab in the Neuroscience Research Institute at UC Santa Barbara (https://www.mcdb.ucsb.edu/people/faculty/ikuko-smith). A strong background in Systems Neuroscience with skills in electrophysiology…
