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 process…
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…
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….
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…
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…
Here is an updated post to help keep research budgets in perspective. We did this in 2012, and this is the 2020 edition.
Some things to note:
The NYC school system runs…
Overleaf is an online editor for LaTeX. It handles all of the typesetting for you. You just have to learn all of its codes, syntax, and idiosyncrasies. It works for collaborative document preparation.
It’s open source– you can grab the Overleaf repository on GitHub. It’s also available as SaaS. Just the person…
There have been several reports recently about ultrafast multiphoton imaging.
To start, here is a brief review of the conventional ways to get ms-level resolution:
(1) Cycle through fewer pixels. E.g., it is trivial to line scan a dendrite and get ms time resolution, and people have been publishing data like that for decades. …
President Barack Obama addresses 2011 Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) recipients in the East Room of the White House, July 31, 2012. (Official White House Photo…
Neuroscience & Neuroengineering on the American Riviera.
SLAB is recruiting postdocs and graduate students. Join a fun, lively group of intense scientists.
Some of us are neurobiologists. Studying how the brain works.
Some of us are…
The Mechanistic Cognitive Neuroscience (MCN) research area at Janelia is actively recruiting early-career Group Leaders. We are looking for creative scientists who want to study how the brain…
I would benefit greatly from a PhD/early career researcher seminar on how to correctly iron/pack shirts in order to not look like a total riot at conferences #transferableskills
— Jordan Clark (@JordanDoesFlu) June 7, 2019
Inspired by the twitter thread above. Here are some travel tips about clothing. Hopefully one…
SLAB has moved to Santa Barbara, California and is hiring new personnel. All of our trainees are moving to UCSB, and we have resources to hire new personnel as well:
Engineers (…
