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 noticeable…
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…
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…
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,…
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. …
