SLAB is moving to UCSB
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SLAB is moving to the University of California Santa Barbara this fall. UCSB is a great match for what SLAB has evolved into: about half neuroengineering and half neuroscience. The lab will…
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Patents and academic research
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This is about the research exemption for patents. Early in my training, I was taught that academic researchers didn’t need to worry about patents, because they could build whatever they wanted for research purposes without…
Postdoc job: Zebrafish, Natural scenes, Thiele lab, Toronto
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The Thiele Lab at the University of Toronto is recruiting a Postdoc for the Fall to work with an HFSP team (UC Berkeley, Univ of Maryland, and Univ of Tübingen) that is…
Frontiers in Bioimaging 2018 in Glasgow
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Frontiers in BioImaging 2018 will take place on Wednesday 27 and Thursday 28 June at the Technology and Innovation Centre, Glasgow. It will focus on the latest developments in applications of…
Large scale, open neuroscience is a work-in-progress
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The International Brain Lab (IBL) project has an outstanding team of PIs, covering both theory and experiments. The measurements themselves are interesting, and can lead to important insights. However, what…
Bias – Good people aren’t good enough
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This is a bit off topic, but it’s my blog, so I’ll allow it.
A brief note on bias:
It’s not good enough to be a good person. Bias can be like an optical…
EasyEDA update – online circuit design
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We posted about EasyEDA years ago. They’re going strong. They’ve updated the software, and added an online, free Gerber viewer. They’ve also branched out and sell components.
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New online forum for Labrigger
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Here are the new Labrigger forums, running on Discourse.
Background: Justin Kiggins asked about having a Slack channel for Labrigger. The poll indicated majority support, so we agreed to set it up….
Labrigger on Twitter
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FYI: Labrigger also has a Twitter feed, which has content that doesn’t show up on this web page.
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Optical Revolution meeting, Sept 6-10, Woods Hole
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The 71st Annual Symposium of General Physiologists is entitled “The Optical Revolution in Physiology: from Membrane to Brain“. It features some great scientists including: Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, Atsushi Miyawaki, Eric Betzig, Vivian Gradinaru,…
Nature is diluting their brand
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Pre-preprint: blogging a project
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SLAB is trying something new with one project in the lab. Prior to drafting a preprint, we’re blogging the project and sharing the results and analysis. We invite anyone to comment…
Allen Institute’s Brain Observatory data set
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The Allen Institute has released the first set of data from their Brain Observatory project. Many of you already know about this, but I wanted to post about it to encourage people to…
SLAB is hiring postdocs – neurobiologists and engineers
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Just a reminder to anyone looking for a postdoc position: check out the “Now Hiring” link above. We’re looking for people who are pure neurobiologists, pure engineers, or any mixture of the two. Graduate…