Research Budgets in Perspective 2020
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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 a budget…
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Citations in Overleaf
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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…
kHz multiphoton imaging
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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. …
Species of PECASE awards
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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…
Postdocs & Graduate Students in SLAB
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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…
Six Group Leader Positions at Janelia
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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…
Travel tips about clothing
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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…
New positions open at UCSB, engineers, postdocs, managers
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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 (…
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…
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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