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Species of PECASE awards

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 by Pete…



Postdocs & Graduate Students in SLAB

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.



New online forum for Labrigger

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

FYI: Labrigger also has a Twitter feed, which has content that doesn’t show up on this web page.



Optical Revolution meeting, Sept 6-10, Woods Hole

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,…