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Neurolabware party at SfN in DC

You’re invited. Come and say “hi” to the Neurolabware cartel (Josh, Adrian, and Dario).



PI Predictor

Link in full post…



We get mail

On the same day I was invited to the White House Conference on the BRAIN Initiative, we also received a personal letter from a man serving a life sentence for a triple homicide. Nicely,…



SfN 2014 – Barrels XXVII registration

There’s still time to register for Barrels XXVII.
Register

Dendritic Processing in Somatosensory and Visual Cortices
Moderator: Robert Sachdev, Yale University/Charité-Berlin
Arthur Konnnerth, Technische Universität München
Matthew Larkum, Humboldt Universität Berlin
Jeff Magee,…



SfN Short Courses – Advanced techniques

Sign up now for SfN Short Courses. In addition to the excellent material that is covered, these workshops can be a great opporunity to make new connections with like-minded people– scientists with the…



Barrels XXVII

The focus of the Barrels XXVII meeting is still very much on barrel cortex, but they’re generously permitting a bit of visual cortex work to be presented. Here’s more information (pdf link-but the…



The vaguest journal title of all time

American International Journal of Contemporary Research
Maybe even self-contradictory and redundant as well. Nice work.

It was started by the equally unfocussed Center for Promoting Ideas.



Postdoc wanted for the SLAB

SLAB is looking for a postdoc. This postdoc’s initial project would involve mouse behavior and in vivo two-photon calcium imaging. Prior neurophysiology work, particularly with in vivo experiments, is highly recommended. Competitive applicants…



bioRxiv – The biology preprint server

Launched late last year, CSHL-funded bioRxiv is picking up steam. This is a preprint server, like arXiv, but focused on biology rather than math/physics/com sci/and other quantitative fields, like arXiv is.

It’s certainly…



Trying to get that amazing project funded

Unlimited resubmissions at the NIH.



PLoS One requires full data release with publication

authors must make all data publicly available, without restriction, immediately upon publication of the article

Examples could include spreadsheets of original measurements (of cells, of fluorescent intensity, of respiratory volume), large datasets such as next-generation sequence…



Mammalian brains



Why is anonymity important?

Following up on these recent posts… here’s a twitter discussion from a couple of weeks ago…

F1000’s Caeser Berrios says that people who want to participate anonymously in post-publication peer…



Searching for post-publication peer review, and a new use thereof

PubMed Commons has a search argument you can use to find articles with comments:
has_user_comments

You can click that link to try it yourself.

As of this writing, there are about 650 comments on all of PubMed Commons. I don’t know how this compares…



Giant Brain Discussion

Carson Chow’s blog announced:

There is an epic discussion on the Connectionist mailing list right now.

He followed up with his two cents entitled “(Lack of) Progress in neuroscience”.

It’s an on-going, vibrant discussion on…