The NIH is being defunded
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Welcome to 13 years ago. Current NIH funding is at about the same level it was in 2000. The doubling has been undone, and we’re now at a level that is far below the…
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Not how to pipette
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It’s Friday. Here’s a Friday link. It’s a blog entitled That’s Not How You Pipette, and it includes lots of shots from TV shows and movies.
The one below is from Private Practice:
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Post-publication peer review on PubMed Commons
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PubMed has a new feature: you can comment on the papers using PubMed Commons.
PubPeer, the now-defunct Third Reviewer, reference managers, and journals have offered post-publication peer review for a while…
New NIH due dates
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The US government is working again. And, as promised, the NIH has issued revised due dates for grants. NOT-OD-14-003
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More site news
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Although Labrigger got some positive feedback on the last redesign, some of the more obsessive readers complained that the tile/card format made it difficult to systematically review…
Managing expectations
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In a spartan office looking across Lake Geneva to the French Alps, Henry Markram is searching for a suitably big metaphor to describe his latest project. “It’s going to be the Higgs boson of…
Site news
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The Labrigger audience has been steadily growing since it launched. Many, many more people visit Labrigger in a month than attend the Society for Neuroscience meeting (web traffic aficionados, that’s unique visitors, humans not robots,…
US Government Shutdown, NIH, NSF
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The US Government is in shutdown right now. What does that mean for researchers funded by the NIH and NSF?
This notice explains what to expect with respect to the NIH. If that link…
Bruker buys Prairie
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You might recognize the Bruker brand from their small animal MRI machines. It’s a decently large company (market cap $3.4B).
They just bought Prairie Technologies, the Madison, WI-based manufacturer of multiphoton microscopes ($11M in 2012…
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The magazine Popular Science dates back to 1872. It’s older than Nature (1879), Science (1880), and American Scientist (1913). It was originally an academic journal, before it split into two parts, with the academic portion eventually being absorbed into Science. It’s high quality…
