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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 similar interests,…



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…



Defamation, science, and free speech

In the US, the First Amendment’s guarantee of freedom of speech protects many insults that can be lobbed at a person. However, a line is crossed into defamation, a civil or criminal…



Thorlabs’ 0.26 GB catalog

Thorlabs released a ridiculously sized (264 MB) PDF catalog for their life sciences imaging. Despite the size, I recommend downloading it and checking it out. There are several items and lots of product details…



Infographic by Thomas Porostocky for WIRED.

Bill Gates’ Graph of the Year

Infographic by Thomas Porostocky for WIRED.

Of course Labrigger emphatically supports the work of the Gates Foundation. However, we have to disagree with Bill Gates’ choice for Graph of the…



The NSA, Eisenhower, and Research

A famous speech from 1961 is being quoted in the media recently, and it might be interesting to Labrigger readers that the same speech offered some thoughts about the future relationship between science and…