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