We get mail
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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, both letters…
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SfN 2014 – Barrels XXVII registration
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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
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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
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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…
The vaguest journal title of all time
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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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Postdoc wanted for the SLAB
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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…
bioRxiv – The biology preprint server
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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…
PLoS One requires full data release with publication
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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…
Why is anonymity important?
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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…