This is an ad for Michael Beyeler. He’s awesome. Together with Michael Goard and Cris Niell, we have formed a supergroup that is funded by the NIH…

source: https://alchetron.com/Dust-Brothers

OpenAI — and LLMs in general that train by scraping data from the web and ignoring copyrights — are in legal jeopardy. There are multiple lawsuits filed and many of us are…

NPG still sells reprints (link). Seems anachronistic, doesn’t it? If you got into science after the year 2000, you might not be fully aware of the sea change that occurred just before you got…

I used to float tables with tanks. They didn’t need to be changed very often, but it did need to occur, and it was a pain. I’ve used house air before, and house nitrogen, but they were dirty and/or unreliable.

We’ve been using compressors in recent years, and in particular these compressors from Newport (hat…

With the New Year, one change our lab is making is a purely superficial one. We will no longer refer to groups of collaborators as “collaborations”. Instead, we will refer to them as “supergroups”.

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Another little bit from lab. This showed up in a lab discussion:

I asked my lab to please buy these basic items. I assured them that we have sufficient funding to buy…

I do tag-team 1-on-1 meetings in the morning before the group lab meeting. Instead of blocking out 30-60 minutes per person on a standing basis, it’s just first-come first-served, and it’s however long that person wants / the meeting takes. And then I let the lab know when I’m available again. Images, memes, emojis, and…

I get a lot of email from students that are interested in graduate school. Many of these emails are automated. They are from real students, who want…

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It has been heartbreaking watching my daughter get excited about robot toys– and all of their fantastic behaviors that she has read about and seen in fictional shows — only to be ultimately disappointed at how lame they are…

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