EyeWriter 2.0 Eye tracking system
Posted in Hardware
The EyeWriter DIY project is for the disabled, but could work equally well for psychophysics applications. All of the code is open source, and the build is thoroughly documented.
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Plotly (plot.ly) for collaborative data visualization and analysis
Posted in Software
It could be described as a GoogleDocs-type app for data analysis. But that would be a lazy description.
Import your data, code up the analysis and visualization, and then share with collaborators who can view,…
Sensapex piezo manipulators… update
Posted in Hardware
Labrigger covered Sensapex’s tiny manipulators in the past. Since then, Sensapex has broadened their offerings a bit.
SciScan: Scientifica’s two photon software
My friend Bruno has written some very nice software for Scientifica’s two photon microscope systems. It’s called SciScan.
It’s written in LabVIEW and runs both their conventional galvo and resonant…
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…
Sharing your code
Someone recently asked me, “What’s a good way I can share my code?”
There are several ways you can go, of course. Here are the first two that popped into my mind.
A full web site
Squarespace isn’t…
Visual stimulation and intrinsic imaging code
Posted in Software
Ian Nauhaus, whom UT Austin recently nabbed, is sharing his code for intrinsic imaging and visual stimulation.
The visual stimulation code is based off of Psychophysics Toolbox, which is already in use…
Helioscan paper is out
Posted in Software
The Helioscan paper is out now in J Neurosci Methods. Mentioned previously on Labrigger.
Here’s a Labrigger interview with the developers.
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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…