Labrigger shirts
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Against middle management’s better judgement, Labrigger shirts are available now. Link to the store.
Just two designs right now. The one above, and the popular Guide to…
Post publication peer review
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Post publication peer review has yet to really take off, but Labrigger hopes it does. One of the newest sites is PubPeer.
PubPeer does it right, allowing for anonymity. This is important in order to obtain…
Aftermarket iPhones and Canon camera software for scientific applications
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Sometimes it’s possible to use aftermarket software (or firmware) to make consumer products function for lab applications. In this post, I’ll cover some software for iOS cameras and Canon cameras that add functions useful…
Some polls matter more than others
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A flurry of posts on the topic culminated in this from Lars Engstrom:
Turnout at the polls this year was low… but here are the results:
How would you complete this sentence:
using confocal and…
Hubbian for SfN abstracts
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Hubbian is an alternative interface for browsing the abstracts for the upcoming Society for Neuroscience meeting. It tracks abstracts views and has an interface for comments and voting. It’s a product of …
Use 50 ohm BNCs, not 75 ohm
Coax BNC cables come in two flavors, 50 ohm and 75 ohm. For experimental rigs (PMTs, DAQs, amplifiers), always buy 50 ohm cables. The 75 ohm versions are for…
GCaMP5: Already old news?
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The GCaMP5 paper is out now. The paper looks fantastic. There’s tons of helpful information and impressive demonstrations of its performance in several popular model systems.
But isn’t GCaMP6 the best thing going? Is…
Fraud
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New analysis in PNAS is used to support several new conclusions:
Fraud is increasing. “The percentage of scientific articles retracted because of fraud has increased 10-fold since 1975.”
“…for articles in which the reason…
Interview with the developers of HelioScan
Last Monday, Labrigger covered HelioScan, a LabVIEW-based, two-photon laser scanning microscopy software suite.
Marcel van ‘t…
Superbright LED spot
Posted in Hardware
Lukas Fisher’s got a new post up covering the build of a super bright LED spotlight, including details on his experience with hotplate-based reflow soldering. (link)
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Olympus president pleads guilty, Sony to swoop in?
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Olympus Corp.’s former president Tsuyoshi Kikukawa admitted guilt Tuesday in a cover-up of massive investment losses
There are also reports that Sony may swoop in with about 0.6 billion…
HelioScan software for imaging
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HelioScan is a LabVIEW-based software suite from Fritjof Helmchen’s group that is specialized for running 2 photon microscopes, and is carefully designed to be modular. This modularity is intended to make it more…
LabVIEW Style Guide
LabVIEW is a great tool, but the block diagrams can become a mess if the programmer isn’t careful. This book was recommended to me by David Ferster, whose LabVIEW code is very…
Scientifica’s 2p scope
With its newly introduced scan head, Scientifica’s 2p scope is finally a complete package. They’re happy to sell their modular design in pieces, so this fills the void between fully custom rigs and…
Nice enclosures
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Most project enclosures are cheap and ugly. I challenge anyone to find something from PacTec that Dieter Rams would want in his house.
The following suggestions might not be Rams-worthy either, but they’re…
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