In my optics classes, I often give a brief historical account of Galileo’s telescopes. A point I want to make in this post, is that part of the high performance of Galileo’s telescopes was obtained through careful final adjustments. We do the same thing with our optics, designing in correction collars, adjustable air gaps, and…
Humphrey is a gentleman. We relax together after an intense day.
This is post is about suits. Most Labrigger readers will want to skip reading this one. I did a post…
Worldwide spending on all advertising is on the order of 1 trillion USD per year (source: statista). Web ad companies capture large fractions of this. For example, Meta gets about 10%, and Google gets about 20%. Then those companies invest heavily in R&D of various types, including for machine learning (ML) / artificial intelligence (AI)….
It is both fascinating and frustrating. Large-scale receptive field remapping in V2 neurons: Work by: Sachira Denagamage, Mitchell P Morton, Anirvan Nandy
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.05.01.539001v1
Our eyes are in constant motion, yet we perceive…
Ikuko Smith taught me that me that Japanese people judge others by the way they wring out a washcloth. “It says a lot about how a person was raised.” That was a new thing for me to be self conscious about, but addressable. Unlike my technique for eating corn-on-the-cob. This Iowa boy is stuck in…
There are different types of pulse compressors, this is clever single prism design.
Here’s a quick question I received via email that might be worth sharing: Does using a pulse compressor make a noticeable…
Many are aware of the burden of bureaucratic administrative tasks on professors. A colleague of mine called it “Death by 1000 paper cuts.” It takes time away from research and other scholarly activities, and oftentimes the time commitment is substantial, taking 20-40% of a professor’s time, depending on who you ask and what items are…
Coming soon to your neuroscience lab.
Thorlabs has worked with the great Jacob Reimer to create a streamlined 2p system that is compact enough to mount on a robotic arm.
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Academics don’t typically receive much advice in time management during their training. Then they get a tenure-track position and are expected to figure it out. Most do indeed figure it out, but there can be pain involved. Here are some simple bits of advice, take what you find useful, ignore the rest.
The best system is…
Your amazing imaging rig should be operated with the room lights on. There’s no reason you need to do your work in the dark. My rigs are built lightproof. Very lightproof. We could…
For those who might find it useful, I am sharing some grant-writing advice. It is specifically for writing NIH R01 grants, but many of the principles are more broadly applicable.
Private universities have many fewer undergraduate students compared to public universities. From Wikipedia, mostly 2021 numbers.
People generally understand the difference in governance between public and private schools, but they might not…
Making good use of those indirect cost returns
Spending a lot of money on a big purchase can be time consuming. Whether it’s a high-power laser, an imaging system, or something else, the process…
This piece from Eve Marder resonantes with me. Just a couple of notes to elaborate on it.
Pages from Oliver Smithies’ lab notebook
Write it down. I tell people in my lab…
I might be alone in this, and I’m willing to die on this hill, but here it is:
Vertical histograms are better than all of these: violin plots, box plots, kernel density plots, beeswarm plots. (if you don’t know those terms, simply do a web search for them for examples)
Just show me the naked distribution….
