Neuroecology programming note
Posting will likely be lighter than normal over the next month or two. I am writing my dissertation, working on multiple manuscripts, visiting family in India and moving to Philadelphia. Busy! And all...
View ArticleMonday open question: What have you read that inspired you in science?
In a twitter discussion of inspirational scientists, I realized that a more interesting question was whether other scientists had particular papers or books that had profoundly inspired them. For very...
View ArticleVisions of the Salk Institute
I have been working at the Salk Institute for the past six years or so. Beyond its science, the Salk has both breathtaking architecture and a stunning natural environment. It is absurdly common to see...
View ArticleBecome an SfN official blogger! #sfn14
The annual Neuroscience meeting (SfN) is coming up soon and SfN has announced that they are once again seeking official bloggers: Social media allows for the widespread sharing of scientific...
View ArticleGreetings from Portland, OR
I’m currently visiting the Greatest City on Earth which is interfering with my science blogging. But here is some personal photoblogging. (to be updated, if anyone cares)
View ArticleYet another programming note
I’m in the midst of some intense experiments and don’t really have time for writing or thinking for the next week or two, which is why things have slowed down… I’ll try to post snippets of articles I...
View ArticleVernon Benjamin Mountcastle, 1918-2015
Monday night brought the sad news that Vernon Mountcastle has passed away. He got his career started, strangely enough, by studying motion sickness in dogs. His most famous discovery, though (motion...
View ArticleNeuroscience podcasts
I have a long drive to work each day so I listen to a lot of podcasts. I have been enjoying the new Unsupervised Thinking podcast from some computational neuroscience graduate students at Columbia. So...
View Article2017 in review (a quantified life)
I have always found it useful to take advantage of the New Year and reflect on what I have done over the past year. The day itself is a useful bookmark in life, inevitably trapped between leaving town...
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