Thoughts on freedom of will
Some rough notes from a personal attempt to clarify my own thinking. Consider this a work-in-progress and probably wrong. Principles underlying feeling of freedom of will (note that this is different...
View ArticleNeuroRumblr, 2018 – 2019
Quick announcement – I’ve refreshed the NeuroRumblr for the 2018 – 2019 job season. If you are a postdoc looking for an academic job, add yourself to The List so that search committees can reach out to...
View ArticleMonday Open Question: what did you need to do to get a neuroscience job in 2018?
See last year’s post. As always, if you are a postdoc looking for a faculty job I maintain the neurorumblr with crowdsourced information on open jobs + helpful information. You should also add yourself...
View ArticleCan we even understand what the responses of a neuron ‘represent’?
tl;dr: Deep neural networks are forcing us to rethink what it means to understand what a neuron is doing Does it make sense to talk about a neuron representing a single feature instead of a confluence...
View ArticleHow to tweet about your science #sciencestorm #bitesizescience
Everyone should tweet about their science. Not only will other scientists on Twitter see it, but plenty of other scientists who are not active on Twitter – but pay attention to it! – will see it as...
View ArticleInteresting neuro/ML discussions on twitter, 1/9/19
It seems like it might be useful to catalogue the interesting twitter threads that pop up from time to time. They can be hard to parse and easy to miss but there is a lot of interesting and useful...
View Article#Cosyne19, by the numbers
As some of you might know, there’s been a lot of tumult surrounding this year’s Cosyne (Computational and Systems Neuroscience) conference. The number of submissions skyrocketed from the year before...
View ArticlePlease help me identify neuroscientists hired as tenure-track assistant profs...
For the past two years, I tried to crowd-source a complete list of everyone who got hired into a neuroscience faculty job over the previous year. I think the list has almost everyone who was hired in...
View ArticleAn ethology reading list
At a meeting in New York last week [edit: many months ago by the time I got around to posting this], we were discussing the recent push in neuroscience for more naturalistic behaviors. One of the...
View Article#CCN2019 by the numbers
I am in Berlin for the Cognitive Computational Neuroscience (CCN) conference. It is an interesting collection of people working on more human (though some animal) cognitive neuroscience, often using...
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#cosyne2020, by the numbers
Cosyne is the largest COmputational and SYstems NEuroscience conference. Many many years ago, I thought it would be a good idea to study the conference. Who goes? Who dominates the conference? If this...
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3% of Neuroscientists are here for revenge
I was curious how people got into neuroscience. Random happenstance? A lifelong love of gap junctions? So I asked about it on twitter and got hundreds of responses. I did a quick analysis of about...
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Scientists like me
I wanted to know how to find other scientists doing similar (but different!) work to me. I like to think that I know most of the people working on nearby topics, but what about people who take similar...
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