(mis)representations of impacts
11 May 2011
This is a draft post from a few months ago that I forgot about, so the links a slightly dated, but the topics are still relevant.
Product. Data. Science.
11 May 2011
This is a draft post from a few months ago that I forgot about, so the links a slightly dated, but the topics are still relevant.
08 February 2011
With yet another indicator of how ill equipped this university is to help graduate students prepare for non-academic careers, I got an email inviting me to a workshop to help grad students learn how to dress themselves.
03 February 2011
It never fails.
A good friend sent me a link to this article about the recent paper out of the Zatorre lab, “Anatomically distint dopamine release during anticipation and experience of of peak emotion to music.”
11 November 2010
I don’t think that most neuroscientists know how lucky they are to have descended upon this beautiful city on the tail of San Diego Beer Week. The discerning neuroscientist will find some awesome special beer during their first few days at SfN.
I’ve started compiling the San Diego Beer Week events that are close to the hotels near the convention center and the SfN hotels. I’ll get the rest of the days up soon. Enjoy!
16 May 2010
Recently, Professor Dylan Evans has launched a petition campaign to fight his two-year “close supervision” order which was issued in response to an incident where he approached a female colleague to discuss an academic paper on fellatio in fruit bats. She interpreted this as an unwelcome incident of sexual harassment and filed a formal complaint. As he has been telling the story, the HR department dismissed the complaint. Nonetheless, the president of the university placed him on “close supervision” for two years. Unfortunately, the details of this are solely coming from Dr. Evans, who has launched a petition and a youtube video of select documents and has even made up a twitter hashtag, all portraying this as an academic freedom issue. A full posting of the documents challenges his claim of academic freedom, however.