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• February 08, 2011

  Stereotyped Makeover! Graduate Student Edition

  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.Here is the description of a...

• February 03, 2011

  why do auditory neuroscience talks always have bad audio?

  It never fails.I show up to a presentation by an auditory neuroscientist that wants to show an example of their stimulus. Maybe its some crazy synthetic stimuli or an ultrasonic frog call or maybe they just want to play some music. And the audio d...

• January 12, 2011

  The ten songs that are as good as drugs are… your favorite ten songs

  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.”The article is titled “Ten Songs that Will Get You H...

• November 11, 2010

  SfN, meet San Diego beer.

  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’v...

• May 16, 2010

  Sexual harassment is not your academic freedom

  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 b...