Matt Krause

I'd argue an easy way to support "early-career" folks is not to lump everyone together.

Depending on who's talking, it could mean anything from undergrads to untenured profs--and they all want and need different things. The baked-in idea of a fixed, linear career path is also bad too!

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(Apparently a quite an artist too!)

It's also...not very good?

The vision stuff past V1 is not particularly good, ditto PD/basal ganglia.

Tempted to email you just to see what it is now!

I think (properly) describing many designs could take a lot more space.

Suppose you have N=100M data points, but it's heart rate every second (highly autocorrelated) from a smaller set of patients, which are themselves nested in cohort, hospital, etc. It'll take a whole paragraph!

Surely he signed it on the back of the tweet?

Followed by sup Bourne, I assume?

Weirdly, her LinkedIn page lists her in VT too. Summer/second home, perhaps?

(I have also been to that Jamaica and yeah, no big universities)

I started discussing the cost of the proposed experiments (in terms of time and money) right in the response to reviewers: people don't always realize what things cost.

It seems to help!

I've always been conflicted about this story.

On one hand, $1M is obviously *a lot*. On the the other hand, if the manuscript was claiming the moon, like a lot of those papers do, the authors do need to back up those claims with lots of data.

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That analysis isn't quite right: they should be comparing them directly, rather than comparing each of them against zero.

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The word “groceries” is surprisingly old—the OED has an example of its use from 1436–but I’m almost certain he didn’t know that either.

I'm not sure they even test the last bit.

I'm sure the selection process for HHMI Investigators is rigorous...but it can't be infallible and yet I don't know of any really dramatic flame-outs.

They should give a few R35s and Investigator positions to randos and see what happens!

It’s less sinister than it sounds!

Because of how it develops, the retina is technically considered part of the brain.

They have a fancy display system that can map out individual cones and stimulate them with pulses of light. You can see crazy colors won’t become the Manchurian Candidate!

I think it’s probably hard to make the impact immediately visible, other than as photos of a protest.

When sanitation workers go on strike, there’s an immediate need not being met—with stinky reminders.

If no one does research for a week…the impact is subtle and years down the line.

At the very bottom reputationally, I can believe that specific skills matter, but above that....

My childhood friends with less-famous non-STEM degrees largely seem to have landed okay: some high-flyers, but some also look happy teaching middle school, doing local marketing, or working at an NGO.

Surely a lot of this just gets pushed onto the institution instead?

I can't imagine that there are armies of (involuntarily) unemployed people with English degrees from Harvard or most other nationally-known universities.

That's the point of having undergrad RAs and honours thesis programs!

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Clever! Is that a repurposed ECoG array?

You can just wrap everything in foil, right?

No, I'm Spartacus!

Congrats! Was there blue soup at the reception? :-)

The goals are awful, but the implementation is so hamfisted too.

Certainly wouldn't want NSF funding optics ("polarization"), math ("in/equality"), statistics ("bias"), linguistics ("male/female voices", "token"), chemistry ('fluid identity"), computing ("nonbinary") or uhhh "clean energy".

Beautiful photos!

Our lab has a bunch and I don’t think anyone has had problems besides losing the small USB-C to A adapter (guilty).

That sounds so cool! Any chance you’ve got a link to the syllabus laying about?

Aww I’m so flattered that I count as “young.”

I’m curious why people (not just you!) seem to think ephaptic effects are only interesting if they’re huge.

Wouldn’t it still be relevant if it were 50%—or even 5%—of the total drive to a neuron? (And a qualitatively different sort of input that’s weak but fast and widely distributed)

There’s a decent chance it’s the same one!