Scientific innovations don’t come about in isolation. Isaac Newton, no less, stated that if he has seen further it has been by standing on the shoulders of giants – and he definitely saw pretty far. Familiarizing with research by others is an essential part of every researcher’s work. Scientific publications cite tons of sources: a …
Reading Buzsáki
I enjoy reading scientific literature – and still, I constantly have the feeling that I read too little. I dare to bet I’m not alone with this feeling. In one’s CV one counts the papers written, not those read. Conference submissions have deadlines, papers to be read don’t. One may need to construct a teaching …
The great academic mishmash
Have you ever wondered what scientists actually do? Or are you a scientist who, although mostly knowing what does, has never been able to explain it to friends and family outside he academia? Then, what follows is for you! In this post, I will summarize my academic doings during the last around two months*. * …
I'll be back in September. Meanwhile, check the programme of our Advanced methods for neuroimaging data analysis workshop at https://am4ndalille.wordpress.com/ and join us to discuss the potential and challenges of the cutting-edge computational tools for understanding the brain!
Let’s talk about desk rejections!
My work lately has not been particularly glorious: we just got a manuscript desk rejected. (For those not familiar with the academic publishing business: In an optimal case, we would have sent the manuscript to a journal, the handling editor would have passed it to a bunch of reviewers, and we could have improved it …
Our random brains
Building a functional brain network starts from defining the network nodes – and as noticed earlier, the node definition is anything but straightforward. The first thing to decide is the scale: shall we use all fMRI measurement voxels as nodes to obtain a maximally large network, or shall we rather clump the voxels together to …
The great research question hunt
In his blog post from last February, Jari Saramäki discussed the importance of creativity in science. If we define creativity as the ability to come up with new ideas and to develop them further, science is all about creativity. Luckily, according to Jari, creativity is like ear for music or eye for design: it can …
