Jobs I have as a PI that I didn't know I'd have before I became a PI: accountant, financial planner, HR manager, conference & event organiser, grant manager, counsellor, meeting facilitator, course developer, academic administrator, facility manager, purchasing officer, AV tech.

I'm a priori sympathetic to Haidt's position (and I will still restrict social media for my kids), but I find his cavalier attitude towards evidence incredibly frustrating. It would be better if he just said these were his opinions.

indeed. (purchasing officer: eeeeeek)

In fact, in science, the civil servants are critical to the competitive grant funding that supports the professors’ work. Striking at the civil service is therefore a double whammy for the MAGA right.

Upcoming online symposium on "Dendritic Integration", Tuesday December 10th, 11:00 am - 4:00 pm EST. Great speakers and free registration! ntc.columbia.edu/dendritic-inte…

Very cool paper by David Clark and company. A wealth of important results linking aspects of network connectivity (especially low rank structure) to the dimension of population activity.

This looks very interesting—

Congrats to my friend and colleague Guosong Hong for his stunning and original discovery, published today in Science, on clearing tissues *in living animals* with a common food dye! The dye is tartrazine, used in Doritos! science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

I don't understand the theory itself but it predicts that a dye with a sharp absorbance suppresses refractive index mismatching in the transmitted redder wavelengths. The theory is apparently no secret to optical physicists, just nobody thought of applying it to animal imaging.

so, soaking Doritos in water and putting the solution on your arm should allow you to see deep blood vessels with red light?

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