"Ideas do not always come in a flash, but by diligent trial-and-error experiments that take time and thought." Electrical engineer Charles Kao was born on this day and pioneered the development of fibre optics in telecommunications. He was awarded the 2009 Physics Prize.

A college class had 2 teachers: one male and one female At the end of the semester, the students scored the male higher on course evaluations, while the female got FIVE times as many negative reviews There’s just one problem: They were the SAME person. news.ufl.edu/2020/11/ta-bia…

New comment article from our group and our collaborators in Brazil! We discuss the need for improved #diagnostics in the face of #COVID19. Check it out!

Marie Curie died of aplastic anaemia on 4 July 1934, a result of years of exposure to radiation through her work. Even today her laboratory notebook from 1899-1902, is radioactive and will be for 1,500 years.

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Some work I did with Michael Mack and Meg Schlichting at Mack Lab has officially been published! People learn better when rule-violating exceptions are presented later in learning (and so does a neural network model of the hippocampus 🧠) nature.com/articles/s4159…