social neuroscience, decision-making, ecology, economics: thoughts from adam j calhoun
I wanted to know how to find other scientists doing similar (but different!) work to me. I like to think that I know most of the people working on nearby topics, but what about people who take similar approaches on Continue reading
I was curious how people got into neuroscience. Random happenstance? A lifelong love of gap junctions? So I asked about it on twitter and got hundreds of responses. I did a quick analysis of about half the responses, putting them Continue reading
Cosyne is the largest COmputational and SYstems NEuroscience conference. Many many years ago, I thought it would be a good idea to study the conference. Who goes? Who dominates the conference? If this is the place where people come to Continue reading
I am in Berlin for the Cognitive Computational Neuroscience (CCN) conference. It is an interesting collection of people working on more human (though some animal) cognitive neuroscience, often using neural network models. In its third year, CCN is an interesting Continue reading
At a meeting in New York last week [edit: many months ago by the time I got around to posting this], we were discussing the recent push in neuroscience for more naturalistic behaviors. One of the problems, someone pointed out, Continue reading
For the past two years, I tried to crowd-source a complete list of everyone who got hired into a neuroscience faculty job over the previous year. I think the list has almost everyone who was hired in the US… let’s Continue reading
As some of you might know, there s been a lot of tumult surrounding this year s Cosyne (Computational and Systems Neuroscience) conference. The number of submissions skyrocketed from the year before and the rejection rate went from something like 40% to Continue reading
It seems like it might be useful to catalogue the interesting twitter threads that pop up from time to time. They can be hard to parse and easy to miss but there is a lot of interesting and useful stuff. Continue reading
Everyone should tweet about their science. Not only will other scientists on Twitter see it, but plenty of other scientists who are not active on Twitter but pay attention to it! will see it as well. But the way that Continue reading
tl;dr: Deep neural networks are forcing us to rethink what it means to understand what a neuron is doing Does it make sense to talk about a neuron representing a single feature instead of a confluence of features (a la Continue reading