I was not able to contain zombies to one part and they spread to a second part. This time, I am tackling the more classical zombie apocalypse, the one where zombies are not created on purpose… a pandemic of some sort if you will. To start of, let us dive […]
Yearly Archives: 2021
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Zombies? What can we learn about science with the help of zombies? Quite a lot, that is. Which zombies did I include? Few. Not so many zombies come with wannabe scientific explanations, but more than enough to learn about morbid themes. Make sure you can handle gruesome things before you […]
I first started to question my love of science about 3 months into my PhD. There I sat, alone and late at night. Our lab was small and, 6 weeks after my arrival, the PhD who should have been my real mentor had left, an industry position shining bright in […]
Time passes by and it has been more than 10 years that James Cameron introduced the blue aliens to the silver screen. More than 10 years that Avatar has been out and whenever someone speaks about it, I still have this song playing loudly in my mind (click on the […]
I was raised by wonderful people, who every time they were encouraged to learn something new used to repeat a slightly modified version of the known saying: “You can’t teach new tricks to an old dog”. Fun fact: The Latin-American version of this idiom is: “Chango viejo no aprende maroma […]
“We have our strategy in place. A behavior has occurred one that is reprehensible, or wonderful, or floating ambiguously in between. What occurred in the prior second that triggered the behavior? This is the province of the nervous system. What occurred in the prior seconds to minutes that triggered the […]
One of my earliest exposures to Neuroscience was when I read famous DNA scientist, Francis Crick’s book titled “The astonishing hypothesis”, in which he elegantly posited: “You—your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free will—are in fact no more than the […]
For this past 8th of March, marked as International Women’s Day 2021, the SimpleNeuro team decided to commemorate this day by challenging many things. We uploaded pictures to our Instagram page in which we talked about topics we need to challenge. Here’s a recap: Katrina decided to talk about the […]
I like the implication of such a title : The Real Life. So there would be a life that is not real? Not real enough? That was, at least, the question stuck in my head when I started reading this LabLit book from Brandon Taylor. First, I want to address […]
Did you ever wonder if you could control an artificial arm? And that this artificial arm could also give feedback back to you about what you feel. For instance, a hot cup of coffee or an ice cube. To realize such approaches in the future, the brain’s basic understanding and […]
Start small. We don’t expect a fully developed article or piece of art. Here are our proposed contributions: Send an interview Q&A to someone you look up to and write a post with their responses. Write about your career development plans Write about something interesting in neuroscience or your specific […]
In the last few years there has been quite a surge of texts discussing psychological challenges of academic careers at a graduate level, particularly regarding the rates of depression among PhD students, and impostor syndrome. But what about those of us who made it through? With all the antidepressants we […]