This beautiful two-photon microscopy image, by Alanna Watt and Michael Hausser, shows a network of Purkinje cells in the cerebellar cortex. Named after the Czech anatomist who discovered them, Purkinje cells are the largest cells in the mammalian brain....
Posted on May 3, 2008 3:44 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Here's something that I'll almost certainly be entering in two years' time (when, if all goes according to plan, I'll be a Ph.D. student again): Wellcome Trust and New Scientist essay competition The Wellcome Trust is inviting postgraduates in science,...
Posted on April 21, 2008 11:58 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The first issue of a new peer-reviewed journal called Neuroethics is available online. Edited by Neil Levy, a regular contributor to Experimental Philosophy and The Garden of Forking Paths, the journal offers free access to the full text of all...
Posted on March 18, 2008 4:06 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
UCSD-TV, the local television station broadcast by the University of California at San Diego, has a series called Grey Matters, which is devoted to neuroscience.To date, fifteen full-length presentations have been produced for the series, all of which are availabe...
Posted on March 11, 2008 6:22 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The editors of the journal Neuron are now publishing readers' comments on the journal's website. Comments can be made online for any paper published in the journal, including all of those in the online back archive. Neuron is owned by...
Posted on December 29, 2007 3:14 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I've just received this email from Stephanie Porter, one of the authors of the Oxford University Press blog: I wanted to share with you a compelling series of posts from our new Complete Writing Guide to NIH Behavioral Studies Grants....
Posted on October 18, 2007 3:39 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
