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The Evil Monkey has a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from a southeastern U.S. university. After a postdoctoral nightmare of Inquisitorial proportions, he is currently working in a laboratory and an adjunct assistant professor at a nearby state university.
Scicurious has a PhD in Physiology from a southern institution. She is a nerd, a geek, and also a dork. And yes, that really is her brain.
NotoriousLTP is an MD-PhD student in New York City. After finishing (hopefully soon) his PhD in behavioral neuroscience, he will re-enter the fun vortex that is medical education.
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Category: Academia
Life has an interesting symmetry to it. No I'm not talking about bilateral symmetry or any Endless Forms Most Beautiful. I've just completed my orientation for a 1 year position at my undergraduate alma mater, where I'll be replacing the...
Posted by Evil Monkey at 4:10 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Academia
Even kids in jr high can figure out that we've been spoon-fed some misconceptions of how scientists look and act. I wonder where they get these ideas from. Certainly not the media. They would never create caricatures of real people....
Posted by Evil Monkey at 4:21 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Academia
(I had this whole post ready talking about flexible representations, but now my computer is borked -- stupid monitor! -- so this is going to have to do.) Tyler Cowen over at Marginal Revolution links to a piece by a...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 10:52 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Academia
You attended 5 classes of your Brain and Behavior course out of an 8 week summer session that meets daily, and stop going after the first exam. Which you failed. Repeating the exact same pattern from the previous semester when...
Posted by Evil Monkey at 9:03 AM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Academia
One of my close colleagues got on eRA Commons and downloaded the challenge grants she was to review before eRA Commons went down for major upgrades in a majorly untimely fashion. This was a prudent move on her part since...
Posted by Evil Monkey at 9:22 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Academia
Why you need to quit screwing around and get your challenge grants
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Category: Academia
My illustrious coblogger points out that by taking part in research studies, a graduate student can actually afford to do things like, well, eat. Normally relegated to scraping the crumbs off the post-seminar cookie tray, or sneaking into a urology...
Posted by Evil Monkey at 4:20 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Academia
The semester is finally winding down. Kudos to Scicurious for holding down the fort. After teaching 3 courses on top of my 40+ hour-a-week lab job, I'm rather grateful. No wait, I'm frakkin' ecstatic. Possibly rapturous. Don't get me wrong,...
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Category: Academia
Here's a summary of life as an academic.
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Category: Academia
The downside of this semester is that I am dog tired. Having 3 classes with exams all at once wasn't a good idea when I still have to work 40+ a week. I haven't had a day off in weeks....
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