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The Omnibrain is a psychology graduate student at an online university. He hopes that the three weeks and $29.95 that he is spending on his Ph.D. will get him a job at a Tier 1 research university. Do online universities have postdocs? Ok...just kidding, The Omnibrain is a real graduate student at a real school somewhere in the continental United States - or maybe Europe.
OmniBrain is now Of Two Minds!
Category: Meta
It's a new year, bringing new changes. I've decided to quit Omni Brain and move on to less important things, like creating baffling and somewhat offensive art and writing more books that I won't want anyone to read. It's been fun to be here, though. I'm grateful to Steve...
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Category: Neuroart
Since you've all been clamouring to see it, here's my new tattoo, and a video clip of the work in progress. It's an intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cell, my favourite type of neuron. The artist was Gordon at Brain Drops, highly recommended. :) Enjoy your holidays!...
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Category: Art
December 13 is my birthday! Yippee, you say, how old am I? Old enough to not say... I will shamelessly mention the Amazon wish list linked from my contact page, and remind you that Omni Brain has a tip jar in the sidebar (shared with Steve). But I'm not...
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Category: Charity
Omni Brain met its fundraising goal of $1000 for music education programs through DonorsChoose. Thank you to everyone who's donated. You rock! Now 30 kids will too. But it'd be okay, you know, permissible (haha) to exceed our goal if you'd still like to help a Lisa Simpson. A...
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Category: Meta
ScienceBlogs meta news on the blogging survey, weekly recap, and comment contest.
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Category: Survey
We want your opinion! This survey attempts to access the opinions of bloggers, blog-readers, and non-blog folk in regards to the impact of blogs on the outside world. The authors of the survey (from ScienceBlogs.com) are completing an academic manuscript on the impact of science blogging and this survey...
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Category: Art
Art to train babies in neuroscience.
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Category: Meta
The next edition of the Encephalon blog carnival is coming up on August 27, to be hosted at another of my blogs, Neurofuture. Encephalon marks the end of Neurofuture. Please submit your entries ASAP (via that linked form, or email encephalon.host at gmail.com) and join me in making it...
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Category: Neuroscience
Mind Hacks recently held its first AAICS (Awkward Acronyms In Cognitive Science) competition, to find the most inventive and unwieldy brain-related acronyms. I submitted a few; there was Project CHOICES (Changing High-Risk AlcOhol Use and Increasing Contraception Effectiveness Study) [link], and ACTIVE (Advanced Cognitive Training for Independent and Vital...
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Category: Chatter
Omni Brain now has a Facebook group. Join us! I'm amiss in reporting recent IRL social news. There was a lovely dinner with SciBling Bora Zivkovic (who's creating a new online community at PLoS) at the sustainable foods Italian restaurant Incanto, in San Francisco. Then in Vancouver, Bjoern Brembs was...
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