Funny Brain Sign
Category: Brains and Stuff • Humor
Posted on: March 5, 2008 4:16 PM, by Steve Higgins
Maybe I should take this advice seriously before I write blog posts ;)


Shelley Batts is a Neuroscience PhD candidate at the University of Michigan. She studies hair cell regeneration in the cochlea, and is trying to finish that quixotic quest called 'thesis.' She lies awake at night pondering how science intersects with politics, culture, policy, money, medicine, and religion in an attempt to be more than just a niche scientist sitting in the oh-so-lovely ivory tower. Follow me and my parrot, Pepper, on our quest to finish my PhD, land a post-doc, and stay sane.
Steve Higgins 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, Steve is really a Ph.D. Candidate in Psychology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign studying high level vision. You know... stuff like scene & object perception.
While not an official contributer to 'Of Two Minds,' Shelley's sidekick is an African Grey parrot named Pepper. His heros are Irene Pepperberg, Alex, and Rachel Carson. He spends his time learning Mandarin and writing the Great American novel.
"Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth, are never alone or weary of life." ~Rachel Carson
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Category: Brains and Stuff • Humor
Posted on: March 5, 2008 4:16 PM, by Steve Higgins
Maybe I should take this advice seriously before I write blog posts ;)

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We could totally use some of these at work. Although management might take them down because they're "Unapproved signage" it would be funny as hell.
Posted by: Nathaniel | March 5, 2008 5:46 PM
Thats funny, I have that picture in my MySpace page. :)
Posted by: Shelley Batts | March 5, 2008 8:23 PM
Long ago, I worked in a company that worried a lot about "unapproved signage". We were building specialized graphics systems on top of minicomputers (yes, THAT long ago), and tradition in the group was that the computers required names. A project with three minis, for instance, might have Simon, Theodore, and Alvin, or Huey, Dewey, and Louie. We also liked to post the usual ironic comics that get noticed by a bunch of geeks. We solved the problem by setting up our workstations on the backside of the minis, where we could post to our hearts'content. Management never went back there, because all those cables and circuit card racks looked complicated.
Posted by: Karen | March 5, 2008 9:18 PM