Reminder: Submit to the Synapse #4

By purepedantry on August 3, 2006.

The Synapse #4 is being hosted by Neurotopia on Sunday. He asks that you get your submissions in by midnight on Saturday. Information for submitters is available here.

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Reminder: Submit to the Synapse

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Reminder: the first Synapse

Just reminding everyone that the first The Synapse (a neuroscience carnvial) is rapidly approaching on Sunday. To submit send your neuroscience related posts to the.synapse.carnival@gmail.com by 9 am Sunday. More information is available at The Synapse.

Synapse #4

Wasn't here to mention it yesterday, but the Synapse #4 is available at Neurotopia. The next Synapse is on August 20th at Retrospectacle. Submission guidelines here.

Animalcules and Pediatric Grand Rounds--call for submissions

It's that time again. The November edition of Animalcules will go live this coming Thursday, and is being hosted by Andreas. Send your links to him (abaeumer at gmx dot de) by Wednesday, and go ahead and include more than one if you like since we missed the October round. Second, I'll be…

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