Peer review is not all that it is cracked up to be
Let's crowd-source peer review and get scientific publishing out of the horse and buggy days!
Announcing a new online neurobiology course from NeuroMOOC!!
I continue to be wowed by NeuroMOOC students so much so that I have changed both my teaching goals and the actions that I take to achieve those goals. This is not a new sentiment as I have written previously about several NeuroMOOCers in the past: Sabeen Mahmud, Anish Garikipati, Francisca Martínez Traub, Diana Keat, and Felipe Sales Nogueira Anorim Canedo. Yet, I […]
Can rats feel socially rejected?
Three years ago, an incoming University of Chicago student named Haozhe Shan emailed me asking for an opportunity to work in my laboratory. His letter was well written and demonstrated a focussed and specific interest in social neuroscience. I agreed to talk with him and immediately liked him. Even prior to taking a single college class, he had a knowledge of psychology […]
The brain is sooooo cool! 