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Oct 8, 2024 | 
thetransmitter.org | Loren M. Frank |Samuel J. Gershman |Daniel Aharoni |Jill Adams
There is a growing recognition in the neuroscience community that efforts to improve data-sharing are, at least in principle, a good idea. Sharing the data generated by experiments is critical for reproducibility, and it enables reuse of data that may have taken years to collect. Sharing the code used to transform data into scientific results is also critical, both to boost reproducibility and to reduce the amount of time trainees spend developing these tools.
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Sep 9, 2024 | 
thetransmitter.org | Samuel J. Gershman |Daniel Aharoni |Robert C. Froemke |Rachel Zamzow
This series of scientist-written essays explores the benefits and challenges of data-sharing and open-source technologies in neuroscience. The field of neuroscience has witnessed a sea change in its attitude toward open science over the past 10 years. Thanks to mandates from journals and funders, the establishment of large-scale public repositories, and broader shifts in academic culture, it is now routine for many researchers to deposit data for use by anyone, anywhere.
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Jul 29, 2024 | 
thetransmitter.org | Anne Churchland |Felicia Davatolhagh |Daniel Aharoni |Angie Voyles Askham
A newly launched research center in Nigeria could offer a model for expanding neuroscience across the continent. A newly launched research center in Nigeria could offer a model for expanding neuroscience across the continent. By By , An omitted citation in a high-profile paper led us to examine our own practices and to help others adopt tools that promote citation diversity.
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Jul 15, 2024 | 
thetransmitter.org | Letisha Wyatt |Daniel Aharoni |Robert C. Froemke |Mark Laubach
Data-handling and data-sharing are an essential part of the research endeavor, yet most trainees learn how to do it through trial and error. Before I went to graduate school, I worked at a contract research organization supporting data management and sharing for clinical trials across the United States.
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Jun 25, 2024 | 
thetransmitter.org | Shaena Montanari |Ashley Juavinett |Daniel Aharoni |Jill Adams
Zombie cicadas may be all the rage this summer—with a fungal infection ripping through two emerging broods and rendering them “sex-crazed,” as one headline recently put it. But the responsible organism, Massospora cicadina, isn’t the only parasitic puppet master in the insect world.
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Jun 24, 2024 | 
thetransmitter.org | Ashley Juavinett |Daniel Aharoni |Charles Choi |Angie Voyles Askham
Associate teaching professor of neurobiologyUniversity of California, San Diego Share this article: Tags: How to teach this paper, Hippocampus, Memory, Methods, Plasticity In the “How to teach this paper” series, I guide educators and self-learners through recent seminal neuroscience papers. The goal here is not to dissect these papers but rather to translate and contextualize them for aspiring neuroscientists and their educators.
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Jun 18, 2024 | 
thetransmitter.org | Jill Adams |Dalmeet Singh Chawla |Daniel Aharoni
Welcome to The Transmitter Spectrum is now a key section of The Transmitter and continues to publish news and perspectives about autism research. Previous Spectrum articles are available at thetransmitter.org.
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Jun 17, 2024 | 
thetransmitter.org | Daniel Aharoni |Katie Moisse |Olivia Gieger
Neuroscience is fast becoming a more open and collaborative scientific environment—for example, funding agencies, recognizing the value of open-source tool development, are offering more support for open-source projects. These tools are paving the way for a future in which sharing knowledge and resources becomes the norm in neuroscience, accelerating the pace of discovery and innovation. But to truly realize the benefits of open-source approaches, the field still has some hurdles to overcome.
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Jun 14, 2024 | 
thetransmitter.org | Daniel Aharoni |Shaena Montanari |Katie Moisse |Olivia Gieger
Assistant professor of neurology University of California, Los Angeles Daniel Aharoni is assistant professor of neurology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He received his Ph.D. in physics from UCLA, where he worked in high- and low-energy particle physics before shifting his focus to neurophysics.
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Nov 6, 2023 | 
thetransmitter.org | Dalmeet Singh Chawla |Jill Adams |Daniel Aharoni |Shaena Montanari
Dalmeet Singh Chawla is a freelance science journalist based in London. His work has been featured in Nature, Science, Slate, Undark, The Economist, New Scientist and Pacific Standard, among other publications. See more about his work here: www.dalmeets.com. An investigation found that the experiments required more animals than the scientists had purchased.
