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Sep 10, 2024 | 
thetransmitter.org | Kevin G. Bender |Angie Voyles Askham |Olivier Winter |Jill Adams
I am a compulsive collaborator. I love seeing how people with different backgrounds think about neuroscience. More than 90 percent of what our lab has published has involved some form of collaboration, whether it be with another group at our institution or colleagues from far-flung locations. Good collaborations are force multipliers. They extend a study’s scope, enable you to ask research questions in creative ways, and add rigor by testing hypotheses from multiple angles.
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Aug 26, 2024 | 
thetransmitter.org | Angie Voyles Askham |Olivier Winter |Grace Lindsay |Nicole Rust
Senior reporterThe Transmitter Share this article: Tags: Craft and careers, Ion channels, Neurodevelopment, Peripheral nervous system, Sensory perception, Somatosensation Theanne Griffith can’t help thinking in stories. As a child, dreaming up new worlds and writing about them were two of her favorite activities. And once she turned her attention to science, that tendency didn’t change.
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Aug 26, 2024 | 
thetransmitter.org | Nicole Rust |Olivier Winter |Lauren Schenkman |Kenneth Harris
I first read Francis Crick’s “The Astonishing Hypothesis,” published in 1994, as a disenchanted undergraduate student. I knew that I wanted to change my major from chemical engineering, but I was unsure about what I wanted to switch to. In Crick’s book, I found the answer in spades.
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Aug 20, 2024 | 
thetransmitter.org | Gina Jimenez |Shaena Montanari |Jill Adams |Olivier Winter
Former news reporting internThe Transmitter Share this article: Tags: Neuroethology, Cognition, Neurobiology, Sensory perception, Vision Read this article in English. En 1990, cuando Martín Giurfa llegó a Freiburg, Alemania, vio que la gente hacía algo que nunca había visto. Una vez al mes sacaban a la calle todo aquello que ya no querían y cualquiera lo podía tomar. Llamaban esta tradición Sperrmüll.
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Aug 20, 2024 | 
thetransmitter.org | Jill Adams |Lauren Schenkman |Sarah DeWeerdt |Olivier Winter
Home Curating neuroscience, connecting community An editorially independent publication supported by the Simons Foundation
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Aug 19, 2024 | 
thetransmitter.org | Olivier Winter |Gaelle A. Chapuis |Angie Voyles Askham |Grace Lindsay
Technical managerInternational Brain Laboratory Senior research software engineerInternational Brain Laboratory Share this article: Tags: Craft and careers, Audio research news, Data-sharing, Methods, Open neuroscience Listen to this story: Your browser doesn't support the audio element Download In the past decade, neuroscience datasets and the scale of scientific collaborations have grown dramatically in size.
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Aug 14, 2024 | 
thetransmitter.org | Olivier Winter |Charles Choi |Lauren Schenkman |Olivia Gieger
After more than a decade in an industry research position in geophysics, Olivier Winter has been using his skills and experience in applied sciences and numerical analysis at the International Brain Laboratory. His engineering background has been useful for delivering consistent results by a principled application of current methods in neurophysiology, such as spike sorting and video analysis.
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Aug 12, 2024 | 
thetransmitter.org | Kenneth Harris |Olivier Winter |Lauren Schenkman |Charles Choi
In 2021, neuroscientist Guido Meijer reported a seemingly bizarre finding—70 percent of neurons in the mouse brain correlated with fluctuations in the price of cryptocurrency. Meijer wasn’t trying to suggest that mice follow the crypto market. Rather, the study was a satirical demonstration of a common type of statistical error called nonsense correlations, which can occur between two unrelated variables that both evolve slowly over time.
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Jul 16, 2024 | 
thetransmitter.org | Gaelle A. Chapuis |Olivier Winter |Shaena Montanari |Daisy Yuhas
Gaëlle Chapuis is a technical manager responsible for overseeing the activities of the International Brain Laboratory (IBL), a global consortium of 21 institutions and more than 75 people, aimed at understanding how brain activity patterns lead to decision-making. Chapuis is based at the University of Geneva and supervises a team of engineers deployed in five countries. Her group provides support to scientists, creating professionalized workflows that are adopted at a large scale.
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Dec 4, 2023 | 
thetransmitter.org | Jakob Voigts |Ben Scott |Nicole Rust |Olivier Winter
Group leaderHoward Hughes Medical Institute Share this article: Tags: Systems neuroscience, Craft and careers, Electrophysiology, Open neuroscience In our daily lives, we are accustomed to paying experts for help. Most people recognize it’s much faster and safer to hire mechanics to repair our cars than to attempt to do it ourselves. But the same is not true for today’s neuroscience, in which a lot of technically demanding work is performed by non-experts.
