I find this difficult to believe. A super-majority of the best minds I worked with in the past 5 years have left academia by now. Academia is no longer the place for the best and the brightest — they find more appreciation and intellectual stimulation elsewhere.

Many people here highlight that it's a PI's duty to raise the next generation. That's only one side of the medal. The PI needs the next generation, because they bring fresh ideas and a mindset uncontaminated by dogma. Undergrads aren't inexperienced, they are full of potential.

Notion, and nobody is ever going to pry me away from that ever again. Nothing I ever tried even comes close to Notion. The power it combines with its base functionality, customization, reliability, and ease of use is unmatched.

One 🚩 red flag I don't often see mentioned: when the first authors of a lab are not regularly co-corresponding authors (together with their PI/last author) on their own manuscripts — not a promising sign for the lab culture!

"the first-ever flame-throwing quadruped robot dog" — you say this as if we were lacking a... a... *checking notes* flame-throwing quadruped robot dog!?

A human brain uses ~0.3 kWh of energy a day. A standard laptop uses at least an order of magnitude more — while doing much less. Even with AI, I think we are safe from the machine uprising for a while ^^ Neuroscience will teach us a lot more about computing... eventually.

I encounter this in the EA and x-risk communities a lot. EA guy: "Designer pathogens with timed onset are the biggest risk to humanity. [ominous tone] I have MODELED it." I have no doubt that you modeled it, mate. That doesn't mean it exists or can be built by humans or AI.

Sharing my passion for science & my wonder at curious phenomena was always a huge source of joy & motivation. I still vividly taste the frustration when told not to "waste my time". Clear & early 🚩🚩🚩, but I was made to believe I'm the odd one out & ignored them for too long.

Very happy to have Hugo on the team, one of the pioneers of next-generation expansion microscopy technologies — a true pleasure to be working with him!

Unpopular opinion among vegetarians but: I quite enjoy the taste and texture of dead animals 😅 I don't eat them for ethical and health reasons (vegetarian for >15 years) but I do like that there are products approximating the mouth feel.

The most important resource for a PhD student or post-doc assessing a lab to join remains contacting lab alumni. If a PI doesn't make that process as easy as possible (at the very least have a complete list of alumni on your website), that's a pretty big 🚩 red flag to me.

An Important act from U.S. National Science Foundation to hold PIs accountable for scientific and personal progress of grade students. Maybe FWF and European Research Council (ERC) can implement it as well. Would definitely be an important step from a grade student perspective! 🙏🏾 science.org/content/articl…

Looking at the impact factor instead of the science

Looking at journal impact factors has become actively harmful to science, in my opinion. It's usually used as a convenient short-cut specifically to NOT look at the science — in applications for jobs, grants, fellowships, etc. We need to start looking at the science, again!

Peer review still serving science, is it? This isn't just about pushing out fraudulent work, it's about the failures of the system. Peer review was never actually all that trustworthy. You always had to evaluate results critically yourself. So what's peer review for, really?

Very excited to show some of our progress at E11 during the BRAIN Initiative Conference next week! If you are at the conference, drop by on June 17, 11:15–12:45 am, at poster board 78 🙂

Excited to present my postdoctoral work from Sam Rodriques lab at The Crick + the work of E11 Bio, (my new home!) at the BRAIN Initiative Conference. Come visit us at Poster #78, June 17, 11:15am-12:45pm to learn about our novel strategy for scalable brain circuit mapping!

Poster session starting in one hour, at 11:15, looking forward to sharing our progress — come by, say hi!

"So this is more of a comment than a question..." (also, I would advise against stunts like that... for so many reasons...)

Dear junior scholars, two post docs associated with this project, including myself, left early due to the working environment. If you have questions regarding the position, feel free to reach out. jobbnorge.no/en/available-j…