bovine science, Google Earth style 11 days ago Original link
Completely unrelated to brains, but quite possibly the neatest sentence I’ve seen in a journal article lately:
Body axes of cattle (Bos primigenius) of 308 evaluated herds/pastures (displayed on sa...
“The brain has hubs?” 65 days ago Original link
If you read only one neuroimaging paper this week, make it this paper in PLoS Biology by Hagmann and colleagues. It’s a really remarkable combination of technical wizardry, creativity, and pretty, ...
Two cautionary notes on the use of fMRI 80 days ago Original link
This week’s issues of Science and Nature each have very nice commentaries on the limitations of fMRI, a topic I’ve written about a few times before. The Nature piece is a review by Nikos Logothetis...
Getting rich in graduate school 523 days ago Original link
The New York Times has an interesting article in today’s paper by Mary Jenkins covering a new federal program set to provide substantial raises in funding for a minority of graduate students in the...
trendspotting the fMRI literature 605 days ago Original link
Select a few neuroimaging papers at random and you’re likely to come across a handful of statements in the introduction to the effect that the topic under study is of “increasing interest”. At conf...