The journal requires certain stats details but clearly dont check to see if you actually provide them. Given how profitable these journals are I think a stats editor should be on their payroll. Though the sexiness of their articles would surely decline.
Current standards for statistical rigor are a joke.
In this high IF pub, purple and black are claimed to be different at 9 and 1 but...what does P=0.0468 even refer to? And is a posthoc result of p=0.07 good enough?
Mission: record hippocampal place cells in zero gravity
Crew: 3 rats with electrode arrays
Vehicle: Space Shuttle Columbia
Status: data now publicly available on DANDI, 28 years later
The ratstronauts' mission is finally complete. 🐀🚀 h/t NASA
about.dandiarchive.org/blog/2026/02...
The dentate gyrus grows throughout life despite turnover of developmentally-born neurons. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
I’m at the finish line and now I have to draw pictures.
When people ask me what’s the best part of my job I tell them it’s making graphical abstracts.
I’ve had this as a bullet point for my 3rd year neuro course for like a decade. They should have just asked me.
A couple months ago I tried bubble gum from a pack of 1987 Topps baseball cards. It was terrible.
So true. They can give you a good lead sometimes but never trust their output.
@franklandlab.bsky.social yo what’s the dentus gurus?
I got a book from the library (for the first time in about 25 years.
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Got manuscript reviews back in 5 weeks!!! From 3 reviewers and over the holidays no less. So fast that upon seeing the email in my inbox I assumed it was rejected outright. But only minor revisions. I’m flabbergasted. Good things can happen.
Haha, currently in Agra. Couple more days to wrap up our 2w in India.
@amarsahay.bsky.social
A hippocampal slice showing adult-born neurons expressing RFP and the lateral perforant path expressing Tau and GFP.
Our latest: A mouse model of early sporadic tau pathology induces neurogenic plasticity in the hippocampus
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i just reviewed a grant where a lot of the references were completely off. I dont think it was AI but more that people dont always read the papers they cite.
As a behavioral neuroscientist one of my most proud accomplishments is seeing my teenage son wash the dishes, unprompted.
100%. It was acronyms that drove me away from synaptic biology too (ras, src, shc…). I perked up when I saw “cognitive resilience“ though.
OMG WTF PSMN the acronyms here are outta control
Yeah but when we moved a few years ago I found it stressful too. I mean, in the long run it was worth it, but I’m not a giraffe.
UBC (at least part of it)
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Ok, cool. But, animals.
Excited to share that I landed my dream job!🎉🎉🎉 The Pennington Lab will be opening at the University of British Columbia in January 2026!
@ubcpsych.bsky.social @dmcbrainhealth.bsky.social
Man, why is this even been reported on if all we have is a headline?
No barking.
