Particle physics does as well. It's a very good model for fields in the (fortunate) position to have money to spend on multiple worthwhile big-ticket items. Let scientists come together and prioritize, rather than making individual cases to policymakers and having them decide.

i'm not sure when or where this trend of 'precapping' the results at the end of Introduction section of neuroscience papers began, and I approve of it as an effective communication device, but I am 5000% against it on moral grounds

Important paper!

www.biorxiv.org/content/bior...

Im not sure the Discussion fully delineates its radical implications.

No more...

* Place cells
* Grid cells, splitter cells, border cells
* Mirror neurons
* Reward neurons
* Conflict cells

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“It often happens that one observed a phenomenon which looks interesting because of an intuitive recognition that it provides an answer to an important question, but without any explicit understanding of exactly what the question is. One must then discover the question.”

President opening McGill town hall on the university's budget and financial outlook. Translation from administrative vision-speak: this is a long term disaster and we will never be the same.

I've heard some people's concern that starter packs are just a club of who knows whom - but I am meeting so many new people who want to be added to mine, I am loving finding new connections.

"non-human animals lack memory for stimulus sequences... if [they] do not remember or process information about order faithfully, then it is unlikely that [they] perform mental simulations, construct mental world models, have episodic memory... "

www.cell.com/action/showP...