Ten days ago, I spent most of my weekend on twitter – because I was following #OpenCon, the twitter stream that kept coming from the OpenCon 2015, a conference on open science/data/access/education help in Brussels. They also had a live webcast, but for some reason Gema did not allow this to be viewed in Germany, so… Read More #OpenCon highlights
After giving my first talk at a conference, it’s now poster season. And despite some poster-making and presenting experience, it turns out that both posters that I have been working on have in some aspects been a first. Poster number one is already printed and presented, at a brief meeting organised for/by the collaborative research center 870.… Read More Poster season
I went to yet another doctoral student conference – the NeuroDoWo (Neuroscience Doctoral Student Workshop), which was held in Cologne this year. For the first time, I travelled to a conference without a poster roll, but with a powerpoint on my laptop. I had decided to present a fairly complex but pretty cool experiment, for… Read More Giving my first conference talk
Set at the beautiful Portuguese beach, students from the Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown did a fabulous job of organizing a gathering for European Neuroscience doctoral students – ENCODS 2015 – hence the grand title. Overall it was a fantastic meeting with many interactions, getting to know students with different backgrounds that work in different subfields… Read More Thoughts on the state of European Neuro PhD students
Many times in my research I feel like a know too little – there are always more papers to read, more techniques to learn, more experiments to do, more conferences to go to. However, what has been nagging me for a while now is my non-mathematical background. Which is not to say that I don’t know any… Read More A biologist in biology