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Ah I guess if you’re very bad at presentations, then this could be beneficial. However, scientific presentations are meant to be communicating science and making things stick to yo…

Lol my opinion would not change. The donors consented to body donation for science (often to a specific institution with certain conditions) which is a huge kindness because medica…

This is terrible - it is such a gift that these individuals donate their remains to students - and for the manager to take advantage of that is just terrible.

I gave up caffeine about 6 months ago now, and did it because I’ve had persistent anxiety since I was a teenager and was desperate for something to help. I had been drinking about …

I gave up caffeine (tapered off to one cup, was at 6 cups a day and I’m a small human) and I almost immediately noticed my anxiety levels cut by 75%. In terms of sleep, I didn’t no…

an 'Oi' can also work wonders! :)

This makes me so angry. As an early career researcher it is so easy to make mistakes, and have errors in analysis, or in ways of thinking, that to actively go and commit fraud just…

Cute interview when he one the Nobel prize; he seemed like such a motivated happy scientist and really was an inspiration. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CkIKRoTFogU

I used to get quite a lot of anxiety with replying to emails, which was absolute nonsense. I would procrastinate and then it would become this huge monster I needed to deal with be…

It may be my computer, but it seems that the link is getting too much traffic and won’t bring me to the page! For me and for everyone else clicking now, can someone give a simple s…

Its good to also just make a living will - how you want to die, who your medical proxies are, what kind of care you want!

This is actually one of the most annoying things I’ve noticed in Brisbane - the lights for walking take absolutely forever. To the point that everyone will j walk because it can ta…

Like already said Dubai is doing this; additionally Australia has you take a photo at home and load it into an app and then additionally upload your passport to get a visa. My gene…

Yikes; I know there have been a couple of high profile psychological experiments that have gone wrong, e.g. Stanford prison experiment etc, but even with that context these CIA bas…

I am suspicious of these results; if we blast a high frequency visual stimulus of a couple of letters and do quite a lot of post processing we can sometimes get a visual cortex map…

This is novel, but maybe not as novel as it seems. EEG will show if you are looking left or right in the raw signal, and the technology for making a rat move in certain directions …

But what are the implications of this internet cable being down? Will there be a slowing of internet? Is there an easy fix?

Interesting. It is not the most robust tool, but interesting nonetheless. It seems to break when asked about very current events, but if you frame it as current past it seems fine:…

I’ve been using ChatGPT with my research coding lately - but I think I’m very lucky to be at the point in my career where I can now debug things and think about the code that’s bei…

Fb messenger (really just for my mom!) - it is the main way we communicate because I am abroad and we have different phone setups (iPhone vs android). also apartment housing -- I'v…

I agree with many aspects of this; however, I do think learning how to grind through work is important. However, I remember being a child and a teenager trying to do the designated…

there are so so many lovely kind mentors out there who really do want the best for you. however, my advice for anyone looking at a new lab: 1. ask every junior person if they have …

I so very much hope the US moves away from the model of two weeks off a year and towards the European model of more like eight. I’m in a Scandinavian country and everyone (includin…

Eh maybe its because I've spent a lot of time studying neuroscience and psychology, but I think the jump from the split brain phenomena due to cutting the corpus callosum to having…