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✿ scientist-in-training ask game! ✿

🥼 a scientist you admire, current or historical

🔬 a science class you loved, and why

📚 a topic/subject/concept you want to understand better

🪐 something you learned this week

🧪 dream research topic

🔭 what sparked your interest in science/your field?

🧬 study strategy you use frequently

🌿 something you'd like to change about your field

🐁 a popular science book you recommend

🌏 a fun fact from your area of study

Your whole room is a better mirror of you than the reflection in the mirror in your room.

Surface display of the various structures that play a role in either coloring (e.g. valence circuits) or encoding (interoceptive and cognitive circuits) emotional awareness states source

There are many postdocs in academia, but not so many permanent researchers.

A new paper shows a statistics on where hundreds of Biomedical Sciences PhD graduates eventually ended up 10 years or more after graduation.

Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology

From goal to outcome: Analyzing the progression of biomedical sciences PhD careers in a longitudinal study using an expanded taxonomy

Using a taxonomy that delineates key milestones, this study analyzed biomedical PhD student career goals and outcomes. We related career goa

What strikes me there:

1. Sooo many postdocs go to administration positions after their postdoc is finished.

And it's true! I know so many people in administration who were good scientists before!

The following graph shows that from 418 PhD graduates, 325 went for a postdoc and 93 didn't. 145 administration/management/operation (AMO in the graph) positions in the end is for me a bit shocking.

2. The time for a postdoc in academia to actually get a permanent/non trainee position can be up to 13 years!

Only half of the people makes in in 6 years after OhD graduation. That's much longer than getting a permanent job in administration. I do not want to be 13 years postdoc. This is also one of the reasons people quit academia.

There are many more facts in the original article. Go read it if you're interested.

Integration and competition between space and time in the hippocampus

Mouse brain labeled using the brainbow technique. Brainbow is a technique used to distinguish individual neurons using different-colored derivatives of GFP (green fluorescent protein). By Dr. Tamily Weissman-Unni.

It is one of the commonest of mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all there is to perceive.

C.W. Leadbeater

Psychoanalysis becomes the training ground of a new kind of priest, the director of bad conscience: bad conscience has made us sick, but that is what will cure us! Freud did not hide what was really at issue with the introduction of the death instinct: it is not a question of any fact whatever, but merely of a principle, a question of principle. The death instinct is pure silence, pure transcendence, not givabie and not given in experience. This very point is remarkable: it is because death, according to Freud, has neither a model nor an experience, that he makes of it a transcendent principle.

Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Capitalism and Schizophrenia