I defended! I still can't believe the big day has come and gone. I thought about writing a lengthy narrative reflection of my time in graduate school, the best and hardest experiences, and everything I've learned that wasn't about brains. But you don't want to read that and I don't want to write it. One …
Category: Education
Introduction to Neural Engineering
Through my involvement with the CSNE at UW, I was able to teach a six-week course on neural engineering for high school students in summer 2016 and again in 2017. I've now turned that live course into an online version, which includes six hours of video lectures, instructions for three hands-on demos, homework assignments, and …
Neuroscience of Zombies, watch now!
Missed me at the Neuroscience of Zombies at Pacific Science Center? Want to catch my zingers in the Q&A again? Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vu50Yhif8dE
Neuroscience of Zombies, 10/28!
Come see me at Pacific Science Center on Wednesday 10/28 for a very special Halloween edition of Science in the City: The Neuroscience of Zombies! Free for PSC members and $5 for everyone else. More info here!
A scientist, an engineer, a physician, and a mathematician walk into a bar
A scientist, an engineer, a physician, and a mathematician walk into a bar. The scientist says, "let me investigate the selection of drinks that are found in this habitat." The engineer says, "I see your tap is making my beer too foamy - let me build a better one." The physician says, "let's observe the effects on …
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Things that could be: Epcot and Innoventions for science education
Somehow I have turned into a person who runs long distance races. I hauled my sorry collegiate butt into first the gym and then the streets in December of 2012, amid the stress of thesis (completed) and graduate school (got in) and my impending graduation (BA in hand). At the time, I couldn't run a …
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Lazy science communication
I was doing research for the educational materials for kids that I'm preparing (see here) when I ran across a website with an upsetting attitude. On a website about visual perception, the author said (paraphrasing to protect the guilty and the innocent) "if you're not a scientist in my specific discipline, you might find my explanations too …
Communicating science better, part 1
Scientists are terrible at talking about science. You know this, I know this, the whole world knows this. This is really sad. What's sadder is that our reputation as a profession is so terrible that a lot of people (by which I mean the general public, not other scientists) aren't even willing to give us …
