1/ We discovered something totally unexpected about the neural structure of consciousness that overturns decades of thinking on its biological basis and brings us significantly closer to the recipe for generating conscious awareness.
New preprint: https://t.co/K8BwiHXvXg (led by @HesseJanis, with @FrankLanfranchi, @_conor_mcgrory, @Yuelin_Shi, and @EngelTatiana)
I can't believe I grew up wanting to do physical cosmology in order to study the deepest laws and origins of the universe, but at this point in my life it's pretty clear that my actual passions are sales and recruiting.
In current terms, the NIH spent more than a trillion dollars between 1990 and 2020. Here's our new, 33,000-word examination of how it works: https://t.co/zsnpdNz9bp
Incredible opportunity to follow up on that 'side' project you've always wanted to do, build the technology you never got funding for, or roll the dice on a high risk-high reward idea.
New PhD admits: Do you want to spend next year working on other people's ideas or your own?
1/ Today, we are announcing our inaugural 2022 one-year fellowship. We have a single goal for the fellowship: to provide maximal leverage to talented young scientists who are working on ambitious ideas in the basic life sciences. You can apply here: https://t.co/vn0rNBm5wF
1/ Today, we are announcing our inaugural 2022 one-year fellowship. We have a single goal for the fellowship: to provide maximal leverage to talented young scientists who are working on ambitious ideas in the basic life sciences. You can apply here: https://t.co/vn0rNBm5wF
Since 1980, NIH increased funding of scientists 66 and older >10x and decreased funding of scientists 35 and younger >10x.
If we don't do something about it, in a few decades we'll have no science to speak of.
Here's what @newscienceorg's doing about it
https://t.co/uVCbOKOkva