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Julie Fabre Jan 22, 2024

The time it takes to publish can vary considerably between fields and journals. This can make it difficult, for instance, for funding bodies to evaluate different candidates strengths. Fill out this anonymous survey to help us quantify this. Results will be made publicly available. https://shorturl.at/hpYZ3

PhD publication time per field

The goal of this form is to quantify how variable publication time is per research field and journal. There is one additional question that aims to specifically look at the field of systems neuroscience, which is often thought of as an outlier, where publications take a longer than average time.

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Julie Fabre Jan 20, 2024

Matteo Carandini Jan 20, 2024

Back in the 90s, when I was in grad school, sensory decisions were analyzed with “signal detection theory”. Since then, many have found it more fruitful to use logistic classification: the observer weighs the factors, uses their sum to bias a coin, and flips the coin.

However, a student starting today would find the relevant information scattered around. To fix this, I wrote “Sensory choices as logistic classification": https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.01.17.576029v1. If you have suggestions, please let me know!

Julie Fabre Sep 17, 2023

Mario Zechner Sep 15, 2023

Today was ... interesting. If you followed me for the past months over on the shitbird site, you might have seen a bunch of angry German words, lots of graphs, and the occassional news paper, radio, or TV snippet with yours truely. Let me explain.

In Austria, inflation is way above the EU average. There's no end in sight. This is especially true for basic needs like energy and food.

Our government stated in May that they'd build a food price database together with the big grocery chains. But..