Archive for October, 2006

Journal Spam

I have a new term for describing excessive journal articles published by an individual that all contain the same or similar crap content: “journal spam”. It seems particularly apt for describing a lot of the articles I’ve come across by certain individuals (whose names will be withheld as a professional courtesy). I [...]

Society for Neuroscience Conference 2006

The Society for Neuroscience Conference was held this year in Atlanta, GA, from Oct 14-18, 2006. Here are a few thoughts of my experiences there.
Atlanta was an ideal venue and is one of the cleanest cities I’ve been in. There was literally no litter throughout the downtown area. There are also many [...]

Paul Allen Brain Atlas Misconceptions

I had noticed last Tuesday a blip on the visitor activity site statistics for this blog, and when I looked into it further, saw that increasing numbers of people were coming to this blog by searching for the Allen Brain Atlas. Apparently, this visitor activity ‘blip’ corresponded to a publicity campaign launched by the [...]