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The Spike
The science of the brain, from the scientists of the brain
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Mark Humphries
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Oct 23, 2017
On “The Lie” of Basic Science
Why pursue knowledge for its own sake?
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Mark Humphries
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Sep 4, 2017
Chasing the research dragon
Just one more hit
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Mark Humphries
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May 9, 2017
How not to choose which science is worth funding
We may as well just pick tickets out of a hat
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Mark Humphries
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Nov 4, 2016
What real academics do in their unreal world
The life of a #realworldacademic
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Mark Humphries
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Oct 25, 2016
Most research I publish will be wrong. And I’m OK with that
A computational guy’s take on the “reproducibility crisis”
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Mark Humphries
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Sep 27, 2016
The research funding singularity
What happens when there are many more researchers than there is money to fund their research?
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Mark Humphries
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Aug 30, 2016
How to spend a billion euros on the brain
At the core of the Human Brain Project is a model of cortex. Its flaws show what the project should have been.
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Mark Humphries
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Jul 14, 2016
Brain data needs data brains
Neuroscience data is being churned out at a phenomenal rate. But who for?
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Mark Humphries
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Aug 1, 2016
How a happy moment for neuroscience is a sad moment for science
Systems neuroscience is celebrating a landmark, but one that shows the way we do science is broken.
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