markdhumphries.bsky.social
Theoretical systems neuroscientist. Author of “The Spike: An Epic Journey Through the Brain in 2.1 Seconds”: https://tinyurl.com/ymwy9jrh Lab: https://humphries-lab.org Essays on the brain: https://drmdhumphries.medium.com/
👤 Joined on 22 July 2024
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@markdhumphries.bsky.socialThank you to everyone sharing in this moment! I’m so grateful to all my trainees & collaborators… dlab.stanford.edu/group-members (pic: Peter and I together in 2017) Reading for all those asking: for technical details: dlab.stanford.edu for everyone: deisseroth.org/projections
Show PostBREAKING NEWS The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel “for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.”
Show PostUniversities cannot expect researchers to take risks if they are repeatedly at risk of redundancy while losing professional services support, grappling with the gratuitous vagaries of home and international student number swings and both teaching and assessing in an age of unregulated AI.
Show PostTo all collaborators inside and outside academia: faculty at Cambridge *do not have money or resources* I know it's hard to believe and it's not a complaint just a fact. We get a few k startup (enough for a computer) and our salary is equivalent to a US postdoc. No institutional money for research.
Show PostAuthors: if you're fed up with getting emails from fake book clubs and fake publicists, just imagine what that is now like when you have 30 books out there for them to latch onto.
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