@JMontijn
Joined February 2019
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Hi all, with bittersweet feelings I present to you my final project (alas I'm out of funding). Strap in,buckle up & please RT! Now on bioRxiv: "Structured neural fluctuations can generate noise invariance and inter-areal gating at distinct timescales": doi.org/10.1101/2024.07.05.6… 1/
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I did a thing today. Or well, multiple of the thing. They were very tasty, but please excuse me while I go have a diabetic heart attack
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Went to a small Dutch harbour town (Hoorn) on Saturday, and it was equal parts beauty and unheimlichness (pardon the French). Innsmouth is very... captivating this time of year, isn't it?
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Oh, and if you're wondering where all the people are. So was I...
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Travel reimbursement: Academia: hand in your receipts, documents, and firstborn son, signed thrice. In blood. Within 23.99 hours. Then maybe you'll get some of it back. New job: here's a transit card. Reimbursement? What do you mean? We'll pay everything for you
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Wages: Academia: fine, I guess. I could eat and go on vacation? New job: here's an extra 1k+ base salary per month, just because we like you. Also, you get a free bike. And a free gym membership. And tax deductible extra vacation. And you can save for early retirement. And... Et
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Job security: Academia: you're great, but we can't extend your contract. So bye... Unless you sign this non disclosure agreement, legally work at a different institute for 6 months and then come back. New job: we don't know you, but you seem cool. Here's a non-temporary contract
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I've recently left academia after 13 years, and I'd like to share my recent experiences looking for a job elsewhere. It can be summarised as: omg, academia is a f*ing cult of slavery. I've just signed a work contract, so let me compare the differences for you. First the obvious:
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Working hours per week: Academia: 40+, often on weekends, evenings, holidays, always, all the time (you're never really *not* working, are you? And if you're not, you should probably feel bad) New job: 36, 4 days per week. So there's one day to just.. do nothing?
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Why did a clown on a unicycle win the men's Road Cycling gold medal in the 2024 Paris Olympics? . . . . . . . Because everyone else was two-tired
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Remember: it's only a shit-post if it's from the Sh'it region, otherwise it's just sparkling excrement correspondance
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It's not just the variability that is structured in a specific way (it's mostly gain-aligned), but also the manifold is highly symmetric around this gain-axis, which allows the neural code to become invariant to the gain noise, as it can simply scale with the pop gain! 16/
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Thank you for reading this far, and I do hope you find these results exciting (I do!). Let me know if you have any q's/comments/etc, or would just like to rage against the machine of academic funding. It was great to have been a scientist for the time it lasted. 17/17 The end.
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