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Topic	It's becoming real: sent out solicitation emails for my dissertation committee
COVxy 08/11/17 12:53:31 PM #34:	C7D posted... Post doc to professorship it is then. I had considered doing a postdoctoral at a national lab, but the place I wanted to go lost finding. The guy who was going to hire me actually had to let a few people go around the same time due to federal budget reductions. I got another offer at the same national lab a few months later doing neutron science, one of my papers brought forth a new and interesting way to study a specific class of materials using neutron scattering. I had already started another job and was actually out of the country at the time. Right, yeah, that's tough. Do you think you would have considered that second offer had the timing been right? lderivedx posted... Darkman124 posted... Danke! Romes187 posted... what is your opinion on fmri and the impact it has had on neuroscience? I've read some articles that praise it, and others that say it could lead to questionable results but im not really in the field so I'm not sure...I just remember reading Sam Harris' fMRI study that had to do with political leanings That's actually an interesting question. It is, without a doubt, the best tool for providing a full view of systems level interactions. However, it is not without its faults, drawbacks, and shifting technological limitations. It's not the future of neuroscience as some people have pretended it is, but a tool to be used in combination with other tools and preparations for the understanding of the brain. As any tool, it has also been abused in the past, mostly just as a fancy sounding tool without contributing anything to the underlying scientific question. More-or-less, my viewpoint is typically that a lab that only supports its work with and cites fMRI literature is missing a large part of the story. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] <cite>COVxy posted [p:884590034] in It's becom... [t:75656492]...</cite> <quote><cite>C7D posted...</cite> <quote>Post doc to professorship it is then. I had considered doing a postdoctoral at a national lab, but the place I wanted to go lost finding. The guy who was going to hire me actually had to let a few people go around the same time due to federal budget reductions. I got another offer at the same national lab a few months later doing neutron science, one of my papers brought forth a new and interesting way to study a specific class of materials using neutron scattering. I had already started another job and was actually out of the country at the time.</quote> Right, yeah, that's tough. Do you think you would have considered that second offer had the timing been right? <cite>lderivedx posted...</cite> <cite>Darkman124 posted...</cite> Danke! <cite>Romes187 posted...</cite> <quote>what is your opinion on fmri and the impact it has had on neuroscience? I've read some articles that praise it, and others that say it could lead to questionable results but im not really in the field so I'm not sure...I just remember reading Sam Harris' fMRI study that had to do with political leanings</quote> That's actually an interesting question. It is, without a doubt, the best tool for providing a full view of systems level interactions. However, it is not without its faults, drawbacks, and shifting technological limitations. It's not the future of neuroscience as some people have pretended it is, but a tool to be used in combination with other tools and preparations for the understanding of the brain. As any tool, it has also been abused in the past, mostly just as a fancy sounding tool without contributing anything to the underlying scientific question. More-or-less, my viewpoint is typically that a lab that only supports its work with and cites fMRI literature is missing a large part of the story. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])]</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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