State of the lab 10 and 11 - the first years at ETH Zurich
Yet another lake by a mountain in SwitzerlandThis blog post is part of a(nearly) yearly series on running a research group in academia. This post summarizes years 10 and 11, the first 2 years after moving to ETH Zurich. It also marks the end of the first decade as a research group leader, which is meaningful only because we have ten fingers and use 10 as a base for counting but I digress. There has been a lot to adapt to in moving to a new country including all the basics of moving, re-building the group and starting teaching. It was a lot easier than the first time around since I didn ' t have to set up the group from zer...
Source: Evolution of Cellular Networks - November 13, 2023 Category: Cytology Tags: academia state of the lab Source Type: blogs
Chileans Vote to Step Back from the Socialist Brink
Daniel RaisbeckBack in August of 2022, I wrote about how a small band of sanctimonious, sophomoric malcontents had—astoundingly—taken over the Chilean state. President Gabriel Boric, who was elected to his country’s highest office in 2021 at the age of 35, had assembled a team of former student activists. Since the early 2010’s, their main contri bution to Chilean society had consisted of leading numerous protests against the country’ssoi disant“neoliberal” model. First, it was against school choice and profit in the education sector. Then it was against the private pension system. Finally, in 2019,mild ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 10, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Daniel Raisbeck Source Type: blogs
201 Monday Motivation Quotes (+ My 5 Favorite Tips for a Great Week)
Are you in need of some Monday motivation?
If you’re perhaps tired, unmotivated and just reluctant to do anything and want a few more days of weekend right now then I have something that can help you.
I’ve put together 201 of the best Monday motivation quotes I’ve ever come across to give you a boost of inspiration as you start your Monday and week and to maybe help you to find a change in perspective.
That’s the first part of this post.
In the second part I’ll share my own 5 favorite tips that I’ve used the most to overcome my own Monday blues and reluctance and to get my week off to a good and motivated star...
Source: Practical Happiness and Awesomeness Advice That Works | The Positivity Blog - May 4, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Henrik Edberg Tags: Inspirational Quotes Personal Development Source Type: blogs
Navigating the Blackcap ’ s changing migratory patterns
TL:DR – There is no evidence that Blackcaps that overwinter in the UK are “demigrating”, they all tend to leave by mid-April. That said, much of their migratory behaviour remains a mystery.
I’ve written about a warbler species we see here in the summer known as the Blackcap, Sylvia atricapilla, several times on Sciencebase. Commonly, for many, many years, thousands in fact, Blackcaps that migrate to the UK in the summer have spent the northern winter in Iberia or North Africa. They migrate north to south and back again, year in, year out.
There is, however, a number of Blackcaps that tend to spend ...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - April 14, 2023 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Birds Source Type: blogs
The New Deal and Recovery, Part 27: Deposit Insurance
ConclusionPart 27: Deposit Insurance_____________________[1] To this list we might add a fourth item, noted by Golembe in a subsequentinterview, to wit: that the deposit " insurance " provided for by the 1933 Banking Act wasn ' t really insurance at all. Unlike genuine insurance policies, it covers depositors for losses regardless of whether the losses were due to recklessness on their or their banks ' part. And unlike genuine insurance funds, the FDIC ' s insurance " fund " is an accounting fiction, the truth being that the " premiums " it collects from banks go into the federal government ' s general coffers. " The gover...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 28, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: George Selgin Source Type: blogs
Post doctoral and doctoral opportunities at Basque Center on Cognition Brain and Language (San Sebasti án, Basque Country, Spain)
FUNDED POSTDOCTORAL CANDIDATE POSITION – Signal Processing in Neuroimaging group at the BCBL- Basque Center on Cognition Brain and Language (San Sebasti án, Basque Country, Spain) www.bcbl.euINFORMATION ABOUT THE POSITION Position: PostdoctoralResearcher Profile: R2, Recognised Researcher (PhD holders or equivalent who are not yet fully independent) / R3, Established Researcher(Researchers who have developed a level of independence)Number of vacancies: 1Project: OpenLocation: Spain> Donostia-San SebastianResearch Field: Cognitive NeuroscienceJob Statu...
Source: Talking Brains - November 9, 2022 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
41 Monday Blessings for a Positive and Motivated Start to Your Week
Monday has arrived.
A new week is upon us. Maybe you're ready to go. Or perhaps a bit unmotivated and tired right now.
Either way, today's post contains the most powerful Monday blessings and quotes to help you to get a motivated, positive and great start to your week.
I hope this post will help you to focus, renew your energy and rekindle an optimistic outlook for the next 7 days and beyond.
And if you want even more inspiration to make this a blessed week then check out this post with Wednesday blessings and also this one filled with Thursday blessings.
Inspirational Monday Blessings
“Good morning, Monday morning bles...
Source: Practical Happiness and Awesomeness Advice That Works | The Positivity Blog - October 17, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Henrik Edberg Tags: Inspirational Quotes Personal Development Source Type: blogs
The Macro View – Health, Economics, and Politics and the Big Picture. What I Am Watching Here And Abroad.
August 18, 2022 Edition-----The main issue, probably of the year, is the increasing tension across the Taiwan Strait with all sorts of worries about how conflict can be avoided and prosperity maintained at a reasonable level as tensions continue. And hopefully ease.The impact of climate change in Europe is really becoming obvious and worrying. I am not sure just how a realistic response is possible in any reasonable time.In OZ the PM has come back after a week off to have the Chinese Ambassador tell us we are a vassal and to just shut up and behave. Astonishing and serious stuff IMVHO.-----Major Issues.-----https://www.smh...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - August 18, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Commentators and Journalists Weigh In On Digital Health And Related Privacy, Safety, Social Media And Security Matters. Lots Of Interesting Perspectives - August 2, 2022.
-----This weekly blog is to explore the news around the larger issues around Digital Health, data security, data privacy, AI / ML. technology, social media and related matters.I will also try to highlightADHA Propagandawhen I come upon it.Just so we keep count, the latest Notes from the ADHA Board were dated 6 December, 2018 and we have seen none since! It ’s pretty sad!Note: Appearance here is not to suggest I see any credibility or value in what follows. I will leave it to the reader to decide what is worthwhile and what is not! The point is to let people know what is being said / published that I have come upon....
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - August 2, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
The Macro View – Health, Economics, and Politics and the Big Picture. What I Am Watching Here And Abroad.
The objective most consistent with recent operations is to conquer Luhansk, Donetsk, and Kherson, with a view to their eventual annexation and Russification. But not only are they some way from achieving that (w ith much of Donetsk still in Ukrainian hands and the Russia position in Kherson highly contested) it would also require an explicit Ukrainian surrender for it to serve as the basis for a declaration of victory. That will not be forthcoming.-----https://www.afr.com/world/europe/how-britain-giggled-its-way-into-crisis-20220710-p5b0giHow Britain giggled its way into crisisBoris Johnson has exposed the costs of Britain...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - July 21, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
The future is now
If you ' re just waking up after a 72 hour coma, you need to be told thatwestern Europe is suffering from an unprecedented heat wave. But it ' s worse than unprecedented. As the linked Reuters article tells us:Britain ’s Met Office weather agency also issued its first-ever “red warning” of extreme heat for Monday and Tuesday, when temperatures in southern England are forecast to reach 37 Celsius (98.6 Fahrenheit). Britain ' s highest recorded temperature, from July 2019, was 38.7 Celsius; the country ' s weather agency forecasts an 80 percent chance that this current heat wave will overtake that record. There is...
Source: Stayin' Alive - July 18, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
The COVID-19 Pandemic and the State of Emergency: Lessons from Portugal
Teresa Violante (Friedrich-Alexander-Universit ät Erlangen-Nürnberg), The COVID-19 Pandemic and the State of Emergency: Lessons from Portugal in Democracy after Covid – Challenges in Europe and Beyond. Springer Nature (Kostas Chrysogonos& Anna Tsiftsogolou, eds. Forthcoming): The present chapter analyses the normative... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - June 11, 2022 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
MPXV (Monkeypox)
List of resources for news, and clinical information. Last updated: 17th June 2022. Items added or amended that day markedNEW DynaMed entry on orthopoxvirus infections, free accessBMJ Best Practice entry on poxvirus, NHS Athens or subscription neededName of the virusNEW-BMJ is reporting WHO decision to rename the virus. (subscription or library access required to view the whole thing).Stat News had previously reported moves to rename the virus strains, so they are not named after specific geographic areas. The position paper referred to in both Stat and BMJ is on virological.org. ...
Source: Browsing - May 19, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: monkeypox Source Type: blogs
Monkeypox (MPXV)
List of resources for news, and clinical information. Last updated: 16th June 2022. Items added or amended that day markedNEW DynaMed entry on orthopoxvirus infections, free accessNEW-Stat News reports moves to rename the virus strains, so they are not named after specific geographic areas. The position paper is on virological.org. Sky News is reporting WHO discussion of the same issue.Genetic sequence dataSequence of isolate name MPXV_USA_2022_MA001 in GenBank.Sequence of isolate from Portugal, May 2022, with links (at bottom of page) to sequences isolated in other European countries,...
Source: Browsing - May 19, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: monkeypox Source Type: blogs
Monkeypox (am trying to keep this updated)
List of resources for news, and clinical information. Last updated: 22nd May 2022. New items added 22nd May BMJ news update, dated 20th MayGuardian item: What is monkeypox and should we be worried?Another Guardian item, specifically about the UK----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------A search of PubMed for items published in 2022 (includes case reports and news items, as well as research)Seven cases reported in the UK in May 2022 (data from UKHSA guidance below, as of 16th May, news sources on 19th May were ...
Source: Browsing - May 19, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: monkeypox Source Type: blogs
