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| Application spam |
| I thought the application of the Nobel aspiring student was hard to beat. Until just now, I had no idea that application spam existed. For the current PhD student vacancy in our lab for a project concerning the neurogene...[more] |
| application spam PhD position job |
| Posted on Monday 04 October 2010 - 19:17:33 |
| ESF peer-review standards and the Dunning-Kruger Effect |
| Last year, John O'Doherty, Rui Costa and I applied for one of the research conferences of the European Science Foundation. All three of us work on the neurobiology of spontaneous actions, so the topic of the call - "Acti...[more] |
| ESF application peer-review dunning-kruger effect rejection |
| Posted on Friday 16 April 2010 - 19:39:13 |
| How to not apply for a job in science |
| For a few weeks now I've been advertising for a graduate student position working on the neurobiology of spontaneous behavior. The model system is the fruit fly Drosophila. Basically, the project is to record behavior fr...[more] |
| science job application PhD application |
| Posted on Friday 04 September 2009 - 18:45:48 |
| High-Gain/High-Risk: can the ERC walk the talk? |
| In the 2009 call for their starting grants, the ERC announced that they would be funding innovative 'Frontier' research with higher-than-normal risk of not meting the proposed objectives: ...[more] |
| ERC starting grant rejection application |
| Posted on Tuesday 20 April 2010 - 15:45:14 |
| Everybody agrees: this is a great project - but still no funding |
| For almost two years now I've been trying to find out if insects have a default-mode network. Last year, I applied to the European Research Council, asking for the money for a microscope and some research staff. The revi...[more] |
| ERC starting grant rejection application |
| Posted on Thursday 07 April 2011 - 08:57:30 |