Neuroinformatics Puns

Hi guys! I have been more or less invested in Neuroengineering since the beginning of my undergrad years when I studied Biomedical Engineering. Made an SSVEP controlled exoskeleton for my undergrad project and did thesis on an EEG signal decomposition method for BCI use - both more or less unsupervised. All minor projects, I know. Just to show the interest here. Later joined a lab to work with BCI in classroom to increase focus but never got around to completing it due to the pandemic and have no publication out of it. Soon shifted to Software Engineering (in automation testing) in the medical/mental health industry and have been here a little more than a year.

I'll be starting my Masters in Neuroscience at McGill and possibly fast-track to PhD. There will be almost 3 years' gap in between my undergrad and grad studies. My research is in the field of neuropathological analysis of Alzheimer's patients using PET. As a collab project, I might also be working on harmonization method development of radiomic features from multicenter imaging studies (MRI/PET).

I have registered for courses such as Advanced Medical Imaging and Neuroimaging Data Science to get the best out of this. However, while reviewing Neuroengineering syllabus from other programs, I saw courses such as Computational Neuroscience (I have completed the Coursera course by UW), Neural Systems Engineering, and Neural Signal Processing. Am I gonna miss out much by getting a degree in Neuroscience? I specifically chose this program for its vast amount of multidisciplinary courses and, of course, the world-class research and faculty. But since my undergrad program was close-credit, I am more or less overwhelmed with the choices and paths.

With these courses, will it be easier to get into Neuroinformatics or Neuroengineering? What can some research option be for me in North America after graduation, preferably outside academia? What do you think the BCI and/or medical imaging analysis industries will look like 10 years down the road?

I know that CAT can be used to automatically measure cortical thickness in human MRI scans.... but can it be used in rodents? I thought I had read some literature in which the program was used to analyze rodent images, but I cannot find any papers at the moment. I think I may have been wrong originally, and wasted a lot of my PIs time... :(

Hello, I have an enormous dilemma and I've decided to seek answers deep in the Internet.

Basically, college is incoming for me and I am completely fascinated by Cognitive Science - really, by all of its subfields, although my favourite ones are computational. I am definitely going to major in it.However, my dilemma is, I have a possibility of double major, and the second one could be Neuroinformatics (on Physics department; my university offers "the first in the world first degree" in N-inf). I have honestly no idea whether I should double major this way or not.

The entire Neuroinformatics field in my university consists of physics and measuring neural signals, and to be honest I have always been quite bored by physics as a subject. I'm also interested by cognitive brain functions, and from what I see most of this discipline deals with purely motoric or neurophysiological stuff. So on one hand, I'd have to sacrifice a lot of time and strength (not sure if I even had strength to double major this!) learning something not directly interesting me in order to risk researching something not directly interesting me...

However there is a second hand - my fear that by not double majoring I would lose something invaluable. That Neuroinformatics course deals a lot with EEG, brain computer interfaces and noninvasive brain stimulation, and those technologies, end results of boring (to me) physics education, seem fascinating...But my great fear is that I'd end up without Neuroinformatics degree only to discover "goddamn that lack of physics makes me incapable of understanding how BCIs work, and I cannot in any way do a research related to them".

Does anybody here have a degrees in Neuroinformatics, Cognitive Science, Computational Neuroscience etc and could relate to my doubts and give me a word of advice?

By the way, withot N-inf I would probably double major Philosophy, with focus on philosophy of mind, bioethics and logic. This option has opposite problem for me: very interesting all the way through, but end results may have limited utility in practice, to put it mildly.

EDITI'm from Poland btw, so it may be markedly different from US universities.

Hey!

Has anyone here had experience with volunteering as a Ludmer Center neuroinformatics STEM volunteer? There's not many details about eligibility on their website. Sent them an email over a week ago with my questions but they haven't got back to me so I wasn't sure if they accept undergrads...

I am studying computer engineering and I would like to study Neuroinformatics for my masters. My main question is, what knowledge do I need to hone and is absolutely necessary for this field?

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hJMD4WgPw3O8SvTnVby5iyzagIWhNMsW2vYLwUaLMNw/edit?usp=sharing

I hope the document has covered everything needed to get started. Let me know if any other information is needed! I'm excited to work with the people on here!

Thanks in advance!

Hi guys, I'm currently studying for an MSc Bioinformatics in Europe, and looking for some advice. After reading more around the subject I've found I've got a real interest in Neuroinformatics, and in particular brain trauma having played a lot of contact sports.

I still have 18 months left of my masters so have a lot of options I can take, but would ideally like to do a PhD in this area of work.

I guess I would really like to hear from anyone who is already working in neuroinformatics, or has any advice in how I could push into this field coming from a bioinformatics education. I hope this isn't too specific, but thanks in advance!

Hi does anyone know of a conference that is similar to Neuroinformatics? This looks interesting, but Australia is out of my budget this year. What other conferences that focus on computational / technological advances in neuroscience are out there?

The Harvard Center for Brain Science is looking for a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join the Neuroinformatics Research Group in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Original job posting: click here

We are looking for individuals who will be responsible for ensuring optimal performance and reliability of the software infrastructure critical to the functioning of a major interdepartmental core facility for magnetic resonance imaging research. The SRE will interface with users and with a dynamic computing team to identify and solve problems.

The SRE will encounter challenging, novel situations every day in concert with engineering and operations team members within the Neuroinformatics Research Group and Harvard University FAS Research Computing. As the point person for a broad user base with varying levels of technical skill, the ideal candidate must be flexible and possess strong communication skills. S/he will have excellent analytical and troubleshooting skills, knowledge of modern software development methodologies and systems design, and a desire to solve complex problems. We are interested in Unix/Linux expertise and familiarity with the many aspects of security and scalability. While the primary responsibilities of the SRE will be focused initially on established services and software, the potential to participate in the development of new projects exists for the motivated candidate.

You will:

• Manage the availability, scalability, and efficiency of NRG services by engineering reliability into existing software and workflows.
• Respond to and resolve emergent service problems; build tools and automation to identify and prevent problem recurrence.
• Review and influence new and evolving design, architecture, standards, and development workflows.
• Participate in software and system performance analysis and tuning, service capacity planning, and demand forecasting.
• Perform periodic on­ call duty as part of a dynamic team

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree and 3 or more years of general IT experience including:
• 2 or more years of experience in software engineering
• 3 or more years of experience in UNIX/Linux system administration, technical troubleshooting, and performance tuning

Additional Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree i

The Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study of George Mason University in Fairfax, VA (USA) invites applications for several Postdoctoral Research Fellow positions available immediately in the Center for Neural Informatics, Neural Structures, and Neural Plasticity (krasnow.gmu.edu/cn3) headed by Prof. Giorgio Ascoli.

The successful applicants will join a collaborative multidisciplinary team at the cutting edge of the development and dissemination of digital tools and resources for neuroscience. The Ascoli Lab is funded by the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the Office of Naval Research, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, and Keck. These jobs are particularly suited for computationally minded researchers seeking exposure to the burgeoning field of neuroinformatics.

(1) One or more candidates will join the NeuroMorpho.Org project—a free, public, centralized repository of neuronal digital reconstructions. Originally designed to facilitate the lab’s own research, NeuroMorpho.Org has firmly established itself as a powerful resource for the neuroscience community, with millions of downloads and data usage in over 200 publications by other labs since its 2006 public release. The position(s) are particularly suited for computer-savvy neuroscientists with knowledge and interest in axonal and dendritic morphology. These positions will also entail modeling and simulation of neuronal structure, quasiautomated neuronal reconstruction systems, handling of large experimental data sets, and collaborative use of time-lapse confocal microscopy with subcellular genetic reporters.

(2) One or more applicants will join the Hippocampome.Org project—a knowledge base of the hippocampal circuitry at the mesoscopic-level of neuronal types. The goal of Hippocampome.Org is to enable real-scale, biologically realistic neural network simulations of hippocampal connectivity, dynamics and function. Expected contributions of the successful candidate(s) include design and implementation of optimal protocols for identifying and extracting experimental information from published literature and continuous development of the associated Web portal. The postdoc(s) will also develop or adapt analytical approaches to quantify the spatial distributions of somatic, axonal, and dendritic densities; as well as software to support team efforts in data management, integration and accessibility. Experienc

Do your worst!

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

Buenosdillas

They’re on standbi

Pilot on me!!

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.

This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.

If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.

Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.

When I got home, they were still there.

What did 0 say to 8 ?

" Nice Belt "

So What did 3 say to 8 ?

" Hey, you two stop making out "

I won't be doing that today!

You take away their little brooms

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This morning, my 4 year old daughter.

Daughter: I'm hungry

Me: nerves building, smile widening

Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.

She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.

Thank you all for listening.

There hasn't been a post all year!