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Stork是我最好的科研助手(2):经费提醒

1. 我的导师是否有经费? 2. 我在寻找博后的职位;我未来的老板是否有足够的经费支持我? 3. 有多少经费拨给了我的研究领域(比如NIRS)?谁得到了这些经费?他们将用这些经费做什么? 你是否也曾考
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Stork is my best research assistant (2): Grant alert

Does my boss have money? I am looking for a postdoc position; does my future boss have enough funding to support me? How much money was awarded to my field (e.g. NIRS)? And who got the money? What are they going to do with the money? Have you ever wo
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Stork is my best research assistant

When I was a graduate student at Baylor College of Medicine, I found myself often in an embarrassing situation — I felt completely lost when my fellow graduate students heatedly discussed a paper in our field but I never heard of this publicati
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Hyperbolic discounting emerges from the scalar property of interval…

Ten dollars today is more attractive than the same amount of money tomorrow and is consistent with the well known proverb, “a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush”. We all know that the value of a reward is discounted over time. How the value di
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How to create TIFF files

When you submit a manuscript, many journals ask you to send your figures in TIFF format with some requirements such as 300dpi, flattened, LZW compressed, etc. How to do that? My figures are usually finalized in MS PowerPoint. I don’t use PowerP
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Writing tips

The knowledge of brain-function mapping is accumulated … The Knowledge of brain-function mapping is accumulated … (get rid of the in front of knowledge) Don’t start a sentence with it, this. Instead, specify what it is. Don’t
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