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Jason Snyder

Jason Snyder

Postdoctoral fellow at the NIH, studying the function of adult neurogenesis.
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Joy of giving is why the only thing more satisfying than extracting a big brown booger from your own nose is to extract one from your kid's.
Pro tip: MT @hysell: scoundrel wrote "in press" for a paper not yet accepted to glamour-pub in NIH R01 application. Result: grant funded
RT @alaindebotton: Googling oneself is the new reading of someone else's diary - and just as advisable.
RT @NeuroPolarbear: New blog post: the secret citation: http://haydenlab.com/blog...
The secret to my success? http://twitter.com/jsnsndr...
The secret to my success? http://twitter.com/jsnsndr...
I forgot what my avatar looked like. That's where I'm at.
RT @JacquelynGill: Awesome idea: Assign students to write two review papers on a subject, first using only papers published before a certain year, then after.
.@balapagos is developing a genetic transsynaptic marker for studying neuronal wiring in the fruit fly brain. Openly. cc @brembs
RT @PubMeddler: A boom in using optical neuromodulation as a means for millisecond temporal control of embryonic stem cells... http://pubmeddler.tumblr.com/post...
Just last night 2 colleagues told me the multitude of ways journals have pushed them to self cite to boost impact factor.
RT @science3point0: Researchers feel pressure to cite superfluous papers http://www.nature.com/news...
Just last night 2 scientists @science3point0: Researchers feel pressure to cite superfluous papers http://t.co/GIVUwwrs”
The value-added-by-publishers argument is weakened when you download a 2010 paper that's still in press & has Microsoft Word formatting.
RT @hysell: Gmail needs a Q&A quantifier: if I send u an email asking N questions and u reply with <N answers then gmail sends you an automatic scolding
Realizing I totally dropped the ball. Shoulda named my blog "Neurogenesis and shit". http://fossilsandshit.wordpress.com/
Having lived without one for a month now, I can say with authority that THE SHOWER CURTAIN INDUSTRY IS A SHAM! BOYCOTT! #elsevier
Cat hair boosts synaptic plasticity (in rats). http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed... (funded by Philip Morris, for obvious reasons).
Big news in new neuron physiology. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed... Immature neurons are better information integrators.
RT @researchremix: The 375 responses to the OSTP RFI for scholarly publications are now online here: http://www.whitehouse.gov/adminis...
RT @David_Dobbs: Yes. RT @edyong209: @mocost @hush6 @stevesilberman Maybe a Tumblr blog called "Your Brain on X" w/ photos of actual brain atop diff objects
Cool. I'd predict that novel stimuli evoke more arousal but... RT @mocost A physiological marker for false memories http://www.guardian.co.uk/science...
RT @noahWG: Inbox 148; Outbox 2; Waiting-On-Someone-Who-Went-Home-box 1; Dropbox 2.43 Gb; Xbox? (No thanks); Suggestion-box Avoid Twitter; Reeboks ZERO!
RT @sarcastic_f: @jsnsndr Well of course those INTENSE PICKLE Doritos are Canadian, like these Lays Potato Chips Dill Pickle 220g http://www.canadaonly.ca/product...
RT @NPsteve: I'm tired of Mexicans coming to steal our jobs that we're trying to give to China.
Yes - forever etched in my brain. RT @NeuroPolarbear: Pithing frogs was so emotionally draining I sought solace in candy hearts.
Pickles - an untapped market. @thathenderson: @jsnsndr Pickle: The Legend of Curly's Gold.
Intense pickle. Insane pickle! PICKLE: UNLEASHED!!! http://twitter.com/jsnsndr...
RT @mrgunn: JC Bradley: It only takes 1 person to fix some errors in open data, forever, as opposed to all the private work that gets repeated #scio12
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