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Press coverage of M3 project
posted by Jenny on April 25, 2014Vivek’s amazing 3D glasses have been gaining some coverage in the media: “The smallest spectacles in the world: Scientists craft 3D glasses for a PRAYING MANTIS to better understand sight” Daily Mail “3D Glasses For Praying Mantis Are World’s Smallest” … Continue reading
Breakthrough in bovine cognition studies
posted by Jenny on March 28, 2014The British newspaper “The Guardian” was always famous for its typos. It had a particularly funny one on its main page this week:
3D Creative Summit
posted by Paul Hands on March 21, 2014Last week I spent two days in London attending the annual 3D creative summit (3DCS) at the British film institute (BFI). It’s a place where all of the big shots from the world of 3D production (such as Sky 3D, Pixar … Continue reading
Why I love my job
posted by Jenny on March 14, 2014Such a fun day today. First off, 9am meeting with Paul to refine our Bayesian cue-combination model. Realised we had made some errors in the last implementation but reckon we have fixed them now. Excited to see what Paul produces … Continue reading
COSYNE 2014
posted by Jenny on February 27, 2014Over in Salt Lake City at the moment for the Computational and Systems Neuroscience meeting. I always enjoy this meeting a lot and find it very stimulating. Looking forward to hearing some good talks over the next few days.
Mantis under Infrared
posted by Ghaith on February 7, 2014This week we acquired an infrared camera and realized that mantids glow like light bulbs under infrared! Below are two shots for a mantis using a conventional (left) and our new infrared (right) cameras. Apart from producing very cool mantis … Continue reading
Eye tracker training
posted by Paul Hands on February 5, 2014The week after we had been to Nuremberg for a demonstration on PlusOptix PowerRef 3 we had a gentleman come in from Eyelink to show the Eyelink 1000 eyetracker system. This systems differs from the PowerRef 3 in many ways. On … Continue reading
Zoltan at SMPTE
posted by Jenny on January 31, 2014Zoltan attended the 2013 Technical Meeting of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, where he presented a paper on his MRes project. This is a nice photo of him (fifth from left / youngest person present). He’s collecting … Continue reading
Tsunamis in the brain
posted by Jenny on January 31, 2014Colleague Andrew Trevelyan has just created 18-minute film based on the event he organised for the British Science Festival last year.
Learning a new language
posted by Jenny on January 31, 2014The last programming language I learnt was Matlab, back circa 1994. Eek, that is twenty years ago now! It seems a shame that today there are all these amazing electronic devices, but coding is so much less accessible than when … Continue reading
Nuremberg – PlusOptix PowerRef 3
posted by Paul Hands on January 20, 2014This week Jenny and myself took a flight to Nuremberg (via Amsterdam) to visit PlusOptix to view their PowerRef3 ( http://www.plusoptix.com/lang-en/accommodation-meter.html ). It made a pleasant change from being in the lab everyday to get on a plane and look at some … Continue reading
Welcome Ronny!
posted by Jenny on January 9, 2014My mantis Dream Team is now complete with the arrival of Ronny Rosner this week. Ronny is busy setting up our insect electrophysiology lab. I’m delighted to have such an experienced neurophysiologist on board, and am excited to see what … Continue reading
It’s the most wonderful time of the year
posted by Paul Hands on January 8, 2014Before Christmas started I had a hectic week or two. First up was IC3D at the beginning of December. First time on a Eurostar, first visit to Belgium and first international conference. I though the scientific conference was very well … Continue reading
IC3D (preparation)
posted by Paul Hands on November 8, 2013The big brilliant news this week is that I have been accepted to present some of my data at IC3D this year in Liege! It’s an international conference focussing mostly on my field of interest and it is a peer … Continue reading
Some handy advice!
posted by Jenny on November 4, 2013From The Guardian: Advice on writing academic CVs.
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