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ND is Science 2.0

Neville Sanjana — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 00:15:09 +0000

Science 2.0: You Say You Want a Revolution? [HHMI Bulletin]

I’ve been remiss in posting this article that was featured in the HHMI Bulletin a few months ago, but Neurodudes was mentioned in an article about blogs and science, along with our friend Andrew Hires’s excellent Brain Windows blog.

An apology

Neville Sanjana — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 02:31:04 +0000

It has just been brought to my attention that for the last few months (!) neurodudes has had some serious problems with allowing users to comment, ie. commenting was completely closed. I am very sorry for that. The problem should be fixed and now commenting should again be easy for anyone to use. As always, feel free to contact us at contactus^neurodudes^com (replacing ^ as appropriate) if you have any questions or concerns. – Neville

place for mol biologist in neuroprosthetics?

A Neurodudes Reader — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 14:32:33 +0000

Im a molecular/cellular neurobiologist. I do however, have a deep interst in neural prosthetics, bionics research. Is there a place for me in this field?

Email subscription available

Bayle Shanks — Wed, 15 Dec 2004 21:15:11 +0000

Now you can subscribe to receive Neurodudes by email. To sign up, just enter your email into the email subscription field in the sidebar on the lower right hand side of the main Neurodudes page.

Once a day, you’ll receive an email digest containing the full text of any new Neurodudes stories (with an HTML version attached, so you’ll get the hyperlinks too). You won’t be emailed unless there is a new story*, and you won’t be emailed anyone’s comments on the story, just the story itself.

The email subscription uses an external service called Bloglet. I am satisfied that their privacy policy will prevent them from ever selling your email address.

Please let us know if anything isn’t working with subscriptions; email neurodudes@gmail.com.

(p.s.: i already manually subscribed a small group of people, so if you’re reading this in your email, you’re already subscribed)

*: or unless we modify the site in certain ways, in which case the software gets confused and resends the last 10 or so stories the next day

note about comment spam

Bayle Shanks — Sun, 31 Oct 2004 18:54:13 +0000

btw, we’ve gotten lots of spam comments. our solution is to use an automated spam blocker to screen comments. we’ve had to block the brand names of many drugs, as well as lots of words related to gambling. If you try to submit a comment and it is rejected due to “questionable content”, then try rephrasing the comment to not use an “spamy” words, and using the generic name for any drugs you mention. Or, email the administrators, and we’ll help.

(nothing to say here, but i’m still testing the email notification service)

Neurodudes on the web!

Neville Sanjana — Wed, 28 Jan 2004 05:41:01 +0000

Welcome to both old and new Neurodudes!

Bayle and I have decided to try moving Neurodudes to a more open, blog-based format. The idea here is to encourage more contributions from more people. If you’d like to post something, just follow the directions on the left. If you find yourself posting often, we’ll hook you up with you own account.

I hope that we can revive the Neurodudes discussion and make it even more lively in its new home on the web!

To me, it’s really remarkable that they’re are hardly any neuroscience blogs right now on the web. That said, our even more specialized focus (interesting research that’s at the forefront of both natural and artificial intelligence) is practically non-existent. Not for long…

The idea of transitioning Neurodudes from a mailing list (as it has been since its inception in Feb. 2003) to a web-based forum seems natural: Although the email format worked for some time, people naturally get busy and the onus remains on the (few) contributor-readers. A dead mailing list is just no good. My hope here is that, by putting Neurodudes on the web, we will get more active contributor-readers and that the discussion will be allowed to flow in a less obtrusive way (ie. blog comments instead of email floods, as has been the result of a few of our discussions).

If you’ve got ideas, we want to hear them. Post them in the comments below or send us some mail: feedback at neurodudes dot com.