This week I got an invitation that threw me off. It was from a colleague who I respect and who's work I like. The email said that a PhD student is due to graduate, and because of the university rules they needed a woman on the committee. Could I please do it? There was no information about the title of the thesis, the name of the student, the other members of the committee, and most importantly, WHY they wanted me on the panel (besides the obvious fact that they needed a woman). I dwelled on the reply for a long time, thinking that I should probably tell the sender why the email was extremely disrespectful to someone who is an expert in their field (Neuroscience! Vision!), but in the end I was too tired to. I just said no, I am too busy to be your token woman.
By Karin
This week I got an invitation that threw me off. It was from a colleague who I respect and who's work I like. The email said that a PhD student is due to graduate, and because of the university rules they needed a woman on the committee. Could I please do it? There was no information about the title of the thesis, the name of the student, the other members of the committee, and most importantly, WHY they wanted me on the panel (besides the obvious fact that they needed a woman). I dwelled on the reply for a long time, thinking that I should probably tell the sender why the email was extremely disrespectful to someone who is an expert in their field (Neuroscience! Vision!), but in the end I was too tired to. I just said no, I am too busy to be your token woman.
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By Karin
Sarah has been working on a project investigation the neural responses to targets in visual clutter. She has worked on this project since joining my lab in 2017, and we just found out that it has been accepted for publication in PNAS. This is such good news, and we will share the pdf once approved for public release. By Yuri
We are close to settling the final data analysis for Malin's forthcoming paper about target pursuit behaviour in male hoverflies. I have tried to understand how two data (e.g., fly speed against bead speed) correlate with each other using functions in Matlab, xcorr and corrcoef. I got confused by the outcomes from those two functions, even reading through function documents in the Matlab help centre; watching youtube videos. They made me more confused, somehow. To solve this, I googled 'cross-correlation vs correlation coefficient'. As usual, someone had already faced the same question and sought help 10 years and 1 month ago. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6284676/a-question-on-cross-correlation-correlation-coefficient The best answer I have got there was 'I seriously think you need to read up more on cross-correlation functions & correlation coefficient from a statistics book, because your confusion here is more fundamental than related to MATLAB'. Shame on me! I found excellent explanations of the correlation coefficient on this web pages too. https://www.statisticshowto.com/probability-and-statistics/correlation-coefficient-formula/ Karin's lines of code eventually let me achieve the calculations. The result is stunning, and we all are excited to share them as a publication soonish. |
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