Archive for the ‘Meta’ Category

Dissertation: Defended

It has been a very long road to get to this day, but after five years at Dartmouth College I have successfully defended my dissertation and completed my PhD. [whoa!] My public talk went rather well despite the anxiety that was welling up inside. I may have stuttered a big more than average, but not […]

I am a tour de force

The boss (Abigail Baird) was very kind in her recent interview for the Association for Psychological Science: Rising Stars: Abigail Baird Also, my paper was her favorite. That is like your mother calling you her favorite child. ;)

November 20, 2007 • Posted in: Meta, Psychology • No Comments

I have a postdoc lined up

This has been a done deal for several weeks, but I have been waiting for the official letter to arrive before talking about it. The big news is this: when January arrives my wife Sarah and I will be packing up our things and moving our little family (cats included) out to Santa Barbara, California. […]

November 16, 2007 • Posted in: Meta • No Comments

In Los Angeles

I am out at UCLA for the next two weeks attending the Advanced Neuroimaging Summer Program. It is amazing to be here because I have always seen UCLA and the Laboratory of Neuroimaging as a great center of neroscience globally. We just wrapped up the first day and it was incredibly awesome – Mark Cohen’s […]

August 14, 2007 • Posted in: CogNeuro, Meta • No Comments

Comments are open

If you feel compelled to comment on a post you may now do so. The first comment you submit to the weblog will be moderated, but subsequent posts will go straight through. On my previous site comment spam was a real problem, but we have installed some fantastic anti-spam plugins that I hope will keep […]

July 30, 2007 • Posted in: Meta • No Comments

Why blog?

I mean, come on, the Internet is crawling with self-important people creating blogs. What makes this site so great that it has earned a slice of your precious time? Well, to be honest, this site isn’t for you. It is mostly for me. Writing is like a muscle – if you want to get stronger […]

July 27, 2007 • Posted in: Meta • No Comments

Hello (again) world!

In today’s connected world it is increasingly necessary to maintain a digital presence on the internet. The blog you are reading [http://prefrontal.org/blog] is where I hope to make my personal and professional home. The other site is a wiki [http://prefrontal.org/wiki] that will be a type of digital repository where I can keep information and files […]

July 22, 2007 • Posted in: Meta • No Comments