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Immigrant, Neuroscientist, and Vice-Dean for Research at UCL Faculty of Brain Sciences. Opinions are my own.
Oct 18, 2020 10 tweets 14 min read
Last week @SteinmetzNeuro and I ran the 2020 UCL #Neuropixels course @UCLBrainScience, supported by @wellcometrust. The videos of the lectures are now online. Links in the thread below and (soon) at the course page: ucl.ac.uk/neuropixels/tr… 1/n Lecture 1.2 - Introduction to Neuropixels – by Matteo Carandini @UCLeye @UCLBrainScience

Lecture 1.3 - The technology in Neuropixels – by Carolina Mora Lopez @imec_int 2/n
Jun 14, 2020 10 tweets 6 min read
Thanks to institutional subscriptions, commercial scientific publishers operate a lucrative market. How lucrative? Spectacularly so. A brief thread focusing on Elsevier, for reasons that will become clear. (1/n)
@ElsevierConnect In 2019, Elsevier made a profit of £982 million (out of r £2.6 billion revenue). Is that a big profit? In dollars, it’s $1.2 billion. In euros, €1.1 billion. It’s a big number, but maybe it’s okay? (2/n)
Source: relx.com/investors/annu…