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Averaging is a convenient fiction of neuroscience

But neurons don’t take averages. This ubiquitous practice hides from us how the brain really works.

By Mark Humphries
23 September 2024 | 7 min read

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Roundup: The false association between vaccines and autism

In light of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s U.S. Senate confirmation hearings this week, The Transmitter has rounded up our past coverage of the false association between vaccines and autism.

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Static pay, shrinking prospects fuel neuroscience postdoc decline

Postdoctoral researchers sponsored by the National Institutes of Health now toil longer than ever before, for less money. They are responding accordingly.

By Katie Moisse
31 January 2025 | 20 min read