John H. Kempen, MD, MPH, PhD, MHS to Receive Outstanding Humanitarian Service Award

September 28, 2020

Dr. John Kempen John H. Kempen, MD, MPH, PhD, MHS, will be honored with the 2020 Outstanding Humanitarian Service Award from the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) during the annual meeting in November. The award recognizes Dr. Kempen’s deep commitment to charitable work that aims to reduce blindness worldwide by improving access to patient care and establishing much-needed ophthalmology sub-specialty training programs in developing countries.... Read more about John H. Kempen, MD, MPH, PhD, MHS to Receive Outstanding Humanitarian Service Award

HMPA's virtual game night: October 1st 2020

September 28, 2020

Dear Postdocs, join us for the very first HMPA's virtual game night on October 1st 2020! We will be featuring Jackbox games Drawful 2 and FibbageXL! Read more about the game rules and register on https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hmpas-jackbox-game-night-tickets-122232529787.

Rewriting history—to include all of it this time

September 28, 2020

Ninety-nine years after a mob of poor white people killed 150 to 300 African Americans and destroyed the “Black Wall Street” in Tulsa, Okla., the city again made headlines when President Trump announced he would kick off his re-election campaign there on Juneteenth — the day that marks the final end of slavery in the U.S.

Although the rally was subsequently rescheduled for Saturday, Trump’s actions brought renewed attention to the 1921 massacre in Tulsa’s Greenwood District, a tragedy that generally has been overlooked in American history classes. This oversight, said...

Postdoc opening for modeling of high-dimensional neural data

September 28, 2020

The lab is looking for a motivated postdoctoal research fellow as part on our multi-university project to investigate the neural underpinnings of causal inference.

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Bernstein workshop on dynamic probabilistic inference in the brain

September 28, 2020

Join us at the Bernstein workshop on dynamic probabilistic inference in the brain! It is taking place on Tuesday, September 29, 2020, and organized by Anna Kutschireiter and Jan Drugowitsch. For details on the topic and lineup please consult the Bernstein workshop website. Read more about Bernstein workshop on dynamic probabilistic inference in the brain

Postdoc Recipes: a cookbook by the HMPA

September 27, 2020

We invite you to share your recipe for the HMPA cookbook, "Postdoc Recipes". Inspired by many great cookbooks that have come out from scientific research institutes showcasing recipes from researchers such as the...