Kaun Lab
Storyboarding
Storyboarding is essentially sketching out scenes from a story and putting them in the right order when developing a video, animation or...
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Kaun Lab
- Oct 23, 2021
- 1 min
Bias In Citations
Science is performed by people and all people have biases. Scientific papers by women and people of color are undercited compared to...
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Kaun Lab
- Oct 23, 2021
- 1 min
Writing Exercises
Here are some writing exercises that you can do to practice some of your style and grammar skills. Many of them are directly from...
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Kaun Lab
- Oct 23, 2021
- 1 min
Making Figures
I like clean looking figures that show all the raw data, are big enough that you can read without zooming in a million times, are aligned...
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Kaun Lab
- Oct 23, 2021
- 1 min
Style and Grammar Tips
The main rule in science writing is to ensure your prose is clear and concise so your audience understands the points you are trying to...
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Kaun Lab
- Oct 23, 2021
- 1 min
How Do I Know If I'm Plagiarizing?
Plagiarism is taking someone's else's words or work and representing it as your own. It is way more common that you think and sometimes...
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Kaun Lab
- Oct 23, 2021
- 1 min
How To Write A Detailed Outline
The purpose of an detailed outline (something akin to an annotated bibliography) is to provide the reader with a summary and evaluation...
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Kaun Lab
- Oct 23, 2021
- 1 min
Staring At A Blank Page
To me, the hardest part of writing a manuscript is staring at the blank page on my computer. Here are a few tips for how to avoid staring...
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Kaun Lab
- Oct 23, 2021
- 1 min
Component Parts of Manuscripts
The beauty of science writing is that the format is very predictable. When writing a manuscript here are the sections: Title Authors and...
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Kaun Lab
- Oct 23, 2021
- 1 min
How To Read And Understand Scientific Papers
In order to write an effective scientific paper, it really helps if you've had some practice reading and reviewing scientific papers....
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Kaun Lab
- Oct 23, 2021
- 1 min
Receiving And Giving Feedback
Writing is a process, and all science manuscripts go through many, many, many versions before they are published. Sometimes it's so many...
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Kaun Lab
- Oct 21, 2021
- 1 min
Apple Picking Fall 2021!
The Kaun Lab enjoys a morning picking apples at Barden Family Orchard in November 2021! The best place to get great pictures of flies on...
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Kaun Lab
- Aug 6, 2021
- 1 min
2021 Summer Lab Retreat
The lab spent their annual retreat at Colt State Park. Everyone gave enlightening chalk talks about their projects and we celebrated...
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Kaun Lab
- Aug 2, 2021
- 1 min
Congrats on your Graduate Award in Brain Science Tariq!
Congratulations to Neuroscience Graduate Student Tariq Brown for being selected to receive a Carney Institute Graduate Award in Brain...
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Kaun Lab
- Jul 30, 2021
- 1 min
Lab Kayaking 2021
July 2021 the Kaun Lab and their families enjoyed a day kayaking at Lincoln Woods, RI. It was so much fun we're thinking about making...
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Kaun Lab
- Jun 14, 2021
- 1 min
Congratulations on your F32 fellowship John!
Congratulations to postdoctoral fellow Dr. John Hernandez for being awarded a NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award for...
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Kaun Lab
- Feb 13, 2021
- 1 min
New collaborative work with the Barnea lab, led by Dr. Kristin Scaplen published!
In collaboration with the groups of Dr. Gilad Barnea at Brown University and Dr. Yoshi Aso at Janelia Research Campus, Dr. Kristin...
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Kaun Lab
- Feb 13, 2021
- 1 min
New work from the lab by Anne Oepen et al
During her time as an exchange student completing her Master's from University of Cologne, Anne Oepen investigated how natural variation...
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Kaun Lab
- Jan 6, 2021
- 1 min
New work by Dr. D'Silva and Katie is available on bioRxiv!
A new project spearheaded by postdoc Dr. Natalie D'Silva and grad student Katie McCullar was recently posted to bioRxiv. "Neuromolecular...
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Kaun Lab
- Jan 6, 2021
- 1 min
Congrats to Eve and Katie for their SfN Trainee Professional Development Awards!
Congrats to undergraduate student Eve Glenn and graduate student Katie McCullar for being awarded Society for Neuroscience (SfN) Trainee...
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