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We are hiring!
There are three new job opportunities in the Kaun Lab! We are hiring a full-time research technician to aid in performing Behavioral...

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Congratulations on your F31 NRSA Tariq!
Congratulations to Tariq Brown for being awarded a 3 year NIAAA F31 NRSA entitled "Alcohol-Induced Alternative Splicing in Drosophila...

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Feb 13, 20221 min read


New grant to investigate opioid abuse
The lab recently received a 2022 Seed grant from Brown University to develop Drosophila as a model to understand the neural and molecular...

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Jan 30, 20221 min read


Eve Glenn featured in Brown News!
Check out this article in the Brown News featuring Neuroscience Undergraduate Honors Student Eve Glenn! Eve is currently looking at how...

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Jan 30, 20221 min read


Congratulations Dr. Nunez!
A huge Congratulations! to our very own Dr. Kavin Nunez who successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis entitled "Mechanisms of cue-induced...

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Eve Glenn is featured in a Carney Institute Spotlight!
The Robert J. and Nancy D. Carney Institute for Brain Science at Brown University recently published a Community Spotlight on our very...

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Tariq presents at Virtual SfN!
Check out NSGP Graduate Student Tariq Brown's Poster at the 2021 Virtual Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting! P307.05 -...

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Preparing Scientific Papers
At a recent Carney Methods Meet-up (https://www.brown.edu/carney/news-events/carney-methods-meetups) , hosted by the Scientific Director...

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Reaching Your Writing Goals
Writing always takes me longer that I think it will. It doesn't matter what I'm writing: manuscripts, grants, emails, paper reviews,...

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Helpful Blogs And Books
My favorite book is "Writing Science in Plain English" by Anne E. Greene. I keep it close at hand when I'm editing because it explains...

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How To Start Writing a Manuscript
In which order should you start writing? In all honesty, if you're motivated to write a particular section, start there and go go go....

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Staying On Task When Writing
One of the hardest things about writing is getting the motivation to start, and then staying motivated and focused through the process....

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Oct 23, 20211 min read
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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Oct 23, 20211 min read
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