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HSS 2014 Brain Panel on Twitter
HSS 2014 was a phenomenal conference, and I have to admit that I liked my own panel best. My fellow panelists contributed fascinating papers and were just the nicest people to learn from (and with). It...
View ArticleReview: Ingalhalikar et al. 2014
As part of the requirements for one of the psychology classes I’m taking in the context of the SCAN certificate program, I had to review a neuroscientific journal article. Martha Farah herself...
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"A Critical Moment": Sex/Gender and Brain Science Conference @ UCLA, 10/23–24
Here is a conference announcement I should have shared with you months ago: the Foundation for Psychocultural Research at the University of Californa in Los Angeles (FPR-UCLA) is hosting a conference...
View ArticlePrivacy Lost—SCAN Put Me on Youtube
I just returned from India a few days ago (see my new Department picture) and getting back to serious academic work is pretty rough after more than three weeks out in the wild … So I just spent a few...
View ArticleDH and Me
I’m in Indianapolis for HILT 2015. The digital-humanities workshop on “Large-Scale Text Analysis with R” sounded as if it can help me to finally surmount the obstacle of several thousands of...
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Book Summaries: The Remaining 2^2*13 Items from My Brain List
In continuation of the first 27, here are the remaining 52 items of my “History of the Skull, Mind, and Brain Sciences” reading list with John Tresch. It’s a lot of stuff, and I have no idea how he and...
View ArticleHow Testosterone Allowed Norman Geschwind to Bridge an Intellectual Century
The Center for the History of Medicine at the Francis A. Countway Library in Boston is magnificent! But very cold. I guess I brought the wrong clothes, being spoiled by Philly summers (or what shall I...
View ArticleGlands and Hormones: 20th-Century Hopes and Fears across the Northern Hemisphere
Meet me in Seattle for HSS 2018, November 1–4! Once more, I organized a panel for the History of Science Society Annual Meeting, this time in collaboration with my friend Yize Hu. It will be a...
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Allyson Mackey’s Questions about Brains of Low-SES Adolescents—and Why Those...
Let me provide you with one more summary of a brownbag lunch talk at Penn’s Center for Cognitive Neuroscience. Last December, I attended the talk and I found myself once more building my own sets of...
View ArticlePatriarchy Brain
I’m turning 34 today, which at least in my life is the moment when seemingly everyone around me has young children, is pregnant, or both. That in itself is great—I love other people’s children. Yet, I...
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