Job application in academia is fun, but only in retrospect, provided you achieve your desired outcome. The odds? Statistically, they’re pretty low. The process is a gamble mined with uncertainty and despair. My initial plan was to apply for an academic position in 2020. However, the pandemic shutdown led to job scarcity, prompting me to

Fiber photometry is an increasingly popular technique to measure bulk fluorescent signals from a range of biosensors (e.g. GCaMP, dLight, iGluSnFR, etc). Whereas in the early days, photometry rigs were hacked together with parts from various vendors, this method’s popularity has incentivized several commercial entities to offer turnkey solutions for photometry recording. As straightforward as