Reflecting on a decade in academic neuroscience
At dinner over the holidays, my mother-in-law asked me what happened to “the rats”, as she affectionately called the subjects of my postdoc research, which had ended in March. This was a light-hearted question, and “they went to the gas chamber” was not a light-hearted answer, but it was the truth. I didn’t say more than that, but these rats were lucky compared to others. The topic quickly changed. For an academic career of 11 years, I toughed out what I have recently learned to call moral...
