Getting started in the lab

• See this page for lots of resources for international staff at the university.
• ask secretary Eva Potters to be added to the FSW - Cogpsy mailing list. There is also an Outlook calendar for the unit
• Get added to the Google lab calendar (ask Anne)
• Get added to the CoCoSys lab MS teams group (ask Anne). This is where we ideally store shared files: posters, templates, forms, etc.
• Get organized: my setup is Zotero for papers, Obsidian for notes/planning, MS Teams for quick communication
• Read, and then contribute to this wiki

Useful mailing lists, groups etc

• Get added to the Cognitive Psychology, Open Science Community Leiden and Psychology Living Room MS teams groups. The MS Teams group has a good wiki with a lot of department-related information, including a manual for newcomers. Make sure to check it out!
• CCN-NL for cogneuro
• Brick-lab for environmental psychology
• IBL Slack for internal IBL things

Project logs and management

Inspired by the Voytek lab, make a core GitHub repository (pick a useful, descriptive name) for your project and add anne-urai as a collaborator (feel free to keep it private). Then, add a GitHub project where we can start to list all ideas and plans as issues. At each meeting, we’ll review the project status and make plans.

Choosing a scientific project

Read Alon (2009) and consider taking 3 months to scope the project, before starting!