Prof. op de Beeck is a Group leader of Human Brain Imaging and Rodent Visual Cognition at the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium.

We discuss the skewed proportion of PhDs to Postdocs and the progressively narrowing funnel leading to tenure.

We also touch upon how to balance high throughput analyses of ‘natural’ behaviors with training animals to perform more sophisticated - and, admittedly, artificial - tasks.