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2026-07-29 — Teaching page and navigation

Problem: The English website did not have a top-level Teaching tab or a page for the Fall 2026 course.
Root Cause: No teaching page or navbar entry had been configured.
Solution: Added teaching.qmd, populated its Fall 2026 section from Fall2026.md, and linked it from _quarto.yml. After the initial implementation, removed the second identical “Time and Location” line inherited from the source.
Result: Visitors can open concise Fall 2026 teaching information directly from the English site’s top navigation, with the schedule shown once.
Files Modified: _quarto.yml, teaching.qmd (initial implementation: commit 72084d2; duplicate removal not yet committed).

Problem: The members map used an unprojected longitude/latitude layout that visually exaggerated land areas at high latitudes.
Root Cause: The map’s master World layer did not specify a projected display CRS, so tmap drew the source WGS 84 coordinates directly.
Solution: Set the master map CRS to Equal Earth (EPSG:8857); tmap reprojects the world polygons and both current/past member point layers together.
Result: The “Where we are from” map now preserves relative land area while retaining the existing locations, colors, sizing, and styling.
Files Modified: members.qmd (not yet committed).

Problem: The top News item about CanViT at NeurIPS 2026 had no link to the project page and no visual identifier.
Solution: Linked “CanViT” to the project page https://m2b3.github.io/CanViT/ (the lowercase /canvit path returns 404 because GitHub Pages paths are case-sensitive). Added the official CanViT wordmark (images/canvit-wordmark.svg, copied from m2b3/CanViT site/assets/logos/) at the end of the line, inline at height=1.3em so it matches the text line; the logo also links to the project page.
Result: Visitors can jump to the CanViT project page from the home page; the logo fits within the news line.
Files Modified: index.qmd, images/canvit-wordmark.svg, rendered docs/ (commits canvit).
Iteration (2026-10-01): On the live page the trailing logo rendered larger than the text and wrapped onto its own line. The logo now replaces the “CanViT” text link (still linking to the project page), styled display: inline; height: 1em; width: auto; vertical-align: -0.1em so it sits on the text baseline at text height. Files: index.qmd, rendered docs/ (not yet committed).

Problem: The CanViT wordmark did not look clickable, and several manuscript news items had no link to the paper, or linked only to the preprint after the paper was published.
Solution: Gave the logo a hover/focus effect (brightens, lifts and gets an underline) and a tooltip, and added a “(project page ↗)” text link after it (.canvit-logo-link, .canvit-cue in styles.css). Linked the manuscripts using the URLs on the Output page: meaning maps → bioRxiv, auditory static distractor → arXiv, forward remapping → Journal of Vision DOI. Added the published Communications Biology and Brain Sciences links next to the existing LFP-variability and insula preprint links.
Result: The CanViT link is visible on desktop and touch screens, and every news item about a manuscript now links to the correct version.
Files Modified: index.qmd, styles.css, rendered docs/ (not yet committed).
Iteration (2026-10-01): Replaced the “(project page ↗)” text cue with a bare ↗ arrow directly after the logo. The “project page” wording now lives only in the arrow’s tooltip and aria-label. Files: index.qmd, styles.css, rendered docs/.