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Watching a paradigm shift in neuroscience
Björn Brembs March 26, 2015
doi:10.59350/8rgcz-zm455
When I finished my PhD 15 years ago, the neurosciences defined the main function of brains in terms of processing input to compute output: “brain function is ultimately best understood in terms of input/output transformations and how they are produced” […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
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What should a modern scientific infrastructure look like?
Björn Brembs April 27, 2015
doi:10.59350/nw4ky-36005
For ages I have been planning to collect some of the main aspects I would like to see improved in an upgrade to the disaster we so euphemistically call an academic publishing system. In this post I’ll try to briefly […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
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Is this Smits’ tripleC moment?
Björn Brembs September 5, 2023
doi:10.59350/epxsj-tjf77
Jeffrey “predatory journals” Beall famously catapulted himself out of any serious debate with an article in the journal TripleC, entitled “The Open-Access Movement is Not Really about Open Access“. In it, Beall claimed that OA proponents don’t care about access, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
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In which potatoes in France are like high-ranking journals in science
Björn Brembs August 2, 2013
doi:10.59350/cmfnt-n9h66
During my flyfishing vacation last year, pretty much nothing was happening on this blog. Now that I’ve migrated the blog to WordPress, I can actually schedule posts to appear when in fact I’m not even at the computer. I’m using […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
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SummerScienceVideo: fruit fly research
Björn Brembs August 5, 2013
doi:10.59350/f6c01-pzr12
As part of my scheduled re-posts during the summer break, I’ll also post some of the science videos from the archives. I originally posted these two on February 24, 2013: The first one is a TED talk by Michael Dickinson […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
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What happens to publishers that don’t maximize their profit?
Björn Brembs June 19, 2015
doi:10.59350/cvtg0-js618
Lately, there has been some public dreaming going on about how one could just switch to open access publishing by converting subscription funds to author processing charges (APCs) and we’d have universal open access and the whole world would rejoice. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
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Even without retractions, ‘top’ journals publish the least reliable science
Björn Brembs January 12, 2016
doi:10.59350/jc84m-0gf46
tl;dr: Data from thousands of non-retracted articles indicate that experiments published in higher-ranking journals are less reliable than those reported in ‘lesser’ journals. Vox health reporter Julia Belluz has recently covered the reliability of peer-review. In her follow-up piece, she […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
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How much should a scholarly article cost the taxpayer?
Björn Brembs January 7, 2016
doi:10.59350/j64ds-09859
tl;dr: It is a waste to spend more than the equivalent of US$100 in tax funds on a scholarly article. Collectively, the world’s public purse currently spends the equivalent of US$~10b every year on scholarly journal publishing. Dividing that by […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
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