Watching a paradigm shift in neuroscience
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Watching a paradigm shift in neuroscience
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March 26, 2015
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...
What should a modern scientific infrastructure look like?
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What should a modern scientific infrastructure look like?
Björn
Brembs
April 27, 2015
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
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
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: science is real
Björn
Brembs
August 11, 2013
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 this one on Agust 31, 2011: A nice song with a really cool little video:
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SummerScienceVideo: fruit fly research
Björn
Brembs
August 5, 2013
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
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...
What happens to publishers that don’t maximize their profit?
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Even without retractions, ‘top’ journals publish the least reliable science
Björn
Brembs
January 12, 2016
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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Even without retractions, ‘top’ journals publish the least reliable science
Björn
Brembs
January 12, 2016
How much should a scholarly article cost the taxpayer?
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How much should a scholarly article cost the taxpayer?
Björn
Brembs
January 7, 2016
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...
Sci-Hub as necessary, effective civil disobedience
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Sci-Hub as necessary, effective civil disobedience
Björn
Brembs
February 25, 2016
Stevan Harnad’s “Subversive Proposal” came of age last year. I’m now teaching students younger than Stevan’s proposal, and yet, very little has actually changed in these 21 years. On the contrary, one may even make the case that while efforts […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
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How gold open access may make things worse
Björn
Brembs
April 7, 2016
Due to ongoing discussions on various (social) media, this is a mash-up of several previous posts on the strategy of ‘flipping’ our current >30k subscription journals to an author-financed open access corporate business model. I consider this article processing charge […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
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Why haven’t we already canceled all subscriptions?
Björn
Brembs
May 20, 2016
The question in the title is serious: of the ~US$10 billion we collectively pay publishers annually world-wide to hide publicly funded research behind paywalls, we already know that only between 200-800 million go towards actual costs. The rest goes towards […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
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So your institute went cold turkey on publisher X. What now?
Björn
Brembs
December 20, 2016
With the start of the new year 2017, about 60 universities and other research institutions in Germany are set to lose subscription access to one of the main STEM publishers, Elsevier. The reason being negotiations of the DEAL consortium (600 […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
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In which a Science editorial demonstrates the ineffectiveness of OA activism
Björn
Brembs
April 29, 2016
In her recent editorial on Sci-Hub (an initiative I support), editor-in-chief of Science Magazine Marcia McNutt wrote: For those who have such avenues but choose to pirate a paper instead, ask yourself whether it is worth risking the viability of […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
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