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A new home for bjoern.brembs.blog
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A new home for bjoern.brembs.blog
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May 11, 2013
After Mike Taylor kept complaining about how horrible my old e107 platform was (which obviously it isn’t: I love this CMS), I finally gave in and moved everything over to a new home. The entire brembs.net domain with all its […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
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SHARE: Library-based publishing becoming a reality?
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June 10, 2013
The recently released development draft for SHared Access Research Ecosystem (SHARE), authored by the Association of American Universities (AAU), the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) and the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) in response to the OSTP memo […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
SHARE: Library-based publishing becoming a reality?
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Cut out the parasitic middle men!
Björn
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June 2, 2013
Academic publishers have been parasitizing the public purse for long enough now. Steffen Böhm, director of the Essex Sustainability Institute, said it best: By cutting out the parasitic publishing middle men, the academy could reclaim control of its knowledge, funding […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
Cut out the parasitic middle men!
Funder mandates: Are scientists like junkies?
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Funder mandates: Are scientists like junkies?
Björn
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June 21, 2013
Mike Taylor wrote about how frustrated he is that funders don’t issue stronger open access mandates with sharper teeth. He acknowledges that essentially, the buck stops with us, the scientists, but mentions that pressures on scientists effectively prevent them from […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
PostDoc opportunity in our lab now advertized
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PostDoc opportunity in our lab now advertized
Björn
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May 21, 2013
I have now posted the job ads for the PostDoc position in our lab at Nature, Science, SfN and FENS. If you’re interested in the neurobiology of spontaneous behavior and are into open science, have a look at the job […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
Tweetlog: fruit flies, evolution and #openaccess
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Tweetlog: fruit flies, evolution and #openaccess
Björn
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July 18, 2013
This third installment of my tweetlog covers July 10-18: Cytoskeletal Determinants of Stimulus-Response Habits https://feedly.com/k/15OdS3q Wow! 7340 full-text and PDF downloads, and only 5510 abstract views for our journal rank paper: https://www.frontiersin.org/Human_Neuroscience/10.3389/fnhum.2013.00291/full In Science We Trust: Poll Results on How […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
Trying a new feature: Tweetlog
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Trying a new feature: Tweetlog
Björn
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July 3, 2013
Following the example of Glyn Moody, I thought I’d start a log on the tweets I send around. One never knows what’ll happen to Twitter and besides, this provides a neat place to store and find everything. So here are […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
Brains as output/input systems
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Brains as output/input systems
Björn
Brembs
July 11, 2013
In the process of migrating content from the old site to WordPress, I’m also moving some articles from there and re-publishing them here as posts. This one is such a case, originally published on December 7, 2006. Unfortunately, I never […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
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Flashback: All brains possess free will because there is no design in biology
Björn
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August 21, 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...
Flashback: All brains possess free will because there is no design in biology
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Scientific discoveries are like orgasms: you can’t have any bad ones
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August 16, 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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