Björn Brembs
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Cut out the parasitic middle men!
Björn Brembs June 2, 2013
doi:10.59350/9634m-apz09
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...
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Funder mandates: Are scientists like junkies?
Björn Brembs June 21, 2013
doi:10.59350/gwbd2-gb548
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...
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PostDoc opportunity in our lab now advertized
Björn Brembs May 21, 2013
doi:10.59350/ja79w-x2957
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...
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Tweetlog: fruit flies, evolution and #openaccess
Björn Brembs July 18, 2013
doi:10.59350/f28sc-zmc65
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...
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Trying a new feature: Tweetlog
Björn Brembs July 3, 2013
doi:10.59350/d4gf9-4vw29
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...
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Brains as output/input systems
Björn Brembs July 11, 2013
doi:10.59350/a7061-xkb13
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 Brembs August 21, 2013
doi:10.59350/j6ydx-59906
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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Scientific discoveries are like orgasms: you can’t have any bad ones
Björn Brembs August 16, 2013
doi:10.59350/gwg7m-bxv77
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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Flashback: Noise in the brain?
Björn Brembs August 20, 2013
doi:10.59350/4j803-afb27
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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Scientists as social parasites?
Björn Brembs August 23, 2013
doi:10.59350/aj5r5-azd87
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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Flashback: Nothing new in science?
Björn Brembs August 18, 2013
doi:10.59350/3821w-e8q37
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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A fistful of dollars: why corporate publishers have no place in scholarly communication
Björn Brembs August 26, 2013
doi:10.59350/cer42-psn51
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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Flashback: The brain creates something out of nothing
Björn Brembs August 27, 2013
doi:10.59350/5vdbd-vbv33
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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Science, red in tooth and claw
Björn Brembs August 19, 2013
doi:10.59350/e853t-00q12
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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Flashback: Programming Free Will – creative robots
Björn Brembs August 29, 2013
doi:10.59350/er44n-vab14
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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The cost of knowledge – in 2003?
Björn Brembs September 3, 2013
doi:10.59350/kf1az-x5a91
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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Video: Free will as an evolved brain function
Björn Brembs September 5, 2013
doi:10.59350/86c06-q8y42
It is one of these rare events when I can post a video of one of my own talks. This one was in Berlin earlier this year, organized by The Lost Lectures in a very unusual venue, the Stattbad Wedding: […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
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