Björn Brembs

Professorial student of Neurogenetics
Spontaneous behavior and operant learning
Open Science Insurrectionist

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2024-09-20 08:00:15

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I'm here because the Fediverse chimes with academic values. So I decided to write a paper, with even more arguments:
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.230207

2024-09-06 11:52:48

It has happened more than once in #neuroscience that what looked very much like a decision when observing the behavior, lost the 'air' of decision-making upon neurobiologiocal scrutiny.
What actually is a decision and how do we best study them?
https://bjoern.brembs.net/2024/09/what-is-a-decision/
#biology #behavior #psychology

2024-09-05 07:15:48

The EUs #openscience policy developments really are evidence-based, forward-looking and technologically sound:
https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/3603e219-6a65-11ef-a8ba-01aa75ed71a1/language-en
When was the last time you could say that about politics? 🤣

2024-07-28 16:25:33

Arrived in Berlin for a week full of #neuroethology and #neuroscience
https://www.icn2024-berlin.org/
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2024-07-15 16:52:50

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That is, in fact, precisely one of the aspects I just tried to tell our funding agency. Sent them a list of papers proposing a lottery-based approach.

2024-07-15 16:48:13

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In general it's not a bad turnaround time, but in such a crystal clear case it seems like 5 Minutes should do the trick 😆

2024-07-15 16:38:02

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Sigh, yes!
I guess this is what the agencies (and by extension we applicants) have to deal with when nobody wants to do reviews any more?

2024-07-15 16:23:06

Wow, the one critical review (the other was over the top enthusiastic) of our latest grant proposal beats everything I have seen in 25 years of grant writing:
1. Already the summary of our proposal is not even close
2. Proposes experiments that are already in the grant
3. Criticizes experiments we don't propose
4. States that we lack expertise (which we have) for the experiments we did not propose
5. Knows the results of our research even before the experiments are funded
#neuroscience #grants

2024-07-04 12:41:52

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Will there be a way to use reference managers, such as PaperPile with it for academic writing?

2024-06-21 08:07:35

How to improve motor learning in Drosophila
Motor learning, skill-learning or habit formation share conceptual similarities, but it is debated how much biology these processes have in common. There is genetic evidence linking motor learning and habit formation in flies, song-learning in birds and language acquisition in humans to an evolutionary conserved operant self-learning process. Here we show different biological manipulations of Drosophila that all enhance motor…
https://bjoern.brembs.net/download/how-to-improve-motor-learning-in-drosophila-2/

2024-06-17 13:42:17

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In the days of slideshare.com I would make at least my slides available to everybody, but those days are over.
I don't think there are any plans to make anything available, regrettably.

2024-06-12 15:24:23

And our final speaker, Kristin Andrews from York university will be claiming that not only all animals are conscious, but that all "cognitive biological organisms are conscious..
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/604/334/297/637/948/original/6c221b68fa02272c.jpg

2024-06-09 11:35:54

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Actually, the evidence of the last 15 years that I know says so:
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2018.00037/full

2024-06-04 15:19:36

Please sign the petition to the OECD to take up our complaint against #Elsevier
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdHX1A-1XCIb8t2F0ng_fNOQldszk_NCrFC8RyGzZdaDVfyIA/viewform
Here the complaint:
https://www.climaterightscoalition.com/
#climatecrisis #OpenAccess

2024-05-31 12:31:00

Institutional repositories FTW!
"Japan’s push to make all research #openaccess is taking shape" https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01493-8
Smart countries invest in the infrastructure that can replace academic journals.

2024-05-22 13:58:00

Every editorial board of everyone of the currently 50,000 academic journalsshould take this to heart:
“Science should be public good. It can be sustained collectively and provide a universal benefit,” rather than a product or service that needs to be purchased,”
https://sparcopen.org/news/2024/lessons-from-redalycs-organic-rise-as-a-model-of-diamond-open-access/
The parasitic corporations using journals for rent-seeking would be bankrupt before anybody knew what happened.
#openaccess #openscience

2023-10-12 08:17:29

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Hier der Link zur öffentlich zugänglichen Version:
https://sci-hub.se/10.1785/gssrl.74.2.107
Browser plug-ins sind toll 😆

2023-10-11 12:31:00

Nice, even-handed post by @npub1rzz…4rlh on the assembly theory paper:
"Wouldn't it be nice if [...] authors would see their role as guides on our journey through such unknown conceptual landscapes? Instead, academic publishing has become a shameless swamp of self-promotion. The system is to blame, at least in part, but we cannot shirk our own responsibility as authors. This paper is a prime example of what is happening all over the place."
http://www.johannesjaeger.eu/blog/assembly-theory-is-cool
#evolution #biology #science

2023-09-19 15:58:16

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Philosopher Anne-Sophie Meincke very much thinks of such things as processes:
https://www.annesophiemeincke.com/
In fact, it is her research focus:
https://www.annesophiemeincke.com/philosophy

2023-09-15 06:40:47

My blog posts are now on the fediverse:
@npub1wx3…ax39

2023-09-07 15:08:38

Not surprisingly, but importantly, COAR, the coalition of open access repositories, also supports the conclusions of the EU-Council:
https://www.coar-repositories.org/news-updates/coar-welcomes-the-council-of-eu-conclusions-on-high-quality-transparent-open-trustworthy-and-equitable-scholarly-publishing/
By now, pretty much everyone with a modicum of expertise supports these Conclusions:
https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2023/05/23/council-calls-for-transparent-equitable-and-open-access-to-scholarly-publications/
That tells you something about the few who have voiced opposition thus far!

2023-09-05 12:19:23

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That's exactly how I understand it and I find it vital. It would be nearly impossible to communicate without it.
Despite Up-Goer Five:
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/012/502/182/288/365/original/33a51300c47041ea.png

2023-09-05 12:13:15

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I'm not a native speaker so I may have the wrong understanding of 'jargon,' but isn't 'jargon' the use of the word 'gene" instead of a paragraph explaining the different regions of a stretch of DNA and how it gets transmitted, regulated and expressed? The use of 'hippocampus' instead of anatomical cordinates? Planet, Dwarfplanet, Quark?

2023-08-21 14:06:00

You won't get this kind of support for competition from the legacy, monopolist publishers:
"what drives innovation and revolutionary technologies is competition. To remain healthy and even self-policing, however, this competition needs to embrace transparency, equity and inclusivity."
https://blog.pensoft.net/2023/08/21/pensofts-statement-on-the-european-unions-conclusions-on-oa-scholarly-publishing/
#openaccess #openscience

2023-08-21 13:18:49

There has already been overwhelming support in the scholarly community for the EU 🇪🇺 Conclusions on scholarly publishing, e.g.,
https://www.coalition-s.org/open-science-stakeholders-welcome-european-efforts-towards-publicly-owned-and-not-for-profit-scholarly-communication/
and now this support extends even to certain publishers! #Pensoft and #ARPHA support the transition away from the current conglomerate of monopolists towards a genuine market with actual competition, which is one of the targeted outcomes:
https://blog.pensoft.net/2023/08/21/pensofts-statement-on-the-european-unions-conclusions-on-oa-scholarly-publishing/
"what drives innovation and revolutionary technologies is competition."

2023-08-07 07:33:42

Written for a general audience, right?
It's probably just me, but as a neuroscientist and geneticist with almost 30 years of research experience, I only understand about half (probably less) of this "editor's summary" in Science:
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adf8440
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2023-04-04 10:18:10

Just in case you (like me) are still torn about leaving the birdsite for good, there is a nice little plug-in , e.g.,
Firefox:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/eightdollars/
Chrome:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/eight-dollars/fjbponfbognnefnmbffcfllkibbbobki
that lets you find out who is paying Musk for more reach.
If they are blocked, not only do they not reach *you* any more, their Twitter rank also decreases.
Makes me feel a bit better about holding on a little longer - for now.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/110/140/008/103/757/666/original/09c9c4e1722c750b.png