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This third installment of my tweetlog covers July 10-18:

• Cytoskeletal Determinants of Stimulus-Response Habits http://feedly.com/k/15OdS3q
• Wow! 7340 full-text and PDF downloads, and only 5510 abstract views for our journal rank paper: http://www.frontiersin.org/Human_Neuroscience/10.3389/fnhum.2013.00291/full
• In Science We Trust: Poll Results on How You Feel about Science: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=in-science-we-trust-poll …
• “Doubt is our product” – how the tobacco industry misrepresented our research: http://targ.blogs.ilrt.org/2013/07/16/doubt-is-our-product/ … by @MarcusMunafo
• Motor Circuit-Specific Burst Patterns Drive Different Muscle and Behavior Patterns http://feedly.com/k/1atMeKc
• Interestingly: the sentence adverbs of PubMed Central http://nsaunders.wordpress.com/2013/07/16/interestingly-the-sentence-adverbs-of-pubmed-central/ …
• Further Fell Fallout From Finch Folly: The Royal Society Relapse http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/1021-Further-Fell-Fallout-From-Finch-Folly-The-Royal-Society-Relapse.html …
• Joseph Esposito on the state of Open Access: Where are we, what still needs to be done? http://poynder.blogspot.com/2013/07/joseph-esposito-on-state-of-open-access.html …
• Misconceptions about evolution video has its own misconceptions http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Neurodojo/~3/vOoyPoLrCHk/misconceptions-about-evolution-video.html …
• Science and the public: Promotional tactics corrupt research http://feedly.com/k/15Ogi29
• Reproducibility: Two more red flags for suspect work http://feedly.com/k/15OfZ7w
• Sending a message http://wp.me/p4g7f-nU  via @researchremix
• Why librarians are needed more than ever in the 21st century http://boingboing.net/2013/07/16/why-librarians-are-needed-more.html …
• Congratulations! @ivanoransky leaves Reuters for MedPage Today. http://shar.es/k3t16
• Open Access DOI Resolver:give it a DOI it gives back OA full-text institutional repository URL! http://doi2oa.erambler.co.uk/  via @HSSOpenAccess
• “surprisingly readable for something so depressingly stupid.” – ‘Positivity Ratio’ Criticized In New Sokal Affair http://bit.ly/17k78JV
• Animal studies produce many false positives http://www.nature.com/news/animal-studies-produce-many-false-positives-1.13385 …
• “we should not make the author field of papers a proxy for all scientific output credit…” – http://bit.ly/1bFzyRZ
• Anybody with first-hand experience with Primo ScholarRank? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDly9qPpPYQ …
• @Protohedgehog @bioSimonUoB @brembs Judging a paper on journal IF like judging photography contest on presence of celebrity in background.
• Recombineering Homologous Recombination Constructs in Drosophila http://feedly.com/k/12PrjvY
• The Molecular Basis of Sugar Sensing in Drosophila Larvae http://feedly.com/k/13JXhQH
• Heather Joseph on the state of Open Access: Where are we, what still needs to be done? http://poynder.blogspot.de/2013/07/heather-joseph-on-state-of-open-access.html …
• It’s plain and simple: transparency is good for science and in the public interest http://www.trialsjournal.com/content/14/1/215/abstract … #trials
• Of the 10k downloads, ~6k full-text views: http://www.frontiersin.org/Journal/AbstractImpact.aspx?ART_DOI=10.3389/fnhum.2013.00291&name=human_neuroscience&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Psychology-w28-2013&type=1 …
• Today, 10k+ downloads for our paper on the lack of evidence for journal rank: http://www.frontiersin.org/Human_Neuroscience/10.3389/fnhum.2013.00291/full …
• iPhylo: Learning from eLife: GitHub as an article repository http://iphylo.blogspot.com/2013/07/learning-from-elife-github-as-article.html?spref=tw …
• The cat frog came back, the very next day http://feedly.com/k/1btBayl
• An astonishingly shallow treatment of a very real problem: Risk http://feedly.com/k/10PiLHV
• The Evolution of Drosophila melanogaster as a Model for Alcohol Research http://feedly.com/k/1bty5OA
• @Technixer Exactly. To get around this issue, we wrote this instead: http://www.frontiersin.org/Human_Neuroscience/10.3389/fnhum.2013.00291/full …
• The Selected Papers Network (Part 3) http://feedly.com/k/1btxlch
• Fruit Flies Seek Mates Leggingly: Scientific American Podcast http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=fruit-flies-seek-mates-leggingly-13-07-11&WT.mc_id=SA_sharetool_Twitter … via @sciam
• Want good reasons to be a Creationist? You won’t find them here. http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/doing-good-science/2013/07/11/want-good-reasons-to-be-a-creationist-you-wont-find-them-here/?WT.mc_id=SA_sharetool_Twitter … via @sciam
• Brains don’t respond to stimuli – brains act and then evaluate the response of the environment: http://bjoern.brembs.net/2013/07/brains-as-outputinput-systems/ …
• Unhelpful Research Advice #2 http://wp.me/pP1Q8-JZ
• Brains as output/input systems http://wp.me/p3walV-4R
• “Why Has the Number of Scientific Retractions Increased?” New study tries to answer http://buff.ly/1dmB7Cx
• A call for open access to all data used in AJ and ApJ articles http://buff.ly/1dmzZPn
• The Cost of Scientific Publishing http://disq.us/8e1c8n
• Open is a state of mind http://feedly.com/k/13ONY0u
• On the Training of Future Neuroscientists: Insights from the Grass Laboratory http://feedly.com/k/10O65Rz
• How Did the Chicken Cross the Road? With Her Striatal Cholinergic Interneurons, Of Course http://feedly.com/k/10O5b7B
• Olfaction and Vision Meet in the Retina http://feedly.com/k/10O4FGt
• Busting the top five myths about open access publishing http://theconversation.com/busting-the-top-five-myths-about-open-access-publishing-14792 … via @ConversationUK
• Isolation of Sensory Neurons of Aplysia californica for Patch Clamp Recordings of Glutamatergic Currents http://feedly.com/k/10O3Tti
• #Open Access and the looming crisis in #science #OA #scientific papers #biomedical journal #publication | @scoopit http://sco.lt/5Oa6uP
• Open access on the conference circuit http://buff.ly/12lnORq  via @stephen_curry
• The challenge of semantically marking up articles (more thoughts on PLoS Hubs) http://iphylo.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/the-challenge-of-semantically-marking.html …
• Authors of PLOS ONE paper on UK public’s views of science & CAM reply to @HomeopathicDana‘s critique http://www.plosone.org/annotation/listThread.action?inReplyTo=68063&root=68063 … #scicomm #pppr
• Science trash-talk http://buff.ly/1dheMWY
• Open Access to Research Data: The European Commission’s consultation in progress http://buff.ly/15vqDQo
• “Greater scrutiny of high-profile publications has had a modest impact on retractions” http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0068397 …
• Life of a Neuro Pope http://feedly.com/k/1aUSTjh
• Decapitated Worms Regrow Heads with Memories Still Inside http://shar.es/Akx6F