http://bjoern.brembs.net/ This is the personal blog of biologist Björn Brembs. It features neuroscientific research, sports and various political or personal topics. Thu, 9 Sep 2010 09:32:26 -0400 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 This is preparation number seven in my attempts to establish operant learning in isolated leech ganglia and it's a control preparation, which means I' bjoern<bjoern@nospam.com> http://bjoern.brembs.net/news.php?item.650.3 In my attempts to establish operant learning in isolated leech ganglia I'm now at preparation number 6. In my last post, I promised to show some scree bjoern<bjoern@nospam.com> http://bjoern.brembs.net/news.php?item.649.3 WTF is ORCID, you ask? It's something scientific publishing should have had 20 years ago. It's meant to become a system that disambiguates authorship bjoern<bjoern@nospam.com> http://bjoern.brembs.net/news.php?item.648.5 It's a classic canard to argue that all chaos would break loose in a secular or atheistic society, because the only way you could possibly have morals bjoern<bjoern@nospam.com> http://bjoern.brembs.net/news.php?item.647.5 Let's see how long I can manage to blog each day about each preparation Slowly but steadily I'm making progress in my attempts to find out if one can bjoern<bjoern@nospam.com> http://bjoern.brembs.net/news.php?item.646.3 For the last two weeks I've been trying to develop an operant learning paradigm for isolated leech nervous systems. To do these experiments I traveled bjoern<bjoern@nospam.com> http://bjoern.brembs.net/news.php?item.645.3 As you may know from my previous posts, I'm currently working (for a few weeks) at the University of California in San Diego, more precisely in La Jol bjoern<bjoern@nospam.com> http://bjoern.brembs.net/news.php?item.644.5 ReaderMeter looks in the database of reference manager Mendeley and checks how many people have bookmarked which papers for later referencing in their bjoern<bjoern@nospam.com> http://bjoern.brembs.net/news.php?item.643.11 As reported earlier, I've now been working for a couple of days in Bill Kristan's lab at UCSD in La Jolla, California. The first few days I was practi bjoern<bjoern@nospam.com> http://bjoern.brembs.net/news.php?item.642.3 After much to little time spent writing, a first draft of the article for the Proceedings of the Royal Society is online. There was no way to get this bjoern<bjoern@nospam.com> http://bjoern.brembs.net/news.php?item.641.3 We now have two new additions to the brembs.net blogging family. Please welcome my nephew Ben and my daughter Freya. Ben is now almost two years old a bjoern<bjoern@nospam.com> http://bjoern.brembs.net/news.php?item.640.1 I'm currently in sunny southern California for some experiments at UCSD. This is the place where one can find the marine snail Aplysia in its natural bjoern<bjoern@nospam.com> http://bjoern.brembs.net/news.php?item.639.3