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 You Feel about Science: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=in-science-we-trust-poll …
- “Doubt is our product” – how the tobacco industry misrepresented our research: https://targ.blogs.ilrt.org/2013/07/16/doubt-is-our-product/ … by
@MarcusMunafo - Motor Circuit-Specific Burst Patterns Drive Different Muscle and Behavior Patterns https://feedly.com/k/1atMeKc
- Interestingly: the sentence adverbs of PubMed Central https://nsaunders.wordpress.com/2013/07/16/interestingly-the-sentence-adverbs-of-pubmed-central/ …
- Further Fell Fallout From Finch Folly: The Royal Society Relapse https://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? https://poynder.blogspot.com/2013/07/joseph-esposito-on-state-of-open-access.html …
- Misconceptions about evolution video has its own misconceptions https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Neurodojo/~3/vOoyPoLrCHk/misconceptions-about-evolution-video.html …
- Science and the public: Promotional tactics corrupt research https://feedly.com/k/15Ogi29
- Reproducibility: Two more red flags for suspect work https://feedly.com/k/15OfZ7w
- Sending a message https://wp.me/p4g7f-nU via
@researchremix - Why librarians are needed more than ever in the 21st century https://boingboing.net/2013/07/16/why-librarians-are-needed-more.html …
- Congratulations!
@ivanoransky leaves Reuters for MedPage Today. https://shar.es/k3t16 - Open Access DOI Resolver:give it a DOI it gives back OA full-text institutional repository URL! https://doi2oa.erambler.co.uk/ via
@HSSOpenAccess - “surprisingly readable for something so depressingly stupid.” – ‘Positivity Ratio’ Criticized In New Sokal Affair https://bit.ly/17k78JV
- Animal studies produce many false positives https://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…” – https://bit.ly/1bFzyRZ
- Anybody with first-hand experience with Primo ScholarRank? https://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 https://feedly.com/k/12PrjvY
- The Molecular Basis of Sugar Sensing in Drosophila Larvae https://feedly.com/k/13JXhQH
- Heather Joseph on the state of Open Access: Where are we, what still needs to be done? https://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 https://www.trialsjournal.com/content/14/1/215/abstract …
#trials - Of the 10k downloads, ~6k full-text views: https://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: https://www.frontiersin.org/Human_Neuroscience/10.3389/fnhum.2013.00291/full …
- iPhylo: Learning from eLife: GitHub as an article repository https://iphylo.blogspot.com/2013/07/learning-from-elife-github-as-article.html?spref=tw …
- The cat frog came back, the very next day https://feedly.com/k/1btBayl
- An astonishingly shallow treatment of a very real problem: Risk https://feedly.com/k/10PiLHV
- The Evolution of Drosophila melanogaster as a Model for Alcohol Research https://feedly.com/k/1bty5OA
@Technixer Exactly. To get around this issue, we wrote this instead: https://www.frontiersin.org/Human_Neuroscience/10.3389/fnhum.2013.00291/full …- The Selected Papers Network (Part 3) https://feedly.com/k/1btxlch
- Fruit Flies Seek Mates Leggingly: Scientific American Podcast https://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. https://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: https://bjoern.brembs.net/2013/07/brains-as-outputinput-systems/ …
- Unhelpful Research Advice #2 https://wp.me/pP1Q8-JZ
- Brains as output/input systems https://wp.me/p3walV-4R
- “Why Has the Number of Scientific Retractions Increased?” New study tries to answer https://buff.ly/1dmB7Cx
- A call for open access to all data used in AJ and ApJ articles https://buff.ly/1dmzZPn
- The Cost of Scientific Publishing https://disq.us/8e1c8n
- Open is a state of mind https://feedly.com/k/13ONY0u
- On the Training of Future Neuroscientists: Insights from the Grass Laboratory https://feedly.com/k/10O65Rz
- How Did the Chicken Cross the Road? With Her Striatal Cholinergic Interneurons, Of Course https://feedly.com/k/10O5b7B
- Olfaction and Vision Meet in the Retina https://feedly.com/k/10O4FGt
- Busting the top five myths about open access publishing https://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 https://feedly.com/k/10O3Tti
#Open Access and the looming crisis in#science#OA#scientific papers#biomedical journal#publication |@scoopit https://sco.lt/5Oa6uP- Open access on the conference circuit https://buff.ly/12lnORq via
@stephen_curry - The challenge of semantically marking up articles (more thoughts on PLoS Hubs) https://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 https://www.plosone.org/annotation/listThread.action?inReplyTo=68063&root=68063 …#scicomm#pppr - Science trash-talk https://buff.ly/1dheMWY
- Open Access to Research Data: The European Commission’s consultation in progress https://buff.ly/15vqDQo
- “Greater scrutiny of high-profile publications has had a modest impact on retractions” https://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0068397 …
- Life of a Neuro Pope https://feedly.com/k/1aUSTjh
- Decapitated Worms Regrow Heads with Memories Still Inside https://shar.es/Akx6F
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Posted on July 18, 2013
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