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This is the tweetlog covering July 3-5:

• Interesting! We find something similar in flies: Live fast, die young: Long-lived mice are less active https://feedly.com/k/16RDz21
• It smells fishy: Copper prevents fish from avoiding danger https://feedly.com/k/12gw14F
• @biocs @google Yes! I hated to receive the message that Google essentially tries to kill RSS technology https://img.ly/vE3J
• A Selfish Genetic Element Influencing Longevity Correlates with Reactive Behavioural Traits in Female House Mouse. https://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0067130
• June 30, 2013 Dramatic Growth of Open Access https://feedly.com/k/18znPVA
• Optogenetic Perturbation of Neural Activity with Laser Illumination in Semi-intact Drosophila Larvae in Motion https://feedly.com/k/13oKSBs
• The causes of variation in learning and behavior: why individual differences matter https://shar.es/A5o4M
• Joint statement on Europe’s Open Data Pilot from OpenAIRE, LIBER, and COAR “The European… https://goo.gl/fb/qjdTU
• Horizon 2020 – Outline of a Pilot for Open Research Data: Joint statement by OpenAIRE, LIBER and COAR https://ow.ly/mFEpW  #opendata
• Martin Paul Eve considers how open access might influence quality control and the future of peer review – https://www.socialsciencespace.com/2013/07/martin-paul-eve-considers-how-open-access-might-influence-quality-control-and-the-future-of-peer-review
• Automated High-throughput Behavioral Analyses in Zebrafish Larvae https://www.jove.com/video/50622/automated-high-throughput-behavioral-analyses-in-zebrafish-larvae
• When will we get proper hyperlinks in scholarly communication? https://buff.ly/12fctgN
• Operant trial and error learning: Cockatoo cracks lock with no prior training https://buff.ly/1aFyKO9
• Waiting for the lame excuses as to why Nature fails to round 38.597 to 39… pic.twitter.com/qm052J2KgQ
• How Beliefs in Extraterrestrials and Intelligent Design Are Similar https://buff.ly/15hqX52
• Science standards in US classrooms: Evolution makes the grade https://feedly.com/k/1cTC312
• #devbio #wnt Home truths and ugly facts about Wingless in #drosophila https://bit.ly/16QLjBu
• Plasticity in the Drosophila larval visual system https://feedly.com/k/12IBm4t
• Retraction of 19-year-old Nature paper reveals hidden cameras, lab break-in, evidence tampering https://wp.me/pYKlt-3Rx
• Delighted to have 11 really strong postdoc applications out of a total of 32 complete applications. How to narrow down to a short-list?
• No, the whole planet should rid themselves of this disgrace: “Latin America should ditch impact factors” https://feedly.com/k/1cTCeJA
• Operant behavior: Explorative Learning and Functional Inferences on a Five-Step Means-Means-End Problem in Cockatoos https://buff.ly/1aFyY7V
• Operant learning: Cockatoos show technical intelligence on a 5-lock problem https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-07/uov-amc070313.php#.UdVaarcgihM.twitter
• Call to libraries: Biology must develop its own big-data systems https://feedly.com/k/1cTBLHf
• Awesome, more evidence: Long-Range Correlations in Resting-State Oscillations Predict Timing-Error Dynamics https://feedly.com/k/1cTzxro
• Short summary of a smart experiment: Opening the black box: dopamine, predictions, and learning https://feedly.com/k/1cTy9oW
• “your government does not trust you. Why therefore should you trust it?” https://gu.com/p/3h3m9/tw
• Hmmm? “Yawning manifests a process of increasing clearance of somnogenic factors in CSF” https://feedly.com/k/1cTwUWE
• The dysfunctionality of the scholarly literature: hyperlinks https://wp.me/p3walV-4y
• ArduiPod Box: A low-cost and open-source Skinner box using an iPod Touch and an Arduino microcontroller. https://feedly.com/k/1cTwlfp
• I liked a @YouTube video https://youtu.be/e_44G-kE8lE?a  Michael Dickinson: How a fly flies
• Glühwürmchen und die Frage nach dem Sinn allen Forschens https://feedly.com/k/1cTB5So
• Scaling-Laws of Human Broadcast Communication Enable Distinction between Human, Corporate and Robot Twitter Users https://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0065774
• Libertarianism and Human Agency. Alfred Mele 2011 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1933-1592.2011.00529.x/abstract
• Science metrics, LitRoost, and the networked era https://www.theunstudent.com/2013/07/science-metrics-litroost-and-the-networked-era/ via @@mikhailklassen
• Drosophila pseudoobscura: a model fruit fly for the real world https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/compound-eye/2013/07/03/drosophila-pseudoobscura-a-model-fruit-fly-for-the-real-world/?WT.mc_id=SA_sharetool_Twitter … via @sciam
• If publishers would only let us: “A text-mining system for extracting metabolic reactions from full-text articles.” https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3475109/?report=reader
• Nice article: MT @WiringTheBrain Compulsivity and Free Will – nice, short overview by Damiaan Denys https://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=8947414
• NIH sees surge in open-access manuscripts https://blogs.nature.com/news/2013/07/nih-sees-surge-in-open-access-manuscripts.html