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1. Jan 7, 2025We are hiring!
2. Dec 22, 2024By their actions you shall know them
3. Nov 6, 2024Research assessment: new panels, new luck?
4. Oct 1, 2024Motor learning at #SfN24
5. Sep 6, 2024What is a decision?
6. Jul 26, 2024Whodathunk? Motor learning in motor neurons, huh?
7. Mar 22, 2024We are looking for a PhD student
8. Feb 21, 2024How reliable is the scholarly literature?
9. Jan 11, 2024The speed (or lack thereof) of science
10. Dec 1, 2023Scholarly societies: like a cat chasing the laser dot
11. Nov 29, 2023German funder DFG: Why the sudden inconsistency?
12. Nov 7, 2023Heading for #SfN23 with two posters
13. Sep 28, 2023No Evilsevier DEAL!
14. Sep 5, 2023Is this Smits’ tripleC moment?
15. Jun 2, 2023The beginning of the end for academic publishers?
16. Mar 14, 2023Should you trust Elsevier?
17. Feb 14, 2023How about paying extra for peer-review?
18. Dec 15, 2022What if Greta Thunberg took a Shell-sponsored professorship?
19. Nov 8, 2022Interacting learning systems at SfN22
20. Oct 24, 2022Open Access and the incentives for embezzlement
21. Sep 12, 2022Scholarly societies partly to blame for post-truth age?
22. Jul 8, 2022Off to Paris for #FENS2022 with two posters
23. Apr 1, 2022EU: academic publishers are monopolists
24. Mar 31, 2022Scholarship has no time to waste
25. Mar 30, 2022Why publication services must not be negotiated
26. Feb 4, 2022Replacing the prestige signal
27. Jan 11, 2022Small changes, big effects
28. Dec 13, 2021Academic publishing – market or collectivization?
29. Nov 22, 2021Prioritizing academic publishers
30. Oct 8, 2021The trinity of failures
31. Sep 23, 2021Algorithmic employment decisions in academia?
32. Jul 19, 2021What sinister time machine?
33. May 12, 2021Minimizing the collective action problem
34. Mar 10, 2021Scholarly publishing in three cartoons
35. Jan 6, 2021Can funders mandate institutions?
36. Dec 9, 2020High APCs are a feature, not a bug
37. Nov 30, 2020Are Nature’s APCs ‘outrageous’ or ‘very attractive’?
38. Oct 26, 2020Is the SNSI the new PRISM?
39. Oct 13, 2020Come and do research with us!
40. Oct 5, 2020How academic institutions neglect their duty
41. Sep 25, 2020Why do academic institutions seem stuck in 1995?
42. Sep 3, 2020Who’s responsible for the lack of action?
43. Jul 16, 2020Tagging and knocking out FoxP with CRISPR/Cas9
44. Mar 3, 2020The ultimate Open Access timeline
45. Dec 11, 2019Elsevier now officially a “predatory” publisher
46. Oct 17, 2019With CRISPRed FoxP and habit formation to #SfN19
47. Oct 14, 2019Scholarship has bigger fish to fry than access
48. Oct 2, 2019Is Open Access headed for a cost explosion?
49. May 31, 2019Improved Plan S principles raise hope of more effective policies soon
50. May 22, 2019Unpersuadables: When scientists dismiss science for political reasons
51. May 2, 2019New OSTP director caught lying in interview
52. Mar 29, 2019New England Journal of Medicine – and you thought Nature was expensive?
53. Mar 1, 2019How publishers keep fooling academics
54. Jan 17, 2019Providing recommendations for Plan S implementation
55. Nov 28, 2018Maybe try another kind of mandate?
56. Nov 2, 2018Dopamine in optogenetic self-stimulation and CRISPR editing of FoxP
57. Oct 31, 2018Automated Linked Open Data Publishing
58. Sep 19, 2018Does academic freedom entail exemption from spending rules?
59. May 24, 2018After 24 years, when will academic culture finally shift?
60. Apr 13, 2018Why open access Big Deals are worse than subscriptions
61. Jan 19, 2018Come work with us!
62. Jan 16, 2018Why academic journals need to go
63. Nov 29, 2017Is a cost-neutral transition to open access realistic?
64. Oct 5, 2017The scholarly commons: from profiteering to servicing
65. Oct 3, 2017Why can Elsevier keep insulting scholars without consequences?
66. Sep 27, 2017With the access issue temporarily solved, what now?
67. Aug 1, 2017Come do research with us!
68. Aug 1, 20177 functionalities the scholarly literature should have
69. Jul 10, 2017Looking for a PhD student
70. Apr 18, 2017Why I march
71. Mar 31, 2017How to convince faculty to support subscription cancellations
72. Mar 22, 2017Please address these concerns before we can accept your #OA proposal
73. Mar 7, 2017Are we inadvertently supporting the defunding of public science?
74. Feb 9, 2017Data structures for Open Science
75. Feb 3, 2017Open Science: Too much talk, too little action
76. Dec 21, 2016Why did the moth fly into the flame?
77. Dec 20, 2016So your institute went cold turkey on publisher X. What now?
78. Dec 6, 2016Should public institutions not be choosing the lowest responsible bidder?
79. Nov 13, 2016Do flies in groups make individual choices?
80. Sep 29, 2016Practical roads to infrastructure reform
81. Aug 1, 2016What interacting with publishers felt like for this open access proponent
82. Jul 26, 2016Peer-review is not free – it’s a subsidy for publishers
83. Jul 25, 2016Recommendations for future #scifoo invitees
84. May 20, 2016Why haven’t we already canceled all subscriptions?
85. May 12, 2016On the productivity of scientists
86. May 4, 2016Academic publishers and competition
87. Apr 29, 2016In which a Science editorial demonstrates the ineffectiveness of OA activism
88. Apr 28, 2016Data show “excellence initiative” was a massive failure – help stop it
89. Apr 7, 2016How gold open access may make things worse
90. Mar 23, 2016Have you seen this response to terrorism anywhere?
91. Mar 14, 2016Seeking your endorsement
92. Mar 8, 2016How do academic publishers see their role?
93. Mar 3, 2016Academic publishers: stop access negotiations
94. Feb 25, 2016Sci-Hub as necessary, effective civil disobedience
95. Feb 2, 2016Earning credibility in post-factual science?
96. Jan 12, 2016Even without retractions, ‘top’ journals publish the least reliable science
97. Jan 8, 2016Just how widespread are impact factor negotiations?
98. Jan 7, 2016How much should a scholarly article cost the taxpayer?
99. Dec 17, 2015How free are academics, really?
100. Dec 4, 2015How to write your grant proposal?
101. Dec 1, 2015Why cutting down on peer-review will improve it
102. Nov 25, 2015Data Diving for Genomics Treasure
103. Nov 19, 2015Guest post: Why our Open Data project worked
104. Nov 16, 2015Don’t be afraid of open data
105. Nov 12, 2015Chance in animate nature, day 3
106. Nov 11, 2015Chance in animate nature, day 2
107. Nov 10, 2015Chance in animate nature, day 1
108. Oct 23, 2015Predatory Priorities
109. Sep 17, 2015So many symptoms, only one disease: a public good in private hands
110. Jul 20, 2015Evidence-resistant science leaders?
111. Jun 23, 2015Whither now, Open Access?
112. Jun 19, 2015What happens to publishers that don’t maximize their profit?
113. Jun 18, 2015Are more retractions due to more scrutiny?
114. Jun 11, 2015What goes into making a scientific manuscript public?
115. May 9, 2015Is this supposed to be the best Elsevier can muster?
116. Apr 29, 2015A study justifying waste of tax-funds?
117. Apr 27, 2015What should a modern scientific infrastructure look like?
118. Apr 21, 2015If only all science were this reproducible
119. Apr 14, 2015Nature reviewers endorse hype
120. Apr 9, 2015Why this GlamMag will likely not ask for my review again
121. Mar 31, 2015Is DIY really just for the scholarly poor?
122. Mar 26, 2015Watching a paradigm shift in neuroscience
123. Feb 10, 2015How not to contact faculty as student
124. Feb 6, 2015Publishers, stop torturing your reviewers!
125. Feb 4, 2015Random Science Video: The value of fly research
126. Jan 7, 2015Booming university administrations
127. Oct 20, 2014In which scientists behave like rats in a Skinner box
128. Oct 1, 2014How important is the Impact Factor?
129. Sep 18, 2014How Nature Magazine consistently prefers anecdote over data
130. Sep 15, 2014Humanized FoxP2 and the timing of habits
131. Jul 30, 2014Are we paying US$3000 per article just for paywalls?
132. Jul 30, 2014The way academic publishing should be
133. Jun 26, 2014Why use fruit flies to study a gene involved in language?
134. Jun 25, 2014The Drosophila FoxP gene is necessary for operant self-learning
135. Jun 24, 2014No need to only send your best work to Science Magazine
136. Jun 17, 2014Your university is definitely paying too much for journals
137. May 8, 2014If you comment online, you’re on stage
138. Apr 17, 2014Conflicts of interest even for ‘good’ scholarly publishers
139. Apr 9, 2014Recursive fury: Resigning from Frontiers
140. Mar 12, 2014FIRST: the Research Works Act all over again
141. Mar 12, 2014Even the most thorough peer-review at the ‘best’ journals not up to snuff?
142. Mar 7, 2014Interested in testing an RSS reader for science?
143. Mar 6, 2014What is the difference between text, data and code?
144. Feb 14, 2014How scientific are scientists, really?
145. Feb 13, 2014Two evolutionary conserved, fundamental learning mechanisms
146. Feb 6, 2014Hiding the shoulders of giants?
147. Feb 3, 2014In support of subscripton cancellations
148. Jan 28, 2014Citation inflation and incompetent scientists
149. Dec 10, 2013[updated]Churchland: “Ignore science and live a make-believe life!”
150. Nov 20, 2013The Achilles’ heel of open access mandates
151. Oct 17, 2013Not to be outdone, Nature Magazine rejects data, publishes opinion
152. Oct 8, 2013Almost 80 years on, progress on operant and classical conditioning
153. Oct 6, 2013How embarrassing was the ‘journal sting’ for Science Magazine?
154. Oct 4, 2013Science Magazine rejects data, publishes anecdote
155. Oct 1, 2013All agree: there is no need for the publisher’s authorized version
156. Sep 24, 2013Is de Gruyter’s lobby-by-proxy not lobbyism?
157. Sep 10, 2013The cost of the rejection-resubmission cycle
158. Sep 6, 2013Retiring from science?
159. Sep 5, 2013Special issue on publishing reform?
160. Sep 5, 2013Video: Free will as an evolved brain function
161. Sep 3, 2013The cost of knowledge – in 2003?
162. Sep 3, 2013How to recharge in Sweden
163. Sep 1, 2013Unquestioning dogma: the gatekeepers of science
164. Aug 30, 2013The danger of universal gold open access
165. Aug 29, 2013Flashback: Programming Free Will – creative robots
166. Aug 28, 2013Libraries are better than corporate publishers because…
167. Aug 27, 2013Flashback: The brain creates something out of nothing
168. Aug 26, 2013A fistful of dollars: why corporate publishers have no place in scholarly communication
169. Aug 23, 2013Scientists as social parasites?
170. Aug 21, 2013Flashback: All brains possess free will because there is no design in biology
171. Aug 20, 2013Flashback: Noise in the brain?
172. Aug 19, 2013Science, red in tooth and claw
173. Aug 18, 2013Flashback: Nothing new in science?
174. Aug 16, 2013Scientific discoveries are like orgasms: you can’t have any bad ones
175. Aug 15, 2013Flashback: Creationists, this is the evidence you have to beat!
176. Aug 13, 2013Neither gold, nor green, nor hybrid are sustainable open access models
177. Aug 12, 2013Flashback: The neurobiology of operant conditioning
178. Aug 11, 2013SummerScienceVideo: science is real
179. Aug 8, 201312 year anniversary of angry letter to scientific journal editor
180. Aug 6, 2013Flashback: What can the spine teach us about learning?
181. Aug 5, 2013SummerScienceVideo: fruit fly research
182. Aug 2, 2013In which potatoes in France are like high-ranking journals in science
183. Aug 1, 2013Flashback: ‘stimulus-response’ concept based on artifacts?
184. Jul 31, 2013Solutions to the looming crisis in science
185. Jul 24, 2013Publisher selects the best open access science – authors complain
186. Jul 18, 2013Tweetlog: fruit flies, evolution and #openaccess
187. Jul 11, 2013Brains as output/input systems
188. Jul 9, 2013The Conversation: The looming crisis in science
189. Jul 8, 2013Flashback: The neurobiology of self-learning
190. Jul 5, 2013Tweetlog: neuroscience and #openaccess
191. Jul 5, 2013…and now for some lock-picking cockatoos
192. Jul 4, 2013The dysfunctionality of the scholarly literature: hyperlinks
193. Jul 3, 2013Trying a new feature: Tweetlog
194. Jun 29, 2013Amazing bead chain experiment
195. Jun 27, 2013#icanhazpdf more public than a publication?
196. Jun 21, 2013Funder mandates: Are scientists like junkies?
197. Jun 20, 2013Free will: it’s not what you think it is
198. Jun 19, 2013One more reason to publish negative results
199. Jun 10, 2013SHARE: Library-based publishing becoming a reality?
200. Jun 3, 2013Everybody already knows journal rank is bunk
201. Jun 2, 2013Cut out the parasitic middle men!
202. May 30, 2013Dissecting a fly’s course control system
203. May 23, 2013A wonderful example of Open Science
204. May 21, 2013PostDoc opportunity in our lab now advertized
205. May 17, 2013Official call for an end to journal rank
206. May 11, 2013A new home for bjoern.brembs.blog