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1. Nov 13, 2025Motor learning mechanisms at #SfN25
2. Jul 30, 2025Edgewise
3. Jul 10, 2025Embrace the uncertainty
4. Jan 7, 2025We are hiring!
5. Dec 22, 2024By their actions you shall know them
6. Nov 6, 2024Research assessment: new panels, new luck?
7. Oct 1, 2024Motor learning at #SfN24
8. Sep 6, 2024What is a decision?
9. Jul 26, 2024Whodathunk? Motor learning in motor neurons, huh?
10. Mar 22, 2024We are looking for a PhD student
11. Feb 21, 2024How reliable is the scholarly literature?
12. Jan 11, 2024The speed (or lack thereof) of science
13. Dec 1, 2023Scholarly societies: like a cat chasing the laser dot
14. Nov 29, 2023German funder DFG: Why the sudden inconsistency?
15. Nov 7, 2023Heading for #SfN23 with two posters
16. Sep 28, 2023No Evilsevier DEAL!
17. Sep 5, 2023Is this Smits’ tripleC moment?
18. Jun 2, 2023The beginning of the end for academic publishers?
19. Mar 14, 2023Should you trust Elsevier?
20. Feb 14, 2023How about paying extra for peer-review?
21. Dec 15, 2022What if Greta Thunberg took a Shell-sponsored professorship?
22. Nov 8, 2022Interacting learning systems at SfN22
23. Oct 24, 2022Open Access and the incentives for embezzlement
24. Sep 12, 2022Scholarly societies partly to blame for post-truth age?
25. Jul 8, 2022Off to Paris for #FENS2022 with two posters
26. Apr 1, 2022EU: academic publishers are monopolists
27. Mar 31, 2022Scholarship has no time to waste
28. Mar 30, 2022Why publication services must not be negotiated
29. Feb 4, 2022Replacing the prestige signal
30. Jan 11, 2022Small changes, big effects
31. Dec 13, 2021Academic publishing – market or collectivization?
32. Nov 22, 2021Prioritizing academic publishers
33. Oct 8, 2021The trinity of failures
34. Sep 23, 2021Algorithmic employment decisions in academia?
35. Jul 19, 2021What sinister time machine?
36. May 12, 2021Minimizing the collective action problem
37. Mar 10, 2021Scholarly publishing in three cartoons
38. Jan 6, 2021Can funders mandate institutions?
39. Dec 9, 2020High APCs are a feature, not a bug
40. Nov 30, 2020Are Nature’s APCs ‘outrageous’ or ‘very attractive’?
41. Oct 26, 2020Is the SNSI the new PRISM?
42. Oct 13, 2020Come and do research with us!
43. Oct 5, 2020How academic institutions neglect their duty
44. Sep 25, 2020Why do academic institutions seem stuck in 1995?
45. Sep 3, 2020Who’s responsible for the lack of action?
46. Jul 16, 2020Tagging and knocking out FoxP with CRISPR/Cas9
47. Mar 3, 2020The ultimate Open Access timeline
48. Dec 11, 2019Elsevier now officially a “predatory” publisher
49. Oct 17, 2019With CRISPRed FoxP and habit formation to #SfN19
50. Oct 14, 2019Scholarship has bigger fish to fry than access
51. Oct 2, 2019Is Open Access headed for a cost explosion?
52. May 31, 2019Improved Plan S principles raise hope of more effective policies soon
53. May 22, 2019Unpersuadables: When scientists dismiss science for political reasons
54. May 2, 2019New OSTP director caught lying in interview
55. Mar 29, 2019New England Journal of Medicine – and you thought Nature was expensive?
56. Mar 1, 2019How publishers keep fooling academics
57. Jan 17, 2019Providing recommendations for Plan S implementation
58. Nov 28, 2018Maybe try another kind of mandate?
59. Nov 2, 2018Dopamine in optogenetic self-stimulation and CRISPR editing of FoxP
60. Oct 31, 2018Automated Linked Open Data Publishing
61. Sep 19, 2018Does academic freedom entail exemption from spending rules?
62. May 24, 2018After 24 years, when will academic culture finally shift?
63. Apr 13, 2018Why open access Big Deals are worse than subscriptions
64. Jan 19, 2018Come work with us!
65. Jan 16, 2018Why academic journals need to go
66. Nov 29, 2017Is a cost-neutral transition to open access realistic?
67. Oct 5, 2017The scholarly commons: from profiteering to servicing
68. Oct 3, 2017Why can Elsevier keep insulting scholars without consequences?
69. Sep 27, 2017With the access issue temporarily solved, what now?
70. Aug 1, 2017Come do research with us!
71. Aug 1, 20177 functionalities the scholarly literature should have
72. Jul 10, 2017Looking for a PhD student
73. Apr 18, 2017Why I march
74. Mar 31, 2017How to convince faculty to support subscription cancellations
75. Mar 22, 2017Please address these concerns before we can accept your #OA proposal
76. Mar 7, 2017Are we inadvertently supporting the defunding of public science?
77. Feb 9, 2017Data structures for Open Science
78. Feb 3, 2017Open Science: Too much talk, too little action
79. Dec 21, 2016Why did the moth fly into the flame?
80. Dec 20, 2016So your institute went cold turkey on publisher X. What now?
81. Dec 6, 2016Should public institutions not be choosing the lowest responsible bidder?
82. Nov 13, 2016Do flies in groups make individual choices?
83. Sep 29, 2016Practical roads to infrastructure reform
84. Aug 1, 2016What interacting with publishers felt like for this open access proponent
85. Jul 26, 2016Peer-review is not free – it’s a subsidy for publishers
86. Jul 25, 2016Recommendations for future #scifoo invitees
87. May 20, 2016Why haven’t we already canceled all subscriptions?
88. May 12, 2016On the productivity of scientists
89. May 4, 2016Academic publishers and competition
90. Apr 29, 2016In which a Science editorial demonstrates the ineffectiveness of OA activism
91. Apr 28, 2016Data show “excellence initiative” was a massive failure – help stop it
92. Apr 7, 2016How gold open access may make things worse
93. Mar 23, 2016Have you seen this response to terrorism anywhere?
94. Mar 14, 2016Seeking your endorsement
95. Mar 8, 2016How do academic publishers see their role?
96. Mar 3, 2016Academic publishers: stop access negotiations
97. Feb 25, 2016Sci-Hub as necessary, effective civil disobedience
98. Feb 2, 2016Earning credibility in post-factual science?
99. Jan 12, 2016Even without retractions, ‘top’ journals publish the least reliable science
100. Jan 8, 2016Just how widespread are impact factor negotiations?
101. Jan 7, 2016How much should a scholarly article cost the taxpayer?
102. Dec 17, 2015How free are academics, really?
103. Dec 4, 2015How to write your grant proposal?
104. Dec 1, 2015Why cutting down on peer-review will improve it
105. Nov 25, 2015Data Diving for Genomics Treasure
106. Nov 19, 2015Guest post: Why our Open Data project worked
107. Nov 16, 2015Don’t be afraid of open data
108. Nov 12, 2015Chance in animate nature, day 3
109. Nov 11, 2015Chance in animate nature, day 2
110. Nov 10, 2015Chance in animate nature, day 1
111. Oct 23, 2015Predatory Priorities
112. Sep 17, 2015So many symptoms, only one disease: a public good in private hands
113. Jul 20, 2015Evidence-resistant science leaders?
114. Jun 23, 2015Whither now, Open Access?
115. Jun 19, 2015What happens to publishers that don’t maximize their profit?
116. Jun 18, 2015Are more retractions due to more scrutiny?
117. Jun 11, 2015What goes into making a scientific manuscript public?
118. May 9, 2015Is this supposed to be the best Elsevier can muster?
119. Apr 29, 2015A study justifying waste of tax-funds?
120. Apr 27, 2015What should a modern scientific infrastructure look like?
121. Apr 21, 2015If only all science were this reproducible
122. Apr 14, 2015Nature reviewers endorse hype
123. Apr 9, 2015Why this GlamMag will likely not ask for my review again
124. Mar 31, 2015Is DIY really just for the scholarly poor?
125. Mar 26, 2015Watching a paradigm shift in neuroscience
126. Feb 10, 2015How not to contact faculty as student
127. Feb 6, 2015Publishers, stop torturing your reviewers!
128. Feb 4, 2015Random Science Video: The value of fly research
129. Jan 7, 2015Booming university administrations
130. Oct 20, 2014In which scientists behave like rats in a Skinner box
131. Oct 1, 2014How important is the Impact Factor?
132. Sep 18, 2014How Nature Magazine consistently prefers anecdote over data
133. Sep 15, 2014Humanized FoxP2 and the timing of habits
134. Jul 30, 2014Are we paying US$3000 per article just for paywalls?
135. Jul 30, 2014The way academic publishing should be
136. Jun 26, 2014Why use fruit flies to study a gene involved in language?
137. Jun 25, 2014The Drosophila FoxP gene is necessary for operant self-learning
138. Jun 24, 2014No need to only send your best work to Science Magazine
139. Jun 17, 2014Your university is definitely paying too much for journals
140. May 8, 2014If you comment online, you’re on stage
141. Apr 17, 2014Conflicts of interest even for ‘good’ scholarly publishers
142. Apr 9, 2014Recursive fury: Resigning from Frontiers
143. Mar 12, 2014FIRST: the Research Works Act all over again
144. Mar 12, 2014Even the most thorough peer-review at the ‘best’ journals not up to snuff?
145. Mar 7, 2014Interested in testing an RSS reader for science?
146. Mar 6, 2014What is the difference between text, data and code?
147. Feb 14, 2014How scientific are scientists, really?
148. Feb 13, 2014Two evolutionary conserved, fundamental learning mechanisms
149. Feb 6, 2014Hiding the shoulders of giants?
150. Feb 3, 2014In support of subscripton cancellations
151. Jan 28, 2014Citation inflation and incompetent scientists
152. Dec 10, 2013[updated]Churchland: “Ignore science and live a make-believe life!”
153. Nov 20, 2013The Achilles’ heel of open access mandates
154. Oct 17, 2013Not to be outdone, Nature Magazine rejects data, publishes opinion
155. Oct 8, 2013Almost 80 years on, progress on operant and classical conditioning
156. Oct 6, 2013How embarrassing was the ‘journal sting’ for Science Magazine?
157. Oct 4, 2013Science Magazine rejects data, publishes anecdote
158. Oct 1, 2013All agree: there is no need for the publisher’s authorized version
159. Sep 24, 2013Is de Gruyter’s lobby-by-proxy not lobbyism?
160. Sep 10, 2013The cost of the rejection-resubmission cycle
161. Sep 6, 2013Retiring from science?
162. Sep 5, 2013Special issue on publishing reform?
163. Sep 5, 2013Video: Free will as an evolved brain function
164. Sep 3, 2013The cost of knowledge – in 2003?
165. Sep 3, 2013How to recharge in Sweden
166. Sep 1, 2013Unquestioning dogma: the gatekeepers of science
167. Aug 30, 2013The danger of universal gold open access
168. Aug 29, 2013Flashback: Programming Free Will – creative robots
169. Aug 28, 2013Libraries are better than corporate publishers because…
170. Aug 27, 2013Flashback: The brain creates something out of nothing
171. Aug 26, 2013A fistful of dollars: why corporate publishers have no place in scholarly communication
172. Aug 23, 2013Scientists as social parasites?
173. Aug 21, 2013Flashback: All brains possess free will because there is no design in biology
174. Aug 20, 2013Flashback: Noise in the brain?
175. Aug 19, 2013Science, red in tooth and claw
176. Aug 18, 2013Flashback: Nothing new in science?
177. Aug 16, 2013Scientific discoveries are like orgasms: you can’t have any bad ones
178. Aug 15, 2013Flashback: Creationists, this is the evidence you have to beat!
179. Aug 13, 2013Neither gold, nor green, nor hybrid are sustainable open access models
180. Aug 12, 2013Flashback: The neurobiology of operant conditioning
181. Aug 11, 2013SummerScienceVideo: science is real
182. Aug 8, 201312 year anniversary of angry letter to scientific journal editor
183. Aug 6, 2013Flashback: What can the spine teach us about learning?
184. Aug 5, 2013SummerScienceVideo: fruit fly research
185. Aug 2, 2013In which potatoes in France are like high-ranking journals in science
186. Aug 1, 2013Flashback: ‘stimulus-response’ concept based on artifacts?
187. Jul 31, 2013Solutions to the looming crisis in science
188. Jul 24, 2013Publisher selects the best open access science – authors complain
189. Jul 18, 2013Tweetlog: fruit flies, evolution and #openaccess
190. Jul 11, 2013Brains as output/input systems
191. Jul 9, 2013The Conversation: The looming crisis in science
192. Jul 8, 2013Flashback: The neurobiology of self-learning
193. Jul 5, 2013Tweetlog: neuroscience and #openaccess
194. Jul 5, 2013…and now for some lock-picking cockatoos
195. Jul 4, 2013The dysfunctionality of the scholarly literature: hyperlinks
196. Jul 3, 2013Trying a new feature: Tweetlog
197. Jun 29, 2013Amazing bead chain experiment
198. Jun 27, 2013#icanhazpdf more public than a publication?
199. Jun 21, 2013Funder mandates: Are scientists like junkies?
200. Jun 20, 2013Free will: it’s not what you think it is
201. Jun 19, 2013One more reason to publish negative results
202. Jun 10, 2013SHARE: Library-based publishing becoming a reality?
203. Jun 3, 2013Everybody already knows journal rank is bunk
204. Jun 2, 2013Cut out the parasitic middle men!
205. May 30, 2013Dissecting a fly’s course control system
206. May 23, 2013A wonderful example of Open Science
207. May 21, 2013PostDoc opportunity in our lab now advertized
208. May 17, 2013Official call for an end to journal rank
209. May 11, 2013A new home for bjoern.brembs.blog