The recently released development draft for SHared Access Research Ecosystem (SHARE), authored by the Association of American Universities (AAU), the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) and the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) in response to the OSTP memo […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Today, finally, our manuscript on journal rank is accepted for publication at Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. One may wonder how a paper that reviews the empirical findings around journal rank ends up in a journal about human neuroscience. After all, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Academic publishers have been parasitizing the public purse for long enough now. Steffen Böhm, director of the Essex Sustainability Institute, said it best: By cutting out the parasitic publishing middle men, the academy could reclaim control of its knowledge, funding […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Until 1986, it was thought that so-called optomotor responses, i.e., the tendency of all animals and humans to follow moving visual stimuli with their eyes or their bodies, were a prerequisite for gaze or trajectory stabilization: whenever the scenery in […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In our new lab here in Regensburg, we are currently re-establishing the method of confocal microscopy. To start with, we used the fly lines which show a defect in the temporal structure of their spontaneous behavior (a project of one […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
While our own manuscript on journal rank is almost through the peer-review process, this morning I received several messages announcing the DORA (San Francisco declaration on research Assessment), which I signed immediately. Echoing some of the sentiments we also refer […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…