Björn Brembs
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Are we inadvertently supporting the defunding of public science?
Björn Brembs March 7, 2017
doi:10.59350/hm8nj-b4z69
There can be little doubt that the defunding of public academic institutions is a main staple of populist movements today. Whether it is Trump’s budget director directly asking if one really needs publicly funded science at all, or the planned […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
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Why I march
Björn Brembs April 18, 2017
doi:10.59350/gv5g8-ac205
There have been many discussions about the march for science, pro and con. Some of them have made me doubt the utility of the march, some have made me fear unintended consequences, again others seemed tangential and petty. In these […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
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Data structures for Open Science
Björn Brembs February 9, 2017
doi:10.59350/f4pjb-9ky40
For the last few years, we have been working on the development of new Drosophila flight simulators. Now, finally, we are reaching a stage where we are starting to think about how to store the data we’ll be capturing both […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
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By their actions you shall know them
Björn Brembs December 22, 2024
doi:10.59350/1nmwy-nhk20
Universities worldwide currently face a pivotal choice: should they contribute to building a global infrastructure for exchange, science, and discourse, free from the control of oligarchs, to promote democracy, human rights, and digital participation? Or should they continue advertising on […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
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Research assessment: new panels, new luck?
Björn Brembs November 6, 2024
doi:10.59350/6mhrb-kd877
For 14 years, the main research funding agency in Germany, the German Research Foundation (DFG) has stated in its guidelines that submitted grant proposals will be assessed primarily on the basis of their content, rather than counting the applicants’ previous […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
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Motor learning at #SfN24
Björn Brembs October 1, 2024
doi:10.59350/6z0fc-k7333
It has been almost 10 years now that we have come to the realization that a particular type of our operant experiments can be classified as motor learning. In such “operant self-learning” experiments, the animal learns about the consequences of […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
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What is a decision?
Björn Brembs September 6, 2024
doi:10.59350/wyf12-7sq69
In a discussion about what decisions are, John Krakauer emphatically pronounced that “decisions happen for reasons”, in answering ‘no’ to my question if it wasn’t a decision with which foot to start walking from a stand-still. A recent article from […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
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Whodathunk? Motor learning in motor neurons, huh?
Björn Brembs July 26, 2024
doi:10.59350/myh2s-7r902
I was very excited when our latest research paper came out, after all, I was confident our 30-year-long search for the sites of plasticity in the form of motor learning we study was coming to an end. In this work, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
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We are looking for a PhD student
Björn Brembs March 22, 2024
doi:10.59350/y34ra-34f08
We are looking for a PhD student interested in the functional, molecular and structural profile of neuronal circuits underlying learning, memory and behavior. In a 30-year research effort (lay summary, paper), we have recently identified a new gene (atypical PKC, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
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How reliable is the scholarly literature?
Björn Brembs February 21, 2024
doi:10.59350/geexp-5zj30
A few years ago, I came across a cartoon that seemed to capture a particular aspect of scholarly journal publishing quite well: The academic journal publishing system sure feels all too often a bit like a sinking boat. There are […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
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Flashback: ‘stimulus-response’ concept based on artifacts?
Björn Brembs August 1, 2013
doi:10.59350/1k2xn-a7m14
During my flyfishing vacation last year, pretty much nothing was happening on this blog. Now that I’ve migrated the blog to WordPress, I can actually schedule posts to appear when in fact I’m not even at the computer. I’m using […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
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The speed (or lack thereof) of science
Björn Brembs January 11, 2024
doi:10.59350/nktxq-g6v29
It was my freshman year, 1991. I was enthusiastic to finally be learning about biology, after being forced to waste a year in the German army’s compulsory service at the time. Little did I know that it was the same […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
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Scholarly societies: like a cat chasing the laser dot
Björn Brembs December 1, 2023
doi:10.59350/ab2we-xvt92
You may have seen a neutered version of this post over at the LSE blog. This post below, however, puts the tiger in the tank, as it was enhanced by CatGPT: Maybe scholarly societies have taken “the instruction”follow the money!” […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
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