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Humanized FoxP2 and the timing of habits
Björn Brembs September 15, 2014
doi:10.59350/aznad-2ha95
Last week, Elizabeth Pennisi asked me to comment on the recent paper from Schreiweis et al. entitled “Humanized FoxP2 accelerates learning by enhancing transitions from declarative to procedural performance”. Since I don’t know how much, if anything, of my answers […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
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In which scientists behave like rats in a Skinner box
Björn Brembs October 20, 2014
doi:10.59350/y2gmt-87c26
Skinner used the term “schedules of reinforcement” to describe broad categories of reward patterns which come to reliably control the behavior of his experimental animals. For instance, when he rewarded rats for pressing a lever at a given interval after […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
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The Drosophila FoxP gene is necessary for operant self-learning
Björn Brembs June 25, 2014
doi:10.59350/kmc0r-ep680
See this post with the associated press releases on brembs.net. The Forkhead Box P2 (FOXP2) gene is well-known for its involvement in language disorders. We have discovered that a relative of this gene in fruit flies, dFoxP, is necessary for […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
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Publishers, stop torturing your reviewers!
Björn Brembs February 6, 2015
doi:10.59350/19xpw-jna30
UPDATE, 10-02-2015: After a hint from a user on Twitter, I now know that it is possible to open a PDF document in several windows, one for text, one for legends and one for figures. Figures and legends occupy one […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
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Is this supposed to be the best Elsevier can muster?
Björn Brembs May 9, 2015
doi:10.59350/89224-wxc67
Until today, I was quite proud of myself for not caving in to SIWOTI syndrome like Mike Taylor did. And then I read his post and caved in as well. What gets us so riled up is Elsevier’s latest in […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
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Nature reviewers endorse hype
Björn Brembs April 14, 2015
doi:10.59350/qt343-x0483
In a paper published in Nature Neuroscience now over a year ago, the authors claimed to have found a very surprising feature, which was long thought to be a bug. In my blog post covering the hype in the paper and […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
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How not to contact faculty as student
Björn Brembs February 10, 2015
doi:10.59350/e3n13-h1011
Over the weekend, I received the following short message from a Hotmail account: Dr. Brembs, Thank you for your work and insight. Students from my doctorate of psychology epistemological course have recently discussed your article entitled ‘Towards a scientific concept […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
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Why this GlamMag will likely not ask for my review again
Björn Brembs April 9, 2015
doi:10.59350/kftg2-1g719
I really loathe reviewing for GlamMagz for two main reasons. For one, it’s hard to remain neutral: publication of a paper in my field in such a journal is beneficial both for the field and for the young people who […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
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A study justifying waste of tax-funds?
Björn Brembs April 29, 2015
doi:10.59350/gh2s1-k9728
Open Access (OA) pioneer and OA journal eLife founding member and sponsor, the Max Planck Society just released a white paper (PDF) analyzing open access costs in various countries and institutions and comparing them to subscription costs. Such studies are […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
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Is DIY really just for the scholarly poor?
Björn Brembs March 31, 2015
doi:10.59350/sqjb4-san04
Writing in the latest issue of Lab Times, Alex Reis portraits two sections of ‘do-it-yourself’ in the biosciences. One is the group of ‘citizen scientists’, some of which are organized in DIYbio. The other group covered is that of cash-strapped biologists who […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
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