blogarchive.brembs.blog : a neuroscientist's blog http://blogarchive.brembs.net/ This is the archive of the personal blog of biologist Björn Brembs. It features neuroscientific research, sports and various political or personal topics. The archive covers the years 2003-2013. Mon, 20 May 2013 19:35:38 +0200 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 Time to pack up and move Mike Taylor kept complaining about this wonderful e107 content management system that I have used for over ten years on various sites. Now, I've finally done it bjoern@nospam.com (bjoern) http://blogarchive.brembs.net/news.php?item.912.1 Journal rank alive and well at DFG site visit I spent the past two days in Cologne on a site visit for a a large collaborative research center. I sat on a panel of 10 reviewers who reviewed a total of 18 gr bjoern@nospam.com (bjoern) http://blogarchive.brembs.net/news.php?item.911.5 Postdoctoral opportunity in our lab The successful candidate will conduct research on the neurobiology of spontaneous behavior and operant learning using Drosophila as a neurogenetic model organis bjoern@nospam.com (bjoern) http://blogarchive.brembs.net/news.php?item.910.5 What will Elsevier do with Mendeley's usage data? There is a flood of commentary covering the sale of Mendeley to Elsevieer. However, only a few posts have bemoaned the sale of Mendeley's usage data to Elsevier bjoern@nospam.com (bjoern) http://blogarchive.brembs.net/news.php?item.909.11 Elsevier changes strategy and buys Mendeley instead of shutting it down The recent acquisition of popular reference manager Mendeley (I'm a Mendeley user myself) apparently only was a consequential step for publishing giant Elsevier bjoern@nospam.com (bjoern) http://blogarchive.brembs.net/news.php?item.908.11 Argument from incredulity bjoern@nospam.com (bjoern) http://blogarchive.brembs.net/news.php?item.907.5 Libraries band together to take over scholarly publishing Well, at least this is what I'd like to read into this latest development, the formation of the Library Publishing Coalition (LPC). Given my frequent arguments bjoern@nospam.com (bjoern) http://blogarchive.brembs.net/news.php?item.906.5 How scholarly publishers could save themselves (but likely won't) Scholarly publishers feel the heat, frantically struggling to preserve their threatened business model. More and more it seems they may be going the way of the bjoern@nospam.com (bjoern) http://blogarchive.brembs.net/news.php?item.905.11 Two awesome videos on fly neuroscience The first one is a TED talk by Michael Dickinson on how flies fly:and the second one is on recording from fly visual neurons during flight and non-flight. This bjoern@nospam.com (bjoern) http://blogarchive.brembs.net/news.php?item.904.13 Publishers successfully lobbying UK Lords committee? Today, the UK House of Lords Science and Technology Committee released their report on the new RCUK open access policy. Commenting on the report, the chairman o bjoern@nospam.com (bjoern) http://blogarchive.brembs.net/news.php?item.903.5 Let's help academic publishers in their quest to put themselves out of business! These past few years, scholarly publishing has seen some remarkably self-destructive moves by corporate publishers. Spear-heading the self-destructive campaign bjoern@nospam.com (bjoern) http://blogarchive.brembs.net/news.php?item.902.5 Fake Science: Protecting the Panda   bjoern@nospam.com (bjoern) http://blogarchive.brembs.net/news.php?item.901.5