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| SCIENCE: spontaneous behavior |
| With all the discussion raging in the blogosphere (see, e.g., slashdot, coturnix, evolution denialism, the futile circle, Nature, etc.), I think I should take one post to emphasize the scientific aspect of our work and ...[more] |
| drosophila free will spontaneous behavior flight |
| Posted on Thursday 17 May 2007 - 14:56:28 |
| SfN annual meeting |
 I'm currently sitting in meeting room 1B of the convention center in beautiful San Diego, California. I'm attending the annual meeting of the Society for Neurosience. This particular session is entitled "Voluntary moveme...[more] |
| meeting neuroscience San Diego flight drosophila |
| Posted on Monday 05 November 2007 - 22:30:04 |
| We got slashdotted! |
It appears the media coverage our study on spontaneous fruit fly behavior (updated press release) made it to the cover not only of LiveScience, but also on /. I've replied to the story and there's already a link from one...[more] |
| drosophila free will spontaneous behavior flight slashdot |
| Posted on Thursday 17 May 2007 - 09:04:58 |
| Let the onslaught begin |
| It is done! Our paper on spontaneous activity in Drosophila fruit flies is finally out in PLoS One. Almost 4 years of hard work in the can! Phew! And the media reports are already starting to pour in: New Scientist, ...[more] |
| drosophila free will spontaneous behavior flight media coverage |
| Posted on Wednesday 16 May 2007 - 09:55:54 |
| more media requests |
| After the last post, I received media queries from the German Berliner Zeitung and from G1, the news website from the Globo Organizations, the largest media conglomerate in Brazil (5th largest in the world). UPDATE: We no...[more] |
| drosophila free will spontaneous behavior flight media |
| Posted on Tuesday 15 May 2007 - 08:27:01 |
| media frenzy continues |
| After spending a good part of the past weekend (actually all of it except the time I needed to play our game this past Sunday and preparing for today's experiments) answering questions from journalists about our upcoming...[more] |
| drosophila free will spontaneous behavior flight media |
| Posted on Monday 14 May 2007 - 15:08:27 |
| Free will is a popular topic |
| What surprising effects a press-release can have. Our paper on spontaneous behavior in the fruit fly Drosophila due to appear in PLoS One next week is accompanied by a press-release PLoS sent out just a day or two ago. T...[more] |
| drosophila free will spontaneous behavior flight media |
| Posted on Saturday 12 May 2007 - 01:20:26 |
| How we discovered that an attention drug successfully treats a fruit fly memory mutant |
 Blogging about one's own research always feels good: the amount of your work has accumulated enough to at least provide sufficient material for a story and some figures. It has passed the first hurdle of scientific scrut...[more] |
| van Swinderen Drosophila ADHD ritalin flight hyperactivity |
| Posted on Monday 25 January 2010 - 14:32:50 |
| Talk at SfN annual meeting in San Diego |
| One meeting is chasing another this year. Hopefully all this traveling will eventually pay off in terms of a job offer soon! From November 2-7 about 30,000 neuroscientists will meet in sunny San Diego for the annual SfN...[more] |
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| Posted on Monday 16 July 2007 - 10:11:39 |
| Intelligently designed (divine?) will (soul?) in fruit flies? |
| Quite to my surprise, the intelligent design movement has picked up on our recent study on fruit fly spontaneous behavior. In this study, we found evidence that spontaneous behavior is more than simple system noise. The ...[more] |
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| Posted on Tuesday 22 May 2007 - 09:32:00 |