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| 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] |
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| Posted on Saturday 12 May 2007 - 01:20:26 |
| Alan Turing Summer Institute on consciousness |
| Yesterday was my last day of lectures in Leipzig (this week was on the genetics of cancer, sex determination and learning/memory in mice) and now I’m in Montréal attending lectures myself. I’m now at the Turing Centenary...[more] |
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| Posted on Saturday 30 June 2012 - 12:54:00 |
| Presentation videos for Alan Turing Summer Institute on consciousness |
| At this great meeting in Montreal I won't have to blog a lot about each presentation, as most presentations will be videotaped and made available soon after. The first presentation (by Daniel Dennett) is already up can c...[more] |
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| Posted on Saturday 30 June 2012 - 21:13:17 |
| Natur+cosmos article on free will out |
| The German article on free will I was blogging about a few weeks ago has now appeared in the latest issue of natur+cosmos. It is even the cover article and I will scan the pages and put them here when I get back from the...[more] |
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| Posted on Friday 21 December 2007 - 14:00:26 |
| From consciousness to biogenic amines in insects |
| After an 11 hour odyssey at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris, France, I'm finally back in Berlin. Unfortunately, I missed the first day of the symposium organized by our research unit on biogenic amines in insects due ...[more] |
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| Posted on Saturday 07 July 2012 - 11:18:35 |
| SciVee videos can be embedded |
| This is probably old news but I recently went to SciVee and noticed that the videos there can now be embedded in any webpage. So of course I'm taking the opportunity to embed our own video here: ...[more] |
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| Posted on Tuesday 08 January 2008 - 05:54:34 |
| Presentation on behavioral freedom in Drosophila with panel discussion on YouTube |
| As promised, find below the video of my talk at the Montreal Summer Institute on Consciousness. The abstract and some discussion can be found on the conference blog. There is also a video of the subsequent panel discuss...[more] |
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| Posted on Sunday 08 July 2012 - 12:05:59 |
| Tomorrow social scientist Huisken will attack neuroscience in Berlin |
| As previously reported, Prof. Dr. Freerk Huisken (Wikipedia) professor emeritus of the University of Bremen, will give a talk here in Berlin tomorrow. He was invited by the "Sozialreferat" of the AStA FU, the students' g...[more] |
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| Posted on Monday 14 January 2008 - 14:53:04 |
| Article on free will scanned |
| I finally scanned the article on free will by Peter Laufmann which appeared in the January issue of the German monthly magazine natur+cosmos. As mentioned previously (here and here), the article cites some of our work on...[more] |
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| Posted on Monday 03 March 2008 - 17:29:32 |
| Upcoming "natur+cosmos" article on free will |
| I just received an email from Peter Laufmann from the German monthly magazine natur+cosmos. He told me has was writing an article about free will and was planning to cite our work on the ...[more] |
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| Posted on Thursday 15 November 2007 - 13:55:27 |