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| SfN labels Drosophila as 'rodents' |
Over here, we're all getting ready for this year's Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) in Chicago. This time around we will have three posters at the meeting:
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| Drosophila rodents SfN meeting |
| Posted on Wednesday 07 October 2009 - 19:45:31 |
| Fruit fly attention |
| I've been blogging about my good friend Bruno van Swinderen and his work a couple of times now. Therefore I'm especially pleased to be able to cover his recent publication in the prestigious journal Science. As is often ...[more] |
| drosophila attention |
| Posted on Thursday 12 April 2007 - 15:37:12 |
| Fly psychology on Nature Precedings |
| I've just resubmitted (to PLoS Biology) my latest manuscript on how operant and classical components interact to accomplish the generation effect in flies and other animals. I've received plenty of constructive criticism...[more] |
| drosophila nature precedings psychology learning memory generation effect |
| Posted on Wednesday 05 September 2007 - 16:06:36 |
| Posters ready for SfN |
| I printed the two SfN posters yesterday before heading to Leipzig to talk about scientific publishing. The first one will be on Mon, Oct 19, 3:00 - 4:00 PM, 478.3/FF84 - Attention deficit and hyperactivity in a ...[more] |
| Drosophila ADHD taxis phototaxis SfN meeting |
| Posted on Wednesday 14 October 2009 - 16:55:27 |
| Fruit fly spontaneity blogroll |
| In total, over 40 blogs have covered our work on spontaneous behavior in flies, some with very long and scholarly discussions and comments. Most of the blogs paid very close attention to what we wrote and how we worded i...[more] |
| drosophila free will flight spontaneous behavior blogroll |
| Posted on Tuesday 22 May 2007 - 08:51:53 |
| Fruit flies fly optimal flights |
| There is plenty of evidence that most animals have evolved optimal or near-optimal strategies when foraging. Birds and mammals cover huge areas in their foraging trips and do so by local searches combined with long-dista...[more] |
| drosophila flight behavior optimal search search |
| Posted on Wednesday 11 April 2007 - 15:20:16 |
| ...and now for some fruit fly learning |
| Whoda thunk that one of my most esteemed colleagues is also a movie star?  ...[more] |
| Drosophila learning t-maze dubnau training memory |
| Posted on Saturday 25 February 2012 - 13:49:23 |
| SPECULATION: free will?? WTF? |
| Of course, our original study makes no mention of free will, it is not a scientific concept. However, the discovery of spontaneity even in flies makes us ponder what, if anything, this might entail for our subjective exp...[more] |
| drosophila free will spontaneous behavior flight |
| Posted on Thursday 17 May 2007 - 15:38:35 |
| Media buzzed on fruit fly science |
| In the past two weeks, there have been three hot papers on the fruit fly Drosophila which have generated quite some buzz in the media. One dealt with imaging brain activity for long stretches of time, another focused on ...[more] |
| drosophila science media |
| Posted on Wednesday 11 April 2007 - 08:52:26 |
| Are we incentivizing hype in science? A case study |
 Now also cross-posted at homolog.us (and slightly edited here to remove any potentially misleading, unintentional implications). There is a lively discussion going on right now in various forums on the ...[more] |
| drosophila octopamine flight choice publishing journal rank impact factor |
| Posted on Friday 25 January 2013 - 13:20:40 |
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