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Professorial student of Neurogenetics
Spontaneous behavior and operant learning
Open Science Insurrectionist

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jonny, to random
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My response to NIH's RFI for their Open Access Policy: https://jon-e.net/blog/2023/04/24/Re-NIH-RFI-OSTP-Memo/

tl;dr: are fundamentally inequitable, and it's about the infrastructure, the infrastructure, the infrastructure.

"If this proposal leaves the for-profit publishing apparatus largely intact, it will enter the history of half-measures made in deference to the publishing oligopoly that leave the problem perpetually unsolved. What could the world be like if we had 20 years of experimenting with open research dissemination, rather than spending the dawn of the information era hobbled by broken systems accessible to a vanishingly small and privileged few? Will we be looking back in another 20 years wishing we had the courage to end for-profit publishing now?"

brembs,
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@jonny
Minor quibble: it's only an oligopoly if we take the perspective of the publishers - they'd prefer that. From our perspective, every publisher is a monopolist:
http://bjoern.brembs.net/2022/04/eu-academic-publishers-are-monopolists/

Garwboy, to random
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Was recently asked which scientific 'myth' I'd like to see banished forever

Obviously, given my field and output, I had to choose 'we only use 10% of our brains'

It's not just a silly thing that leads to shoddy movie plots. It's worse than that

For one thing, the origins of the 'we only use 10% of our brain' notion are unclear. But analysis suggests it came about at least a century ago. Believe it or not, our understanding of the brain has improved by orders of magnitude since then

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brembs,
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@Garwboy
Yes, this myth really is worth addressing every time it's brought up.

The "10% myth" has a great analogy that shows how wrong it is: "we only use our keyboard one key at a time" 😁
Just as using all our neurons results in a grand mal seizure without consciousness, hitting all keys at one on a keyboard creates meaningless gibberish.

brembs, to random
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I just love ! Thanks for the R-package!!

brembs, to random
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A wolf in sheep's clothing: tries in vain to appear trustworthy:

http://bjoern.brembs.net/2023/03/should-you-trust-elsevier/

brembs, to science
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Intro: I'm a professor researching the of and in . I study how operant or motor memories are formed and how other forms of learning regulate these processes. As spontaneous behavior is required for operant learning, I also study how arises in nervous systems.

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Disclaimer: Since I got tenure in 2012, my non-tenured co-authors decide where our manuscripts are submitted.

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