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We are excited to be here and to promote open educational resources in #neuroscience.
We will highlight our own content here as well as other open resources for neuroscience education that we hear about. Share with us. T@g us. Let's promote resources that don't add financial burden to students.
We will highlight our own content here as well as other open resources for neuroscience education that we hear about. Share with us. T@g us. Let's promote resources that don't add financial burden to students.
Just a few more day to submit to the undergraduate Art in Neuroscience competition! Students, get your art work submitted. Winners are published on the Intro to BN textbook website!
Attention, undergrad neuro enthusiasts! We are excited to announce our first annual Art in Neuroscience competition. We are seeking art submissions related to #neuroscience from current undergrads.
Winners are published on our textbook website!
Due Nov 1.
Guidelines here: tinyurl.com/AiNrules
Winners are published on our textbook website!
Due Nov 1.
Guidelines here: tinyurl.com/AiNrules
Art in Neuroscience Competition Guidelines
Announcing the inaugural 2025 Art in Neuroscience competition for undergraduates! The editorial team for Introduction to Behavioral Neuroscience, an open-access textbook resource, is inviting submiss...
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October 30, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Just a few more day to submit to the undergraduate Art in Neuroscience competition! Students, get your art work submitted. Winners are published on the Intro to BN textbook website!
Attention, undergrad neuro enthusiasts! We are excited to announce our first annual Art in Neuroscience competition. We are seeking art submissions related to #neuroscience from current undergrads.
Winners are published on our textbook website!
Due Nov 1.
Guidelines here: tinyurl.com/AiNrules
Winners are published on our textbook website!
Due Nov 1.
Guidelines here: tinyurl.com/AiNrules
Art in Neuroscience Competition Guidelines
Announcing the inaugural 2025 Art in Neuroscience competition for undergraduates! The editorial team for Introduction to Behavioral Neuroscience, an open-access textbook resource, is inviting submiss...
tinyurl.com
September 19, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Attention, undergrad neuro enthusiasts! We are excited to announce our first annual Art in Neuroscience competition. We are seeking art submissions related to #neuroscience from current undergrads.
Winners are published on our textbook website!
Due Nov 1.
Guidelines here: tinyurl.com/AiNrules
Winners are published on our textbook website!
Due Nov 1.
Guidelines here: tinyurl.com/AiNrules
Re-upping this post as a reminder for all those instructors starting to realize (read: panic) that Fall is almost here. Intro to BN has great (and free!) in class application problems you can add to your Neuro classes.
Lecturing can sometimes be... suboptimal. Help wake those students up with in class application problems. Intro to BN has several collaborative learning activities to accompany each chapter, all designed by @tnewpher.bsky.social. Find them in the Instructor portal, in the "test bank" zip file.
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Alt: a man wearing glasses is standing in front of a blackboard and says `` anyone ? '' . This is a clip from the movie Ferris Bueller's Day Off, showing the scene where a teacher calls out attendance in front of an uninterested and disengaged class.
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July 29, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Re-upping this post as a reminder for all those instructors starting to realize (read: panic) that Fall is almost here. Intro to BN has great (and free!) in class application problems you can add to your Neuro classes.
Open educational resources are free, but are they any good?
Checkout this metanalysis! link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Overall:
1) Students in classes that used OERs achieved the same or better learning outcomes as those in classes without OERs
2) Students and faculty liked using OERs!
Checkout this metanalysis! link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Overall:
1) Students in classes that used OERs achieved the same or better learning outcomes as those in classes without OERs
2) Students and faculty liked using OERs!
Open educational resources, student efficacy, and user perceptions: a synthesis of research published between 2015 and 2018 - Educational technology research and development
Although textbooks are a traditional component in many higher education contexts, their increasing price have led many students to forgo purchasing them and some faculty to seek substitutes. One such ...
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July 17, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Open educational resources are free, but are they any good?
Checkout this metanalysis! link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Overall:
1) Students in classes that used OERs achieved the same or better learning outcomes as those in classes without OERs
2) Students and faculty liked using OERs!
Checkout this metanalysis! link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Overall:
1) Students in classes that used OERs achieved the same or better learning outcomes as those in classes without OERs
2) Students and faculty liked using OERs!
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If you're planning a study, search DANDI or OpenNeuro first to see if relevant data already exists. If you're teaching, incorporate open datasets into your curriculum, writes @bendichter.com
#neuroskyence
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#neuroskyence
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Data reuse represents an opportunity to accelerate the pace of science, reduce costs and increase the value of our collective research investments.
Data reuse represents an opportunity to accelerate the pace of science, reduce costs and increase the value of our collective research investments. New tools that make open data easier to use—and new…
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July 9, 2025 at 1:23 PM
If you're planning a study, search DANDI or OpenNeuro first to see if relevant data already exists. If you're teaching, incorporate open datasets into your curriculum, writes @bendichter.com
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/open-neurosc...
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/open-neurosc...
Did you know:
25% of US college students worked extra hours to pay for textbooks; 11% skipped meals!
65% didn't get a textbook because of cost!
Instructors, you can stop this madness. Use open ed resources. Eliminate book cost as a barrier to education.
Source: educationdata.org/average-cost...
25% of US college students worked extra hours to pay for textbooks; 11% skipped meals!
65% didn't get a textbook because of cost!
Instructors, you can stop this madness. Use open ed resources. Eliminate book cost as a barrier to education.
Source: educationdata.org/average-cost...
Average Cost of College Textbooks [2023]: Prices per Year
We examined all the factors involved with the average cost of college textbooks and materials to find out why they're so expensive.
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July 9, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Did you know:
25% of US college students worked extra hours to pay for textbooks; 11% skipped meals!
65% didn't get a textbook because of cost!
Instructors, you can stop this madness. Use open ed resources. Eliminate book cost as a barrier to education.
Source: educationdata.org/average-cost...
25% of US college students worked extra hours to pay for textbooks; 11% skipped meals!
65% didn't get a textbook because of cost!
Instructors, you can stop this madness. Use open ed resources. Eliminate book cost as a barrier to education.
Source: educationdata.org/average-cost...
Spotlight: How do you miss a gorilla in the room? How do you decide to skip the big party so you can study for an exam? These seem like different questions but they are both tied to Attention & Executive function. Learn about it in Ch 19 from author Kevin Wilson!
tinyurl.com/itobnch19
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June 11, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Spotlight: How do you miss a gorilla in the room? How do you decide to skip the big party so you can study for an exam? These seem like different questions but they are both tied to Attention & Executive function. Learn about it in Ch 19 from author Kevin Wilson!
tinyurl.com/itobnch19
tinyurl.com/itobnch19
Calcium imaging. It kinda sounds like scifi to say you can see calcium. But it's real! Calcium imaging tools fluoresce when lots of calcium is around and watching these glowing waves can help tell us what brain cells are up to.
Check out this video by Jamie Jontes to see how!
youtu.be/xAmpopXWXuY
Check out this video by Jamie Jontes to see how!
youtu.be/xAmpopXWXuY
Explaining calcium imaging (An OpenStax resource)
YouTube video by OpenStax
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June 3, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Calcium imaging. It kinda sounds like scifi to say you can see calcium. But it's real! Calcium imaging tools fluoresce when lots of calcium is around and watching these glowing waves can help tell us what brain cells are up to.
Check out this video by Jamie Jontes to see how!
youtu.be/xAmpopXWXuY
Check out this video by Jamie Jontes to see how!
youtu.be/xAmpopXWXuY
I can remember my preschool best friend's birthday but not where I parked my gosh darn car. What's up with that? Memory is weird. And cool! Learn more about it in Ch 18 Learning and Memory by Amy Griffin.
tinyurl.com/ItoBNch18
#Neuroscience
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#Neuroscience
May 30, 2025 at 5:51 PM
I can remember my preschool best friend's birthday but not where I parked my gosh darn car. What's up with that? Memory is weird. And cool! Learn more about it in Ch 18 Learning and Memory by Amy Griffin.
tinyurl.com/ItoBNch18
#Neuroscience
tinyurl.com/ItoBNch18
#Neuroscience
Looking for a textbook for your fall course in #Neuroscience? How about a free one? Intro to Behavioral Neuroscience is a completely free, online text perfect for many introductory, college-level neuroscience classes. Use one chapter or all 19.
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May 30, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Looking for a textbook for your fall course in #Neuroscience? How about a free one? Intro to Behavioral Neuroscience is a completely free, online text perfect for many introductory, college-level neuroscience classes. Use one chapter or all 19.
openstax.org/details/book...
openstax.org/details/book...
Spotlight: That Neuroimmunology, it's so hot right now. But how can you teach it to students who may not be ready to dive into a Nature paper? We've got you covered! Ch 17 by @sbilbo.bsky.social covers #neuroimmunology basics for entry level undergrads.
Free to anyone here: tinyurl.com/itobnch17
Free to anyone here: tinyurl.com/itobnch17
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April 16, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Spotlight: That Neuroimmunology, it's so hot right now. But how can you teach it to students who may not be ready to dive into a Nature paper? We've got you covered! Ch 17 by @sbilbo.bsky.social covers #neuroimmunology basics for entry level undergrads.
Free to anyone here: tinyurl.com/itobnch17
Free to anyone here: tinyurl.com/itobnch17
Hey, that's us! Read more here about our open access neuroscience textbook and what we have to offer for your courses.
Are you frustrated with the cost of college textbooks?
@thekirbylab.bsky.social and @cjcharvet.bsky.social detail the creation of an open-access textbook, "Introduction to Behavioral Neuroscience" and how to implement it into your curriculum.
Read on Neuronline: bit.ly/3D7hnvD
@thekirbylab.bsky.social and @cjcharvet.bsky.social detail the creation of an open-access textbook, "Introduction to Behavioral Neuroscience" and how to implement it into your curriculum.
Read on Neuronline: bit.ly/3D7hnvD
Why You Should Use This Open Access Textbook for Neuroscience Learning
<p>College education, including tuition and textbook costs, is simply too expensive. That is why Elizabeth J. Kirby, an associate professor at Ohio State University, and Christine Charvet, an assistan...
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March 5, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Hey, that's us! Read more here about our open access neuroscience textbook and what we have to offer for your courses.
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Have you ever wondered how #OpenStax books are made? Anthony Palmiotto, our director of higher education, describes each step from author recruitment to review to publication: openstax.org/blog/how-ope...
February 18, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Have you ever wondered how #OpenStax books are made? Anthony Palmiotto, our director of higher education, describes each step from author recruitment to review to publication: openstax.org/blog/how-ope...
Spotlight: Balance is important. From the levels of oxygen in our blood to our caloric intake, maintaining a stable internal environment is critical for our survival. Learn more about this process of Homeostasis in Ch16 by Matt Carter. #neuroscience #homeostasis
tinyurl.com/itobnch16
tinyurl.com/itobnch16
February 17, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Spotlight: Balance is important. From the levels of oxygen in our blood to our caloric intake, maintaining a stable internal environment is critical for our survival. Learn more about this process of Homeostasis in Ch16 by Matt Carter. #neuroscience #homeostasis
tinyurl.com/itobnch16
tinyurl.com/itobnch16
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Using this textbook for my Biological Psychology course this semester and can highly recommend. Open educational resources are the way to go!
We are excited to be here and to promote open educational resources in #neuroscience.
We will highlight our own content here as well as other open resources for neuroscience education that we hear about. Share with us. T@g us. Let's promote resources that don't add financial burden to students.
We will highlight our own content here as well as other open resources for neuroscience education that we hear about. Share with us. T@g us. Let's promote resources that don't add financial burden to students.
February 12, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Using this textbook for my Biological Psychology course this semester and can highly recommend. Open educational resources are the way to go!
Today we start a method series focusing on ways to change brain activity in animal models.
Let's start with neurotoxic lesions. Watch this video by Daniel McCallum to learn about how we use lesions of tiny bits of brain to figure out what behaviors different regions support.
youtu.be/EqQwjmsktbA
Let's start with neurotoxic lesions. Watch this video by Daniel McCallum to learn about how we use lesions of tiny bits of brain to figure out what behaviors different regions support.
youtu.be/EqQwjmsktbA
February 6, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Today we start a method series focusing on ways to change brain activity in animal models.
Let's start with neurotoxic lesions. Watch this video by Daniel McCallum to learn about how we use lesions of tiny bits of brain to figure out what behaviors different regions support.
youtu.be/EqQwjmsktbA
Let's start with neurotoxic lesions. Watch this video by Daniel McCallum to learn about how we use lesions of tiny bits of brain to figure out what behaviors different regions support.
youtu.be/EqQwjmsktbA
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Reposting with the regular reminder that if you are a #neuroscience instructor, you likely have the power to choose what textbooks you use. Assigning open educational resources like this is one way we can make the way clear for students to succeed.
Spotlight: Are you sleeping well nowadays? Sleep is an integral part of our #circadianrhythm. Organisms that don't sleep also show biological rhythms, even bacteria! Learn more in Ch 15 Biological Rhythms & Sleep by @mahoneymeg.bsky.social & @docofclocks.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/itobnc15
tinyurl.com/itobnc15
February 4, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Reposting with the regular reminder that if you are a #neuroscience instructor, you likely have the power to choose what textbooks you use. Assigning open educational resources like this is one way we can make the way clear for students to succeed.
Spotlight: Are you sleeping well nowadays? Sleep is an integral part of our #circadianrhythm. Organisms that don't sleep also show biological rhythms, even bacteria! Learn more in Ch 15 Biological Rhythms & Sleep by @mahoneymeg.bsky.social & @docofclocks.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/itobnc15
tinyurl.com/itobnc15
February 4, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Spotlight: Are you sleeping well nowadays? Sleep is an integral part of our #circadianrhythm. Organisms that don't sleep also show biological rhythms, even bacteria! Learn more in Ch 15 Biological Rhythms & Sleep by @mahoneymeg.bsky.social & @docofclocks.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/itobnc15
tinyurl.com/itobnc15
Synaptic vesicles are ~40 nm wide. How do we even see something that small, much less measure it? Transmission electron microscopy! Learn more about TEM in this methods video by Samuel Kim and Louisa Dal Cengio. #electronmicroscopy #neuroscience
youtu.be/FtVvpRKGJsw
youtu.be/FtVvpRKGJsw
Explaining transmission electron microscopy (An OpenStax resource)
YouTube video by OpenStax
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January 29, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Synaptic vesicles are ~40 nm wide. How do we even see something that small, much less measure it? Transmission electron microscopy! Learn more about TEM in this methods video by Samuel Kim and Louisa Dal Cengio. #electronmicroscopy #neuroscience
youtu.be/FtVvpRKGJsw
youtu.be/FtVvpRKGJsw
Spotlight: Drugs can powerfully change the brain. Sometimes this is a medical miracle, relieving pain or anxiety. But too much of any drug can be toxic and some drugs lead to addiction. Learn more in Ch14 Psychopharmacology by Dr. @shivonrobinson.bsky.social!
tinyurl.com/itobnch14
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January 27, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Spotlight: Drugs can powerfully change the brain. Sometimes this is a medical miracle, relieving pain or anxiety. But too much of any drug can be toxic and some drugs lead to addiction. Learn more in Ch14 Psychopharmacology by Dr. @shivonrobinson.bsky.social!
tinyurl.com/itobnch14
tinyurl.com/itobnch14
We almost let the day slip away without posting about an open ed. resource in #Neuroscience. Almost! Check out this Neuroanatomy lab:
nba.uth.tmc.edu/neuroanatomy...
It's got oodles of illustrations and self-quizzes where you click on pictures of brains! Appears to be for undergrad-level neuro.
nba.uth.tmc.edu/neuroanatomy...
It's got oodles of illustrations and self-quizzes where you click on pictures of brains! Appears to be for undergrad-level neuro.
Neuroanatomy Online: An Open Access Electronic Laboratory for the Neurosciences | Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy - The University of Texas Medical School at Houston
nba.uth.tmc.edu
January 24, 2025 at 10:54 PM
We almost let the day slip away without posting about an open ed. resource in #Neuroscience. Almost! Check out this Neuroanatomy lab:
nba.uth.tmc.edu/neuroanatomy...
It's got oodles of illustrations and self-quizzes where you click on pictures of brains! Appears to be for undergrad-level neuro.
nba.uth.tmc.edu/neuroanatomy...
It's got oodles of illustrations and self-quizzes where you click on pictures of brains! Appears to be for undergrad-level neuro.
Today seems like a good day to promote more open educational resources in #neuroscience. Reducing costs to students reduces barriers to success. Here's one: This free resource covers a breadth of neuro topics with a notable cell/molecular focus.
nba.uth.tmc.edu/neuroscience...
nba.uth.tmc.edu/neuroscience...
Neuroscience Online: An Electronic Textbook for the Neurosciences | Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy - The University of Texas Medical School at Houston
nba.uth.tmc.edu
January 23, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Today seems like a good day to promote more open educational resources in #neuroscience. Reducing costs to students reduces barriers to success. Here's one: This free resource covers a breadth of neuro topics with a notable cell/molecular focus.
nba.uth.tmc.edu/neuroscience...
nba.uth.tmc.edu/neuroscience...
Spotlight: How are you feeling today? Our brains produce a wide range of emotions. Mostly those emotions are adaptive and help us make decisions. But sometimes they are not. Learn more about the #neuroscience of Emotion in Ch 13 Emotion and Mood by Cedric Williams.
tinyurl.com/itobnch13
tinyurl.com/itobnch13
January 21, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Spotlight: How are you feeling today? Our brains produce a wide range of emotions. Mostly those emotions are adaptive and help us make decisions. But sometimes they are not. Learn more about the #neuroscience of Emotion in Ch 13 Emotion and Mood by Cedric Williams.
tinyurl.com/itobnch13
tinyurl.com/itobnch13
The electrochemical dance of the brain underpins what we think and how we move. But how do we measure the electric part? Watch & learn how electrophysiology reveals electric activity in whole circuits or even single cells in this methods video by Meretta Hanson and Jason Wester!
youtu.be/5bHBi-U6jlk
youtu.be/5bHBi-U6jlk
Methods video: Electrophysiology
YouTube video by OpenStax
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January 16, 2025 at 4:26 PM
The electrochemical dance of the brain underpins what we think and how we move. But how do we measure the electric part? Watch & learn how electrophysiology reveals electric activity in whole circuits or even single cells in this methods video by Meretta Hanson and Jason Wester!
youtu.be/5bHBi-U6jlk
youtu.be/5bHBi-U6jlk
Spotlight: Exams. Deadlines. Traffic. Feeling stressed yet? There is fascinating neuroscience behind stress. And many misconceptions too. Some stress is actually beneficial, for ex. Learn all about it in Ch 12 Stress by S. Muroy, MJ Ko, H Jaques &D Kaufer!
#neuroscience #stress
tinyurl.com/itobnch12
#neuroscience #stress
tinyurl.com/itobnch12
January 15, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Spotlight: Exams. Deadlines. Traffic. Feeling stressed yet? There is fascinating neuroscience behind stress. And many misconceptions too. Some stress is actually beneficial, for ex. Learn all about it in Ch 12 Stress by S. Muroy, MJ Ko, H Jaques &D Kaufer!
#neuroscience #stress
tinyurl.com/itobnch12
#neuroscience #stress
tinyurl.com/itobnch12