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

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Getting ready for #sfn25. Our poster is available already before the meeting:

https://bjoern.brembs.net/2025/11/motor-learning-mechanisms-at-sfn25/

Due to political developments, I'm the only one from our lab who wants to go and if circumstances don't […]

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November 13, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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Some people really dislike their Teslas 😆
Tesla with BENTLEY on the license plate.
August 24, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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The PNAS paper from Monday got a lot of attention

https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2420092122

One particularly attention-grabbing point was the growth of paper mill papers, i.e., the red line.
The area under the black curve is the entire scholarly literature […]

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trends in scholarly publishing: more and more papers are computer-generated
August 7, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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If you assume a 50% reproducibility rate (results from reproducibility projects vary from 12-61%), the line of irreproducible articles would be just below the "all articles" line in the logarithmic plot.
Just as a comparison to the red "paper mill products" […]

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logarithmic plot of article numbers
August 6, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Kannte ich noch nicht. Von 2004. Sollte man sich an die Bürotür hängen - oder in den Hörsaal:

https://www.fu-berlin.de/presse/informationen/fup/2004/fup_04_204/index.html
Zugunsten der Wissenschaftsfreiheit sei stets auch der diesem Freiheitsrecht zugrunde liegende Gedanke mit zu berücksichtigen, dass gerade eine von gesellschaftlichen Nützlichkeits- und politischen Zweckmäßigkeitsvorstellungen befreite Wissenschaft dem Staat und der Gesellschaft im Ergebnis am besten diene
August 6, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Of course #trump likely would've found some other reason for this executive order.
But he didn't have to because we, the scientific community, handed him this reason on a silver platter. Some smart move.
Let's not delude ourselves: This one is 100% on us […]

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By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 7301 of title 5, United States Code, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Policy and Purpose. Over the last 5 years, confidence that scientists act in the best interests of the public has fallen significantly. A majority of researchers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics believe science is facing a reproducibility crisis. The falsification of data by leading researchers has led to high-profile retractions of federally funded research.
July 30, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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Starting off the second day of the CogEvo workshop

https://event.unitn.it/cogevo/

in pretty Rovereto, Italy, is Elizabeth Spelke

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Spelke

talkng about "From birds, fish and newborn babies to primary school classrooms […]

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Elizabeth Spelke giving here presentation
July 18, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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Now, Nocola Clayton

https://www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/people/nsc22@cam.ac.uk

talking about memory, mental time travel and some magic at the CogEvo workshop.

https://event.unitn.it/cogevo/

#biology #memory #behavior
Nicola Clayton starting her talk.
July 17, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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Up now, Simon Laughlin

https://royalsociety.org/people/simon-laughlin-11790/

starting off his presentation on how the "wetware computer" of life - neuronal circuits, processes information.

So far, huge emphasis on external input. Completely missing […]

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Simon Laughlin giving his CogEvo presentation
July 17, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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Giorgio Vallortigara

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgio_Vallortigara

Kicking off our CogEvo workshop

https://event.unitn.it/cogevo/

in beautifully alpine Rovereto, Italy
Giorgio Vallortigara in the University of Trento at the workshop CogEvo
July 17, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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Wen das nicht aufschreckt, dem kann nicht mehr geholfen werden.

“Wissenschaft als datafizierter Raum”

von Renke Siems @RenkeSiems

https://www.melusinapress.lu/read/1981-5838-wadr/section/ad2cc559-1a30-4f43-972b-0957993a6528

#datafication #academicchatter #surveillance #überwachung
July 17, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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The killer quote! Prestigious institutions and prestigious journals drive irreproducibility in the life sciences - well, at least in this particular sample.

#reproducibility #impactfactor
Previous work has suggested journal rank as a major associate of irreproducibility (Brembs et al., 2013), and that high-impact journals favour authors from leading institutions (Kulal et al., 2025). Our study highlights how university ranking is among the most striking correlates of irreproducibility. Taken together, the cause and effect relationship at play here may be driven most by factors associated with institutional prestige, such as trust among networks of colleagues that act as editors and reviewers, leading to greater acceptance rates at high-impact journals. Importantly, our results suggest this greater acceptance does not strictly reflect a high quality of the work being published, but rather a willingness to trust irreproducible work more frequently if it comes from a prestigious institute.
July 10, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Yogi Jäger @yoginho and Josef Quitterer wrapping up our #freewill conference with their concluding reflections.
Yogi Jäger is standing and Josef Quitterer i sitting
June 12, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Kevin MItchell helping us move beyond determinism vs. indeterminism to wards an underdetermined universe where caues are constraints and these constraints can happen at multiple levels

#biology #neuroscience #freewill
Kevin Mitchell presenting on free will
June 12, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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Peter Tse starting out his talk on #freewill by outlining different concepts of causality.
Peter Tse presenting causation as constraints.
June 12, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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Geert Keil talking about challenges to modern day libertarian concepts of #freewill
Geert Keil presenting
June 11, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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Up now, Christian List on agency and whether it requires indeterminism.

#freewill
Christian List at the Austrian Academy of Science
June 11, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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As we are heading into the lunch break at our confernce on #freewill , here the link to the program which should allow you to register to get access to the live-streams:

https://philevents.org/event/show/135653

#biology #neuroscience #philosophy
participants at free will conference in Vienna, Austria.
June 11, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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Helen Steward asking "who are the agents?" at our meeting on #freewill here in the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna.
Helen Steward starting her presentation
June 11, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Henry Potter presenting a conception of indeterminism where the term "underdetermined" will play an important role - or at least so he said last night, IIUC. 😆

#freewill
Henry Potter startin ghis talk
June 11, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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Stephen Mumford https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Mumford argues that indeterminism ist just a necessary, but not a sufficient criterion for Libertarian #freewill
Stephen Mumford giving his presentation
June 11, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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Stimulating ideas in a stimulating environment... 😁
Evolution of animal minds in the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
June 10, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Anne Sophie Meincke gives examples for the principle of alternative possibilities.

#freewill
Anne Sophie Meincke giving her talk
June 10, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Al Mele starts his lecture by defining a choice as something that allows him to pick up one of the bottles of water in front of him.
Alfred Mele giving his talk
June 10, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Kick-off of the two Distinguished Lectures on "can biology help us defend free will?"

#biology #neuroscience #freewill
Anne Sophie Meincke and Al Mele getting ready for their lectures.
June 10, 2025 at 3:05 PM