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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
Some people really dislike their Teslas 😆
August 24, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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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August 7, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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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August 6, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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
August 6, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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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July 30, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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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July 18, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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
July 17, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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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July 17, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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
July 17, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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
The killer quote! Prestigious institutions and prestigious journals drive irreproducibility in the life sciences - well, at least in this particular sample.

#reproducibility #impactfactor
July 10, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Yogi Jäger @yoginho and Josef Quitterer wrapping up our #freewill conference with their concluding reflections.
June 12, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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
June 12, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Peter Tse starting out his talk on #freewill by outlining different concepts of causality.
June 12, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Geert Keil talking about challenges to modern day libertarian concepts of #freewill
June 11, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Up now, Christian List on agency and whether it requires indeterminism.

#freewill
June 11, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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
June 11, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Helen Steward asking "who are the agents?" at our meeting on #freewill here in the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna.
June 11, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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
June 11, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Stephen Mumford https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Mumford argues that indeterminism ist just a necessary, but not a sufficient criterion for Libertarian #freewill
June 11, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Stimulating ideas in a stimulating environment... 😁
June 10, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Anne Sophie Meincke gives examples for the principle of alternative possibilities.

#freewill
June 10, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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.
June 10, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Kick-off of the two Distinguished Lectures on "can biology help us defend free will?"

#biology #neuroscience #freewill
June 10, 2025 at 3:05 PM