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Secret Science, Again

My usual preamble is that I don't really get on board with the OpenScienceEverything!!!! types but I do back some essential principles. One, that if the taxpayer funds our work than that taxpayer has a...

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Don't let scientists off the hook quite so fast

While wallowing in the murkily polluted wading pool* that is the blogospheric discussion of Unscientific America, I noticed that Uncertain Chad and Aunt Janet have returned to the more fundamental, and...

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HM's brain being sectioned on webcam right freaking now!!!!

In case anyone missed this, The Brain Observatory at UCSD is slicing perhaps the most well known brain in cognitive neuroscience. That of Henry Molaison, aka "HM"....

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A question for the personal website OA fans

For some reason the response on Twittah to the JSTOR downloader guy killing himself has been a round of open access bragging. People are all proud of themselves for posting all of their accepted...

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Yo OA wackanuts! My funding agencies do set the rules for where I publish.

@mbeisen is on fire on the Twitts: @ianholmes @eperlste @dgmacarthur @caseybergman and i'm not going to stop calling things as they are to avoid hurting people's feelings Why? Open Access to scientific...

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Put up or shut up time, all ye OpenSciencePostPubReview Waccaloons!

PubMed Commons has finally incorporated a comment feature. NCBI has released a pilot version of a new service in PubMed that allows researchers to post comments on individual PubMed abstracts. Called...

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The Society for Neuroscience is launching a new Open Access journal

An email from current president of the Society for Neuroscience announced the intent of the society to launch a new Open Access journal. They are seeking an Editor in Chief, so if you know any likely...

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Open Access, possibly predatory publisher and that's just the start of the...

I recently received a run-of-the-mill spam that I should sign up for email updates from the Journal of Experimental Neuroscience. It is described as "an open access peer reviewed journal published by...

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SfN's new eNeuro journal will attempt double blind peer review

From the author guidelines: eNeuro uses a double-blind review process, which means the identities of both the authors and reviewers are concealed throughout the review process. In order to facilitate...

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Publisher wants to take journal Open Access

Someone forwarded me what appears to be credible evidence that Wiley is considering taking Addiction Biology Open Access. To the tune of $2,500 per article. At present this title has no page charges...

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A new way to publish your dataset #OA waccaloons!

Elsevier has a new ....journal? I guess that is what it is. Data in Brief From the author guidelines: Data in Brief provides a way for researchers to easily share and reuse each other's datasets by...

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HM's brain being sectioned on webcam right freaking now!!!!

In case anyone missed this, The Brain Observatory at UCSD is slicing perhaps the most well known brain in cognitive neuroscience. That of Henry Molaison, aka "HM"....

View Article

A question for the personal website OA fans

For some reason the response on Twittah to the JSTOR downloader guy killing himself has been a round of open access bragging. People are all proud of themselves for posting all of their accepted...

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Yo OA wackanuts! My funding agencies do set the rules for where I publish.

@mbeisen is on fire on the Twitts: @ianholmes @eperlste @dgmacarthur @caseybergman and i'm not going to stop calling things as they are to avoid hurting people's feelings Why? Open Access to scientific...

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Put up or shut up time, all ye OpenSciencePostPubReview Waccaloons!

PubMed Commons has finally incorporated a comment feature. NCBI has released a pilot version of a new service in PubMed that allows researchers to post comments on individual PubMed abstracts. Called...

View Article


The Society for Neuroscience is launching a new Open Access journal

An email from current president of the Society for Neuroscience announced the intent of the society to launch a new Open Access journal. They are seeking an Editor in Chief, so if you know any likely...

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Open Access, possibly predatory publisher and that's just the start of the...

I recently received a run-of-the-mill spam that I should sign up for email updates from the Journal of Experimental Neuroscience. It is described as "an open access peer reviewed journal published by...

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SfN's new eNeuro journal will attempt double blind peer review

From the author guidelines: eNeuro uses a double-blind review process, which means the identities of both the authors and reviewers are concealed throughout the review process. In order to facilitate...

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Theological waccaloons win because they are powered by religious fervor and...

Some self-congratulatory meeting of the OpenAccess Illuminati* took place recently and a summary of takeaway points has been posted by Stephen Curry (the other one). These people are exhausting. They...

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Don't let scientists off the hook quite so fast

While wallowing in the murkily polluted wading pool* that is the blogospheric discussion of Unscientific America, I noticed that Uncertain Chad and Aunt Janet have returned to the more fundamental, and...

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