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FEB '23 Author: "Moreover other accusations by Bik and her team are so ridiculous they don’t even merit a response." FEB '24 Journal: "Retracted. Authors have decided that the article should not remain published in its current form." pubpeer.com/publications/D… cc:Elisabeth Bik

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Calling all interested in neuromodulation! Srikanth Ramaswamy and I have the Cosyne 2024 workshop for you, focusing on the locus coeruleus. With a fantastic line-up of speakers:

I have a joke about academic publishing . . . . . . [your institution does not have access to this content]

Are you curious about the role of #preprints in the publish-review-curate model and the importance of detangling traditional publishing? Join ASAPbio Associate Director Jonny Coates (jacoates.bsky.social) on March 19 for his talk "Preprints as the central pillar of the PRC model" to learn more!

The Year of Open Science Culminating Conference kicks off tomorrow! Join us virtually to explore sessions focused on advancing open science policies and practices. 🗓️ March 21-22, 2024 📍 Online ✅ Register for free: cos.io/yos-conference Secure your spot now!

FASTMAP is an #opensource plugin for ImageJ. It allows for registering biological images within brain atlases. It also segments biological labels of interest within brain regions. Dylan Terstege Read about FASTMAP in this week's post on OpenBehavior: edspace.american.edu/openbehavior/p…

Exciting news! The UCL Open Science Conference 2024 is now accepting abstracts and poster submissions from UCL researchers. Explore the latest trends in open science and scholarship at UCL on June 20th. More info: buff.ly/3TLRDdt Paul Ayris @UCLLibraries UCL Research

I loved academia when I was in it — and believe more ever the exceptional value of truly transferable skills obtained within. That said, for the sake of all of humanity, I hope it can free itself of the rampant credit chasing, low agency, consensus fetishizing, and security

If you’re fed up with how academic publishing is stuck but don’t see how to break free, here are things you could do when the world feels immovable: - review only preprints or journal articles that are already preprints and do so publicly to benefit readers (and reviewers), not

Fellowship opportunity for ECRs <4y post-PhD. Engineering. 5 year funding. Significant advantage given to people from "underrepresented groups" (see below). Internal deadline of May 6. Comp neuro has done well recently in our dept. Email me if interested. raeng.org.uk/research-fello…

Research integrity, preprints and where should the responsibility lie? - Samuel Moore ift.tt/Q0nbYu5

Gates Foundation ends support to Article Processing Charges (#APC Gates Foundation). gatesfoundation.org/ideas/articles…

I like this recommendation to report confidence intervals not as 3.5 [-2.0, 8.7] but as subscripts ₋₂.₀ 3.5 ₈.₇ academic.oup.com/biostatistics/… Not the biggest thing, jut but seems a tiny bit easier to process.

Kicking off Edinburgh neuroscience day with some great flash talks from new group leaders. Love to see all the amazing work going on across the university and also highlighting open science projects such as PCI Neuro @[email protected] Edinburgh Neuroscience #EdNeuroDay

Great initiative! More and more, researchers are able to publish their articles at no cost to authors or readers. Another example is Peer Community In PCI Neuro @[email protected]

Christophe Leterrier Inkscape We make all our publication figures in Inkscape and have for years...no particular resources to share, I learned organically and use essentially the vanilla package, so chiming in mostly to say it's possible (and enjoyable) to do.

The "special issue-ization" of journal publishing and guest editor manipulation pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38972046/