Acta biologica Hungarica, Vol. 63 Suppl 2 (2012), pp. 3-19, doi:10.1556/ABiol.63.2012.Suppl.2.1 The origin of complex centralized brains is one of the major evolutionary transitions in the history of animals. Monophyly (i.e. presence of a centralized nervous system in urbilateria) vs polyphyly (i.e. multiple origins by parallel centralization of nervous systems within several lineages) are two historically conflicting scenarios to explain such transitions. However, recent phylogenomic and cladistic analysis suggests that complex brains may have independently evolved at least 9 times within different animal lineages. Indeed, even within the phylum Mollusca cephalization might have occurred at least 5 times. Emerging molecular data further suggest that at the genomic level such transitions might have been achieved by changes in expression of just a few transcriptional factors - not surprising since such events might happen multiple times over 700 million years of animal evolution. Both...
- Björn Brembs
I also love how the tweet was phrased. Not just "will ask the authors to move the citation to the ack section." Nope, they'll throw out the whole thing, because authors who would make such a judgement call are clearly not to be trusted :) [who knows if that is really Cell's position, just amusingly ridiculous upon ridiculous]
- Heather Piwowar
and this - not linking to things that aren't peer reviewed - is why my work on scientists blogging is in obscurity and can't get cited. I've had a few people ask me for the official citation... but I never resubmitted the qualitative work I did. The social network analysis stuff i did is published in an IEEE proceeding but anyhoo.
- Christina Pikas
What are the citations for both, please? Or, is it on your blog?
- Joe Boone
from iPod
I guess this will do: Pikas, C. K. (2008). How and why chemists and physicists use blogs. Unpublished manuscript. Retrieved November 9, 2010, from http://hdl.handle.net/10101... (I also posted it to my blog); Pikas, C. K. (2008). Detecting Communities in Science Blogs. Paper presented at the EScience '08. IEEE Fourth International Conference on eScience, 2008. Indianapolis. 95-102. doi:10.1109/eScience.2008.30
- Christina Pikas
Frontiers in integrative neuroscience, Vol. 6 (2012), doi:10.3389/fnint.2012.00068 It is shown that the randomness of the firing times of neurons in decision-making attractor neuronal networks that is present before the decision cues are applied can cause statistical fluctuations that influence the decision that will be taken. In this rigorous sense, it is possible to partially predict decisions before they are made. This raises issues about free will and determinism. There are many decision-making networks in the brain. Some decision systems operate to choose between gene-specified rewards such as taste, touch, and beauty (in for example the peacock's tail). Other processes capable of planning ahead with multiple steps held in working memory may require correction by higher order thoughts that may involve explicit, conscious, processing. The explicit system can allow the gene-specified rewards not to be selected or deferred. The decisions between the selfish gene-specified rewards,...
- Björn Brembs
Hello world! total-impact has relaunched as ImpactStory! And we have to tell you, it is pretty awesome :) Check it out and let us know what you think Here's a sample collection: http://impactstory.it/collect... and here's where you can make your own: http://impactstory.it/create and here's a blog post about the new features:...
Current Biology, Vol. 22, No. 17. (September 2012), pp. R705-R711, doi:10.1016/j.cub.2012.08.011 For decades, the marine snail Aplysia has proven to be a powerful system for analyzing basic neurobiological mechanisms, particularly cellular and molecular mechanisms of neural plasticity. Three new findings on Aplysia may be relevant for the understanding and treatment of chronic human disorders. This research on this simple molluscan nervous system may lead to new therapeutic approaches for spinal cord injury, Fragile X syndrome, and genetic learning deficits more generally. Thomas Abrams
- Björn Brembs
Staffing. We're stretched painfully thin--if we could restore and add a few positions, the amount we could do to better support students/faculty/researchers would be tremendous. We're being asked to do more, teach more, side by side research more but it's either add to an already overburdened load and know that something is going to slip or have to say no. I'd love to have a full time...
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- Hedgehog
What on Earth makes you think the money saved would go to libraries? Sorry to be a wet blanket and all. :-(
- Bill Hooker
Bill, nothing on earth makes me think that. In the sudden switch scenario I think it's likely that the central admin would take back all the money on top of the savings from serials management staff. And that's sort of my response to the SK post I refer to, which is why I listed it as an inspiration. The more likely scenario of a gradual switch I think could play out very differently as...
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- John Dupuis
so, since I operate on a strict no-Skitch rule, what was Skitch's problem with science librarians?
- RepoRat
took me a second to figure out you didn't mean skitch.com
- DJF
"One of these unintended consequences could very well be a diminution of science librarians. After all, the goal of this move is to eliminate a percentage (the UK currently accounts for 6% of worldwide science output) of their subscription budgets, which leaves these librarians with less to manage and patrons who have already fled to their desktops. While the estimated savings in...
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- John Dupuis
And to add to my previous comment, it's hard to imagine any scenario in any time frame where libraries would be able to redeploy *all* of the annual savings to library-related collections, services, etc.
- John Dupuis
bah. if we're just wallets, we deserve to die. SKitch is fearmongering. I consider the scenario in which we don't have to waste all this time and effort on serials management HOPEFUL.
- RepoRat
recognizing that most (if not "nearly all") standard-issue academic librarians disagree with me on that!
- RepoRat
RR, I'm with you on that. Skitch's sympathies for librarians is rather, um, dubious. Finding a way forward for librar* in a post-toll access world is our problem, not publishers' problem to tell us what our role is going to be in the future that suits them best.
- John Dupuis
Looks like it's my day to argue with John. :-) No, RR should not leave a comment. Neither should anyone else, and neither should you respond. Skitch is best ignored, or briefly corrected on points of fact and then ignored. There is no end to "but we can't just let it go unchallenged" -- that's their game, to keep you going round in pointless circles. You're not entering a good faith...
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- Bill Hooker
I wouldn't be surprised if universal gold OA would be the death sentence of many a library...
- Björn Brembs
I really liked Daniel's post. I think a great amount of the work I do falls into that teacher librarian kind of roll (she said, just back from spending 75 minutes working with a faculty on finding articles and using a citation manager). To be able to do that and also say yes we have full access to everything, here's how to weed out the irrelevant stuff...that'd be LOVELY.
- Hedgehog
Where is the comment from Daniel? I'm not seeing it on the post linked above.
- Bill Hooker
Crap, I figured it out but John got there first, so now my dumbassery is immortal because even if I delete my comment it's obvious what I did there. Phooey. :-)
- Bill Hooker
No worries, Bill. Friendfeed is a dumbassery forgiving zone.
- John Dupuis
Jim A has already pulled out the curmudgeon card on your OP, John, so I don't have to. And yes, I really like what Daniel had to say.
- Bill Hooker
Dude who said "scientists DO TOO use [physical] libraries!" needs to poll his colleagues. Srsly.
- RepoRat
Some scientists still use physical libraries, just not that many, and not near as much as they used to. [Edit: The word "some" could equate to 1% or maybe even 5-10%?]
- Joe Boone
They will use physical libraries if they have to. Offer desktop delivery like we do and then they don't need to. (and we are subsequently shutting 40% of our branches) Context that I might have to start putting in my bio - national science research organization. 6500 clients in 57 locations. No students. Libraries still in 22 of those locations. Full OA would do away with the team that manages the subscriptions. That's it. (maybe) But there is a reason I applied for a research data support role.
- suelibrarian
" Friendfeed is a dumbassery forgiving zone" -- why I like it here. :-)
- Bill Hooker
Open source tracking and analysis of adult Drosophila locomotion in Buridan's paradigm with and without visual targets - http://www.scopus.com/inward...
Author(s): Colomb, J. , Reiter, L. , Blaszkiewicz, J. , Wessnitzer, J. , Brembs, B. Publication year: 2012 Journal / Book title: PLoS ONE Access all results for your search in Scopus
- Björn Brembs
Looking for Systems pharmacology, pharmacogenetics, and clinical trial design in network medicine http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed... Please send to shameer at ncbs dot res dot in Thanks a lot !
Hi! I'm looking for: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed... Can anyone help me with this paper? Big thanks in advance !! :) My email: lukasik.anna87@gmail.com
Can anybody help me to find this study? DOI: 10.1002/jez.1402260311 . "Erythropoiesis in the developing rainbow trout, Salmo gairdneri irideus: histochemical and immunochemical detection of erythropoietic organs". Send to perropery@gmail. com . Thanks a lot.
It has always bugged me that JAMIA follows the Ingelfinger rule. You have Informatics in title! Be about maximizing use of information!
- Heather Piwowar
Have contacted my photoshop department.
- Graham Steel
Love it, looking forward to seeing these on Camden Market. Actually, it's not just an issue with posters/abstracts, as some of the journals seem to have very similar policies regarding pre-publication release of data and pdb structures. Policies regarding data doi's are not clear yet, but Cell (Elsevier) recently told us if data released in this way represents a significant contribution to the importance of a related article, then access to it should be embargoed until the article is published.
- Scott Edmunds
It's been 2010 since I created my last t-ishirt. Have finally got round to creating a "Give the finger to Ingelfinger" one and am awaiting delivery.. Hopefully, a url for the shirt will appear shortly....
- Graham Steel
re: zazzle, I won't use a commercial site that *requires* me to sign in just to see their products.
- Bill Hooker
And the flickr picture is Ingelfinger giving the viewer the finger. The hand should be the other way around, surely?
- Bill Hooker
Bill - on a) that's new to me and not good at all (that was the direct url from my account, so maybe that explains that).... on b) Indeedy, it was the best I could come up with back then. I simply went for a color middle finger and did not think about what angle of the hand counted. I apologise most profusely....
- Graham Steel
My store is here:- http://www.zazzle.co.uk/steelgr... in which to date, I've had one shirt made for myself back in 2010. With myself as the sole purchaser.. One is clearly a sales whizzo.. (NOT)
- Graham Steel
For non-subscribers, how much does this article cost? http://0-www.nature.com.bianca... I have access to the article, I want to know how much NPG would charge if I didn't have access.
Really need this one: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science... and also the supplementary part of this article? Could anyone send these to kajdi.robert@yahoo.com ? Thanks in advance!