Looking for inspiration for the undergrad Art in Neuroscience competition? Check out last year's winner, by Eve Dickerson, senior neuro major from Ohio State University. It's called Beneath the Surface. Read more about Eve's work and see the runnersup here: drive.google.com/file/d/1H7vU...

Intro to BN open textbook@introtobn.bsky.social · last mo.

Announcing the 2nd annual Art in Neuroscience competition! The editors at Intro to Behavioral Neuroscience welcome submissions of art related to neuroscience from undergrads. 1st place gets $100! Submissions open now, close 1 Nov. Learn more and submit here: drive.google.com/file/d/18miY...

Announcing the 2nd annual Art in Neuroscience competition! The editors at Intro to Behavioral Neuroscience welcome submissions of art related to neuroscience from undergrads. 1st place gets $100! Submissions open now, close 1 Nov. Learn more and submit here: drive.google.com/file/d/18miY...

Just a few more day to submit to the undergraduate Art in Neuroscience competition! Students, get your art work submitted. Winners are published on the Intro to BN textbook website!

Intro to BN open textbook@introtobn.bsky.social · last yr.

Attention, undergrad neuro enthusiasts! We are excited to announce our first annual Art in Neuroscience competition. We are seeking art submissions related to #neuroscience from current undergrads. Winners are published on our textbook website! Due Nov 1. Guidelines here: tinyurl.com/AiNrules

Attention, undergrad neuro enthusiasts! We are excited to announce our first annual Art in Neuroscience competition. We are seeking art submissions related to #neuroscience from current undergrads. Winners are published on our textbook website! Due Nov 1. Guidelines here: tinyurl.com/AiNrules

Art in Neuroscience Competition Guidelines

Announcing the inaugural 2025 Art in Neuroscience competition for undergraduates! The editorial team for Introduction to Behavioral Neuroscience, an open-access textbook resource, is inviting submiss...

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Re-upping this post as a reminder for all those instructors starting to realize (read: panic) that Fall is almost here. Intro to BN has great (and free!) in class application problems you can add to your Neuro classes.

Intro to BN open textbook@introtobn.bsky.social · 2y ago

Lecturing can sometimes be... suboptimal. Help wake those students up with in class application problems. Intro to BN has several collaborative learning activities to accompany each chapter, all designed by @tnewpher.bsky.social. Find them in the Instructor portal, in the "test bank" zip file.

Open educational resources are free, but are they any good? Checkout this metanalysis! link.springer.com/article/10.1... Overall: 1) Students in classes that used OERs achieved the same or better learning outcomes as those in classes without OERs 2) Students and faculty liked using OERs!

Open educational resources, student efficacy, and user perceptions: a synthesis of research published between 2015 and 2018 - Educational technology research and development

Although textbooks are a traditional component in many higher education contexts, their increasing price have led many students to forgo purchasing them and some faculty to seek substitutes. One such ...

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If you're planning a study, search DANDI or OpenNeuro first to see if relevant data already exists. If you're teaching, incorporate open datasets into your curriculum, writes @bendichter.com #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/open-neurosc...

Data reuse represents an opportunity to accelerate the pace of science, reduce costs and increase the value of our collective research investments.

Data reuse represents an opportunity to accelerate the pace of science, reduce costs and increase the value of our collective research investments. New tools that make open data easier to use—and new…

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Did you know: 25% of US college students worked extra hours to pay for textbooks; 11% skipped meals! 65% didn't get a textbook because of cost! Instructors, you can stop this madness. Use open ed resources. Eliminate book cost as a barrier to education. Source: educationdata.org/average-cost...

Average Cost of College Textbooks [2023]: Prices per Year

We examined all the factors involved with the average cost of college textbooks and materials to find out why they're so expensive.

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Spotlight: How do you miss a gorilla in the room? How do you decide to skip the big party so you can study for an exam? These seem like different questions but they are both tied to Attention & Executive function. Learn about it in Ch 19 from author Kevin Wilson! tinyurl.com/itobnch19

Calcium imaging. It kinda sounds like scifi to say you can see calcium. But it's real! Calcium imaging tools fluoresce when lots of calcium is around and watching these glowing waves can help tell us what brain cells are up to. Check out this video by Jamie Jontes to see how! youtu.be/xAmpopXWXuY

Explaining calcium imaging (An OpenStax resource)

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I can remember my preschool best friend's birthday but not where I parked my gosh darn car. What's up with that? Memory is weird. And cool! Learn more about it in Ch 18 Learning and Memory by Amy Griffin. tinyurl.com/ItoBNch18 #Neuroscience

Looking for a textbook for your fall course in #Neuroscience? How about a free one? Intro to Behavioral Neuroscience is a completely free, online text perfect for many introductory, college-level neuroscience classes. Use one chapter or all 19. openstax.org/details/book...

OpenStax | Free Textbooks Online with No Catch

OpenStax offers free college textbooks for all types of students, making education accessible & affordable for everyone. Browse our list of available subjects!

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Spotlight: That Neuroimmunology, it's so hot right now. But how can you teach it to students who may not be ready to dive into a Nature paper? We've got you covered! Ch 17 by @sbilbo.bsky.social covers #neuroimmunology basics for entry level undergrads. Free to anyone here: tinyurl.com/itobnch17

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Alt: a group of people sitting in a theater with the words so hot right now written on the bottom

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Hey, that's us! Read more here about our open access neuroscience textbook and what we have to offer for your courses.

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Are you frustrated with the cost of college textbooks? @thekirbylab.bsky.social and @cjcharvet.bsky.social detail the creation of an open-access textbook, "Introduction to Behavioral Neuroscience" and how to implement it into your curriculum. Read on Neuronline: bit.ly/3D7hnvD

Have you ever wondered how #OpenStax books are made? Anthony Palmiotto, our director of higher education, describes each step from author recruitment to review to publication: openstax.org/blog/how-ope...

Spotlight: Balance is important. From the levels of oxygen in our blood to our caloric intake, maintaining a stable internal environment is critical for our survival. Learn more about this process of Homeostasis in Ch16 by Matt Carter. #neuroscience #homeostasis tinyurl.com/itobnch16

Using this textbook for my Biological Psychology course this semester and can highly recommend. Open educational resources are the way to go!

Intro to BN open textbook@introtobn.bsky.social · 2y ago

We are excited to be here and to promote open educational resources in #neuroscience. We will highlight our own content here as well as other open resources for neuroscience education that we hear about. Share with us. T@g us. Let's promote resources that don't add financial burden to students.

Today we start a method series focusing on ways to change brain activity in animal models. Let's start with neurotoxic lesions. Watch this video by Daniel McCallum to learn about how we use lesions of tiny bits of brain to figure out what behaviors different regions support. youtu.be/EqQwjmsktbA

Reposting with the regular reminder that if you are a #neuroscience instructor, you likely have the power to choose what textbooks you use. Assigning open educational resources like this is one way we can make the way clear for students to succeed.

Intro to BN open textbook@introtobn.bsky.social · 2y ago

Spotlight: Are you sleeping well nowadays? Sleep is an integral part of our #circadianrhythm. Organisms that don't sleep also show biological rhythms, even bacteria! Learn more in Ch 15 Biological Rhythms & Sleep by @mahoneymeg.bsky.social & @docofclocks.bsky.social tinyurl.com/itobnc15

Spotlight: Are you sleeping well nowadays? Sleep is an integral part of our #circadianrhythm. Organisms that don't sleep also show biological rhythms, even bacteria! Learn more in Ch 15 Biological Rhythms & Sleep by @mahoneymeg.bsky.social & @docofclocks.bsky.social tinyurl.com/itobnc15

Synaptic vesicles are ~40 nm wide. How do we even see something that small, much less measure it? Transmission electron microscopy! Learn more about TEM in this methods video by Samuel Kim and Louisa Dal Cengio. #electronmicroscopy #neuroscience youtu.be/FtVvpRKGJsw

Explaining transmission electron microscopy (An OpenStax resource)

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Spotlight: Drugs can powerfully change the brain. Sometimes this is a medical miracle, relieving pain or anxiety. But too much of any drug can be toxic and some drugs lead to addiction. Learn more in Ch14 Psychopharmacology by Dr. @shivonrobinson.bsky.social! tinyurl.com/itobnch14

We almost let the day slip away without posting about an open ed. resource in #Neuroscience. Almost! Check out this Neuroanatomy lab: nba.uth.tmc.edu/neuroanatomy... It's got oodles of illustrations and self-quizzes where you click on pictures of brains! Appears to be for undergrad-level neuro.

Today seems like a good day to promote more open educational resources in #neuroscience. Reducing costs to students reduces barriers to success. Here's one: This free resource covers a breadth of neuro topics with a notable cell/molecular focus. nba.uth.tmc.edu/neuroscience...

Spotlight: How are you feeling today? Our brains produce a wide range of emotions. Mostly those emotions are adaptive and help us make decisions. But sometimes they are not. Learn more about the #neuroscience of Emotion in Ch 13 Emotion and Mood by Cedric Williams. tinyurl.com/itobnch13

The electrochemical dance of the brain underpins what we think and how we move. But how do we measure the electric part? Watch & learn how electrophysiology reveals electric activity in whole circuits or even single cells in this methods video by Meretta Hanson and Jason Wester! youtu.be/5bHBi-U6jlk

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Spotlight: Exams. Deadlines. Traffic. Feeling stressed yet? There is fascinating neuroscience behind stress. And many misconceptions too. Some stress is actually beneficial, for ex. Learn all about it in Ch 12 Stress by S. Muroy, MJ Ko, H Jaques &D Kaufer! #neuroscience #stress tinyurl.com/itobnch12

Spotlight: Sex is complicated. It depends on genes, hormones and environment. And it is separate from the human construct of gender. Learn about the neuroscience of sex differentiation/differences in Ch11 Sex. Behav. & Devel. by @nduquewilckens.bsky.social #SABV #neuroscience tinyurl.com/itobnch11

Open educational resources initiative @openstax.bsky.social from Rice University has served almost 37 million students in 153 countries and saved students nearly $3 billion in course material costs since its launch in 1999. campustechnology.com/Articles/202... #EduSky #HigherEd #HigherEducation

OpenStax Celebrates 25th Anniversary -- Campus Technology

OpenStax is celebrating its 25th anniversary as 2024 comes to a close. The open educational resources initiative from Rice University has served almost 37 million students in 153 countries and saved s...

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Are you new to OpenStax? Or are you a long-time user interested in learning more about our resources? Check out our blog post! We dive into an overview of our history, resources, and impact on courses across the globe. openstax.org/blog/what-is...