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   The Transmitter (thetransmitter@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 14-Dec-2024 12:43:19 JST The Transmitter

   Neuroscience textbooks can be prohibitively expensive for some undergraduate students. A new open-access alternative seeks to change that. Francisco J. Rivera Rosario sat down for a Q&A with Liz Kirby to discuss open-access neuroscience in the classroom.

   https://www.thetransmitter.org/books/open-access-neuroscience-comes-to-the-classroom-qa-with-liz-kirby/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=org-social&utm_campaign=20411213-q&a-liz-kirby

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     Albert Cardona (albertcardona@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 14-Dec-2024 12:43:19 JST Albert Cardona

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     @thetransmitter What a nice initiative from Prof. Liz Kirby and collaborators: to make a free neuroscience textbook. And thanks to the NSF for the funding mechanism that make this possible.

     The book: "Introduction to behavioral neuroscience"
     https://openstax.org/details/books/introduction-behavioral-neuroscience

     (With some more initiatives like this, students will be able to stop borrowing books from the university library or downloading them from libgen. That's how to combat piracy: by making free books. Not by prosecuting students. In other words: by removing the problem – books are too expensive.)

     #academia #textbooks #neuroscience