Newsletter #36

Advancing scientific culture through Wikimedia projects

Levels of scientific culture are associated to a mass of social phenomena, according to the literature, ranging from economic measures (i.e., innovation rates, development) to sociopolitical indicators, such as political participation and inequality. Not surprisingly, a country’s level of scientific culture, for instance as measured by the 2015 PISA assessment, is strongly associated to this country’s level of science education and normally quality of educational resources produced in this country. From one direction, this means that the lower the level of scientific culture in a country the lower the quality of educational books, magazines, websites and so on that will be produced or available in this country. A recent study has indicated that a country's level of scientific culture is also associated to the quality of contributions from this country to the electronic encyclopedia Wikipedia.

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Last NeuroMat scientific publications

• Fraiman, D., Fraiman, N., & Fraiman, R. (2017). Nonparametric statistics of dynamic networks with distinguishable nodes. TEST, 26(3), 546-573.

• A. de Andrade Costa, R. Tinós. "Investigation of rat exploratory behavior via evolving artificial neural networks." Journal of Neuroscience Methods 270 (2016): 102-110.

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NeuroMat in the media

• Free Knowledge. Giulia Gamba, Cásper, 01/2017. (In Portuguese)

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NeuroMat opportunities

• Opening for Web-based and mobile application design Scholarship

• Openings for Software Developers

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NeuroMat is a research center established in 2013 at the University of São Paulo that is dedicated to integrating mathematical modeling and theoretical neuroscience. Among the core missions of NeuroMat are the creation of a new mathematical system to understanding neural data and the development of neuroscientific open-source computational tools. The research center is headed by Prof. Antonio Galves, from USP's Institute of Mathematics and Statistics, and is funded by the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP). To receive monthly updates on NeuroMat's work or pertaining news, please subscribe to NeuroMat's newsletter.

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Previous issues of the NeuroMat Newsletter (features)

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• A NeuroMat project group to simulate cortical networks using stochastic models

Newsletter #34

• Snippets of the Second NeuroMat Workshop

Newsletter #33

• Integrating research, technology transfer and dissemination: NeuroMat’s third report of activities