Tzvetomir Tzvetanov’s github web page

I am a researcher. My scientific curriculum pages:

• at Orcid
• at Researchgate
• at Loop-Frontiers

Here you can find some descriptions of work related stuff.

The following points are present:

• Link to a document concerning my work period during the first half of 2008 as Bernstein Fellow
• Commentaries and discussion about my publication “Suppression and facilitation of motion perception in Humans” (Tzvetanov, 2018, bioRxiv) adn what happened in trying to publish it in the journal eLife

Period from January to April 2008 as Bernstein Fellow, and until June 2008 in Goettingen

• I had difficulties to establish my work contract for carrying in Goettingen my own independent project that was financed by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
• Instead of my DFG financed grant, I found myself as a “super” postdoc with the title “Bernstein Fellow” at the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience in Goettingen
• This pdf document in english gives my account about the events that happened and clarifies multiple errors about my Bernstein Fellow period, and around it, disseminated publicly by the BCCN Goettingen
• (addition on June 3rd 2020) I informed on November 1st 2019 different parties (8 persons) that were cited in the above document about its presence. Since then I did not have any communication about the BCCN issue with any person. In the email, I wrote a statement about communication on the issue about the BCCN from their side, or an intermediary contacting me on their behalf. From now on, Wednesday June 3rd 2020, I make the statement in the email public and its validity generalises to any person that communicates with me about this BCCN period. The statement is:

  After this email, any communication from your side about the BCCN that I receive could be made public at my own will.

  This means, if you send me any communication about the BCCN, from now on, you accept and agree that it can be made public by me at my own will, irrespective of what you state in it.

  This means, if some person, or organisation, takes contact and communicates about the BCCN with me on behalf of your name or your organisation, you accept and agree that all communications I receive from that person, or organisation, on your behalf can be made public by me at my own will, irrespective of what is stated in it. It is your responsibility to inform any other party communicating with me on your behalf that any of their communications enter into the above rule.

“Suppression and facilitation of motion perception in Humans” for the experimental design of D.Tadin as used in the Nature (2003, 424:312-315) paper

• I wrote a Research Advance manuscript for eLife, improving the paper “Suppression and facilitation of human neural responses” by Schallmo et al.
• I submitted a bioRxiv manuscript to eLife, and it was rejected at the editorial stage. This code goes with my manuscript “Suppression and facilitation of motion perception in humans”.
• The submission created a 3-way interaction between me, Drs Schallmo & Murray, and the Editorial Board of eLife, with result: the manuscript being rejected. Drs Schallmo & Murray wrote a concern as a reply to my manuscript, and I answered them here. After the final decision from eLife, I commented on pubpeer.com about the issues of “reviewing” and scientific discussion setup by eLife & bioRxiv.
• The code remains free (i.e. in the sense of the GPLv3) and openly available to people interested in this experimental design. The zip file contains the data and code (Octave; www.octave.org) for fitting the data with the model described in the manuscript, and creating the figures.