A co-worker mentioned to me yesterday that a colleague of his is thinking about starting an online journal club type website for scientists. The idea seems to be discussions about papers, data sets, and other web-publishable materials, from any source, in a central location. It would also have discussions about scientific culture, which made me...
It would be a place where people (students, junior faculty, etc) could learn the ropes of academia and science without the pain and misery that traditionally is required. The differences I can see from existing services is the focus on journal club-style discussions and maybe a low barrier to entry
- Shirley Wu
from twhirl
But obviously, whatever he ends up pursuing should learn from the trials and tribulations of the many related services out there (including services like FF, which is also discussion-oriented)
- Shirley Wu
from twhirl
It's easy to immediately discount any proposal that sounds like yet another facebook for scientists, but there are still some interesting and potentially good ideas out there. Unfortunately, people who aren't as familiar with the existence of these tools always think of facebook as the ideal and as a brand new idea if applied to the scientist community. Hopefully I convinced my co-worker otherwise, while still encouraging the more innovative aspects of the concept. <end rant>
- Shirley Wu
from twhirl
AcaWiki is built around a very similar concept, and John Wilbanks makes an argument for bringing journal clubs online (cf. http://ff.im/airoV ).
- Daniel Mietchen
Shirley, Besides AcaWiki (great place to have these discussions, but I'm biased! http://acawiki.org/ ) your colleague also might be interested in GradTurkey, a journal-club discussion wiki originally aimed at grad students: http://gradturkey.fastcoder.net/
- Jodi Schneider
can discussion on AcaWiki be linkable and embeddable for public like you can do on FF? If not, so why don't do journal club on FF? Can't get it
- Alexey
I tried a site like this a few years ago. ResearchFire, or something like that? Never heard of it again.
- Neil Saunders
this topic came up during a discussion today with Mike Eisen of PLoS, re: why commenting hasn't really taken off - his thought is that people are more likely to comment if there's a central place to do it rather than individually at each journal website for each paper (how many of us access papers directly through journal websites except through PubMed anyway?). The whole time I was...
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- Shirley Wu
from twhirl
can somebody point to the platform for journal club online better then blog post? It's combine everything - presentation (ppt embedded from SlideShare or Gdocs, video embedded from YouTube/Vimeo...) presenter's opinion, discussion section under the post, embedded comments from FF, ranking of the presentation and number of views. Importantly you don't need to register or get account for commenting, it's public and linkable, moderatable . Whole world can participate. What can be better?
- Alexey
@Neil Saunders Were you thinking of JournalFire? We recently updated the site and are looking for feedback. I posted about it yesterday: http://friendfeed.com/the-lif...
- John Delacruz
Bi kadın hep mi güzel olur yahu, hamileykende güzeldi... Hayatın taşlarından biri :))) son filmini dün izledim hep güzel, hep çekici, hep sexy!!!!!
- Mehtap Ugurlu
hiç sevmiyorum bu fotoğrafları erotik desen erotik değil moda desen moda değil fantezi desen limuzinde leopar desenli hatun gayet sığ duruyor yok ya ı ıh..
- joanmiro
aa bi dakka belluci imiş o yavrım benim
- joanmiro
hahahahahhaha!!sil istersen yazdıklarını???? biz gözümüzü kapatalım
- Ëzgi ʚ
Bisey dicem ayıp olacak ama; başka islere bakarken 1.sini gorup dehsete dustum..cunku ben de ben sandım hacı ya!!!Nooluyo diye panikle actim..monicmiş :D
- Ëzgi ʚ
evet bende o gozle baktim gercekten sana benziyormus ezgi :)))) bundan sonra sen ne dersen senin fikirlerine katiliyorum :P
- unknown
hihihihihhihih! o zaman gül gibi gecinir gideriz bu feedlerde.... işi çözdün!! :)
- Ëzgi ʚ
Fwd: #ahm09 interesting, scientists are afraid to share data because others might mis-interpret the data, though this hardly ever happens. (via http://friendfeed.com/ianmulv...)
for confidence in any results, they must be independently reproducible. this applies to analysis, as much as any other experiment
- Mike Chelen
"they must be independently reproducible" - I guess, we live now in such times, that we have to state the obvious and cite each other, to remind (esp mainstream media) what science is and was always all about. Hard times for hard facts, it seems.
- Alex 'BuckyBit' Covic
Oh dear that's my trust in LHC results out the window then (;-)!
- Chris Rusbridge
Infusioni, rumori, stridolii, guardo fuori: silenzio. Fa freddo, è gelido. Poche luci, poca gente, pochi rumori. Il rimbombo dentro me di pensieri che vanno e vengono da una parte all'altra fa più rumore di tutto ciò che mi circonda. Fermatevi adesso. Ora. Vi prego. Please.
"Daniel Tammet is an autistic savant and author of the recent book Embracing the Wide Sky: A Tour Across the Horizons of the Mind (Free Press). You may have heard of him. For example, most people first became aware of the existence of Iceland upon hearing that Tammet learned Icelandic in a week. This is also the fellow that rattled off the first 22,514 digits of pi in five hours, enough for even the most exacting civil engineer, and far more accurate than the 19th century Texas town that passed an ordinance that pi would be approximated as 4. If ever there were a real human with superpowers, then Tammet fits the bill. Although stricken with adversity, his brain nevertheless is in certain respects blessed with something extra, smarter, almost magical."
- Eivind
from Bookmarklet
"I mean, what's more likely -- that I have uncovered fundamental flaws in this field that no one in it has ever thought about, or that I need to read a little more? Hint: it's the one that involves less work."
- Glenn Slaven
from Bookmarklet
bu arada fark edemeyenler için söyleyeyim. bu filmde küçük kızı (flora) canlandıran anna paquin'i bu aralar trueblood'da sookie olarak izliyoruz :) ne garip, di mi?
- satine
tiyatro oyunbaz'ın martı'sında kullanılan, çoooooook güzel olan dinleti... :))
- invinoveritas
"“Wall of Knowledge.” This is a visualised concept for a library in Stockholm. It was rendered by a team of students. (via marbury)"
- Charlotte M
from Bookmarklet
"I mean, what's more likely -- that I have uncovered fundamental flaws in this field that no one in it has ever thought about, or that I need to read a little more? Hint: it's the one that involves less work."
- Eivind
"Publishers need to provide more than just content to their end users, they need to ‘move up the value chain’ by providing more useful search tools than publicly accessible services such as Google, according to Andrew Richardson, VP of business development at Wolters Kluwer Heath."
- diego morelli