There are more ways to communicate on the Internet than ever
before. These services are getting more and more populated by scientists or
even specifically set up for us. They have made my life as a scientist easier,
and without a few of them I could not work anymore. To get a general overview
of types of services out there, I will give a representative example for each of
them.
I am not the first one to come up with the idea to sum up
the available tools for scientists. There is a great project I just learned about.
At innoscholcomm.silk.co you can interactively browse through over
100 tools / websites in workflow - categories like discovery, analysis,
writing, publication, outreach and assessment. It is a great way to introduce
oneself to new sites and services.
AskScience
– get answers from scientists related to your question. Google twice before
asking, they hate boring questions.
AskEngineers
– like askScience but with engineers.
AskAcademia
– ask people employed in academia career-related questions, about publications,
the funding process, work stuff in general.
AMA – (Ask Me
Anything) People of interest, for example the NASA team right after a
successful mission, answering any type of questions. Often when a scientist publishes
something important they do an AMA.
FindaReddit
– reddit is overwhelming and confusing in the beginning - here you can ask were
you can find a fitting subreddit for your interest.
Blogs - labrigger.com
Blogs supply information on small or negative results and
findings that are usually not published. The blog labrigger.com shows helpful
tips and hacks to ease the life of an electrophysiologist.
It can be used to follow interesting scientists and their
updates, especially when attending conferences and live events.
Get updates on the work of researchers of interest and show
your own work. Uploaded posters get a lot more views than the ones only hanging
in your lab. By now you can upload anything and chances are you get
collaboration out of it. The publications suggested by RG are very fitting.
Hardware, software and data collection of open science
projects in neuroscience. The resources are described as detailed as necessary
to copy them for your own use.
Citizens help with their human computational power to
categorize animals, stars, plants and many others. Anyone can create a project
and use this tool to get their data analyzed.
There are a lot of youTubers who upload educational videos
that are really fun to watch. Some examples:
Two
Minute Papers - Summaries about
artificial intelligence papers in just two minutes. They are easy to digest.
Cody’sLab
- Experiments about refining metals, mining, chemistry, geology and even bee
keeping.
Applied
Science - Electron microscopes and a lot of really nerdy experiments in
applied science.
EEVblog
- Channel of Dave Jones, explaining in great detail any aspect of electronic
engineering.
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