We are back this year with an enhanced, month-long, online event for Cancer Immunotherapy Month. Continue reading Figure collections on Cancer Immunotherapy
How can ReFigure break information silos?
This is Cancer Immunotherapy month and we are thinking a lot about our own research and how tools like Refigure can help. Here is a list of examples where our community and users have disrupted information silos using ReFigure. Continue reading How can ReFigure break information silos?
Cambridge Science Festival Presentation
Cambridge Science Festival is an annual event launched in 2007 by MIT Museum that includes various STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Mathematics) related activities. During this event, in collaboration with Bunker Hill Community College, ReFigure team hosted a hands-on workshop on how to read, understand and save scientific papers.
Continue reading Cambridge Science Festival Presentation
Week 6: Preprints and interim research products
So now you’ve learnt how to read papers. ~1 million papers are published annually but even then you may not find what you are looking for when it comes to latest research. What are the latest projects people are working on? Is anyone working to answer a specific problem? Is this information available openly? Do you need to have written a paper to share and get credit for your work? Continue reading Week 6: Preprints and interim research products
Reflections on 2018
This is a series of posts reflecting on ReFigure’s roadmap, past and present. The first post looks back on the key efforts of 2018.
Week 5: Reproducibility of scientific findings, Part 2
This is part 2 of the lesson on scientific reproducibility. Links to other lessons are the end of this post. How can you trust the scientific information you read? Continue reading Week 5: Reproducibility of scientific findings, Part 2
Week 5: Reproducibility of scientific findings, Part 1
Happy New Year! This is the 5th lesson in a 7-lesson course and it is first being posted in 2019. We hope students continue to find it useful any time!
If you have been listenting to current science news, you might have heard the terms reproducibility and replication, particularly in the context of whether we should trust scientific results.
The video in this lesson is a very measured and truthful look at science reproducibility (Thanks TedEd! https://ed.ted.com/lessons/is-there-a-reproducibility-crisis-in-science-matt-anticole,CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). Continue reading Week 5: Reproducibility of scientific findings, Part 1
Week 4: Are you too inexperienced to start building a science identity?
This week in the ReFigure Undergraduate Research Course we recap what we have learnt and ask how you can turn this learning into a science identity on social media . You may have heard of “fake news” on social media. By sharing your learning you can combat fake trends, educate people about science, build a science network and identity and find jobs. Continue reading Week 4: Are you too inexperienced to start building a science identity?
Week 3: Tools and strategies to find papers and save your literature review
Last week, in the ReFigure Undergraduate Research Course (free, online, weekly-see intro) you were introduced to ReFigure. This week you will start saving your literature review. But how to find more papers? Continue reading Week 3: Tools and strategies to find papers and save your literature review
Autism advocacy
Autism is a complex neurobehavioral condition that is prevalently diagnosed in males. Main symptoms of the disease are difficulty in communication, decline in social interaction, hardships in language development (approximately one-third of people with autism are non-verbal) and presence of rigid, repetitive behaviors. In addition, autistic patients frequently suffer from Continue reading Autism advocacy
