Author: Girija Goyal

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

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

Week 2: Let’s start reading papers and creating research outputs!

This is Week 2 of the ReFigure Undergraduate Research Course. Click for introduction and Week 1. As promised you are going to start diving into the topic of your choice and creating outputs that demonstrate your learning. This week’s video is great at explaining how to read papers and was made by Kishwaukee College Library. Continue reading Week 2: Let’s start reading papers and creating research outputs!