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!

Free Course: find, read, share papers and conduct literature reviews

Welcome to the a free online course designed by ReFigure team for undergrads, masters and PhD students. 

Learning objectives Continue reading Free Course: find, read, share papers and conduct literature reviews