Post on 10-May-2015
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Taking the Ecological Conversation Online
Jarrett Byrnes
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis@jebyrnes
http://jarrettbyrnes.info
Take-Home
Engaging with colleagues using online tools will improve your
science.
Where do we Discuss Science Now?
ColleaguesLiterature Meetings
Tapestry of Online Tools
Wordpress Blogger Twitter
Google+
StackExchange
#SciFund Figshare Github
Talk Outline
1. Enhancing Discovery
2. Online Discussion & Review
3. Online Activity Leads to Funding
4. Changing Scholarly Discourse
Blogs & Social Networks Aid Information Discovery by Connecting Scientists
Discovery: Twitter
Meetings
Grey literature you might have missed
New tools
People you may want in your network
Discovery: Blogs
Discovering Answers: stackexchange
http://stats.stackexchange.com
Discovering New Mentors & Advice
http://neurodojo.blogspot.ca/
Talk Outline
1. Enhancing Discovery
2. Online Discussion & Review
3. Online Activity Leads to Funding
4. Changing Scholarly Discourse
Opportunity for Critical Discussion
http://dynamicecology.wordpress.com/
Opportunity for Discussion of Bigger Issues
http://theseamonster.net/2011/05/forum-on-fish-food-and-people/
Solving Problems as a Group
• Venue for international collaboration to solve scientific problems
Post-Publication Peer Review
Researchblogging.org
Talk Outline
1. Enhancing Discovery
2. Online Discussion & Review
3. Online Activity Leads to Funding
4. Changing Scholarly Discourse
ScientistsBroaderpublic
putting your science online for everyone
research cashvia crowdfunding
Round 1: $73K in 45 days with 49 scientistsRound 2: $100K in 30 days with 75 scientistsAverage Project ~ $1600 – perfect for a grad student or pilot project!http://scifundchallenge.org
Jai Ranganthan
Onlinepresence1 blog post / month ≈53 Twitter followers
Scientificfanbase1 Twitter follower ≈1 project view
Projectviews110 project views ≈1 contributor
Money forresearchAverage raised ≈$1,600
Friends and family50 Facebook friends ≈1 contributor
DonorcontributionsAverage contribution ≈$55
Funding target met20 project views ≈1 contributor
The Secret to #SciFund: Engagement
Byrnes et al. In Review
Talk Outline
1. Enhancing Discovery
2. Online Discussion & Review
3. Online Activity Leads to Funding
4. Changing Scholarly Discourse
Rapid Sharing of Data & Results
http://figshare.comhttp://datadryad.orghttp://dataone.org/find-data
Online Fingerprint as a Measure of Impact
http://altmetrics.org and http://total-impact.org
Being Tweeted May Lead to More Citations
Eysenbach et al. 2011 JMIR Raw Pearson Correlation = 0.69
R2=0.80
Publication: Math & Physics Have this Figured Out
• arXiv – preprints let you see & discuss information NOW– Journals still the final arbiters & Quality assurance
• Little culture of preprints in Ecology & Evolution– ESA (currently) not allowing submission of papers on arXiv
Take-Home
Engaging with colleagues using online tools will improve your
science.
What Can I Do?
• Join Twitter– Find 10 people to follow (http://twitter.com/jebyrnes/eemb)
– Check it once a day• Follow Blogs– Find 3 relevant to your interests– Lurk – it's OK! Comment when ready!
• Adventurous? Start a blog!– …with 4-5 other people– …posting once a month each
Acknowledgements• Miriam Goldstein, Emmett Duffy, John Bruno,
Meg Duffy, Josh Drew, Jeremy Fox, Liz Neeley
• #SciFund: Jai Ranganathan, Zen Faulkes, Barbara Walker, and our 124 scientists
• NCEAS Future of Publishing Working Group
Links!• Blogs: http://jarrettbyrnes.info/bloglinks.shtml
– http://scienceseeker.org
• Twitter: http://twitter.com/jebyrnes/eemb
• #SciFund: http://scifundchallenge.org
• Figshare: http://figshare.com
• Google+: http://plus.google.com
• GitHub: http://github.com
• Slideshare: http://slideshare.net
• Utopia Docs: http://utopiadocs.com/
I Don't Have Time for This (blogging)!
1. Make this part of your NSF broader impacts2. You do not have to do this alone– Lab blogs– Field station blogs– Project blogs
3. Do you keep a lab notebook?4. How do you become a better writer? Write!5. Aggregators make tracking even infrequently
updated blogs simple
Can Crowdfunding Lead to Big Money?
doctorzen.net
Networks & Lists of Scientists Available
sciencepond.com twitter.com/jebyrnes/eemb
Science Blogging Aggregators & Networks
scienceseeker.org blogs.scientificamerican.com
Discovering New Tools: Blogs
http://r-bloggers.org