The whole point of science is to discover things we don’t know yet, and it’s often challenging to distinguish between a calculated falsehood and a new truth. As a result, we in the scientific community can only make progress together because we can, to some degree, trust that we’re all well-intentioned and engaged collectively in the pursuit of knowledge.
Monthly Archives: January 2009
Which countries do the most research?
January 13, 2009 – 8:31 pm
Labmeeting gets visits from people all over the world who are searching for answers to questions about biomedical research subjects. The fascinating thing about this is that it means we can look at our Google Analytics board and tell which countries are most interested in the life sciences.
Sharing is Searching
January 4, 2009 – 11:23 pm
One of the things we hope Labmeeting will help people do more effectively is find papers that are relevant to their research. This is a challenging problem that needs to be attacked from multiple directions. There are a lot of interesting things one can do through active recommendation, analysis of citations, and human-generated or automated categorization. The approach I want to focus on today, though, is quite basic, but nevertheless extremely powerful. Specifically, I want to talk about collection sharing.
