The internet – distraction or information goldmine? Both – but you have to be able to ignore the distractions to focus on the real business of science.
The Ivory Tower is a myth – you need to be connected to your peers, and that’s a worldwide network. Conferences don’t cut it for this communication any more.
Overloaded with new information – we need to deal with this in a sensible fashion… Discovery and prioritisation…
I don’t like Facebook for scientific interaction, doesn’t mean it’s not possibleI prefer Twitter.Twitter is not all about what celebrities had for lunch – it’s all about the network *you* build, and what you do with it
Interconnectedness of the people I follow on Twitter
a system of classification derived from the practice and method of collaborativelycreating and managing tags to annotate and categorize content
Stack Overflow for lots of topicsIncluding Biology, Academia etc98 sites.
Focus on title & DOI for searching – problem can be that news items about science often don’t reference the primary literature – can be worth using author names in conjunction with key words too (and even institutions)Check the articles themselves for added commentary
