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