There are so many kinds of biologists... How could they all use one service?
JG
There are plenty of forums though regarding protocols and research of
all different kinds, ever been on ResearchGate? Its got a good spread
of topics, but I honestly find most of what I am looking for here,
with the limited time I have to think about things other than with
school.
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http://www.protocol-online.org/forums/
and the archives:
http://www.protocol-online.org/biology-forums/
This one has a wider array of topics than just lab protocols but is less active.
http://www.biology-online.org/biology-forum/
-cory
I took a look at http://www.protocol-online.org/forums/ and it seems
nice but I think it's too fractured. Do we really have to break
biology down that much? The problem with that is that while I may have
time to go through 2 or 3 sub-fora, I can't waste time reading through
the almost 50 fora I found there.
From my experience, I have used forums to basically learn about cars,
computers, and watches. I asked alot of noob questions and the people
really helped me learn more than I could by just reading. I now feel
comfortable working in these hobbies. In the sciences, I used the
physicsforum and chemicalforums but mostly to help with homework. I
found the response time at chemicalforums to be very slow and only a
few responses due to lack of overall activity.
I haven't found anything better than DIYbio listserv which is why I'm
still here.
http://biostar.stackexchange.com/
I believe there is another chem-bio StackExchange, but it doesn't seem
terribly well trafficked. If you're going to do this, it should go through
the Area 51 process:
http://area51.stackexchange.com/faq
and for preference support the existing general biology proposal:
http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/12502/biology
The rest is up to you: organization, advocacy, etc. If there's demand, it'll
happen.
Reason
Forums seem to attract narrow specialists.
Diybio isn't very specialized, so subforums might not get enough participants.
I like mail lists over forums, since forums always demand a login and make money
off of your participation in some cheesy way like ads on the right, above, below,
wiggling inward from the right was THE most annoying ad I encountered ever.
JG
I think John may be on to something. The hard part is probably
attracting knowledgeable people to the forum.
I think the mailing lists in general do a pretty good job, but there
are times when it seems like they are limited in some way. I don't
know if a forum would be able to solve this or not. Maybe someone
should try starting their own and seeing if it works. I don't know
much about setting up your own forum, but i assume if you host it
yourself you wont have to display ads. phpbb seems like it might be a
good one. I've seen a few forums that use that, and I've never seen
ads on their forums.
know if a forum would be able to solve this or not. Maybe someone
should try starting their own and seeing if it works. I don't know
Forums seem to attract narrow specialists.
Diybio isn't very specialized, so subforums might not get enough participants.
Mozilla Thunderbird email reader, (And others I've heard), lets you choose to vies emails in threaded form
the same way. And you don't have to go to a site and log in.
JG
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On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 7:22 AM, CoryG <co...@geesaman.com> wrote:
>> I can't even begin to guess why you think there are 40 bots in the channel.
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> I haven't used IRC since the days when the nicks not talking were bots.
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I'm not sure how you solve the problem of fragmentation once it has
happened. There needs to be strong incentive for experienced,
knowledgeable people to be on the forum from the beginning - people
who are willing to help others and who have an incentive to keep doing
so. It's probably easy to start up a forum and populate it with
dorks, but then, at its best, it's forever just a bunch of older dorks
leading newer dorks around in circles.
link to this? or could you provide it again?
I've poked around Nature's website and found this: http://network.nature.com/forums
Is that it?