Is there a Biology site like Teamliquid.net? - Page 2

Slaughter

United States20255 Posts

August 04 2015 07:34 GMT

#21

I know this might sound weird but maybe there is some sort of facebook group? I know in my field there is a Biological Anthropology news group that has like 10k members and most of them are from people in the field at all levels (mostly grad students and professors). People discuss a lot of research there and other things. I would talk to your biology profs and any grad students for a start to see if they have any place like that (and also as mentioned above getting involved in labs/research is always a plus at the undergrad level).

coverpunch

United States2093 Posts

August 04 2015 13:39 GMT

#22

I think this depends tremendously on whether you want to find a place where you can find lots of opinions or just consume information. If you're just looking for information and some idea of the landscape, then subscribe to get feeds from PubMed, Nature, Science, Cell, etc. Just going through headlines and small blurbs for a few weeks will give you a pretty good idea of what's interesting to scientists out there and where things stand. Just for kicks, you probably should also subscribe to Retraction Watch and lurk on PubPeer to see some stronger opinions and the kinds of disagreements being kicked around.

But realistically, the "community" is mostly IRL for biologists. The community is relatively small in each field and everyone knows the heavy hitters, the rising stars, the disgraces, etc. It's not too hard to get in, all you have to do is participate by attending conferences and seminars, which any research university is all but begging new people to join but usually half-hearted because they know it's boring and they are afraid of attracting cranks. Nobody wants to hear your opinion about God when they're trying to have a discussion on protein structures in mice.

HaRuHi

1220 Posts

August 04 2015 14:41 GMT

#23

http://jem.rupress.org/
http://jcb.rupress.org/
http://jgp.rupress.org/

Maybe take a look at the Rockefeller research journals?

ninazerg

United States7291 Posts

August 04 2015 19:24 GMT

#24

We should have a LiquidBiology.net sister-site.