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Hive Talk Board: An example of poor science communication that deserves to be told: Aftermath of the ‘Panama debate’ with Alexis Rojas
An example of poor science communication that deserves to be told: The Aftermath of the 'Panama debate' with Alexis Rojas Hive Talk Snippet Alexis talked about the Isthmus of Panama, its [...]
Hive Talk Board: Challenges in academic publishing with András Bóta
Challenges in academic publishing with András Bóta Hive Talk Snippet András presented a blueprint of the scientific research machine and asked what can be done to improve it. We discussed [...]
Hive Talk Board: Information games for squirrels with Martin Rosvall
Information games for squirrels with Martin Rosvall Hive Talk Snippet Martin presented a class of information games that include popular board games such as Clue and Battleship. In these games, [...]
Hive Talk Board: A Smarter Literature Review with Gabrielle Beans
A Smarter Literature Review with Gabrielle Beans Hive Talk Snippet Gabrielle presented the challenge of how to do a better, unbiased literature review when the literature is over 10,000 scientific [...]
Hive Talk Board: Micro Loans and Crowdfunding in the Charity Space with Ludvig Lizana
Micro Loans and Crowdfunding in the Charity Space with Ludvig Lizana Hive Talk Snippet Ludvig began our season of hive talks with a presentation of the kiva loan data [www.kiva.org] [...]
Ignorance
Ignorance: How it drives science Author: Stuart Firestein This book has new take on ignorance — what we as a scientific community don’t know. Overall, the book club members enjoyed reading it, [...]
Science that speaks plainly
We believe anyone should be able to grasp the findings of any scientist’s research studies. To that end, we feature summaries of IceLab work on this page that is accessible and interesting.
IceLab Collaborative Event Experiments
IceLab is here to help other scientists reach across disciplines to find new ideas and collaborations. We experiment wildly with different event formats to help make this happen.
Science Life
Commentaries on life as a scientist