Blog Comments

Kinetica Online is pleased to provide direct links to commentaries from our senior editor Dr. Steven Pelech has posted on other blogs sites. Most of these comments appear on the GenomeWeb Daily Scan website, which in turn highlight interesting blogs that have been posted at numerous sites in the blogosphere since the beginning of 2010. A wide variety of topical subjects are covered ranging from the latest scientific breakthroughs, research trends, politics and career advice. The original blogs and Dr. Pelech’s comments are summarized here under the title of the original blog. Should viewers wish to add to these discussions, they should add their comments at the original blog sites.

The views expressed by Dr. Pelech do not necessarily reflect those of the other management and staff at Kinexus Bioinformatics Corporation. However, we wish to encourage healthy debate that might spur improvements in how biomedical research is supported and conducted.

Posters

Do We Really Need Posters?

Blogger Ms.PhD at YoungFemaleScientist questioned whether giving and viewing poster presentations at scientific meetings todays are really worthwhile. S. Pelech argues that scientific meeting are usually called conferences, because they are venues for discussion, and scientific posters offers opportunity for discourse between new trainees and established scientists that should not be underestimated. Read More...

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Bruce Caron at the New Media Research Institute observed that the number of posters presented at academic professional meetings (perhaps 250,000 per year) is astounding, and he and his colleagues at the institute have announced their intention to build a service, which they dubbed Skolr, that would "ingest meeting posters as PDF files" and make them easily searchable online. S. Pelech comments that while Skolr seems to be a worthwhile endeavor if it is open-access, it would be even better if it was also possible to download video clips of authors presenting their posters. Read More...