Week 10 (CC wrap up --> on to article close read+review)
Here is Monday's OHitS/AMA. You can ask questions about the memo+Eli Review task underway. AND, here a bit about the next assignment. We will use the science cultural activity called "journal club" as our context. Here are a couple of linked resources for you to read about journal clubs:
- Lucy Bauer's NIH guide for first-time jc-ers. In 2015, Bauer was a post-bacc scholar in one of the many intramural lab positions
- 2018 many-authored how-to, published open access in Stroke.
- Pedagogy article on how journal club activities help students understand scientific method
- ". . .students reported increases in confidence in their abilities to access and present scientific articles and write scientific abstracts. Additionally, the students reported improved confidence and performance in their courses." From the abstract (co-authors Sandefur and Gordy teach undergraduate science."
Read these articles and come on over to the Google Doc. Do not forget that your Eli Review task is due TONIGHT, Monday at 11:45. We will have a quick turn around Review task that I will open on on Tuesday AM. DUE Wednesday evening at 11:45. FINAL VERSION due for a grade on April 1, Thursday in Eli Review space. i am pretty relaxed about April 1 deadline as I am grading as they documents come in.
BE ON TIME FOR YOUR COLLEAGUES!
Check out this goofy take on journal clubs (Rick and Morty gif at Tenor platform).
And, enjoy this great little song parody on the need to publish in higher ed.
Marybeth Shea
9-11 join me in Monday's OHitS/AMA doc for ongoing questions about your peer editing review task DUE TONIGHT, so as to help each other move forward. Thursday, I will open a final documdnt space in Eli Review for a grade. HOWEVER, you can turn that document in, say, through Sunday and not be late.
Let's meditate on the "power of three," namely, that we can remember stuff better if we put the items in sets of three or four.
- phone number patterns X XXX XXX XXXX
- Social Security numbers XXX XX XXXX
- All the fairy tales and wisdom stories
- three little pigs
- three blind mice
- seven swans/brothers (3 + 4)
- Rumplestilksin's three tasks
- Liberty, Fraterny, Equality of the French Revolution
- Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
- Three stooges
- Jeni gives you three wishes
- Bob Marley's Three Birds
- Paper-scissors-rock game
Read this short Forbes opinion piece reminding that three pieces of information are effective in communication.
About your journal club review: your task is not to TELL YOUR COLLEAGUES EVERYTHING. Rather, you job is to
- help your colleagues with the huge burden of reading in a field
- share three or four memorable take-aways from the paper
- place the paper within the context of human problem solving
- let a colleague consider for themselves if they should read further or simply rely on your summary
Using the "power of three" is a really good life skill. Two additional items for you as spring is now here and unlike last year, we use cautious optimism now rather than the very amorphous fear of one year ago. Go outside! Wear your mask. Sign up for a shot (rumor is that campus will be a location of shots in late May/June). And, enjoy Bob Marley's song.
Marybeth Shea
Good morning. I will be in a new google doc typing between 9-12 about reading your research article strategically.
Here are two quick-read commentary pieces from Science, a AAAS publication:
- Adam Ruben's 2016 lightly funny piece that offers direction and support of this special act of attending.
- Elizabeth Pain's 2016 follow-up to Ruben's piece, with good follow up commentary and guidance.
Read the comments in both pieces to hear from other scientists about how to attack this complex and necessary reading. Ruben and Pain are both scientists, rather young scientists -- like YOU!
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Bonus read from Science Daily: What about when an artifical intelligence (AI) reads a scientific paper?
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