On June 21, we will celebrate the Winter solstice with an experimental form of journal club that I wish to try out. Instead of reading and deconstructing one paper in detail, the proposed alternative model involves folks going out and finding a paper each that is of potential interest to the group, and breifly introducing that paper to the group. It is a way of using our collective numbers to cover and diversify our interests within what is a very broad literature, and if it works, we can try to use this approach to complement the single-paper discussions which I understand are very productive.
For the 21st, I want each of us to find one paper and spend 2-3 minutes speaking about that paper and it's merits. To keep things a bit focussed, I suggest we limit ourselves to papers from open-access journals (PLoS Biology, BMC titles, etc). This will give us a chance to find out about some of these interesting journals and their publishing model at the same time as learning about the science. Please send me your paper's title ahead of time so I can be sure there won't be duplication.
Rob
PS. Think and let Simon, Erik and I know (or post on this blog) what you think about this model. We can use it in future to target particular journals, fields, taxa or time periods in the history of Evolutionary Biology.
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