Author: Alice Bonasio
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Research Taps Into the Crowd
There’s no denying that securing funding is a vital part of a researcher’s job. But although it has never been exactly easy to apply for and get money for scientific research, the on-going global economic crisis made things even more difficult, especially for early career researchers. Faced with cuts, universities and funding bodies have less…
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Facebook Game Uses Crowdsourcing to Tackle Ash Die Back Disease
Britain’s estimated 80 million ash trees are under threat, with scientists fearing that the Chalara fungus – known ash ash die back disease – could prove as deadly to the UK’s woodlands as Dutch elm disease was in the 1970s, killing millions of trees. In Denmark, the impact of ash die back was devastating, with…
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Yale iGEM Team Uses Mendeley to Make Collaboration Easier
A while back, we heard from a group of students at Yale University working for a really exciting project called iGEM. They wanted to use Mendeley so they could collaborate better in their research, and we were more than happy to help out. We also thought it’d be nice to share their experience and…
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Mendeley Mini-Conference on Recommender Systems
Last week, Mendeley hosted an all-day mini-conference on Academic-Industrial Collaborations for Recommender Systems. As we’re fast running out of space in our London office, we rented a nearby venue called Headrooms. With friendly staff looking after everyone’s needs and great start-up décor, we’ll definitely be coming back for future Mendeley event. In the morning and early afternoon we…
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Mendeley Desktop Syncs Mapped Globally
Here at Mendeley we have a hack day every month where our developers (and even the non-techy folk) try to come up with cool and/or useful projects. On one of those days, Carles Pina from our Desktop team thought it would be interesting to play around with the Google Maps API to visualize Mendeley activity…
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