Tag: Dr Dan MacLean

• Technology and Research Mendeley Masterclass

  Last month we saw another edition of the global extravaganza that is Social Media Week. This time around there were over 1000 events and 25,000 attendees in 8 cities around the globe. The theme for this year was “Open & Connected” which is pretty much a perfect fit for the Mendeley philosophy. So we thought…

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  Alice Bonasio

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  October 10, 2013

  5–7 minutes

• 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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  Alice Bonasio

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  August 16, 2013

  2–4 minutes