Tag: Facebook

• Don’t Miss the Technology and Research Mendeley Masterclass at Social Media Week!

  This Thursday the 26th September, Mendeley’s Co-founder Jan Reichelt will get together with 8 other innovators from the Open Knowledge Foundation, Zooniverse, Elsevier, Indiegogo, Team Cooper, The Lancet, JoVE and the Mobile Collective to discuss the many ways that technology can change, facilitate and improve things for researchers everywhere. From “The Article of the Future”…

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  Alice Bonasio

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  September 23, 2013

  1–2 minutes

• How is Technology Changing Research? Let’s Find Out!

  Social Media Week London will soon be upon us and Mendeley is really excited to be hosting a Masterclass in the heart of Covent Garden. This year’s SMW theme is “Open and Connected” and  that’s literally what Mendeley is all about. So we thought we’d bring together a few like-minded people to talk about how…

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  Alice Bonasio

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  September 5, 2013

  3–5 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

• Science Citizens Unite!

    There’s been a lot of buzz around “Citizen Science” lately, so it’s only fair to ask whether the hype is really justified or if it’s more of a gimmick or passing fad. Taking some time to look at the projects that have already harnessed the power of the masses to advance scientific research, however,…

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  Alice Bonasio

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  March 5, 2013

  3–5 minutes

• Announcing the Mendeley Haiku Contest #mendeleyhaiku

  We asked our Mendeley Advisors to submit a haiku on their Advisor application and the material that was submitted was so impressive we thought we would open up submissions to the wider Mendeley community. If you’re a poet (whether you know it or not), send us a tweet including #mendeleyhaiku or post on our Facebook…

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  drgunn

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  January 17, 2011

  1–2 minutes