Research is much more personal and interesting than the dry details that we put
into our journal articles. With this in mind, Doug Leigh and I have started a
podcast to share “the unpublished stories behind the world’s most compelling
science”. But it is not us telling the stories, rather we ask the researchers
to tell the stories themselves.
Our first two episodes are now available at www.ParsingScience.org
<http://www.parsingscience.org/> You can listen to them on the website, or
using the podcast app on your phone. If you subscribe to the show then you will
get a new episode every other week. For the first episode we interviewed Ryan
Kelly, a marine biologist who published an article on using narrative style in
science articles; and for the second we spoke with Scott Halpern who did
research on the accuracy of the outcome predictions made by doctors and nurses
for ICU patients. Upcoming episodes will include a psychologist (on the
stereotypes about Christians in science), a computer scientist (on how
computers can learn to detect the meaning of images), and a public health
researcher (on how African communities become resilient when confronted with
issue of rebel terror groups and child soldiers).
Hopefully you will enjoy listening to the episodes as much as we enjoy creating
them. Please subscribe to the podcast and share it with your friends. We are
also working on a webpage with ideas for how instructors can use the episodes
when teaching research methods courses.
Talk to you soon,
Ryan
Ryan Watkins, Ph.D.
Professor, George Washington University
Co-Host of Parsing Science <http://www.parsingscience.org/> (the stories behind
today’s most compelling science)
Websites:
www.WeShareScience.com <http://www.wesharescience.com/> (an online science fair)
www.NeedsAssessment.org <http://www.needsassessment.org/> (all things needs
assessment)
www.RyanRWatkins.com <http://www.ryanrwatkins.com/> (resume, books, articles,
etc.)
blogs.gwu.edu/hmec/ <http://blogs.gwu.edu/hmec/> (the human-machine expertise
collaborative)
New - Free Micro Learning Course on Needs
<http://gohighbrow.com/portfolio/understanding-needs/> (10 short emails over 10
days)
Follow @WeShareScience on Twitter <https://twitter.com/WeShareScience>
Follow WeShareScience on Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/wesharescience>
