Strengthening Science Communication

1. Strengthening Science Communication Professional Workshop Series at the National University of Mongolia • Workshop #5 • “Presentation Draft Peer Review • And • Effective Journal Article Reading”

2. From Last Time • How has Google Reader/Google Alerts been working for you? Adjusted settings? • Before we start on Peer Review: • Backtrack to a few lesson ago on useful tools • Ran across interesting Wikipedia Video • that helps illustrate how Wikipedia works • Remember Wiki ≠ Wikipedia  Wiki is a general term. • To the Video!

3. Go to video http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/tutorials/wikipedia/

4. Organizing your sources • I created an example “Science Feed” for class – add your examples! • (This didn’t work quite like I thought…you have to make your own feeds…so just formed the group – mention any sites/articles you find interesting!) • Believe it or not: Facebook! • Create a custom List (different than a group!):

5. Your Science Talk! • Reminder • Presentation Schedule: • March 15 (Today): Draft of slides uploaded to Dropbox – we will peer-review them as a group • Anyone have trouble with using dropbox? Anyone that couldn’t do it can transfer their slides via memory stick. • Final Presentations: Mar 29 and Apr 5 (please sign sign-up sheet today)

6. Your Science Talk! • Your talk should have the following format: • You can do it on your own research, research you will do in the future, OR a journal article. • If you choose the journal article, you need to clearly present it as the author’s work of course, and give proper credit. • Introduction (2) Set-up (3) Results (4) Implications (5) Summary/Conclusion

7. The Top 5 Tips • 5. PRACTICE! PRACTICE! • 4. Keep within time limits! • 3. Makeit readable! 2. RESIST CLUTTER! • 1. TELL A STORY! • Making draft slides – and getting feedback on them - is a very important way of practicing! • A few reminders of things to look for:

8. Peer Review Tips • A few reminders of things to look for:

9. Summary • n of both haze analogs are consistent with previous chemical analyses. O M G, T O O M A N Y W O R D S!!!! Titan refractive index compares well with accepted values.  Due to lower absorption of the haze analog, an early Earth haze may have had a significantly weaker anti-greenhouse effect than if the haze was composed of Titan tholins. How much would such a haze have offset the effects of enhanced greenhouse gases during the Archean?

10. 3. Make it Readable! Basic Ulaanbaatar Climate Data

11. Pollution in Ulaanbaatar compared to other major cities around the world

12. Pollution in Ulaanbaatar compared to other major cities around the world

13. 3. Make it Readable! Which visual conveyed more information?

14. 3. Make it Readable!

15. 3. Make it Readable! Speed Time

16. Make it Readable! Speed Time

17. Make it Readable! Speed (km/hour) Time (seconds)

18. Peer-Review Procedure • We will come up, share our slides, one by one. We will look for ways to improve each slide. • Let’s make constructive comments – talking about how to build the presentation up, not tear it down.

19. Strengthening Science Communication Professional Workshop Series at the National University of Mongolia • Workshop #5 • “Presentation Draft Peer Review • And • Effective Journal Article Reading”

20. Parts of a Journal Article • Let’s come up with a list: • -Abstract • - Introduction • - Methods/Materials • Results • Discussion/Implications • Conclusion/Summary

21. Parts of Journal Article • Title/Author list – more info here than you may think! Last author often times is the Principal Investigator – the person who came up with the idea to be investigated, the basic methodology used, and procured the funding. First author usually did bulk of the actual experiments and writing – often times early career scientist Often by knowing the home institution and the names of the main authors, you can find out more info about this research group…

22. Parts of a Journal Article • Go Jimenez Group Site

23. Parts of a Journal Article • Abstract – concise– What science question were you answering? What are the results? (in a sentence or two) What is the major implication of this work? Read this first! • Intro – background info necessary to explain to people what science question you are answering and why it is important to investigate it. NOT a place for results! Usually, I don’t read this second – I skip to conclusion/Discussion

24. Parts of a Journal Article • Methods – The details of how they conducted this study. • Results – straightforward. Generally does not discuss implications, comparisons, etc. • Discussion/Implication – explains the significance of the work in detail. Why are these results interesting? How can they shape the next research steps in this particular field?

25. Parts of a Journal Article • Conclusion – A summary of the work that usually emphasizes the implications and suggests or mentions directions future work might go. • Order I usually read in: Abstract  Conclusion & Discussion  Figures  Methods  Results • Basically, I’m trying to say: read articles in the way that makes the most sense for what you want to get out of it. Sometimes you will read the entire thing word for word, but most times, you will scan it for the parts that are interesting/relevant to you.

26. Parts of a Journal Article • Let’s check out a paper, and look at each section briefly…

27. What about Peer-reviewed sources? • Your turn (with a partner or two): Find an article that interests you on Web of Science (google “Web of Science – bookmark it!) or doaj.org or plos.org. • Use the handout as a guide to peruse the article. • In about 20-30 min, we’ll share out what articles you found, and the basic info you found out about them.

28. What about Peer-reviewed sources? • To access the handout: • Go to SciCom dropbox folder • (2) Find March15Activity_group_names_here.docx • (3) Immediately: “save as” with your names in the title. • Example: March15Activity_group_names_saruul_basaka.docx • Otherwise, you will write over each others’ files!

29. Next Time • March 22: Anyone who didn’t get to present their draft slides/wasn’t finished will get one last chance. • - CVs and the grant writing process • Who has a CV or resuméalready? Please bring it next time! • April 5/March 29: Presentations