Idea. Every scientific article should be accompanied by a 250 word public-friendly ('plain English') summary incl a 'so what' sentence, be made available through a permanent online publication site (doi, citable), and be used/expanded upon by the authors Organisation.
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Ideally, I'd like every research-producing Organisation (not only Unis btw) to have their own blog-like output. A public-facing source of relatable outcomes-focussed content to explain how public funds were used.
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I sometimes hear in response, "but not every paper has something of interest". Not as written for the silo. No. But there *must*be a hook in there. Every time. Otherwise, why was it funded (often) with public money? It may need help or imagination to find that hook. It's there.
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Disagree with that. Sometimes the results are boring, and that's fine. Not all of my research is going to make headlines, and it probably shouldn't!
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Ahh. Headlines. Disagree back
It shouldn't be about the shininess. But if it was funded there should be a reason for it. There *will* be a hook. It might take a professional scicomm team to help scientists find it though. Every paper has a raisin d'etre.2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes -
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Lol, maybe I'm thinking more about the idea of "interesting" than anything. Maybe important would be a better term? At least placing research in context, because it might be very boring but that doesn't mean it isn't part of something great
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There are some journals that do this already! It's usually a summary of: what was already known, what this adds, etc. A few sentences each.
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Indeed. I'd like to see it mandated by any Orgs supporting scientists who publish.
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Yeh MJA does the same. A few diabetes journals too, but not that many
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Yeh I'm not saying plain language is unimportant, more that I don't like the idea that everything we do has to be "interesting" or "newsworthy" because sometimes it's more "mediocre" or "just plodding along" and that's fine too
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Newsworthy is different discussion from my idea. Newsworthy gets us occasional write ups of that Nature paper or "cure for cancer" (which isn't and harms more than helps).
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Newsworthy frequently skips over the rest. That doesn't mean there is no hook. Just means someone decided it wasn't newsworthy. Someone too close or with their own agenda.
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