ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY

Viputheshwar Sitaraman Founder, Blogger Draw Science.

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It's been a year since I started Draw Science. Can't believe it. The idea's come a long way, from just a blog that I started for fun, to an open-access journal in the works. Now, I'm travelling while I set up the journal and doing a study on behalf of my other organization, #IndieSci. Tell me if you'd like to meet up and grab a coffee. Keep track of travels at blog.drawscience.org!

ARCS CONFERENCE POSTER

Viputheshwar Sitaraman Founder, Blogger Draw Science.

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Extremely excited to attend the ARCS Conference 2015 on behalf of Draw Science. A huge thanks to ARCS for their gracious scholarship covering all travel, lodging, and food expenses!

PICTURES, NOT PARAGRAPHS.

Viputheshwar Sitaraman Founder, Blogger Draw Science.

Article:
W. Howard Levie, & Richard Lentz (1982). Effects of text illustrations: A review of research Educational Technology Research & Development, 30 (4), 195-232 : 10.1007/BF02765184

PUT THE ART IN ARTICLE

Viputheshwar Sitaraman Founder, Blogger Draw Science.

Science communication is broken. Let's fix it.
I've already ranted about the problems with science communication. Even when a layperson gets access to a paper despite all the pay-per-view journals, the use of esoteric jargon makes it practically impossible for the public to read fresh-from-the-lab-bench science. For the last few months, I've been working on a solution through Draw Science. Now it's time to take off the band-aid and treat the wound.

I want to make an open access infographic journal.
We're talking the whole sha-bang: trademarks, corporation filings, DOI's, CLOCKSS archival, etc. By the end of this, Draw Science will have the same legal legitimacy of PLOS or any other online scholarly journal. The barrier is that this costs a little bit of cash; cash that a college student like myself doesn't have.

PS. Sorry for disappearing for a while. I was busy trying to make this happen!

RESEARCH IS BROKEN...

Viputheshwar Sitaraman Founder, Blogger Draw Science.

Article: Alberts, B., Kirschner, M., Tilghman, S., & Varmus, H. (2014). Rescuing US biomedical research from its systemic flaws Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111 (16), 5773-5777 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1404402111 [Full Text (HTML)]

...HOW TO FIX SCIENCE.

Viputheshwar Sitaraman Founder, Blogger Draw Science.

Article: Alberts, B., Kirschner, M., Tilghman, S., & Varmus, H. (2014). Rescuing US biomedical research from its systemic flaws Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111 (16), 5773-5777 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1404402111 [Full Text (HTML)]

HIGH SUGAR AND PLANTS

Viputheshwar Sitaraman Founder, Blogger Draw Science.

Article: Wang L, Waltenberger B, Pferschy-Wenzig EM, Blunder M, Liu X, Malainer C, Blazevic T, Schwaiger S, Rollinger JM, Heiss EH, Schuster D, Kopp B, Bauer R, Stuppner H, Dirsch VM, & Atanasov AG (2014). Natural product agonists of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma (PPARγ): a review. Biochemical pharmacology PMID: 25083916 [Full Text (HTML)]

Suggested By: Dr. Atanas G. Atanasov.

                              Principal Investigator 

                              Department of Pharmacognosy, Vienna

                              http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25083916