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Help me select some Node highlights

Posted by , on 17 May 2011

The Node’s birthday is coming up on June 22nd and we’re currently preparing some things for that behind the scenes.

One thing that I’m working on are a few slideshows to present this summer at departments and conferences. In these presentations, I want to include some highlights from the Node’s first year, and I could use some help finding those. I could include my own favourites, but I’d rather hear what you liked, so tell me, please: what was the best thing you’ve seen on the Node all year? Favourite posts, favourite topics, favourite parts of the site, or any other comments are all welcome.

Have a look at the archives in the sidebar or the intro page for inspiration and reminders of what was on the site a few months ago. So many memories already…

Thanks for helping out!

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5 thoughts on “Help me select some Node highlights”

  1. I really like the images that developmental biology generates. I notice that Erin Campbell has posted several that are both lovely and interesting, and I think I like the Drosophila ovaries the best.

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  2. Impossible to say “what was the best thing I’ve seen.” Mostly because my short-term memory is… short.

    I liked Linda’s post on December 31st: https://thenode.biologists.com/celebrating-nye-with-bioluminescence/ – it seemed a typical, exemplary blog post of the kind of thing I like to see here and I’m afraid it wouldn’t get flagged up. In the same vein, but more “what do you do for research?” was https://thenode.biologists.com/of-whales-and-lice/ with its delightful photos. Erin Campbell’s ovary cysts get a second thumbs up from me, too.

    The interviews with the “big shots” are great. The Node seems like the perfect place for them; an interview being something relevant at a moment in time, and yet preserved to look back at that moment – but I’d rather read one online than in a print journal. And they often go with some conference I’d have liked to attend.

    This sort of reporting is also very attractive, though I don’t know if you get to feature your own work: https://thenode.biologists.com/chicken-blogger-farmer-scientist/

    Happy upcoming birthday to the Node!

  3. Thanks for the feedback so far!

    Heather, I guess I could feature my own, but I’d rather showcase what others have done. And the chicken story was covered multiple places online and not particularly Node-specific, so I probably won’t include it.

  4. I like the behind the scenes stories. They’re very interesting and it’s nice to read an analysis of a paper from the prospective of how the work was done. They’re a nice new addition to the Node.

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  5. Oh yeah. I also really liked the intestinal crypts post which won’t suprise anyone that knows me (I really like intestines). https://thenode.biologists.com/the-intestinal-crypt/

    The pictures and video are amazing, and one of the articles was directly relevant to and helpful for what I was writing at the time in my PhD thesis even though I’m not a developmental biologist. Places like this are useful for sharing intersting science regardless of discipline, and I think it’s important to be aware of what’s going on out there even if it’s not directly in my field as you never know where you’re going to make a meaningful connection. Plus, pretty pictures!

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