Help me select some Node highlights
Posted by Eva Amsen, 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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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.
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!
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.
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.
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!