Communicating Research Beyond the Academic Paywall
Go beyond the peer-reviewed paper
What fascinates you about your scientific or academic field?
Why is it so important to you?
Why pursue answers in this field of study?
For many scientists or academics, there are often formative events and experiences that influence our choices of careers. My love of neuroscience, the brain, and all the strange unknown phenomenon influencing our perception of the world inspired me to learn more and more. Now, the accessibility of the internet has made it easier than ever to access information! But sometimes, others cannot access the very research into which we spill our hearts and souls.
Many academics dedicate more than fifty hours a week to their research, literature reviews and experiments. Graduate students, research assistants and technicians do not work away tirelessly for money or prestige. (There isn’t a lot of money for us in academia to start with.)
We make sacrifices to pursue these academic questions as a means of understanding a minuscule portion of our real world.
For those less attuned to the academic ecosystem, this describes the typical pathway for bringing a research article to fruition. You spend a lot of time reading and thinking…
