Semi-social network for scientists

[Pico Gram]

Hello everyone, my name is Ronny.

 

After so many times of antibody tubes mysteriously disappeared the morning I needed it to my experiment I decided to do something about it.

 

 

I guess you all know the feeling, that chill down your spine when a lab member says, "oh, I just finished it yesterday".

 

 

Immediately, labs in your vicinity are running through your head trying to figure out who might have what you are looking for and would help you with a small sample.

 

For that purpose I have created a semi-social network. The groups were created according to names of medical schools, universities and scientific institutes around the world.

 

 

The way I see it, you face a shortage of a certain material, you post a query on your group's page and hopefully someone in the next hour will see it and rescue your experiment.

 

In time the site will cover other issues for the benefit of the scientific community such as protocols, learning material, conferences and so on, but all of this depends on the good will of the site users. I will do all in my power to make it happen.

 

The name www.Shareatube.com

 

Hope you'll join us

 

Ronny

 

 

 

P.S - Just for "fun", a mouse procedure i performed in my lab

 

[Time BOY]

Most humans need an incentive to stay on a norm with structure, wether it be monetary, friendship benefits, or love. We all have a need to want to do anything, for those who help you out, include them in after lab events, let them know what your doing will also benefit them, even a cookie can help. lol If you find yourself short on a tubes, ask team members to help, if they only help once and not consistently then reward him with a kind gesture, if thats not enough, then up the anny. People find it hard to do anything for others that doesnt benefit them, they might start off doing it, but over time wain and will stop. Small gestures of kindness, will give an incentive to try, thus leading to full on lab cooperation. But I guess helping one of them means you to must help them back and that is a non productive social dynamic of give and take, rather then give and reward, or just give, because you care. People need to realize that doing things for others is a greater reward then getting something back and by doing whats best for yourself and the group means a better overall out come, "Governing Dynamics", John F. Nash. John said it right, and if you combined the two for a social dynamic that benefits them and you, it will work longer then if it only works for ones benefit and anothers sometimes. Consistent, gestural rewards or even futher social rewards, sharing a little more information then you usually do,will work, but only if they do the same. So how to get a group dynamic to work, set guidelines to the overall exchange of goods, or favors. No favor can be greater then the one I give you, but as the favors get bigger so do the opposing favors, until it becomes a friendship bases of sharing, then and only then will it be inforced in the minds of everyone who is participatiing. Malpasso

[Pico Gram]

I partially agree. People does need incentive but i believe feeling good about helping others is, i hope, enough. What do i base my beliefs on ?

 

well, I'll tell you. In my university there are more than 200 labs which naturally work on a variety of fields. Despite this variability the materials used in the labs are generally tangential.

 

For instance, not long ago i needed centricon tubes for protein concentration cause our supplier was a day late and my experiment was already running. I turned the university inside out and upside down but could not find one with the right threshhold. In all the labs i been to, they had no problem giving me their centricons (which i couldnt use but even so...). Another example, we have an ELISA reader and people from all over come read their plates like we use the beta counter of other lab 7 stories away from us. People around, in all the universities share all the time but often are familiar only with the labs in their close vicinity or in collaboration with which is quite limited.

 

I can't see a reason why not widen that habit of sharing.

 

I admit it sound a bit naive, but, how many time you have thought about something good (at least in your mind) and have done nothing about it just because...

 

Ronny

[Andrew blue]

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Hello everyone, my name is Ronny.

 

After so many times of antibody tubes mysteriously disappeared the morning I needed it to my experiment I decided to do something about it.

 

 

I guess you all know the feeling, that chill down your spine when a lab member says, "oh, I just finished it yesterday".

 

 

Immediately, labs in your vicinity are running through your head trying to figure out who might have what you are looking for and would help you with a small sample.

 

For that purpose I have created a semi-social network. The groups were created according to names of medical schools, universities and scientific institutes around the world.

 

 

The way I see it, you face a shortage of a certain material, you post a query on your group's page and hopefully someone in the next hour will see it and rescue your experiment.

 

In time the site will cover other issues for the benefit of the scientific community such as protocols, learning material, conferences and so on, but all of this depends on the good will of the site users. I will do all in my power to make it happen.

 

The name www.Shareatube.com

 

Hope you'll join us

 

Ronny

 

 

 

P.S - Just for "fun", a mouse procedure i performed in my lab

 

I will join after collage, great idea.