Let’s talk about science!

[jaredhk]

@kristinweiss

In order to do this, I want to introduce you to my (and most scientist’s) best friend, PubMed!

The site is a search engine specifically for scientific papers. It is easy to navigate, has short abstracts in layman’s terms to give you the general idea of what papers are about before you read the full paper, and right now, most papers are available for free to everyone. They even have a link from their main page that directs you to everything COVID-19 related.

For interdisciplinary research (incl. all social science fields), I recommend JSTOR and EBSCO.

Also, in case anyone wants some reminders about conducting their own research and publishing their findings:

Let's talk about empirical research (exciting, I know!)

It’s come to my attention over the past several years that users of Chief Delphi love to conduct “research” and “experiments” and “surveys” about things. This research, while often well-meaning, it most often generating useless data. Your research doesn’t have to be so awful, though! Understand when to use a Chief Delphi poll Short answer: if you want accurate data, never. Long answer: Your data will always be skewed according to the data source. In proper research, you should ensure that your…