Finding and understanding data shouldn’t be a bottleneck in biotech R&D.
Check how VectorCat:
✅ Summarizes documents instantly with AI
✅ Traces experimental workflows with Data Maps
✅ Automates metadata extraction, saving hours of manual annotation
youtu.be/2o5Da6v4gQs
🎃 The Case of the Vanishing Scientist: A Halloween Data Horror Story
It was a dark and stormy morning in the lab when Dr. Sarah Chen's team discovered their worst nightmare: their lead researcher had mysteriously disappeared to a startup, leaving behind only a graveyard of unlabeled samples and cryptic lab notebooks!
👻 The haunting began:
- Folders named "final_final_FINAL_v3_REAL" lurked in every drive
- Crucial protocols were scribbled on paper towels
- Data lived in "somewhere in my email attachments from March... or was it May?"
- The only person who knew where everything was? Now working on a beach in California!
The team spent months trying to resurrect dead-end experiments and decrypt handwriting that looked like it was written by a ghost. Some say that on quiet nights, you can still hear them wailing "BUT WHERE IS THE METADATA?!"
💡 Plot twist: This horror story doesn't have to be yours!
At @sci2sci_com, we believe the only things that should be scary at work are the office coffee and your colleague's Halloween costume. Not your data management.
Our VectorCat platform helps you:
🧪 Keep experiments documented (no ouija board needed)
📊 Track data lineage (better than breadcrumbs in the forest)
🔍 Find anything with semantic search (faster than a ghost can say "boo!")
Don't let your data management become a horror story. Let's talk about how we can help exorcise your data demons - and stay tuned for more spooky stories from the Halloween series this week!
*The characters and events depicted are fictious. Any similarity to names or incidents is entirely coincidental 😅*.
#DataManagement #Biotech #Halloween #DataGovernance #LabLife #KnowledgeManagement
5/ The call is open for 3 days until Friday, January 12th. Share it within your community and let’s make a leap for open science and human imagination together! 🌐✨ #Sci2Moon
Berlin #openscience and #FAIRdata event alert:
Join us for an immersive exploration into the future of science with data sharing at the center! The event co-organized by @sci2sci_com and SIBB e.V. as part of #BerlinScienceWeek @BerlinSciWeek. Event info: berlinscienceweek.com/event/…
Replying to @UniUtrecht
@UniUtrecht has given up participation in the world university ranking system, highlighting they want to promote collaboration and #openscience, not scoring and competition. Kudos to @MiedemaF et al. for this benchmarking step!
dub.uu.nl/nl/nieuws/universi… (in Dutch)
Workshop on Open Citations & Open Scholarly Metadata 2023 - applications are open! October, 26-27th in Bologna, Italy. Programme/registrations: workshop-oc.github.io/#about
Organizers: @dshotton @essepuntato @ChiaraDiGiamba5 @ivanHeiB @LudoWaltman @Philipp_Mayr @giovanni1085 @mr56k
Please let us know how you find usability of the search and what other data repositories you would like to have indexed. You can also check a short video describing how to use our service here: youtu.be/wJufTsie-mU
#OpenData #FAIRdata #MLdata #researchdata #openscience
sci2sci team at @hubconf showcasing our dataset search engine and new cool hoodies😜 do you like the design as much as we do?!
#hubberlin2023 #hubberlin
Let's be accurate with statistical methods 😉
Credit: @sketchplanator
#statistics #jokes #academicjokes
pro.system.com/ (2): but the relevance of the papers to prompt was questionable, and some “relevant findings” were not just irrelevant but didn’t make sense (eg “Past 12-month psychotic experiences is associated with a 99.0% increase in the odds of sexual orientation”)4/8
@elicitorg returns a list of publications with an abstract summary. The relevance of the top finds to the research question was pretty high. One can add/remove specific columns, such as “interventions” and “number of participants”. One can also export results as bib/csv. 2/8
Replying to @ManuelOlariu @GreenPillGER
We're building a platform to manage research data and publish it on-the-go, our gitcoin grant is here explorer.gitcoin.co/#/round/… and also please check our dataset search engine demo youtu.be/O2MfVcRD1gc
We know you love Futurama 💛💙💜
Poopenmeyer: Um, alright done. What's your plan?
Wernstrom: What plan? I'm set for life! Au revoir, suckers!
Leela: That rat! Do something!
Poopenmeyer: I wish I could but he's got tenure! (c)
youtu.be/uqyDP_6yFFM
#phdjokes @AcademicChatter
First day at @SlushHQ - with our fellow startup founder Thai Tran from hei.io. What an awesome day full of meetings!
#startuplife
Watch as our founder @an_lesnikova speaks about why she's chosen to leave academia - and why sci2sci is crucial to fix science
youtube.com/watch?v=eRiLX6Sm…
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