I received an email earlier today from Nature Publishing Group advertising their new social networking project, GenoMate:
We at Nature are pleased to announce our premier academic social networking/graduate relationship development website. New multidisciplinary fields, particularly Systems Biology, require a greater degree of collaboration and shared expertise. Nature GenoMate combines cloud-based productivity tools with a social networking engine that includes your colleagues and citations.
At first I thought this was going to be super lame – I mean, do biologists really need a separate social networking site? But when I looked at the features, I realized how awesome it is. It’s really pertinent to the needs of grad students. For example, they give great advice that first years like me may not know:
Or their Erlenmeyer-Briggs personality questions that match you with others:
Go check out the rest of their features here!
I feel so lucky that my department received one of the first invitations. Helps that the main developer apparently works here, though I’m not sure who it is… hmmm…
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Joé McKen
October 7, 2010 at 9:25 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Uh … cool project, but, um … do they really recommend Andrew Wakefield as a “top advisor match”? (Second photo on the right. If that’s not him, must be a secret twin brother.)
Screamer77
October 7, 2010 at 9:31 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
this is sooo nerdy, I love it!I think linguists too need something like that. :)
Isaac
October 7, 2010 at 11:09 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Man, that sounds funny. I hope engineering is next. I would love to see that version of it. Would be cool to hear about some top people in that.
LS
October 8, 2010 at 12:07 AM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Remove palm. Apply to face. This is lulz.
Azkyroth
October 8, 2010 at 12:26 AM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
How much does it cost?
Anna Jobsis
October 8, 2010 at 4:31 AM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
LaTeX is awesome pants! *geeky slobbers*
Girlpostdoc
October 8, 2010 at 3:24 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Interesting how their choices for “You top advisor matches” are all male.
Adam Gordon
October 8, 2010 at 4:36 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Oliver the Prankster strikes again…this is another science joke site he made, like last year’s ‘Nature Eugenics’ (http://students.washington.edu…
Isaac
October 8, 2010 at 5:43 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Haha, cool. Still fun to look at though.
shreddakj
October 9, 2010 at 1:10 AM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Eww what’s with the picture of Andrew Wakefield?????
Epistaxis
October 9, 2010 at 7:10 AM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Hey, that’s UW’s own Mary-Claire King (“I like big posteriors”)!I feel bad for anyone who got Hwang Woo-suk and Andrew Wakefield as matches.
Michael Gordon
October 10, 2010 at 2:59 AM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
In math, writing in LaTeX will make your advisor happy. I dare say it might even be expected.
Shakeel
October 10, 2010 at 10:01 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
A cruel joke, Jen. A very cruel joke.