Hi,
I, conveying on behalf of a small group of life science researcher, wish to create a non-commercial web site (www.conceptbiology.com) to simplify concepts in life sciences.
Why?
We are quite aware of the fact that most of the biological e-resources available are more informative rather than concept clearing. Our team, being a group of young researcher, understands the need of conceptualizing the subject, for the sake of knowledge, scientific advancement as well as building career.
How?
This web site would serve as a platform to visualize and understand the subject through interactive notes, animations and assignments. To achieve this we need your voluntary contribution. We want active support from young scholars, researchers and scientists in helping us build a strong all in one concept clearing platform.
We are still a very small group and thus want active participation from researchers and scientists where they can help contribute something in their respective field of study. I hope for engagements from many colleagues and faculties to help make this initiative meaningful. Your suggestions and advice is needed and would be highly appreciated.
Interested people may kindly mail me at below mentioned e-mail address or message me or provide their e-mail in this thread. Contributing members would be duly acknowledged and certified.
" We are also looking for experienced scientists as a reviewer cum mentor for our web-site and scholar/student good at Photoshop or making animations"
For any other queries, please feel free to contact.
No doubt your point of view is very important, but my basic question to you is whom do you want to target in getting their concepts cleared. I would like to state that already in our country, there is a large sector of population (so called educated people) who believes in scoring in different examinations without getting their concepts cleared. I would say that they are not interested in getting their concepts, as the sources of the knowledge are all pre-digested information which they are supposed simply learn mechanically without asking the 2 important questions i.e. why and how.... Their aim is to get through all degrees (right from matriculation) as they have been told that once you become a doctor or an engineer, you can earn a huge living by simply putting up a board outside your office. You need not worry about the quality of your work. So is the case with many of the students who wants to get a Ph.D. Degree regardless of the quality of the work. Therefore I feel that unless the education system is changed drastically, the word CONCEPT not only in science but in all other fields will have to remain under the blanket (i.e. dormant).
Dear Dr. Jai,
Well said. I understand your point of view, but we should also understand that many students try to clear their concept via different books or visiting different links in the web, thus wasting considerable amount of its time. There are many students in graduate or post-graduate levels, some even trying to clear various national or international exams, need really good, concise, simple and animated explanations of various complicated sections of biology. They do not need world of information available in most of the sites, but need simple understanding of complex process. Thus we intend to build a common platform for anyone and everyone, interested and inquisitive to know about bio-science, for simple understanding. I hope that you will also encourage and help us in our initiative. As you are a PhD in microbiology and have several publications, it would be great to have you in our team as a mentor/ reviewer to the material which would be published in the web-site.
Our web-site is under preparation, but you may join by just filling up a short form
http://www.conceptbiology.com/contact.html
Thanks
Aditya
Dear Aditya, what a great initiative. I strongly believe that there are numerous advances in science and research all around, and yet most of them are minimalist, if I am allowed to used this expression. Technical and minimalist. What we lack is a strong sense of conceptual work, say a more synthetic one.
I just published a small book in that direction and I am currently working on another one aimed at being published next year.
Congratulations to you and tour group.
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