Organizing a regular journal club is a real challenge - despite there being a generally positive attitude about it around these parts, momentum often flags in a major way. At our lab it is difficult to get a crowd together. People are often traveling, on research cruises, at meetings, overwhelmingly busy with their own work in the lab or up against the deadlines writing proposals and papers - meeting up every two weeks as a group is very difficult to coordinate!
This year, in an effort to try to inject some fresh dynamic energy into journal club, I’m introducing something new - journal coffee (or beverage of your choice).
The idea with journal coffee is to:
a. get people together for coffee, something we don’t do too often anyway (everyone is too busy working hard!)
b. expose ourselves to current literature, in a casual and low pressure setting.
c. Not spend too much time on it - attendees should not have to worry that they’ll get lured into a long, drawn-out discussion they can’t escape. 20-30 min max.
c. identify papers where the group interest is high enough to warrant a more in depth journal club meeting.
I’m not sure it people would turn out to this but I think it is worth a try - in the worst case scenario, I drink a cup of coffee by myself, which I’m going to do anyway so what have I got to lose.
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