Difficulty Informing the Public
There is a barrier between researchers and the public audience when it comes to communicating findings and research.
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Difficult to efficiently inform the research community about inappropriate results/findings
Repetition and contradiction in collaborative research
Cognitive overload and determining the novelty of a new study
Published papers are static and don't get updated dynamically
Difficulties of multidisciplinary research collaboration
The increased role of preprint servers in COVID-19 research
Time-consuming to self-judge many rapidly released papers
Marketing and subscription fees of journals
Personal ambitions and carrier incentives
Flaws in the published journal papers
Difficulty Informing the Public
Challenges with current research tools
References for Barriers to COVID-19 Research
Repetitions and contradictions topic sprint findings
Finding a Consensus (problems in interdisciplinary work) topic sprint findings
Scientists are drowning in COVID-19 papers (cognitive overload) topic sprint findings
Input getting lost (difficulty of communicating with the scientific community) topic sprint findings
tweets about literature or literature (Science COVID Info)
communicating with public and politicians (Science COVID Info)
tools and methods that are helping (Science COVID Info)
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An example of the use of Twitter to inform the science community on how they should communicate with the public
An example of the use of Twitter to make a statement about the public believing in science
Julia Marcus tweets about how public messaging should be more empathetic
Dr. Saskia Popescu tweets that the science community must do a better job in communicate nuanced situations
Alice Sim tweets that explaining scientific findings to the public is another science. Those who are misinforming the public are creating a disservice to public health
Andy slavitt tweets about the downfalls of preprints
Helen Branswell tweets about cautioning journals to warn readers that some papers are preprints