#Gw2 disable story tracker update

#Gw2 disable story tracker update

Every day, we will update the tracker with links to the latest reactions and analysis. If you're a blogger, a scientist or just an interested citizen, point us to the best and worst follow-ups you see of the Nature paper. We will need your help to make this work. Today's autism research in Nature and our story reporting it seem an ideal testing ground for this concept.

Our 'story trackers', as we have dubbed them, will allow us to show the wider implications of a piece of research and perhaps follow up the many lines of inquiry that we had to leave out of the original news piece, for whatever reason. By tracking reactions and analysis from scientists and bloggers over the days and weeks after a news story breaks, we think the coverage of the story will be richer, more informed and more comprehensive. We believe our coverage of a major research paper should not be done-and-dusted with a single story but form part of a continuum. We're trying out a completely new way of covering big science stories. Where would you go for that extra analysis? And how would you know what is worth reading? Readers who are scientists and other interested people might pick up on some of this discussion but, unless you're steeped in a subject, you might miss out.Īfter the first headlines and news stories summarising the research and instant reaction to it, a casually interested reader might hear nothing about a topic until the next big splashy news story. But longer stories are not the best answer, because they still don't reflect how scientific research is done.Īny scientist knows that a paper can only ever be an interim point in the study of a topic and, on publication, it will immediately be dissected and analysed by other researchers all over the world. The infinite space of the web has helped, of course, by allowing for more detailed reporting, linking to source documents and the ability for readers to comment on how something has been written up.