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. 2021 May 5;22(5):e52612.
doi: 10.15252/embr.202152612.

Strength is in engagement: The rise of an online scientific community during the COVID-19 pandemic

Christine E Cucinotta #  1 , Benjamin J E Martin #  2 , Melvin Noé González #  3 , Pravrutha Raman #  1 , Vladimir B Teif #  4 , Hanneke Vlaming #  2
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Strength is in engagement: The rise of an online scientific community during the COVID-19 pandemic

Christine E Cucinotta et al. EMBO Rep. .

Abstract

Many scientists, confined to home office by COVID-19, have been gathering in online communities, which could become viable alternatives to physical meetings and conferences.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.

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Figure 1
Figure 1. Fragile Nucleosome seminar series participation
(A) Participants of Fragile Nucleosome seminars have registered from 45 countries from all continents. (B) The cumulative number of scientists registered for our seminars (black line) and YouTube subscribers (blue). (C) The numbers of total (pink) and unique registrations per seminar (gray). Numbers are based on participant’s registration for the Zoom seminars. The map was created using the Interactive Maps plugin for WordPress by Freemius (freemius.com). The statistics for the Fragile Nucleosome YouTube channel (Fig 1B) were collected using YouTube Studio. The audience growth data was visualized with Origin Pro 2020 (originlab.com).
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