Natural Historians Get Their Own Facebook

Tuesday, November 10, 2009 - 18:28 in Mathematics & Economics

After the successful introduction of myspace, facebook, twitter and however many other social networking sites that now exist, researchers at London's Natural History Museum have created a social networking tool called 'Scratchpads' just for natural historians. The platform is designed to get specialists together to share their data and prevent the discipline from being buried under a landslide of painstakingly collected data that isn't always used. read more

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