My goal this week is to get the website for this project setup.
I’m liking the theme of “Moving beyond magic”. I realize that my recent focus has been on glia specifically, but my hope is to expand it to any understandings which meet decent scientific rigor.
One connundrum I’m having is what to do with reference papers. I’d like to make the full text of each paper available, and have some type of referencing system so I can point out specific sections of I’m referencing when making a reference. This unfortunately will be difficult to do without self hosting, even open access papers require jumping through publisher hoops.
One thing that would really help is a good content aggregation package, I’d like to have the equivalent of my RSS feed publicly available and offer some mechanic for flexible contributions to it while still making it reasonably parseable. I want to keep my reading to under ~100 papers per day, so having a mechanic which will allow me to filter certain publishers (e.g. MDPI) would be helpful.
I will update this as I go along, still working through software and format.
Edit: Honestly, I’m being a bit feet draggy here because the last website I put up was kind of a nightmare. The server itself ended up getting hacked twice and it was a pain in the ass to have to keep resetting it.
Thinking about this a bit more it seems like what I’m really looking for is a wiki style setup. I really like the idea of a living document that can is responsive to new information and adequately reflects multiple paths of inquiry.
Just had a thought that it might be really interesting to have a series of actions which use the model to demonstrate the mechanics of brains. I posted this thread on r/neuro and might post it on a few other forums because I’m genuinely curious how much variance it does/doesn’t show across different phenotypes.