Discourse Graphs

One of the most exciting projects in science right now 👇

🌱 In sum: the @matsulab.com regularly uses issues to post, claim, and complete potential experiments, leading to a richly interconnected lab group. Our plugin tracks attribution for the idea, experiment, and result – a promising new way to trace research contribution.

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🗣️ 4) Of the 50 claimed experiments that led to a result, there was a wide range for how much time passed from claiming an experiment to the first result, with a median of just 12 days. Some experiments led to multiple results.

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📊3) Three undergraduate students generated an original result within 1–3 months of joining the lab, and one within just a month of joining. Usually, undergrads spend a year or more in a supporting role before they get to do independent research.

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💡 2) Of the 130 claimed experiments, 38% led to a completed, documented result. This indicates meaningful follow-through for those experiments to produce an original observation.

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📈 1) The lab has created 445 issues in the last 40 months, with 29% claimed as experiments. 15% of those were claimed by a different lab member than the one who created them, revealing a real handoff of intellectual material between researchers.

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🔄 We analyzed the lab's "issue board" - a structured way to log and exchange potential experiments through to results. These issues are regularly picked up, handed off, and completed. New undergrads generate original research results within months of joining the lab.

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Result flow chart showing 130 claimed experiments (colors: blue, green, purple, and gray).

📣 We’re building a new kind of infrastructure for scientific work, where ideas don't get lost, experiments get claimed and completed, and new researchers can hit the ground running. For 40 months, the @matsulab.com has piloted this approach. It's working!

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If you're a PI or lab member who's interested in learning more about how to implement this workflow or more generally about how Discourse Graphs can help your collective knowledge management reply here or send us a DM 💬

Autonomous selection and completion of a microproject by an undergraduate student A second undergraduate student joined the lab and used our issues board to identify initial entry projec...

Success! Our friends at @matsulab.com have lab members autonomously participating in research projects using the Roam Research Discourse Graphs plugin.

See the write up here: experiment.com/u/8F7g5A

Dreaming of an open semantic web of science powered by Markdown, ATProto, and discourse graphs!

Discourse Graphs A tool and ecosystem for collaborative knowledge synthesis

Discourse Graphs is available now with our extensions in Roam Research and @obsidian.md 🚀

For more details checkout: discoursegraphs.com