I want to tell you a little about Labmeeting.  I work at Labmeeting.  Actually, thinking about it, I have too much to say about Labmeeting.  I cannot tell you everything in one post.  I will tell you a little bit at a time as I think of cool things to talk about.  Let me tell you about our goals.

First, understand that science is broken.  Not in the traditional sense.  Science has not been speeding along the freeway and then suddenly tore a gasket and broke down.  No.  Science is puttering along reliably as it has for decades, centuries.  Exactly as it has been.  No faster.

Yes, scientists do an incredible job of being on the cutting edge of technology while simultaneously pushing that edge further and further.  Nevertheless, it takes between months and years to publish interesting results.  Labmates email cumbersome PDF’s back and forth.  Literature search tools frustrate even the most patient of users.  Conferences help disseminate knowledge quickly, but not when abstracts lose themselves amidst a shuffle of papers and when fellow scientists’ contact information evaporates. Publishers almost seem to try to restrict access to fulltext research articles, so much so that the government must force them to share knowledge.   Graduate students find professors and professors find grad students by pure luck, not by targeted searches.  Professors spend little time at the lab bench due to the skyscraper of paperwork required for modern research grants.

At Labmeeting, we are well on our way to solving all of these problems and many more.  Science operates best when people can develop good ideas securely and communicate good ideas rapidly.  We created a platform to do both like nobody has ever seen before.

Thousands of biomedical scientists, both at top US Universities and smaller ones around the world, already use and love Labmeeting.  We want to help all researchers communicate and work more efficiently so that they can focus on what they do best: science.