New questions:

→ Targeted to Zoogman. Narrowing on literature review → lots and lots of grunt work.

Narrowing on the idea of poor heuristics so we can understand what people need to see to give them the strongest idea of what is helpful to read (We don’t want them accidentally in the wrong space most of the time bc abstracts are shit). And finally - how much does this actually hurt?

1. When you're writing a literature review, what are some of the different ways you search for papers you would like to include?
2. Are there times that you find it very difficult to tell if a paper will actually contribute to your research? If there are, how often does that happen?
3. And finally, more of an open question - are there any tasks that you consistently do when writing an academic paper that leaves you feeling like you wasted a lot of time even if you knew you had to do it?

Current Draft [Student Researchers] (Generally unknown)

Hi [NAME],

Hope you’re doing well!

[Andre, Ellie and I] are working on building tools for open science, and we were hoping to get your perspective as a student researcher on something we’re working on. Right now, we’re building a project to make it easier to find research papers, and we’re trying to find answers to these three questions:

1. What are the different “modes of research” (eg keeping up with the field, discovering new research, writing an article, finding new ideas, learning or writing a new project) that you engage with, and how does your search process differ between them?