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11:28 AM

Just realised we have a Scientists March on Washington chatroom, but it belongs to the SX site not to us: chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/52641/…

March for Science

About marching on April 22nd to support responsible applicatio...

5 hours later…

StrongBad

4:32 PM

@gerrit I know it is a little political, but I would totally upvote a community "site ad" for the scientist march. Probably should try and make one.

Wrzlprmft

@StrongBad You could even use the event system to countdown to it.

StrongBad

@Wrzlprmft I would want to make sure there is enough community support (or at least moderator support) for it before doing something like that.

Wrzlprmft

@StrongBad Sure you do, I just wanted to remind you of the option. It has never been used on Academia after all.

StrongBad

@Wrzlprmft I think I will ask on meta

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Meta Academia

6:10 PM

Q: Community countdown event for March for Science

The March for Science is an event/protest/rally being held on April 22 2017. The main march will occur in Washington DC, but there will likely be marches all over the world. There is an SE chat room dedicated to the march. As many of our community members are scientists and/or support science, I ...

kim holder

@StrongBad i just posted a proposal that is simply a crop of the banner on the campaign homepage. I sent them a copy to ensure that is alright with them, but it almost certainly is, so i went ahead.

A: Community Promotion Ads - 2017

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StrongBad

10:01 PM

@kimholder thank you. It has a bunch of votes already

Meta Academia

Q: Lab journal best practices - on topic?

I had a question about best practices for keeping a lab journal (specifically, should one only record experiments, or should one also include research for experiments, or time spent looking around on say McMaster Carr for parts). Is this on topic or off topic? It would seem to fall under experime...