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karol orzechowski on animal research and the importance of effectively communicating data to support your goals.

How I Learned to Love Shrimp

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The Importance of Volunteers in the Research Library

Each year we publish around 200 to 210 study summaries. We have a team of volunteers who helps us with that and we have two editors myself and a co-editor. The biggest thing about our research library is for it to be accessible. And so that means kind of bringing down the academic language down to an understandable level.

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Speaker 2
And then in terms of these research summaries as well, I think, so you have a fairly good size number of volunteers who basically do produce these research summaries of other people's research. Is that
Speaker 1
right? Yeah, that's right. So each year we publish around 200 sometimes it's it kind of depends on, you know, what day of the week the year starts on and when it ends. But it's usually between like 200 to 210 study summaries each year. That's huge. And we have a team of volunteers who helps us with that and we have two editors myself and a co-editor who read the papers as well, read the summaries, edit the summaries, and, you know, make sure that the things that were the way that we're boiling it down for the general public is accurate. The biggest thing about our research library that we want, that we want for advocates is for it to be accessible. And so that means kind of bringing down the academic language down to an understandable level, you know, parsing through sometimes some very complex methodologies and ways of presenting the information to, you know, basically like translate it for people into a language that can understand. And we couldn't and we really couldn't do it without our volunteers. I mean, they, you know, even a volunteer who does one or two study summaries a month or every couple of months contributes a lot to that mission.
Speaker 2
Amazing.

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