VOA慢速英语:A Social Network Aims to Speed Up Progress in Science

A few years ago, a university researcher was having problems with an experiment that involved medical imaging. His adviser and his friends had no solutions. The researcher was Ijad Madisch at Harvard in Massachusetts.
几年前，一名大学研究员在涉及医疗成像的实验中遇到问题。他的顾问和朋友们没有解决办法。该研究人员是马萨诸塞州哈佛大学的Ijad Madisch。

IJAD MADISCH: "I was so frustrated. I said, you know, there has to be something online where I go, where people can, you know, present themselves as a scientist, and where they put their information about their research and their publications and you can search for it."
Ijad Madisch：“我非常沮丧。我说，你懂的，网络上应该有某个地方，人们可以把自己当作一名科学家，将与他们自己研究相关的信息和他们发表的论文上传到网上，人们可以进行搜索。”

The solution was to start a scientific network to connect researchers and share information. ResearchGate is similar to another social network developed at Harvard -- Facebook. But Mr. Madisch says the purpose of his site is to make scientists more productive.
解决办法就是创办一个科学网站，将研究人员联系起来，共享信息。研究之门(ResearchGate)与哈佛研发的另外一个社交网络——Facebook相类似。但是Ijad Madisch表示，他创办这个网站的目的是使研究人员的工作更加富有成效。

IJAD MADISCH: "My goal: to win the Nobel Prize. And I really believe in that. Like, if we think that ResearchGate will accelerate research in all the different fields, it will change the speed of science significantly in the future. So i definitely do believe that ResearchGate could win the Nobel Prize for that one day."
Ijad Madisch：“我的目标是赢得诺贝尔奖。我确信这一点。例如，如果我们认为研究之门网站能够加速所有不同领域的研究进程，将来这会极大地改变科学进步的速度。所以，我绝对相信研究之门总有一天会获得诺贝尔奖。”

Investors liked the idea, including a former Facebook executive and the same investment group that put money into Twitter. So far, nine hundred thousand people have signed up as members of ResearchGate.
投资者们喜欢这个想法。包括Facebook一名前主管人员和为Twitter注资的投资团体。目前为止，共有90万人注册为研究之门(ResearchGate)的会员。

CAROLINE MOORE-KOCHLACS: "Logging in ... "
CAROLINE MOORE-KOCHLACS：“登录中……”

One of those users is Caroline Moore-Kochlacs at Boston University. Her profile page shows her picture and her specialty -- neuroscience. It also lists her doctoral adviser and the work she has published. She can follow other researchers and click onto group pages that discuss different subjects.
其中一名用户就是波士顿大学的Caroline Moore-Kochlacs。她的个人主页显示了她的照片和她的专业——神经科学。还列出了她的博士顾问和已经发表的研究课题。她可以查看其他研究人员，点击加入讨论不同话题的群组。

CAROLINE MOORE-KOCHLACS: "Let’s see what’s going on in the computational neuroscience group today."
CAROLINE MOORE-KOCHLACS：“让我们来看一下计算神经科学小组今天在讨论什么话题。”

She also uses Facebook but says people almost never discuss science there. She says on ResearchGate she can ask questions and learn about what other researchers are working on before they publish their results. She can also learn about recently published science.
她也在使用Facebook，但是她说，人们在那里几乎从不会讨论科学。她说，在研究之门网站上，她可以问问题，可以了解其他研究人员发表结果之前在做什么工作。她还可以了解最近发表的科研成果。

CAROLINE MOORE-KOCHLACS: "The scientific literature is so huge at this point, that it’s really impossible to get through everything in your topic area. People really rely on hearing it from other people."
CAROLINE MOORE-KOCHLACS：“科学文献在这一点上非常庞大，要逐一了解你所在的领域的所有内容是不可能的。人们主要依赖从其他人那里获得。”

ResearchGate developer Ijad Madisch says he knows his site will only prove valuable if scientists use it to help each other. But not every user is pleased with it.
研究之门(ResearchGate)创办者Ijad Madisch说，他知道，只有科学家们用这个网站来互相帮助，这个网站才是有价值的。但是并不是每一位用户都对它感兴趣。

Kim Bertrand at the Harvard School of Public Health is an epidemiologist -- someone who studies the spread and control of diseases. Ms. Bertrand says she finds more value in her own offline network of researchers and advisers than in this online network.
哈佛大学公共卫生学院的Kim Bertrand是一名流行病学家，负责研究疾病的传播和控制。Kim Bertrand说，她在自己的离线研究网络和顾问那里找到到的信息比在社交网络上发现的更有价值。

KIM BERTRAND: "Sometimes I get these e-mails that are like: 'Dear Sirs: I’m writing a dissertation on public health. Any suggestions? Please advise.' I don’t need that."
Kim Bertrand：“有时候我会收到这样一些邮件，‘亲爱的女士们先生们，我在撰写一篇关于公共卫生的论文。有什么建议吗？请给点建议。’我并不需要这些。”