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Idea board
Pitch a study, method, tool or dataset; gather collaborators with the skills you lack; turn the idea into a project when the team is there.
Posting an idea
- Idea board → Post an idea: title, category, a description that says what you have and what is missing, roles and skills needed, tags.
- Colleagues upvote, comment and apply with a role and a note.
- Accept the applications you want; accepted people appear on the idea as the team.
Ideas posted here are visible to everyone signed in. To pitch inside a team only — with members volunteering for named roles — use the team's Ideas tab (see Teams); such ideas show a Team badge on the board and only that team's members see them.
Turning it into a project
When the team is there, Turn into a project creates a private project with you as principal investigator and every accepted applicant as a co-investigator, and marks the idea as converted with a link to the project. From there the usual workspace applies: tasks, sources, evidence, manuscripts.
Status
Open (looking for collaborators) · in progress · converted · closed. Only open ideas accept applications; you can withdraw a pending application at any time.
Board etiquette
- One idea per post; split if you have more than one.
- Say what you already have (data, access, funding, a draft) and what is missing — applicants decide from that.
- Close or convert the idea once the team is complete so people stop applying; withdraw applications you no longer mean.
- Keep confidential details for the project you create afterwards; ideas are visible to every signed-in member.
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