As always, we’ve been hard at work on some site updates. We think there’s a few you might be interested in:

It’s now easier than ever before to log in to ResearchGate with your Facebook account: one click is all it takes. ResearchGate will even connect you with those of your Facebook friends who are already part of the ResearchGate community.

We want you to get the most out of ResearchGate; we’ve added a new contact suggestion tool to make connecting and collaborating with friends, colleagues and related researchers even more straightforward. Here’s how to get there: Home Feed » Under ‘Related Researchers’ on the right-hand side » Click ‘Show more’ From there you’ll be able to browse suggestions based on your institution, researchers you might know, people with similar research to you and people working in your field. 

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One million members, one million researchers, one million brains.

A pretty smart guy once said: ‘it is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others’. - Michel de Montaigne

We think these are wise words indeed.

Today marks a milestone in the history of ResearchGate: over one million users are now networking, collaborating and sharing knowledge through our platform.

To connect one million people is to connect the potential of one million brains. One lone brain is already quite impressive; as proof we decided to put together a few facts on what it can do and what makes it tick:

• Our brains experience on average 70,000 thoughts each day.  Imagine that.

• A brain generates around 20 watts of power daily. That’s about enough to power a light bulb. Or a lot of ideas.

• 750 - 1,000 ml of blood flow through the brain every minute. You could fill 3 soda cans with all that. But it probably wouldn’t be as nice as a cold cola.

• There are 100,000 miles of blood vessels in the brain. About enough to circle the earth three times. Could get a bit messy though.

• 100 billion neurons go into making our brain what it is. Roughly the same amount as there are stars in our galaxy. That’s pretty mind-blowing.

If this is just one brain, imagine what one million could do together.

1,000,000 is a big number.  And we’re just getting started.

Network Updates

As part of our continued commitment to an improved user experience, we’re always on the lookout for those little changes that can make a big difference: here are some of the most recent updates.

We’ve cleaned up the visual design of our Research Blog and your personal blog. The Research Blog is always on the lookout for quality posts from the ResearchGate community, so why not submit something today?

We’ve done some behind-the-scenes work to make it faster and easier to fulfill your full text requests.

Posting a job to Research Jobs just got easier.  Make your listing and start recruiting from over 900,000 researchers from around the world today!

Getting your colleagues to join ResearchGate is now much more straightforward: we’ve streamlined the invitation function to make the process quicker. If you have any feedback or ideas let us know!

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