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It is a bit late into this new year, being that we're already in the second month, but we are now cycling the Community Promotion Ads for 2017!

What are Community Promotion Ads?

Community Promotion Ads are community-vetted advertisements that will show up on the main site, in the right sidebar. The purpose of this question is the vetting process. Images of the advertisements are provided, and community voting will enable the advertisements to be shown.

Why do we have Community Promotion Ads?

This is a method for the community to control what gets promoted to visitors on the site. For example, you might promote the following things:

  • the site's twitter account
  • interesting biology research sites
  • useful resources for practitioner and student alike
  • cool events or conferences
  • anything else your community would genuinely be interested in

The goal is for future visitors to find out about the stuff your community deems important. This also serves as a way to promote information and resources that are relevant to your own community's interests, both for those already in the community and those yet to join.

Why do we reset the ads every year?

Some services will maintain usefulness over the years, while other things will wane to allow for new faces to show up. Resetting the ads every year helps accommodate this, and allows old ads that have served their purpose to be cycled out for fresher ads for newer things. This helps keep the material in the ads relevant to not just the subject matter of the community, but to the current status of the community. We reset the ads once a year, every December.

The community promotion ads have no restrictions against reposting an ad from a previous cycle. If a particular service or ad is very valuable to the community and will continue to be so, it is a good idea to repost it. It may be helpful to give it a new face in the process, so as to prevent the imagery of the ad from getting stale after a year of exposure.

How does it work?

The answers you post to this question must conform to the following rules, or they will be ignored.

  1. All answers should be in the exact form of:

    [![Tagline to show on mouseover][1]][2]

   [1]: http://image-url
   [2]: http://clickthrough-url

    Please do not add anything else to the body of the post. If you want to discuss something, do it in the comments.

  2. The question must always be tagged with the magic tag. In addition to enabling the functionality of the advertisements, this tag also pre-fills the answer form with the above required form.

Image requirements

  • The image that you create must be 300 x 250 pixels, or double that if high DPI.
  • Must be hosted through our standard image uploader (imgur)
  • Must be GIF or PNG
  • No animated GIFs
  • Absolute limit on file size of 150 KB
  • If the background of the image is white or partially white, there must be a 1px border (2px if high DPI) surrounding it.

Score Threshold

There is a minimum score threshold an answer must meet (currently 6) before it will be shown on the main site.

You can check out the ads that have met the threshold with basic click stats here.

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bioRxiv

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Haikus are awesome/ Chemistry is more so/ Ask straight away!

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    $\begingroup$ With Chemistry SE now two years past graduation, I am wondering whether votes here might be more usefully applied to ads for SE sites that are still in beta like Genealogy & Family History SE. $\endgroup$
    – PolyGeo
    Jun 9, 2017 at 0:07
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    $\begingroup$ Inspired by AMR's post. $\endgroup$
    – Tyto alba
    Feb 10, 2017 at 18:38
  • $\begingroup$ Is it same as PubMed Central (PMC) repository? If not, then I would like to make a separate ad for it. $\endgroup$
    – user25568
    Feb 10, 2017 at 18:52
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    $\begingroup$ @AlwaysConfused It is different, PMC is a database of abstracts and references of biomedical papers. While bookshelf is one for e-books only. $\endgroup$
    – Tyto alba
    Feb 10, 2017 at 19:20
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    $\begingroup$ I want to give it +10 votes. How can I do that :P :) ? $\endgroup$
    – user25568
    Feb 9, 2017 at 19:14
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    $\begingroup$ @AlwaysConfused You could create a community promotion ad that links to this answer and solicits votes for it ;) $\endgroup$
    – Bryan Krause Mod
    Feb 10, 2017 at 18:45
  • $\begingroup$ @BryanKrause mm... that would be duplicate answer on this same OP . Isn't? $\endgroup$
    – user25568
    Feb 10, 2017 at 18:46
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    $\begingroup$ I just meant it as a joke - to create a second ad to promote the post that proposes creating the original ad. An ad for an ad, if you will. $\endgroup$
    – Bryan Krause Mod
    Feb 10, 2017 at 19:02
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    $\begingroup$ @AlwaysConfused ditto - can't upvote this one enough! :) $\endgroup$
    – arboviral
    Mar 15, 2017 at 14:15
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BioNumbers

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    $\begingroup$ +1 really cool site! :). How do I not know about this?! $\endgroup$
    – theforestecologist Mod
    Feb 17, 2017 at 16:47
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Join Genealogy & Family History SE!

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Project Gutenberg: Free Library of Classic Books

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Google Scholar

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Follow us on Twitter!

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    $\begingroup$ This is a demonstration post to indicate how this should look when an ad is posted. It also doubles as your twitter ad, but it's up to you if you wish to promote it by voting $\endgroup$
    – Grace Note StaffMod
    Feb 2, 2017 at 14:07
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BigBrain

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  • $\begingroup$ Programs used to edit the photoes: 1. MS-paint, 2. MS-office picture manager. $\endgroup$
    – user25568
    Nov 30, 2017 at 18:19
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Go Vote Now!

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    $\begingroup$ Did you draw that?! $\endgroup$
    – canadianer
    Mar 27, 2017 at 18:33
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    $\begingroup$ Draw? no. The figures I found online. Compile and format? yes :). $\endgroup$
    – theforestecologist Mod
    Mar 27, 2017 at 18:35
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    $\begingroup$ Are we all going to downvote this in a week? $\endgroup$
    – canadianer
    Mar 27, 2017 at 21:42
  • $\begingroup$ @canadianer yes. that or I'll just delete it I guess :p $\endgroup$
    – theforestecologist Mod
    Mar 27, 2017 at 22:11
  • $\begingroup$ @theforestecologist Just a reminder to delete! Though possibly you could repost here and ask not to be upvoted, such that someone could dig it up for a future election? $\endgroup$
    – Bryan Krause Mod
    Apr 4, 2017 at 23:47
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    $\begingroup$ Added a space to the [text] to enable down-voting. $\endgroup$
    – Tyto alba
    Apr 5, 2017 at 12:10
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    $\begingroup$ I wouldn't delete it; a few downvotes will do. It's awesome and perhaps of use later :-) $\endgroup$
    – AliceD Mod
    Apr 5, 2017 at 21:00
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    $\begingroup$ Sorry for downvoting but just to get it off the main site. $\endgroup$
    – AliceD Mod
    Apr 5, 2017 at 22:34
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    $\begingroup$ First and only time I'll ever say it, but: Thanks all for downvoting ;) $\endgroup$
    – theforestecologist Mod
    Apr 10, 2017 at 13:00
  • $\begingroup$ It's 2019. I guess you could all un-downvote now ;p. $\endgroup$
    – theforestecologist Mod
    Feb 11, 2019 at 21:48
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Your Guide to Understanding Genetic conditions

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March supporting government policy informed by science

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  • $\begingroup$ I hope this doesn't seem like an imposition, as i'm not otherwise a member of this site, but it was suggested that i put up this proposal on the core science site of stack exchange to see if the members wanted to promote the event. If there is a feeling it is political, i want to raise the point that science isn't supposed to be political, only about pursuit of the truth, so this doesn't qualify if you look at it that way. $\endgroup$
    – kim holder
    Feb 25, 2017 at 0:36
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    $\begingroup$ If you don't think it belongs here, it has been proposed also for Academia.SE, where it falls within the site's mandate much more clearly. If you are a member there, that post is here. $\endgroup$
    – kim holder
    Feb 25, 2017 at 1:18

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