Congratulations on starting your research notebook! A worthy first step into the mad scientists' kingdom. 

What do you hope to get out of keeping a research notebook? How do you imagine using it going forward? Post a little something to the comments to psych yourself (and others!) up. 

If you're looking for more ways to get involved, check out some of these open, peer and indie research activities!

• Build a research reading list around one of your areas of interest
• Start a reading group with peers who share your interests
• Find other challenges around openscience on p2pu
• Attend a Science Hack Day in a city near you
• Start building things at a hackerspace in your city
• Put your ideas and questions online and get feedback on them. 
• Join the P2PU team pursuing open, indie, participatory and citizen science activities, and develop research ideas with peers. 
• Join the broader conversation about open science.
  • Join the Open Knowledge Foundation's open science working group and check out the projects they are currently working on
  • Attend the science online conference
  • Follow #openscience on twitter.