Workshop designed for graduate students as an introduction to Academic Twitter as a means to increase the visibility of your work, share your work with the general public and connect with like-minded scientists. Designed by Isabelle Simard for the Academic Skills Club at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT).
2. What is
Academic
Twitter?
Official:
Scholarly discussions
Self-promotion
Academic support
Unofficial:
Virtual coffee brake!
Community of academics
Let off steam
Emotional support
3. 2014 Nature survey on how academics useTwitter (sample of 330 users)
https://www.nature.com/news/online-collaboration-scientists-and-the-social-network-1.15711
4.
5. Building your
profile
Personal vs professional profile:
establishing your brand
Key elements:
Twitter handle
Academic status
Affiliations
Research interests
Personal interests
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9. Who to
follow?
Researchers/students who’s work you are
interested in
Conferences
Associations/Societies
Journals
Academic resources
Science outreach organisations
Your institutions
Find 12 people who are doing work in your field to follow
12. At
conferences
Let people know you are there/going
Conference hashtag
Twitter groups
Share you favorite talks/posters (live tweeting)
Sharing your poster/slides:
https://www.slideshare.net/
Planned tweets: https://tweetdeck.twitter.com/
Contacting attendees
13.
14. Publications
Share your work!
Tag your collaborators/university
Send it/tag people who may be interested
Share beyond your publications:
Scholarships
Grants
Positive/negative experiences
Tweet one update in your work
15.
16. Discussions
Asking open-ended question to connect with
people
Start a conversation via DM (direct messaging)
Use theme-specific hashtags
Ask for help
Share an interesting article
Participate in discussions initiated by others
Don’t forget to credit your sources!
27. Controversy
Free speech ≠ Hate speech
Use of social media in science
Bottom line: keep it professional!
AcademicTwitter ≠ Facebook
28. Letting off
steam
Twitter as a community: We’re all in the same boat!
Discussions about academia:
The after PhD
Workload
Dealing with undergrads
Open science
Mental health
https://www.editage.com/insights/27-hilarious-
academics-on-twitter-you-need-to-start-following-
today