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How to maximise your research/societal impact by developing a communication strategy and using social media
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The document provides tips for researchers on using social media and online tools strategically for research communication and impact. It discusses assessing one's digital footprint and online presence, deciding which platforms to use based on time commitment, and making scholarly outputs more discoverable. Tips included improving online profiles, communicating and interacting on social media through productive interactions, storyboarding research, and reusing content while adapting it for different audiences and aims. Various social media and online tools were also outlined.
1. The document discusses how researchers need to be visible online to succeed in today's academic environment where "Publish or Perish" has become "Be Visible or Vanish".
2. It emphasizes developing an online presence through tools like websites, blogs and social media and making research outputs findable. Researchers should assess their digital footprint, maintain profiles, and interact productively online.
3. Storyboarding and storytelling techniques are recommended to communicate research to wide audiences through engaging narratives in various formats and tools like infographics, Wikipedia, podcasts and more.
This document summarizes a workshop on using social media strategically for academics. It discusses that researchers need to be visible online to have impact. The workshop covers assessing one's digital footprint, deciding which platforms to use, making research outputs available online, communicating and interacting on social media, and using tools like Twitter, blogs and videos. It emphasizes the importance of maintaining an online presence, interacting productively, and adapting content for different audiences. While social media can benefit research, it also requires a strategic and professional approach to have value.
The document summarizes a science writing class about using social media for entrepreneurial science writing. It discusses strategies for building skills and marketing oneself as a science writer. Specific tactics covered include using social media like blogs, Twitter, and conferences to build networks and spread ideas. The class addresses how social media is changing information flows and journalists' roles, and provides tips on collaboration, business models, and recommendations for tools and strategies.
Productive interactions on social media are important for research and communication. It is important to invest time wisely by identifying potential partners and stakeholders, both within and outside of your university, who can help with social media outreach efforts. Telling compelling stories that engage both the heart and mind of stakeholders is important for getting your research message across memorably. Social media provides opportunities to interact directly with broader audiences and reuse content produced for other purposes. It should be approached strategically while maintaining a focus on research and avoiding overthinking or procrastination.
Workshop about increasing the impact of your research, the importance of good communication (incl. storytelling) and the use of social media.
Given at Research Day of Faculty of Engineering and Architecture at Ghent University.
Workshop for PhD researchers: Impact is ComingEsther De Smet
Workshop for PhD Introduction Day at Ghent University Feb 2017
How to maximise your research/societal impact by developing a communication strategy and using social media
Using Twitter in Research Institutes (case study ILVO Vlaanderen)Esther De Smet
The document provides tips for researchers on using social media and online tools strategically for research communication and impact. It discusses assessing one's digital footprint and online presence, deciding which platforms to use based on time commitment, and making scholarly outputs more discoverable. Tips included improving online profiles, communicating and interacting on social media through productive interactions, storyboarding research, and reusing content while adapting it for different audiences and aims. Various social media and online tools were also outlined.
1. The document discusses how researchers need to be visible online to succeed in today's academic environment where "Publish or Perish" has become "Be Visible or Vanish".
2. It emphasizes developing an online presence through tools like websites, blogs and social media and making research outputs findable. Researchers should assess their digital footprint, maintain profiles, and interact productively online.
3. Storyboarding and storytelling techniques are recommended to communicate research to wide audiences through engaging narratives in various formats and tools like infographics, Wikipedia, podcasts and more.
This document summarizes a workshop on using social media strategically for academics. It discusses that researchers need to be visible online to have impact. The workshop covers assessing one's digital footprint, deciding which platforms to use, making research outputs available online, communicating and interacting on social media, and using tools like Twitter, blogs and videos. It emphasizes the importance of maintaining an online presence, interacting productively, and adapting content for different audiences. While social media can benefit research, it also requires a strategic and professional approach to have value.
The document summarizes a science writing class about using social media for entrepreneurial science writing. It discusses strategies for building skills and marketing oneself as a science writer. Specific tactics covered include using social media like blogs, Twitter, and conferences to build networks and spread ideas. The class addresses how social media is changing information flows and journalists' roles, and provides tips on collaboration, business models, and recommendations for tools and strategies.
Productive interactions on social media are important for research and communication. It is important to invest time wisely by identifying potential partners and stakeholders, both within and outside of your university, who can help with social media outreach efforts. Telling compelling stories that engage both the heart and mind of stakeholders is important for getting your research message across memorably. Social media provides opportunities to interact directly with broader audiences and reuse content produced for other purposes. It should be approached strategically while maintaining a focus on research and avoiding overthinking or procrastination.
Workshop about increasing the impact of your research, the importance of good communication (incl. storytelling) and the use of social media.
Given at Research Day of Faculty of Engineering and Architecture at Ghent University.
Impact & Interaction: social media as part of communication strategy for rese...Esther De Smet
This document summarizes key points from a presentation about developing a communication strategy for research groups. It discusses why having a strategy is important, which tools can be used like social media, and how and when to communicate research. It emphasizes developing an online identity and digital presence through profiles, maintaining networks, and using different tools like websites, blogs, and visual platforms to engage audiences and increase the discoverability and impact of research. The document also notes that communication takes ongoing time and effort, and suggests partnering with communication offices and identifying external stakeholders.
Altmetrics is an emerging field that measures the impact of academic research across various online platforms like Google Scholar, ORCID, and Academia.edu. There are four key steps academics should take when engaging with altmetrics and social media: 1) craft an online persona, 2) share your narrative and link to current events, 3) be aware research impact often has a three year lag time, and 4) maintain a neutral online presence. Social media can be used as a research tool to share ideas and publications, act as a business card to build a professional network, and view tweets as headlines to engage broader audiences.
In 2018, the SciELO Program will celebrate 20 years of operation, in full alignment with the advances of open science.
The SciELO 20 Years Conference will address and debate – during its three-day program – the main political, methodological and technological issues that define today’s state of the art in scholarly communication and the trends and innovations that is shaping the future of the universal openness of scholarly publishing and its relationship with today’s Open Access journals, in particular those of the SciELO Network.
The program of the conference is organized around the alignment of SciELO journals and operations with the best practices on communication of open science, such as publishing research data, expediting editorial processes and communication through the continuous publication of articles and the adoption of preprints, maximizing the transparency of research evaluation and the flow of scholarly communication, and searching for more comprehensive systems for assessing research, articles and journals.
A two-day meeting of the coordinators of the national collections of the SciELO Network will take place prior to the Conference with focus on the evaluation of SciELO journals and the SciELO Program and their improvement following the lines of action that will guide their development in the forthcoming five years.
The celebration of SciELO’s 20-year anniversary constitutes an important landmark in SciELO’s evolution, and an exceptional moment to promote the advancement of an inclusive, global approach to scholarly communication and to the open access movement while respecting the diversities of thematic and geographic areas, as well as of languages of scientific research.
Slide set for members of Departement of Translation, Interpreting and Communication at Ghent University 12 October 2015. How can social media play a part in your research and the communication of your research?
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Slides from class lectures and discussion in the American University course COM 589: "Communication, Culture and the Environment," Spring 2014.
http://climateshiftproject.org/com-589-communication-culture-and-the-environment-spring-2014/
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The Benefits and Barriers for Social Media for ScientistsCraig McClain
Social media provides both benefits and challenges for scientists. It allows for quick connection and collaboration with other researchers, but does not directly correlate with increased citations. While it can help with outreach, communicating science to the public remains challenging. Many scientists see communication as filling knowledge deficits in the public, but this "deficit model" may not be effective. Effective social media use for outreach requires understanding audience and goals.
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- Major sociological theories include structural functionalism, conflict theory, and symbolic interactionism. These theories examine social processes at the micro and macro levels.
- Foundational thinkers who helped establish sociology as a discipline include Auguste Comte, Harriet Martineau, Herbert Spencer, Emile Durkheim, Karl Marx, Max Weber, and George Herbert Mead. Their work influenced major schools of thought.
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The document discusses the need to move from a model of science communication focused on dissemination of information to the public, to a model of deliberation and collaboration. It notes the status quo involves mainly informing the public of what institutions are doing, but that "prosumers" now expect a dialogue. It suggests using online tools and media to facilitate public discussion and debate around complex science and technology issues in a transparent way, in order to build trust and foster readiness for change.
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This document discusses how social media can be used to strengthen visibility as an expert. It notes that while social media is a good match for research through collaboration and sharing knowledge, many researchers are uneasy with self-promotion. However, the document provides examples of researchers who saw career benefits from blogging and tweeting about their work, including increased downloads, reads, and citations. It encourages researchers to make their work open, accessible, and visible to broader audiences through social media in order to increase its impact and benefit more people.
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Students were blogging about science to engage public audiences and measure the effectiveness of science communication. They were prompted to blog about the ethics of gene-editing healthcare technologies in New Zealand. Their writing was assessed based on engaging audiences, demonstrating critical thinking, applying scientific writing styles, and writing and design choices. The challenges of accurately measuring blog audience engagement and view statistics were discussed. Things to consider included identifying the audience, using view stats as a starting point to understand trending topics, and how developers could improve measuring audience engagement on platforms like blogs, Google Analytics, and WordPress.
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11th International Conference on Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering (IcETRAN), Niš, 3-6 June 2024
Inter-Society Networking Panel GRSS/MTT-S/CIS Panel Session: Promoting Connection and Cooperation
https://www.etran.rs/2024/en/home-english/
The debris of the ‘last major merger’ is dynamically youngSérgio Sacani
The Milky Way’s (MW) inner stellar halo contains an [Fe/H]-rich component with highly eccentric orbits, often referred to as the
‘last major merger.’ Hypotheses for the origin of this component include Gaia-Sausage/Enceladus (GSE), where the progenitor
collided with the MW proto-disc 8–11 Gyr ago, and the Virgo Radial Merger (VRM), where the progenitor collided with the
MW disc within the last 3 Gyr. These two scenarios make different predictions about observable structure in local phase space,
because the morphology of debris depends on how long it has had to phase mix. The recently identified phase-space folds in Gaia
DR3 have positive caustic velocities, making them fundamentally different than the phase-mixed chevrons found in simulations
at late times. Roughly 20 per cent of the stars in the prograde local stellar halo are associated with the observed caustics. Based
on a simple phase-mixing model, the observed number of caustics are consistent with a merger that occurred 1–2 Gyr ago.
We also compare the observed phase-space distribution to FIRE-2 Latte simulations of GSE-like mergers, using a quantitative
measurement of phase mixing (2D causticality). The observed local phase-space distribution best matches the simulated data
1–2 Gyr after collision, and certainly not later than 3 Gyr. This is further evidence that the progenitor of the ‘last major merger’
did not collide with the MW proto-disc at early times, as is thought for the GSE, but instead collided with the MW disc within
the last few Gyr, consistent with the body of work surrounding the VRM.
The binding of cosmological structures by massless topological defectsSérgio Sacani
Assuming spherical symmetry and weak field, it is shown that if one solves the Poisson equation or the Einstein field
equations sourced by a topological defect, i.e. a singularity of a very specific form, the result is a localized gravitational
field capable of driving flat rotation (i.e. Keplerian circular orbits at a constant speed for all radii) of test masses on a thin
spherical shell without any underlying mass. Moreover, a large-scale structure which exploits this solution by assembling
concentrically a number of such topological defects can establish a flat stellar or galactic rotation curve, and can also deflect
light in the same manner as an equipotential (isothermal) sphere. Thus, the need for dark matter or modified gravity theory is
mitigated, at least in part.
The cost of acquiring information by natural selectionCarl Bergstrom
This is a short talk that I gave at the Banff International Research Station workshop on Modeling and Theory in Population Biology. The idea is to try to understand how the burden of natural selection relates to the amount of information that selection puts into the genome.
It's based on the first part of this research paper:
The cost of information acquisition by natural selection
Ryan Seamus McGee, Olivia Kosterlitz, Artem Kaznatcheev, Benjamin Kerr, Carl T. Bergstrom
bioRxiv 2022.07.02.498577; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.07.02.498577
Describing and Interpreting an Immersive Learning Case with the Immersion Cub...Leonel Morgado
Current descriptions of immersive learning cases are often difficult or impossible to compare. This is due to a myriad of different options on what details to include, which aspects are relevant, and on the descriptive approaches employed. Also, these aspects often combine very specific details with more general guidelines or indicate intents and rationales without clarifying their implementation. In this paper we provide a method to describe immersive learning cases that is structured to enable comparisons, yet flexible enough to allow researchers and practitioners to decide which aspects to include. This method leverages a taxonomy that classifies educational aspects at three levels (uses, practices, and strategies) and then utilizes two frameworks, the Immersive Learning Brain and the Immersion Cube, to enable a structured description and interpretation of immersive learning cases. The method is then demonstrated on a published immersive learning case on training for wind turbine maintenance using virtual reality. Applying the method results in a structured artifact, the Immersive Learning Case Sheet, that tags the case with its proximal uses, practices, and strategies, and refines the free text case description to ensure that matching details are included. This contribution is thus a case description method in support of future comparative research of immersive learning cases. We then discuss how the resulting description and interpretation can be leveraged to change immersion learning cases, by enriching them (considering low-effort changes or additions) or innovating (exploring more challenging avenues of transformation). The method holds significant promise to support better-grounded research in immersive learning.
2. Get you ready for getting the most out of social media – Twitter in particular – for
your science & outreach
You’re not on your own!
Together with these 9 superheroes we will discover some skills and tools to help you
in this effort
To both communicate and interact effectively but also enjoy these moments
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Engagement - VIB training 29 May 2018
3. Step one is a basic one. Open your doors – and not just the physical ones, your
mental ones too.
Help spread the word that an open science is the only science.
Look for ways to publish work in open access, to responsibly store and share your
data, and to be transparent about your methodology
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Science Communication and Public
Engagement - VIB training 29 May 2018
4. But also take it that one step further – beyond the academic environment
Let in outside influences into your science and acknowledge that there is also
valuable knowledge outside the walls of your institute
Look for ways in which you can develop socially robust knowledge and allow for
cocreation of science.
Helga Nowotny , Peter Scott and Michael T. Gibbons - Re-Thinking Science: Mode 2
in Societal Context (2003)
“Science’s validity no longer determined solely, or predominantly, by narrowly
circumscribed scientific communities
but by much wider communities of engagement comprising knowledge
producers, disseminators, traders and users.”
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Science Communication and Public
Engagement - VIB training 29 May 2018
5. Opening up in this day and age means embracing the digital possibilities
That also means knowing what this online existence implies
Seeing the benefits and understanding the downsides and challenges
Balancing your digital footprint versus your digital shadow, the professional and the
personal
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Science Communication and Public
Engagement - VIB training 29 May 2018
6. GOOGLE YOURSELF
How do you want to come across? How much time do you have?
Assess what publications and other outputs of yours are already online and then
sharing everything else you are able to,
including teaching resources and ‘popular or informal’ resources in a variety of
formats.
Start communicating and interacting.
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Science Communication and Public
Engagement - VIB training 29 May 2018
7. Assessing your profile as a scientist and building up your identity works a lot better if
you understand what might the impact of your research
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Science Communication and Public
Engagement - VIB training 29 May 2018
8. Understanding & being able to identify the impact of your research helps society,
science as a whole, and you!
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Science Communication and Public
Engagement - VIB training 29 May 2018
9. Why are you doing what you’re doing?
What drives you? What is your passion?
Be ready to answer the So what?
Addressing relevance without necessarily being the one doing the relevant research
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Science Communication and Public
Engagement - VIB training 29 May 2018
10. Once you understand what your research may mean to other people, it is time to
communicate it effectively!
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Science Communication and Public
Engagement - VIB training 29 May 2018
11. Unfortunately a lot of scientists have been groomed in a specific form of
“communication”
Each audience needs another approach: form & content
The scientific way isn’t a bad way but it is just one way
There is one way of communicating that helps in all settings: the age-old technique
of storytelling
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Science Communication and Public
Engagement - VIB training 29 May 2018
12. Is there anything in your message which may resonate with your audience?
When considering this question, be honest with yourself, and try to embody
someone
else who hasn’t spent years toiling over your subject.
Rigorous researching and attention-grabbing storytelling are very different trades but
that does not mean that they are mutually exclusive.
By finding that point of connection in your research you’ll go a long way.
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Science Communication and Public
Engagement - VIB training 29 May 2018
13. Let’s take some lessons from the ancient Greeks:
(1) The Hero’s Journey is based upon the idea that all heroes and mythological
characters proceed through a similar development throughout a trilogy or series.
This doesn’t only apply to fictional characters. Movie directors often use these
concepts in Hollywood when creating an attractive plot line.
(2) Aristotle: logos (logic in content), ethos (shared framework of values), pathos
(emotion)
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Science Communication and Public
Engagement - VIB training 29 May 2018
14. Touching the head and heart: making them laugh or cry, inviting them to join you on
your journey, challenging them to think.
Making your research real and relatable.
So structure around meaning, and the big picture. Then support key ideas with
details – but not too much.
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Science Communication and Public
Engagement - VIB training 29 May 2018
17. Both for comms and engagement strategy: consider stakeholder analysis
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Science Communication and Public
Engagement - VIB training 29 May 2018
19. Not just about storytelling and using the right tools but also about LISTENING!!
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Science Communication and Public
Engagement - VIB training 29 May 2018
28. Twitter is an easy but worthwhile tool to start engaging about your research.
These are some of the benefits:
- Connect with peers and building a scholarly network. Quote: “It’s allowed me to
open up new communities for discussions and increase the interdisciplinarity of
my research.” (A network boost by M. Baker. Nature, 12 Feb 2015)
- Sharing and finding resources (think ‘open science’)
- Generating and refining ideas
- Honing writing skills: try building up a lucid argument in 140 characters!
- Reputation management (part of larger strategy in managing your digital
footprint/shadow)
- Dissemination of your research. Don’t just tweet your new scientific articles but
try to capture the attention of more people by making the content accessible.
- Public engagement and creating involvement: why not look for participants this
way?
- And remember, there’s a lot of journalists and media outlets on there too…
Jobs & prof. development:
- “Following institutions, companies and individuals on Twitter can offer clues
about workplace culture and ongoing projects in a way that static website do
not.”
- “Junior researchers are creating identities that don’t have to be routed through
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Science Communication and Public
Engagement - VIB training 29 May 2018
29. the principal investigator.” (A network boost by M. Baker. Nature, 12 Feb 2015)
It is a great tool for conferences:
- Back-channel: capture content & provide feedback, share questions and resources
- Connecting and networking
- Virtual participation
There is of course a big social element to it (especially for ECRs):
- Break isolation
- Look over the fence
- Find fellow victims
- Real-life scholar
- Sheer fun of it
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