Twitter for Scientists - Labo Bernatchez
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New to Twitter? Looking for insight on how to integrate your Twitter activity with your Science profession? See some tips on how to make the most of your 140 characters.
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- 1. Twitter for Scientists Labo Bernatchez - Summer 2015 Université Laval Ben Sutherland & Eric Normandeau
- 2. Getting Started with Twitter First steps ● Create an account ● Add a profile image ● Add a profile description ● Add a background ● Follow people
- 3. Getting Started with Twitter ● Your feed ● Your notifications
- 4. Getting Started with Twitter Posting
- 5. Getting Started with Twitter Engaging ● Retweet: promote ideas ● Reply: comment ● Favorite: save for later
- 6. Features ● #hashtags ○ #CSEE2015 ○ #evolution ● @replies ● @mentions ● Links ● Media direct all followers all followers
- 7. Using Twitter for Science ● Eavesdropping ○ Follow informative people ○ Hear about new papers, new ideas ● Dialogue ○ Exchange ○ Discuss ○ Debate ○ Promote
- 8. Using Twitter for Science ● Mindcasting ○ Following a single story or topic ● Keeping track of ideas ○ Remind yourself about topics ○ Careful to not spam your followers
- 9. Twitter Integration with Peer Review Pre-peer review
- 10. Post-peer review Twitter Integration with Peer Review “Pachter defends Gilad’s decision to share his findings on social media. ‘The post drew attention to something that could have been overlooked,’ he says. Thanks to Twitter and blogs, he says, ‘you can crowdsource discussion and analysis”. I think that’s very healthy for science.’”
- 12. Networking & Discussions ● Use of Twitter in conferences ■ Can’t make it to a conference? ● See what the attendees are discussing on Twitter ■ At a conference and have something to say? ● Add the conference hashtag to your tweet and join the conversation ○ #eegen15 ○ #eseb15 ○ #AFS145 ○ #evolseq
- 13. Measures of ‘Hotness’ ● Altmetrics
- 14. Codes of Conduct Respect your followers ● Multiple accounts for multiple ‘personalities’? ○ Why do most of your followers follow you? ■ Because of you being in their ‘Genomics’ twitter community? ■ It is also good to have your own ‘voice’ and a certain level of off-topic tweets ● Keep things positive
- 15. Codes of Conduct ● Your tweets are public ○ Act like the world is listening ○ News sites can cite you for a tweet ○ Tweets can go viral, for good or bad Many people have seen cases in the news of a person tweeting something inappropriate, then having a ‘Twitter Storm’ occur. Just like Mr Burns spitting out a ‘delicious’ piece of three-eyed blinky and losing his political campaign, the effects can happen fast! Best to give your tweet another read and some thought before you hit the Tweet button.
- 16. ● Your tweets are public ○ Be aware of polarizing topics ○ Think carefully before tweeting ○ Followers, following, favorites are public too ● “My tweets are my own” ○ Does not disassociate you from your organization Codes of Conduct
- 17. Different channels for different messages ● Twitter is not.. ○ Facebook ○ Instagram ○ Email ○ Blog ○ Distribution list ○ Forum
- 18. Happy Tweeting!