Scientists on Twitter
The science behind Twitter reach.
The science behind Twitter reach.
Earlier this year, American writer Dani Shapiro published a piece at LitHub about balancing social media and writing. She recounts how she sent out a newsletter about a new show she’d created on Facebook – and then received an email not intended for her that said “Is she for fucking real?” Like most writers, Shapiro…
As I’ve been writing my recent blog posts about science communication, I’ve run across a number of terms that are key to science communication, though we still argue about exactly what some of them mean. I thought it would be interesting to look at a few of these words and how we use them, because…
Earlier this week, I shared a comment made by Canada’s new Chief Science Adviser, Dr. Mona Nemer, on Twitter: ““Survey after survey is giving us a picture that I would say is somewhat worrisome. We have close to half the public who doesn’t believe in science, who think it is opinion or propaganda or things…