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Tag Archives: twitter
Twitter tips for beginners
A few months ago I wrote a post for an internal blog at work about getting started with Twitter… I figure enough time has passed that I can now share it with a wider audience. It’s sort of a Twitter-101, … Continue reading
Posted in Random
Tagged chemists, hashtags, journals, nature chemistry, social media, tweeting, twitter, twitter chemists
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Counting chemists
There’s a new paper out in PLOS One called A systematic identification and analysis of scientists on Twitter – yay! Being a big fan of science and Twitter, this sounds good. Unfortunately, I became aware of the paper because @Teachforaliving … Continue reading
We need to talk about Twitter…
As part of Materials Week at the University of Warwick, I was asked to talk about social media and how it is used by scientists (and of course I threw in a bit about how journals use it too). Because … Continue reading
Posted in Journal stuff
Tagged blogging, chemistry, facebook, social media, talks, tocrofl, tumblr, twitter
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All your base are belong to JACS
This is a follow-up post to yesterday’s that looked at word clouds made up from the titles of JACS papers from the last 115 years. Jake Yeston commented on Twitter about the lack of catalysis-based words in the clouds. This … Continue reading
Posted in Publishing
Tagged acids, bases, catalysis, chemistry, chemistry publishing, jacs, language, publishing, synthesis, titles, twitter, word clouds
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Animal authors
Earlier today, I noticed that Sylvain Deville had taken to Twitter to point out an unusual canine co-author on a scientific paper: Does this name rings a bell ? hint: #lordoftherings Turns out, it's also the 1st author's dog! http://t.co/T7ecRgJ42E … Continue reading
Posted in Fun, Journal stuff, Publishing
Tagged authors, cat, dog, fun, geim, hamster, papers, publishing, scientific literature, scientific publishing, twitter
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