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Twitter Humour
Dean Burnett from The Guardian, Great moments in science (if Twitter had existed), writes that Twitter is the source of a great deal of modern news, and scientists are often encouraged to tweet about their research. So what if Twitter had been around during the times of historic scientific breakthroughs and discoveries? A very funny article.
Best Science Tweets
- 25 Must-Follow Twitter Accounts For Science NerdsFrom BussFeed, Jan 20, 2014
- 27 Best Twitter Accounts For Science LoversFrom Moments of Science.
- 100 Scientists On Twitter By CategoryFrom te@chthought.
Bill Nye the Science Guy
Sylvia A Earle
Twitter in Scientific Research
Twitter to Release All Tweets to Scientists : A trove of billions of tweets will be a research boon and an ethical dilemma. Article from Scientific American about the use of Twitter as a research tool.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
#overlyhonestmethods
It all started with a neuropharmacologist researcher named Leigh when she tweeted "incubation lasted three days because this is how long the undergrad forgot the experiment in the fridge #overlyhonestmethods". Read the Guardian article, Scientists take to Twitter to reveal their less than scientific methods. My favourite: "The logical sequence of experiments and ideas expressed in this paper may not have actually occurred in the order given".