1) The document discusses why and how scientists can use Twitter, including to communicate research outputs to the public and experts, develop new partnerships and co-authorships, keep up with breaking news, and generate interdisciplinary ideas. 2) It provides tips for using Twitter, such as customizing tweets, accessing reports and publications, and following conferences live. 3) Examples are given of how to broadcast work and projects on Twitter to find others with similar research interests.

1. Twitter for Scientists: Why & How

2. “Science Kardashians(1)”
(1) Hall, M. (2014) The Kardashian index: a measure of discrepant social media profile for scientists. Genome Biology, 15:424
https://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/track/pdf/10.1186/s13059-014-0424-0?site=genomebiology.biomedcentral.com

4. Why I use Twitter
• To communicate research outputs directly to the public & experts
• To develop new partnerships / co-authorships
• To generate ideas and foster interdisciplinary research
• To broadcast the work/projects (eg #concurwsl) I am involved with and thus find other
scientists, organizations, research labs, people interested in similar research fields
• To keep up with “breaking news” (science news) = planning issues; governance;
landscape research; city & regional branding etc.
• To get input from other researchers by asking questions about examples, potential
case studies, new concepts, approaches.
• To educate (hopefully) but more about learn from my twitter community (knowledge
exchange platform in my case since 2009)
• To follow conferences (live) that I cannot get to in person
• Because Tweeting takes far much less time than other types of blogging/micro-blogging

5. Why & How I use Twitter

6. Why & How I use Twitter

7. Why & How I use Twitter

8. Why & How I use Twitter:
To communicate research outputs directly to the public & experts
Customized Tweet
#concurwsl publication out
now #Governance
arrangements, #funding
mechanisms and #power
configurations in current
practices of strategic spatial
plan implementation
https://www.sciencedirect.co
m/science/article/pii/S026483
7717310578

9. Why & How I use Twitter:
To communicate research outputs directly to the public & experts

10. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13280-018-1016-0
Why & How I use Twitter:
To communicate research outputs directly to the public & experts

11. Why & How I use Twitter:
To communicate research outputs directly to the public & experts
http://www.oecd.org/governance/rethinking-
regional-development-policy-making-
9789264293014-en.htm

12. Why & How I use Twitter:
To develop new partnerships / co-authorships

13. Why & How I use Twitter:
To develop new partnerships / co-authorships

14. Why & How I use Twitter:
To develop new partnerships / co-authorships

15. Why & How I use Twitter:
To keep up with “breaking news” / generate ideas and foster interdisciplinary research

16. Why & How I use Twitter:
To keep up with “breaking news” / generate ideas and foster interdisciplinary research

17. Direct access to reports,
studies, latest publications,
calls for papers etc.
Why & How I use Twitter:
To keep up with “breaking news” / generate ideas and foster interdisciplinary research

18. Why & How I use Twitter:
To keep up with “breaking news” / generate ideas and foster interdisciplinary research

19. …
Of relevance for your
current research;
ongoing project or you
need to access the
latest on specific field
Why & How I use Twitter:
To keep up with “breaking news” / generate ideas and foster interdisciplinary research

20. Why & How I use Twitter:
To keep up with “breaking news” / generate ideas and foster interdisciplinary research

21. Why & How I use Twitter:
To keep up with “breaking news” / generate ideas and foster interdisciplinary research

22. Why & How I use Twitter:
To keep up with “breaking news” / generate ideas and foster interdisciplinary research

23. Why & How I use Twitter:
To keep up with “breaking news” / generate ideas and foster interdisciplinary research

24. Why & How I use Twitter:
• To broadcast the work/projects I am (we are) involved with and thus find other
scientists, organizations, research labs, people interested in similar research field
#concurwsl

25. Why & How I use Twitter:
• To broadcast the work/projects I am (we are) involved with and thus find other
scientists, organizations, research labs, people interested in similar research field
#concurwsl

26. Why & How I use Twitter:
• To educate (hopefully) but more about learn from my twitter community
(knowledge exchange platform)

27. Why & How I use Twitter:
• To follow conferences (live) that I cannot get to in person
https://tweetdeck.twitter.com/

28. Twitter for Scientists

29. Twitter for Scientists

30. https://analytics.twitter.com/user/eduoliveira98/tweets?filter=top&origin=im&ref=gl-an-tw-im-desktop
Twitter for Scientists

31. Why & How I use Twitter:
• Tips & Tricks

32. Twitter for Scientists
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2014/09/top-50-science-stars-twitter

33. Twitter for Scientists

34. Twitter for Scientists
http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/

35. On Twitter, fake news spreads
faster and further than real news
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/35
9/6380/1146
Vosoughi et al. used a data set of rumor
cascades on Twitter from 2006 to 2017.
About 126,000 rumors were spread by
∼3 million people. False news reached
more people than the truth; the top 1%
of false news cascades diffused to
between 1000 and 100,000 people,
whereas the truth rarely diffused to
more than 1000 people. Falsehood also
diffused faster than the truth. The
degree of novelty and the emotional
reactions of recipients may be
responsible for the differences
observed.
Twitter for Scientists