One remark about Jürgen’s comment (quoted below). It is great that well established scientists use Twitter, because by doing so they implicitly accept to be contacted publicly and to engage in public conversations (assuming their account is public, which is the default when you sign up on Twitter). Why is that great? Well, this tremendously lowers the barrier to engaging in discussions with established scientists, especially for early career researchers (like myself) who would not necessarily dare sending a direct email to more senior scientists. Posting to mailing lists such as the present one is no substitute to directly getting the personal attention of your field’s leading experts, like it can happen on Twitter.
The main problem with Twitter is its business model that promotes the most outrageous (or "engaging", in Twitter lingo) content, click-bait and the like. But fundamentally, Twitter is only a communication tool just like this mailing list, being different by its focus on spontaneity instead of accurate archiving of conversations. I believe the spontaneity it brings is valuable, despite its toxic business model, which can be circumvented for the most part (by unfollowing accounts that post click-bait and by exercising a healthy amount of self-discipline, i.e. thinking twice before posting or reposting something potentially click-bait-y). Guillaume (@Guillawme) > On 31 Mar 2020, at 21:00, Jurgen Bosch <[email protected]> wrote: > > I personally tweet, and I know a lot of well established scientists that > tweet too. > > Don't pretend Twitter is only junk, there are a lot of serious scientist > tweeting good and valuable information. True there are enough stupid people > tweeting BS. > > Jürgen > > P.S. Follow me on Twitter @Bosch_Lab > >> On Mar 31, 2020, at 2:01 PM, Gloria Borgstahl <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> I personally don't tweet. >> >> >> On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 12:21 PM Sweet, Robert >> <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> Real Men (and possibly Women too) Don't Tweet. >> >> Bob >> >> ________________________________________ >> From: CCP4 bulletin board <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> on behalf of James Holton <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> >> Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2020 12:18 PM >> To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] Vote for cryoEM >> >> Allessandro, >> >> The link you provide directs to a website hosted at someting called >> "twitter.com <http://twitter.com/>". My spam filter flagged it as junk. >> >> -James Holton >> MAD Scientist >> >> On 3/31/2020 8:41 AM, Alessandro Vannini wrote: >> We are head to head with mass-spectrometry in the #JBCMethodsMadness >> CHAMPIONSHIP. This can’t happen! >> >> Get out and VOTE! 15 min to go! >> >> https://twitter.com/jbiolchem/status/1244655631316987905?s=20 >> <https://twitter.com/jbiolchem/status/1244655631316987905?s=20><https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://twitter.com/jbiolchem/status/1244655631316987905?s=20__;!!P4SdNyxKAPE!QXCVmZuWG8FEmwM9FbPP-f3LEbH6bMcORBgYwRGHCpxZF7cWEHW9OsXmS5uQ_Q$ >> >> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://twitter.com/jbiolchem/status/1244655631316987905?s=20__;!!P4SdNyxKAPE!QXCVmZuWG8FEmwM9FbPP-f3LEbH6bMcORBgYwRGHCpxZF7cWEHW9OsXmS5uQ_Q$>> >> >> [cid:[email protected] >> <mailto:cid%[email protected]>] >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> ________________________________ >> >> To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: >> https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 >> <https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1><https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1__;!!P4SdNyxKAPE!QXCVmZuWG8FEmwM9FbPP-f3LEbH6bMcORBgYwRGHCpxZF7cWEHW9OsUFmMKe0Q$ >> >> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1__;!!P4SdNyxKAPE!QXCVmZuWG8FEmwM9FbPP-f3LEbH6bMcORBgYwRGHCpxZF7cWEHW9OsUFmMKe0Q$>> >> >> >> ________________________________ >> >> To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: >> https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 >> <https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1><https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1__;!!P4SdNyxKAPE!QXCVmZuWG8FEmwM9FbPP-f3LEbH6bMcORBgYwRGHCpxZF7cWEHW9OsUFmMKe0Q$ >> >> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1__;!!P4SdNyxKAPE!QXCVmZuWG8FEmwM9FbPP-f3LEbH6bMcORBgYwRGHCpxZF7cWEHW9OsUFmMKe0Q$>> >> >> ######################################################################## >> >> To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: >> https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 >> <https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1> >> >> To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: >> https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 >> <https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1> > > To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 > <https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1> ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1
