1. We need renowned scientists on Twitter because it is one of the best ways to spread words worth reading, mostly at these times when so many pseudo-scientists are influencers on social media (or worse, some even have a show on Netflix). 2. I'm voting for Mass Spec right now Cheers, @_biojmg
On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 5:06 PM Guillaume Gaullier <guilla...@gaullier.org> wrote: > 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 <jxb...@case.edu> 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 <gborgst...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > I personally don't tweet. > > > On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 12:21 PM Sweet, Robert < > 000027e0eb9d20ec-dmarc-requ...@jiscmail.ac.uk> wrote: > >> Real Men (and possibly Women too) Don't Tweet. >> >> Bob >> >> ________________________________________ >> From: CCP4 bulletin board <CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK> on behalf of James >> Holton <jmhol...@lbl.gov> >> Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2020 12:18 PM >> To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK >> Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] Vote for cryoEM >> >> Allessandro, >> >> The link you provide directs to a website hosted at someting called " >> 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. 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