I've recently found out the K-index. It's a metric to evaluate the
impact of scientists on twitter vs real life.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashian_Index
Gianluca Santoni, serial crystallographer
ESRF structural biology group
71 avenue des Martyrs
38027 Grenoble cedex (France)
On 31/03/2020 22:05, Guillaume Gaullier 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 <[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
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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:
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