There are a number of real and/or renowned scientists on twitter and their share, comments or tips surely inspire and stimulate science. In my novice understanding, we need good scientists and experts on social platforms, surely not for publicity or clickbait but for open discussion and direction. Otherwise, anyone else can take (or influence) our society and science in any direction. I believe we can see that already to some extent (mentioned Netflix show could be an example if it turns out to be, we don't know yet). If people or our society heads toward the wrong direction (e.g. don't believe in climate change or it's a hoax) but don't listen to scientists- then twitter could be blamed, but science fails.
Thanks,Reza Md. Rezaul Karim (Reza) Ph.D. candidate, PhD Program in Integrated Biomedical SciencesDepartment of Molecular MedicineMorsani College of MedicineUniversity of South Florida Schonbrunn lab, Moffitt Cancer CenterTampa, FLE-mail: reza...@yahoo.com, rezaul@usf.eduPhone: +1-954-937-8487ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0424-127X LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/reza092 On Tuesday, March 31, 2020, 8:42:12 PM EDT, Javier Gonzalez <bio...@gmail.com> wrote: 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 nowCheers,@_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. This can’t happen! 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