academic twitter – Ecology is not a dirty word

Academia on social media

November 6, 2022November 12, 2022Manu Saunders7 Comments

The Twitter thing escalated quickly. Within 24 hours, I went from being 100% sure I wasn’t going to leave Twitter regardless of what happened, to signing up on Mastodon ‘just in case’. I’m staying on Twitter and won’t be leaving it just yet. Who knows where this unpredictable situation will head, but I genuinely hope Twitter (as it was) survives and defeats the current invasion.

Twitter has been a beacon, a haven, an inspiration, and a cornerstone for me. I’ve tried insta and tiktok, but they never worked for me. I only joined FB recently just to stay connected with family and friends, but I don’t like it as a professional network.

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In defence of old literature

January 5, 2017September 16, 2018Manu Saunders13 Comments

Keeping up with the literature is part of being a researcher. A few years ago, the #365papers hashtag started on Twitter, as a way to encourage academics to read more papers in a calendar year.

In reality, very few academics would actually read 365 full papers over a single year. #260papers, a paper every work day, was suggested as a compromise and, more recently, #230papers goes one step further to account for public holidays etc.

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