Currently reading “Social media for academics” by Carrigan (2020)
I’ve been teaching about social media for academics in one way or another for a long time. I have recommended at least two books to read (links to my blogposts…
Tag: Instagram
November #WaveWatching: A summary of my daily Instagram
All throughout November, I’ve posted pretty much daily to my #WaveWatching Insta @fascinocean_kiel. And here are all the posts for you! If you prefer daily updates, why not follow my…
October #wavewatching: reposting my Instagram posts
My scicomm Instagram @fascinocean_kiel is back! As in it’s something that I am putting more thought into again. While it started off strong almost two years ago with daily posts…
Guest posts, take-overs, interviews, and why I love them
Guest posts, take-overs and interviews are a great alternative to maintaining social media channels for every scientist / project / institution individually, if that isn’t what you want to be…
“Using social media in science communication — the Kiel Science Outreach Campus shows how it’s done” (part 2)
One of the 2018 achievements that I feel pretty proud of is developing a social media strategy for the science communication research project Kiel Science Outreach Campus, and implementing it together…
Experimenting with Insta stories for my wave watching scicomm
Inspired by the absolutely brilliant job that Kati is doing for my project GEO-Tag der Natur, I have recently started experimenting with “Insta stories” on the topic of wave watching.…
Wave watching in Kleinwaabs — and my first real Insta story!
So today (and tomorrow and the day after) is the big event that I have been working towards all year in my not-so-new-anymore job: The GEO-Tag der Natur! If you…
My nine most successful Instagram pictures of 2018 #2018bestnine
Interesting year-in-review: despite amazing photo opportunities in Cyprus and Norway and other beautiful places, the Kiel fjord is clearly dominating my most successful Instagram posts of 2018 (only two are…
Using social media in science communication — the Kiel Science Outreach Campus shows how it’s done
One of the 2018 achievements that I feel most proud of is developing a social media strategy for the science communication research project Kiel Science Outreach Campus, and implementing it together…
The proof of concept phase is over! My Instagram in July, and what’s the plan now.
So what’s going on with my Instagram fascinocean_kiel? Plenty of things are changing! In July, I stuck to the strategy I had developed for my private #scicommchall. But then in…
My Instagram in May
Even though I started my Instagram @fascinocean_kiel mainly as a proof of concept thing that I wanted to do for one month only to be able to put it on my…
My April on Instagram
Yes, I have been slacking on the blogging front. But I’ve been very active somewhere else: On Instagram! My account @fascinocean_kiel has been updated almost daily over the last month (I…
My March on Instagram
My private #SciCommChall for March was to start a science communication Instagram account, fascinocean_kiel. I had a pretty clear idea of where I wanted to go with this account: The…
Are you following fascinocean_kiel on Instagram already? You definitely should!
fascinocean_kiel is my latest scicomm project — I am posting daily pictures from Kiel fjord together with a german description of some cool oceanography stuff you can see on the…