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Reading more about academics and social media

mglessmer — Thu, 23 May 2024 15:43:34 +0000

Clearly I am not completely done with Social Media yet, so much to read, so much to think about… I just read Mahon & Bergin (2024)’s “‘Sharing’, Selfhood, and Community in an Age of Academic Twitter”, which in the beginning describes an experience of X/Twitter that I can recognize: The urge to share new publications […]

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Currently reading “Social media for academics” by Carrigan (2020)

mglessmer — Tue, 14 May 2024 17:18:19 +0000

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 on “The Science of Communicating Science — The Ultimate Guide” by Craig Cormick, and “Communicating Climate Change” by A. K. Armstrong, M. E. Krasny, J. P. […]

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#SciCommSunday: Tweeting about publications

mglessmer — Sun, 08 Mar 2020 13:05:52 +0000

In case you’ve been wondering why I’ve been tweeting so much about our recent Nature article: Yes, I am really this proud and need to tell the whole world about it! :-) Of course there are more other good reasons to discuss articles on Twitter, to do it yourself, and to publish in journals that […]

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For #SciCommSunday: On the power of hashtags

mglessmer — Sun, 02 Feb 2020 13:05:06 +0000

Often completely underrated by people who start using twitter: The power of hashtags. In this post: Very brief intro and then the three main purposes for which I personally use hashtags. Hashtags: make your tweets easily findable Marking a keyword in a tweet with the #-sign turns it into a link which, if clicked, takes […]

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Guest posts, take-overs, interviews, and why I love them

mglessmer — Sun, 27 Oct 2019 13:05:31 +0000

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 doing (or — as in my case — a great addition) As I am preparing a workshop on online science communication, I have been thinking […]

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Why “But I don’t have anything interesting to say, I am just teaching a block course right now” is not a good excuse for not tweeting

mglessmer — Tue, 21 May 2019 10:29:08 +0000

Sometimes I feel like I have pressured all my friends into using social media for their science communication. Today I was talking to Kristin, who was apologetic about not having tweeted in a while and tried to excuse that by saying that she didn’t have anything interesting to tweet about right now because she is […]

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Using social media in science communication — the Kiel Science Outreach Campus shows how it’s done

mglessmer — Tue, 08 Jan 2019 19:15:42 +0000

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 with the project’s 11 PhD students plus a couple more colleagues who we “entrained” along the way. And now an article we wrote about the […]

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This week I am taking over @IAmScicomm!

mglessmer — Mon, 08 Oct 2018 13:26:56 +0000

You might think that I’d be busy enough with my visiting fellowship at the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research in Bergen this month, and you would be right. However, I’ve always* wanted to take over one of the rotating Twitter accounts (You know? Those accounts that tweet about certain topics, but are being run by […]

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Asking students to take pictures to help them connect theory to the reality of their everyday lives

mglessmer — Fri, 20 Jul 2018 05:48:18 +0000

— This post was written for “Teaching in the Academy” in Israel, where it was published in Hebrew! Link here. — Many times students fail to see the real-life relevance of what they are supposed to be learning at university. But there is an easy way to help them make the connection: Ask them to take […]

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Ask your students to take a picture to help them connect theoretical lecture content to the reality of their everyday life

mglessmer — Sat, 30 Apr 2016 13:32:25 +0000

“Ask your students to take a picture to help them connect theoretical lecture content to the reality of their everyday life”! This is the title of a post I wrote for an issue on current technologies and their integration into teaching of the journal “Teaching in the Academy” that is being distributed to everybody who […]

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