Science in Social Media

@V_Saggiomo

pre-internet era

discuss outreach

funding

job market disseminate

now

What are we talking about?

500000 views in 1 month

Debate is good for science

debate

  Last year I was at a dinner symposium where EJ Corey gave a brilliant impromptu talk before a toast. It was a captivating speech all about how things have rapidly changed over the span of his 80+ years. The take home message was that change is natural and you can either embrace it and adapt or be left behind. I'm no fortune teller but it is clear to me that blogging is here to stay and is gathering momentum.  The purpose of this blog is to give you a no holds barred, behind the scenes look into our science.

        This blog will, hopefully, be like an open flask.

Outreach (the existence of the word “chemophobia” is our fault)

outreach disseminate

Crowdfunding

funding

(old)new jobs?

job market

Problems?time consuming

passion, not work

Fun of course

A dilution was made somewhere between 1:2000 and 1:500 because our 1ul pipettor is crap 

Crystals were obtained by the “I forgot the flask in the fume hood” technique. 

This work was made possible by EPSRC Grant #1234 & eBay from where we scrounged parts to repair our ancient apparatus 

start a blog - news, group meeting discussion, explaining papers, lit update, sharing slides

group twitter account - “rotating account”

embrace discussion on internet

Suggestions

1 time in a month - lit(internet) update

Links:Why scientists should use social media:https://peerj.com/preprints/16/ (The role of twitter in the life cycle of a scientific publication)http://deepseanews.com/2010/08/what-is-twitter-and-why-scientists-need-to-use-it/http://www.forbes.com/sites/haydnshaughnessy/2012/01/15/how-could-twitter-influence-science-and-why-scientists-are-on-board/http://compassblogs.org/blog/2012/04/30/twitter-and-why-scientists-should-bother/http://colinschultz.wordpress.com/2013/05/04/why-scientists-shouldnt-be-afraid-of-blogging-and-social-media/http://mrepidemiology.com/2012/01/23/twitter-for-scientists-or-how-a-procrastination-tool-can-be-useful-part-1/Dissemination and outreach:http://altmetric.comhttp://www.reddit.com/r/chemistry/http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2013/06/04/scientists-do-outreach-or-your-science-dies/http://www.youtube.com/user/ProfessorDaveatYork/videosMispractice in science:http://retractionwatch.wordpress.comhttp://copy-shake-paste.blogspot.nlDiscussion, debate:http://blog-syn.blogspot.nlhttp://raphazlab.wordpress.comhttp://raphazlab.wordpress.com/2012/12/20/stripy-timeline/http://pubpeer.comhttp://pubpeer.com/publications/5FF53E410A9B65348D98301B32B122Fun - overlyhonestmethods:http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2013/jan/10/scientists-twitter-methodshttp://blogs.scientificamerican.com/doing-good-science/2013/01/23/reasonably-honest-impressions-of-overlyhonestmethods/http://nos.nl/op3/artikel/460635-wetenschappers-doen-boekje-open-overlyhonest-methods.htmlJob Market:http://cen.acs.org/articles/91/i8/Real-Time-Community.htmlhttp://cenblog.org/grand-central/2013/05/chemclub/http://www.koniev.comhttp://chemjobber.blogspot.nl/2013/01/interview-pierre-morieux-chemdraw-wizard.htmlhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03WNbvZLDkk&fmt=22Crowdfunding:http://blogs.nature.com/soapboxscience/2013/05/03/crowdfunding-another-form-of-science-outreachhttp://www.physicstoday.org/resource/1/phtoad/v66/i4/p23_s1?bypassSSO=1http://www.petridish.orghttps://www.microryza.comhttp://www.rockethub.com/projects/11106-crowdsourcing-discoveryhttp://www.rockethub.com/projects/11806-autism-and-protein-markershttp://www.indiegogo.com/projects/ubiome-sequencing-your-microbiome