Academics can easily leave Twitter’s town square, but it will be much harder for their institutions
The fate of Twitter, both for academics and everyone else, has been a pressing issue in the past weeks. In this post Andy Tattersall...
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Finding your niche in the four styles of research communication
Let’s get straight to the point. After a decade of experience using digital platforms for research communication, it has become apparent...
Wikipedia is open to all, the research underpinning it should be too.
There has (too) long been a debate as to Wikipedia’s relationship with academia and whether the former is a credible platform for sharing...
Time, Finances, Confidence, Knowledge – Research communicators should be attentive to the resource i
Research communication is rarely thought of as an inequality, due to its seeming simplicity and low barriers to entry. You can set up a...
In 2021 let’s do institutional academic social media better.
Chances are you dutifully follow a number of poorly managed institutional academic social media accounts, producing infrequent,...
You can publish open access, but ‘big’ journals still act as gatekeepers to discoverability and impa
One of the proposed advantages of open access publication is that it increases the impact of academic research by making it more broadly...
In the era of Brexit and fake news, scientists need to embrace social media
Social media can be an intimidating place for academics as not all of them take to it like ducks to water. For many newcomers, a more approp
Nothing lasts forever: questions to ask yourself when choosing a new tool or technology for research
Academia has become increasingly reliant on third-party tools and technologies to carry out many of the processes throughout the research li
Altmetrics - what are they good for? - British Psychology Research Day - video of my talk
video of a talk I gave for The British Psychological Association on Altmetrics and how researchers can make use of them
Many a true word is spoken in jest, part two: more social media content that mocks, self-ridicules,
Two years ago, Andy Tattersall highlighted those Twitter accounts that offered some light relief from the often all-too-serious world of aca
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