Table of Contents
Web Tools
Twitter
Online Profiles
Other
Web Tools
Twitter
The big questions
What information do you want to get?
What information do you want to create/propagate?
How do you want others to see you?
Why use social media?
To know
New publications
People’s thoughts
To be known (visibility)
Your online presence
To interact
Open conversation threads
Private messages
Decisions to make
Purpose?
Target audience?
References
https://doi.org/10.1021/acscentsci.9b01273
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007513
https://blogs.plos.org/scicomm/2019/06/18/a-nifty-guide-for-academics-on-using-twitter/
https://www.natureindex.com/news-blog/ten-tips-tweeting-research-academic
https://plantae.org/how-top-scientists-use-twitter-to-support-their-research/
https://www.physoc.org/magazine-articles/scientists-and-social-media-can-you-tweet-your-way-to-impact/
https://www.fasttrackimpact.com/post/2018/02/16/how-to-generate-research-impact-from-twitter-and-linkedin
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0229446
Online Profiles
ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID)
Work, education, publication; simplified CV
Used by many journals to identify authors
Strongly recommended for people interested in an academic career
All lab members should sign up for an account and fill out the basic info
Google Scholar
Publication list and citation statistics
Email notifications of new publications based on keyword/people
Strongly recommended for people interested in an academic career
Web of Science (WoS)
More limited than Google Scholar
Includes contribution as editors/reviewers
Recommended for people interested in an academic career
LinkedIn
“Facebook for industry”
Strongly recommended for people interested in moving to industry
Other
Evernote; managing notes
https://evernote.com/
Doodle; scheduling
https://doodle.com/
Worldtimebuddy; time zone conversion
https://www.worldtimebuddy.com/
Coolors; color palettes
https://coolors.co/
Colorbrewer: color palettes
http://colorbrewer2.org
BioRender; make science figures:
https://biorender.com/
Benchling; tools for planning molecular biology experiments
Sign-up using this invitation code:
https://benchling.com/signup?pubref=pubref_OIFaKKff
Request to join IPMB/lab groups