Have you ever heard someone say “the best #selfie is the one that isn’t”? Well, in the case of a #PhDshelfie, the best one is the one you share with other PhD students. Here’s mine, now let’s see yours... ... Continue Reading →
Is it worth spending most of the conference glued to your screen? Are conferences hashtags where the real party happens? Ondrej discusses the pearls and pitfalls of tweeting from a conference... Academic conferences are usually exhausting. You spend the whole... Continue Reading →
The #seriousacademic storm on social media raised some interesting questions about professional and personal practices academics engage in online. We too have seriously thought about this. (Admittedly, after seeing it on Twitter). In case you have spent last week at... Continue Reading →
It seems that when you are in the academia, everything becomes more complicated. Even your social media profiles might cause worry. This week, Sian shares her experience with Twitter... Who am I? Why isn’t anybody listening to me? Is... Continue Reading →
I was, until recently, a Twitter virgin. Shameful, I know, but for all my Web 2.0 wisdom, Twitter had long seemed like a strange, foreign land, full of tweets and hashtags, trending and linking. Friends of mine would sometimes travel... Continue Reading →
As Twitter infiltrates academia, postgraduate researchers and academics alike are asking: to tweet or not to tweet? Here Dilip Mutum provides some useful tips on using Twitter to disseminate your research, keep up to date and ask questions. It may... Continue Reading →
Impact is a key word in academia at the moment, but what does it mean and how can early career researchers get involved in Impact activities? In this short guide to impact for ECRs Charlotte Mathieson explains all. What is... Continue Reading →
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