Lecture 7Twitter for Science Communication

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Video

Article Activity: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Qiz0IywVkxbBKL98IA_pqZAeGIJWOR1DAZ9YzNn8HdI/edit?hl=en_US

@RichardDawkins

@cheeky_geeky

@Michael_GR

@MireyasWildTalk

Evan Williams

Article Activity

In groups, read "Why Twitter Will Endure"

Then, fill in the main points of the article in the googledoc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Qiz0IywVkxbBKL98IA_pqZAeGIJWOR1DAZ9YzNn8HdI/edit?hl=en_US

By the end of the activity we will have a complete summary

NOTE: Do not press the back button while working on the google doc otherwise you will refresh the page for everyone!

@RichardDawkins

a British ethologist (scientific study of

animal behavior), evolutionary biologist

and author.

Dawkins came to prominence with his

1976 book The Selfish Gene, which

popularised the gene-centered view of

evolution and introduced the term meme

In his role as an ethologist, interested in

animal behaviour and its relation to natural

selection, he advocates the idea that the

gene is the principal unit of selection in

evolution

Dr. Mark Drapeau A.K.A.

@cheeky_geekyFrom understanding the evolutionary origins of

new species, to performing research on the

genomics of sleeping disorders and animal social

behavior, to studying how people interact and

collaborate in social networks, Dr. Mark Drapeau

has spent his career thinking about some of the

most profound topics stretching the limits of

human knowledge today

Michael G.R. ::

@Michael_GRMichaël lives in Ottawa, Canada.

Currently a full-time journalist/blogger, he has been with TreeHugger since May 2005. Between March 2006 and January 2008, he was editor-in-chief, and since February 2008, he’s been editor of the Science & Technology and of the Cars & Transportation sections, giving him more time for his first love, doing research and writing. As of August 2007, his employer is Discovery (they bought TreeHugger).

He is in charge of Discovery Green on the Discovery Channel’s website, and he used to write a weekly environmental column for the Huffington Post.

Mireya Mayor ::

@MireyasWildTalkHas a PhD in Anthropology, with a specialization in primates, so by ‘official’ training is an Anthropologist/Primatologist

For ten years has worked as a wildlife correspondent on numerous television programs, including National Geographic’s television series ‘Ultimate Explorer’, ‘Explorer’ and ‘Out There’.

Is one of four elite explorers chosen to star in Mark Burnett’s (creator of ‘Survivor’ and ‘The Apprentice’) ‘Expedition Africa’ for the History Channel.

Homework

Find five researchers/scientists in your field and

follow them. Tweet @JessL reasons why each has

been followed (i.e. one tweet per researcher = 5

tweets. Be sure to include the Twitter alias of the

research you’re following in each tweet.

Video: Evan Williams - TED talk 2009:

http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/473

Read: Time, How Twitter Will Change the Way We

Live:

http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,190

2604,00.html