Social media declines and the academic blogosphere
Ecology is not a dirty word,
At the end of 2022, we all thought Twitter (now called X) was about to break. In my broader twitter network of mostly academia…
At the end of 2022, we all thought Twitter (now called X) was about to break. In my broader twitter network of mostly academia…
There are many aspects of the academic system that are unfair, inequitable, or just no longer fit for purpose in today’s world.
It’s increasingly common to see universities publishing press releases about newly published papers from academics. This…
A couple of years ago I wrote about some of the limitations of relying on Altmetrics as an indicator of a paper’s impact…
This Small Pond is approaching carrying capacity. (There are some good analogies involving allochthonous and and autochthonous…
If any of you are near Wageningen University on 30th May I’m giving a talk about some of our recent research called “The…
Imagem: Wokandapix. Por Lilian Nassi-Calò Nos anos 2.000 foram lançados milhares de blogs com alguma referência à ciência.
Blogs have evolved into an established academic genre and a valuable forum for alternative journalism and public education.
Also this week: the story behind Schluter
Welcome to my, now definitely traditional, review of the past year. Enjoying the summer sunshine at our house in Vinca…
Anybody can set up a blog and write a post, yet the reach of these posts varies dramatically. Let’s say you have an interesting…
People have been saying “blogging is dead” consistently for the past decade. Yet, fellow readers, here we are, on this blog.
In case you missed it, a new paper in Royal Society Open Science from seven popular ecology blogs discusses the highlights and…
Featured Image: Digestive tract (in yellow) of Phosphotriton, an Eocene salamander. From Tissier et al. (2017), CC-BY) Papers (Al…
I really don’t want the blog to turn into a platform for announcing personal papers, but this is another case that seems worthy…
We’re co-authors on a new paper on “Bringing ecology blogging into the scientific fold: measuring reach and impact of science…
Scientists blog for many reasons. Some of these reasons are highly personal, other reasons are purely professional. For most…
At the end of the year there is a tendency for some scientific bloggers to take advantage of the statistics provided by their…