As Scientists Take to Twitter, New Study Shows Power Of "Visual Abstract" Graphics to Share Results
Number of people clicking to read research papers nearly tripled in carefully controlled trial published by U-M team
Five Research-Approved Resolutions to Get Your New Year Off to a Strong Start
Dieting, working out, keeping in touch with friends. It’s a new year, but the same old resolutions always seem to crop up.
Likes & Shares, Who Cares?
Social media arouses conflicting value judgments in the scientific community.
Researchers Look to Twitter to Better Understand Vaccine Refusal
Johns Hopkins computer scientist part of team looking at why people refuse vaccines and how these reasons vary among communities.
Can Twitter Help Better Identify Foodborne Illness Cases?
An estimated 55 million to 105 million people in the United States suffer from foodborne illnesses each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), resulting in costs of $2-$4 billion annually.
Peer-Review Science is Taking off on Twitter, but Who is Tweeting What and Why?
The most tweeted peer-reviewed articles published between 2010 and 2012, and the trends associated with their social media success, have been identified by Stefanie Haustein at the University of Montreal's School of Library and Information Science.
Making Sense of Patterns in the Twitterverse
If you think keeping up with what's happening via Twitter, Facebook and other social media is like drinking from a fire hose, multiply that by 7 billion — and you'll have a sense of what Court Corley wakes up to every morning.