Questions tagged [social-media]
Use of social media (e.g. Facebook, ResearchGate, blogs, etc.) by academics to engage with other academics or students and to disseminate and publicize their research.
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Upload preprint on ArXiv AND ReseachGate?
Since I recently published my first ever paper, I was creating some accounts for various social networks and preprint servers. I have to say, I am a little bit confused by ReseachGate: If I have ...
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How are social media (such as Twitter) viewed for sharing research progress? [closed]
I am currently a PhD student and I have done some research and got great results. I have a Twitter account in which I have not mentioned anything about my research. My followers are mainly normal ...
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Are there boycotts of university rankings?
Motivation: Our university has asked us to provide contacts for possible referees for our university for the QS ranking; apparently this "find your own reviewers" system has a 40% weight in ...
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Is MLA Humanities Commons a valid alternative to Academia.edu etc.? [closed]
I've recently discovered MLA's Humanities Commons network and its CORE repository. It seems a viable non-profit alternative for sharing and preserving scholarly work to commercial ventures such as ...
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Should I complain about an academic purposefully perverting statistics on Covid vaccinations on Twitter?
As a disclaimer, I have to say I am against any kind of censorship. That being said, academics also have a responsibility to their audience.
An academic with a few thousand citations purposefully ...
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Do academics make decisions like other humans?
There are now 100s of studies from behaviour change sciences that show that humans take mental shortcuts to make decisions.
For instance we eat at a busy restaurant, because, as a rule of thumb, they ...
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Is it usual to use YouTube videos showcasing real life experiences/interviews for research? [closed]
I have a research project concentrating on the long-term outcomes of using local medicinal plants among rural communities. I see many YT videos on this topic from many different cultures e.g. short ...
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How do I know if I should write a paper or an essay instead of a post on Facebook or a personal blog?
I find it difficult to put in words what I observe. However, I will do my best to describe my confusion clearly, although if I could truly describe it clearly, probably I would have already found the ...
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My paper is being cited in vaccine misinformation. What do I do?
I have recently discovered that anti-vaxxers have been citing one of my papers on Twitter and elsewhere as evidence of a specific 5G-related conspiracy theory surrounding the COVID-19 vaccine. Of ...
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Can I submit a paper that I uploaded Academia.edu to a journal?
Will journals accept a paper that I have already put up on Academia.edu? It has more than 800 views and has been cited more than 10 times. Does uploading my paper on an open source website nullify my ...
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Can a public university block me on their official social media account if I am a student and/or employee?
I am a Ph.D. student at a large public university in the US. I am working on completing my defense and trying to graduate before the end of the summer term. I found out recently, rather accidentally, ...
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Is it a good idea to approach professors on LinkedIn about an internship?
I am trying to land my Ph.D. internship through contacting professors on LinkedIn. Is this a good approach? If not, what would a better approach be?
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Is there a way to tell Academia.edu "My downloading a paper is not an opt-in to be spammed with ongoing related papers"? [duplicate]
I started exploring for sources for a paper I am working on on Academia.edu, downloaded a few papers, and got an annoying stream of (from my perspective) unsolicited related papers in my inbox. I ...
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What is the least amount of effort needed to ensure no copyright issue of using online pictures in lecture notes/slides
I have noticed that in many university's course notes/slides, particularly those in the CS department, and in particular those dealing with computer animation/graphics, a large amount of instructors ...
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Is it possible for an academic to successfully claim their Google knowledge panel with an institution-hosted webpage and a Google Scholar account?
Edit: I rewrote the question based on the associated discussion on meta.
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Google created a "knowledge panel" about me which appears when my name is searched in Google. It consists ...
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