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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Field-dependency of politics and public shaming in academia
I have recently been quite shocked to learn of the blog of an accomplished string theorist, which includes a lot of personal invective against physicists he disagrees with, as well as a lot of non-...
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How have perceptions of ResearchGate changed from 2014 to 2018?
About 4 years ago, a question was asked about usefulness of ResearchGate for academics. Judging by the most upvoted answers, the portal had a rather negative opinion back then. However, social media ...
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Is there a way to do serious social justice-related work or research while working on scientific research?
I am currently working in the sciences (broadly speaking, the STEM field) in the United States as a researcher.
I have been following quite closely to the social-political trend of the US for the ...
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Does social media and mainstream presence, through interviews and publishing in the "trade press", help one's chances at tenure?
One of our lab directors, on tenure track, has been active in the mainstream, e.g. doing science interviews on radio, tv, newpapers, and another researcher (post-doc, I think) has published in the "...
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Dealing with a PhD student reneging on an agreement to appear in social media
Inspired by this question, I have a similar but somehow different problem.
I recently assumed a tenure-track position. One of my strategies for a visible start is to have a strong presence in social ...
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Does making Youtube videos improve your CV?
Is the creation of youtube content/lectures in your field worth showing off on an Academic CV?
In the most extreme case: if someone who is considering hiring for a teaching position in a university/...
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Is social media helpful for research dissemination?
Is there any quantitative evidence that using social media helps academics disseminate their research results? What about the cost-effectiveness of social media?
My guess is that search engines are ...
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Unsure whether to continue maintaining research account on Facebook re Cambridge Analytica [closed]
I maintain a Facebook account purely for research purposes. I have about 30 or so friends on my account. I have always disagreed with FB and its ethics, however, recently, in the light of the CA ...
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Is Peer.us useful? [closed]
I just received an email from Peerus "letting me know" that my paper was published. While it sells itself as a paper monitoring app, better than google scholar, it does seem to be closer to academia....
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Contacting EiC on social media
I am in a very frustrating situation. My article is under review for almost 8 months and I didn't hear any response. The average review time for the journal is 3 months. The journal is highly reputed ...
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How effective is the website Kudos in terms of spreading the word about one's research? [closed]
The website Kudos offers a service whereby researchers can set up a profile, choose their publications from a database and add a short summary of their content (not the original abstract). How ...
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Can I have ResearchGate organize peer review of my paper?
I've uploaded an article to ResearchGate, and ResearchGate asks me whether it has been peer reviewed. It hasn't, and I'm wondering whether ResearchGate can get it peer reviewed for me.
Is this ...
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University asks not to promote other university's research
A university sent a letter requesting/advising its staff members not to interact with or promote a media coverage of a research study by a another university.
The letter didn't include any ...
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Research Gate does not count my citations
I have a question related to Reasearch Gate and citation count.
My co-authors have uploaded some conference papers in which I was author too. I decide to create a profile in RG and when I do I ...
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Bullying in Academia: Harassed by senior PhD student? [closed]
Now this is something that happened long ago and even after so long, in a way begs for an answer, so I thought that I might ask here.
This happened to someone who was in another department of my ...
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