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Scientific communities: How to get your blog noticed

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Increasing engagement and using social media can help get your blog posts to wider audiences, says Jon Tennant.

At the 2015 London Naturejobs Career Expo, Scientific communities panelist Jon Tennant, an avid science blogger, shared a few top tips on getting your blog noticed.

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Top tips from Jon Tennant:

  1. Tag your posts so that they are easily searchable.
  2. Share your posts on social media (Google+, LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter…).
  3. Ask for feedback by getting people to comment on your posts. This can stimulate conversations around the topics covered, which will increase engagement.
  4. Ask people to share your content in their own circles so that it reaches a broader audience.

Further reading:

Scientific communities: Build your own.

Scientific communities: How to follow the right people on Twitter

Scientific communities: From Twitter to paper

Scientific communities: Membership at learned societies

Scientific communities: How to follow the right people on Twitter

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Following the right people on Twitter can help develop supportive and beneficial communities, say speakers at the 2015 London Naturejobs Career Expo.

Jon Tennant, a paleontologist and avid social media user shares his tips on how to make the most of a social media community on Twitter.

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Jon Tennant’s four top tips:

  1. Identify learned societies in your field and find out who they follow. These people will be high-profile scientists in that particular speciality.
  2. Tweet at conferences and you’ll quickly find that people follow you back, especially those who cannot attend.
  3. Curate your feeds into lists. For example, develop a list appropriate to science communication, or on microbiology. You can be as specific as you like
  4. If you don’t like what someone does/says on Twitter, you can unfollow them.

Further reading:

Scientific communities: Build your own

Scientific communities: Membership at learned societies

Scientific communities: From Twitter to paper

Scientific communities: From Twitter to paper

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Networking on Twitter can lead to new collaborations, research projects and, ultimately, published papers.

Jon Tennant spent time networking  with fellow paleontologists on Twitter. Unbeknownst to him, this method of communication would ultimately lead to a new research collaboration and a published paper. Here he explains his story at the 2015 London Naturejobs Career Expo.

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Further reading:

Scientific communities: Build your own

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Launching the 2015 London Naturejobs Career Expo journalism competition

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Naturejobs-Career-Expo-London-2015Following the success of the Boston and London Naturejobs Career Expos journalism competitions (you can read all the articles from the competition in the #NJCEBoston and #NJCE14 categories on the blog), we are repeating the competition for both the 2015 Expos. Earlier this year we ran the Boston competition (see the NJCE15 category on the blog) but now it’s time for the London one!

The London Naturejobs Career Expo is our flagship event, so we are looking for five budding science writers to help us with our coverage of the Expo conference sessions, workshops and general ambience of the event for those who cannot make it. The conference will explore career paths in industry, academia and science communication, entrepreneurship, structuring a CV and transferable skills, amongst other things.

The five winners will have the opportunity to attend the Expo and write up at least two of the sessions or workshops for our readers, sharing the advice and expertise of the speakers with readers from around the world. Winners will also have the opportunity to work closely with Nature Publishing Group editors, and their articles will be published on the Naturejobs blog. Continue reading →

Work/life balance: An artificial construct

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If work/life balance is unachievable, people should focus on acknowledging that life is a journey, not a goal, says Melissa Greven.

Contributor Melissa Greven

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As a Ph.D. student who returned to science after a long absence (which included a brief career as an art historian and time as a stay at home mother, among other things), I take issue with this question.

It implies that scientists are somehow different than professionals in other disciplines, as though achieving this balance is more difficult for our lot. One may assume that scientists face unique demands, where bench work often lacks the regularity of a 9-5; however, scientists encompass a far greater population than just lab rats. It also might be said that scientists face the pressures of getting research done, be it discovering the next miracle drug or fossil fuel alternative, but how does this differ from a corporation preparing for the latest product launch? While an argument could be made about the necessity of the latest smartphone update, a non-bench/field scientist sitting behind a desk likely is not subject to additional public accountability than that faced by an employee of a tech company. The greater question is: can anyone achieve a work/life balance? Continue reading →

The Naturejobs Career Expo journalism competition is back!

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Enter for a chance to have your writing published on the Naturejobs blog and work with Nature Publishing Group editors.

Following the success of the Boston and London Naturejobs Career Expos journalism competitions (you can read all the articles from the competition in the #NJCEBoston and #NJCE14 categories on the blog), we are repeating the competition for both the 2015 Expos, starting with the Boston Expo, which takes place on 20 May 2015.

We are looking for five budding science writers to help us with our coverage of the Naturejobs Career Expo conference sessions, workshops and general ambience of the event. The conference will explore career paths in industry, academia and science communication, entrepreneurship, structuring a CV and transferable skills, amongst other things.

The five winners will have the opportunity to attend the Expo and write up at least two of the sessions or workshops for our readers, sharing the advice and expertise of the speakers with those who cannot attend in person. Winners will also have the opportunity to work closely with Nature Publishing Group editors, and their articles will be published on the Naturejobs blog. Continue reading →