{"id":8361,"date":"2015-12-04T13:00:12","date_gmt":"2015-12-04T13:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/?p=8361"},"modified":"2015-11-20T14:22:33","modified_gmt":"2015-11-20T14:22:33","slug":"scientific-communities-how-to-follow-the-right-people-on-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/2015\/12\/04\/scientific-communities-how-to-follow-the-right-people-on-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientific communities: How to follow the right people on Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Following the right people on Twitter can help develop supportive and beneficial communities, say speakers at the 2015 London <em>Naturejobs<\/em> Career Expo.<\/h2>\n<p>Jon Tennant, a paleontologist\u00a0and avid social media user shares his tips on how to make the most of a social media community on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Scientific communities: How to follow the right people on Twitter\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7OaZGHOtPgs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Jon Tennant&#8217;s four\u00a0top tips:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Identify learned societies in your field and find out who they follow. These people will be high-profile scientists in that particular speciality.<\/li>\n<li>Tweet at conferences and you&#8217;ll quickly find that people follow you back, especially those who cannot attend.<\/li>\n<li>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<\/li>\n<li>If you don&#8217;t like what someone does\/says on Twitter, you can unfollow them.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>Further reading:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/2015\/10\/07\/scientific-communities-build-your-own\/\" target=\"_blank\">Scientific communities: Build your own<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/2015\/12\/04\/scientific-communities-membership-at-learned-societies\/\" target=\"_blank\">Scientific communities: Membership at learned societies<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/2015\/12\/04\/scientific-communities-from-twitter-to-paper\" target=\"_blank\">Scientific communities: From Twitter to paper<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jon Tennant, a paleontologist\u00a0and avid social media user shares his tips on how to make the most of a social media community on Twitter.&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/2015\/12\/04\/scientific-communities-how-to-follow-the-right-people-on-twitter#more-8361\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/2015\/12\/04\/scientific-communities-how-to-follow-the-right-people-on-twitter\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45013,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[339,1029,281],"tags":[295183,1487,156,1029,823,312,237,73,739],"class_list":["post-8361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-multimedia","category-njce15","category-social-media-2","tag-jon-tennant","tag-london-2015","tag-naturejobs-career-expo","tag-njce15","tag-sarah-blackford","tag-science-communication","tag-social-media","tag-twitter","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45013"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}