{"id":8381,"date":"2015-12-04T16:00:28","date_gmt":"2015-12-04T16:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/?p=8381"},"modified":"2015-11-20T14:17:45","modified_gmt":"2015-11-20T14:17:45","slug":"scientific-communities-how-to-avoid-getting-scooped-on-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/2015\/12\/04\/scientific-communities-how-to-avoid-getting-scooped-on-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientific communities: How to avoid getting scooped on social media"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Being\u00a0prepared before broadcasting is a sure way to avoid being scooped, says Jon Tennant at the 2015 London <em>Naturejobs<\/em> Career Expo.<\/h2>\n<p>Many scientists are nervous about sharing their scientific work before publishing. The fear of being scooped is there when it comes to social media, but it will be difficult for someone to scoop your work based on a 140-character sentence.<\/p>\n<p>Sharing your\u00a0science on social media is all about being selective. You can make data and methods open when you&#8217;re ready &#8211; there is no rush to get things out before\u00a0you are prepared.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Scientific communities: How to avoid getting scooped on social media\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_X4nop10iUI?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>Further reading:<\/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-how-to-follow-the-right-people-on-twitter\" target=\"_blank\">Scientific communities: How to follow the right people on Twitter<\/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<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-how-to-get-your-blog-noticed\/\" target=\"_blank\">Scientific communities: How to get your blog noticed<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many scientists are nervous about sharing their scientific work before publishing. The fear of being scooped is there when it comes to social media, but it will be difficult for someone to scoop your work based on a 140-character sentence.&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/2015\/12\/04\/scientific-communities-how-to-avoid-getting-scooped-on-social-media#more-8381\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/2015\/12\/04\/scientific-communities-how-to-avoid-getting-scooped-on-social-media\/\">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":[339,1029,1543,281],"tags":[295183,1487,156,1029,465,116,312,237,73],"class_list":["post-8381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-multimedia","category-njce15","category-open-access-2","category-social-media-2","tag-jon-tennant","tag-london-2015","tag-naturejobs-career-expo","tag-njce15","tag-open-access","tag-publishing","tag-science-communication","tag-social-media","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8381","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=8381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}