Tag: Science Twitter

[ad_1] Covid energized, then fractured, the community. Elon Musk may have caused it to finally dissipate. I will miss science Twitter. It's hard to overstate the influence of the social network on science during the Covid pandemic — and the pandemic's influence on science Twitter. A rich community of researchers and science journalists existed there before Covid, but seemed to expand exponentially during the early months of the pandemic. Twitter became an invaluable tool for finding, sharing and debating emerging science on the virus. Researchers made connections and collaborations through the platform, posted data nearly in real time, and often explained those findings (and their limitations) in lay terms so that journalists and the general public could understand them. Of cou...