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Thousands of scientists are cutting back on Twitter, seeding angst and uncertainty (www.nature.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/1522825

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Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20230816144902/https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02554-0

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

They move fast. Only 8 months after the obvious.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Scientists are not fast at abandoning established ways of communication. I mean they still publish the same way as a century ago, its just now digital too. It took a whole friggin' pandemic for life science researchers to embrace the concept of pre-prints. 8 months to move from twitter sounds almost fast.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Thanks, Elon. This is why we can't have good science.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

In STEM fields communication with others is key in improving your research. It is not easily to rebuild these “links”. Since Twitter was the biggest hen in the henhouse, it was a forgone conclusion.