Are you a science socialist?

摘要

Social media and science is not for everyone. I am a prolific user of Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram and Vine videos (also occasionally Facebook) and I post tons of content. When my experiments go wrong the very first thing I normally do is photograph it and post it to Twitter. I'm not kidding - my boss often hears about my results via social media before I show him the data. One of my PhD students messages me on twitter rather than e-mail because he knows he's more likely to get an instant response... It's fine, I can quit anytime I want!