Scientists need social media influencers

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Sep 2017 English Publisher:American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)Journal:Science, volume 357, pages 880-881 (issn: 0036-8075, eissn: 1095-9203,

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Authors: Mauro, Galetti; Raul, Costa-Pereira;

doi: 10.1126/science.aao1990

pmid: 28860377

Scientists need social media influencers

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Katy Perry has more than 100 million followers on Twitter. Meanwhile, celebrity scientist Neil deGrasse Tyson has only 8.7 million followers. Communicating with the public through social media is time-consuming, and most scientists are not trained for it. In fact, most of all scientists' Twitter

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