Part of my role is to manage the nature of social media feeds, and that includes our Twitter feed which has a few million followers. In a personal capacity, I use Twitter compulsively because it's a way of connecting with people outside of my own small circle in so I use Twitter an awful lot. One of them is to find scientists who are also interested in baking. That's been a big Twitter coverage ever in my part. But more substantially, I think what I've tried to do is to take what I've learned from editing for the past 15 years and make that available to the community in a way that might be useful.
Twitter has become indispensable to many scientists. It is a place to share findings, raise their profile, and is even used as a source of data in many studies.
In recent months though, the site has been in turmoil after a swathe of policy changes in light of Elon Musk's takeover. Never a stranger to misinformation and abuse, these problems have reportedly gotten worse. Additionally, the ability to use Twitter as a source of data is in peril, and malfunctions are more commonplace.
In this episode of Nature's Take we discuss how these changes are affecting the platform and the knock-on effects on science.
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