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Scientists look at communication for education and for emergency purposes

By: Agnetha de Sa, Peak Associate SFU scientist examines her Twitter followers As a conservation and marine ecology professor at SFU, as well as an active user and science communicator on Twitter, Isabelle Côté was particularly interested in knowing “if my followers are mainly scientists or non-scientists – in other words was I preaching to the choir or singing from the rooftops?”     Côté worked with Emily Darling, a PhD student, and analyzed the Twitter accounts of more than 100 ecology and evolutionary biology faculty members from various academic institutions in 11 countries. By determining if the followers of these…

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