Are grad students on here? Seems like it leans toward senior and mid career folks.
Q directed to grad students / postdocs who are checking this out:
What practices/behaviors would make this space useful for you?
How can senior folks best promote your work or interact w you here?
@mikelove @samuelmarkson I really like the conference analogy!
But *something* needs to fulfill the role that #twitter has of being a place where #preprints circulate. I’ve been wondering if disciplinary associations can facilitate more semi-curated spaces for this somehow.
https://fediscience.org/web/@wrigleyfield/109332867022492519
One of the functions that #academics use twitter for is finding new research. It is, of course, hugely imperfect at this, and I think its dominance in this sphere represents an institutional failure to solve the problems of #research deluge. Seems like a good time for new curational models... Too bad for sociologists that our professional association dealt many of our widely-read newsletters a mortal blow just before #Twitter blew up. (I'm supposed to hashtag, right? #sociology #demography )
Michael Love
Samuel C. Markson
Elizabeth Wrigley-Field
James Ferguson 