Was talking to a reporter yesterday about how to learn the climate beat and realized I couldn’t confidently recommend that she do what I did anymore — follow a bunch of prospective sources, experts, and analysts on Twitter and try to understand the networks between them.

Between Twitter’s decay and the AI-ification of search engines, I’m not sure anyone is ready for how much the core mechanisms of primary-source discovery on the web could be about to degrade.

@robinsonmeyer “primary source discovery” isn't that what one does by researching scientific databases and reading scientific articles?

Ok, Google Scholar is useful.

Scientists used to post stuff on Twitter, BUT OMG, realistically only a tiny subset of them.