Hundreds of scientific Twitter friends
There are hundreds of science types on Twitter – I coined a name to pigeonhole them (although, of course, pigeons don’t tweet, they coo), that word has now been abandoned and replaced by scientwitters.
Anyway, I’ve met hundreds of interesting, helpful, and generally nice people on Twitter since I joined in June 2007. Many of them are science types or, to coin a phrase, scientwitters and I’ve been gathering them together here and on the associated Scientist Twibe for almost a year.
I’ve now organised them in random batches of 100 alphabetically (by TwitterID) using Tweepml.org to help make sure avatars and bios stay up to date and so you can follow the twitter scientists directly from the lists:
0 to B | C to D | E to I | J to L | M to O | P to R | S to S | T to Z
Each member in each list has a follow check box, so you can select all the scientwitters at once from each list to follow, or just a few at a time.
By the way, if you’re not on the list and would like to be, let me know: tweet, retweet, comment, email…at the last update there were 599 scientific twitter are now 600 members as of close of business September 30.
My original list of 100 science types on twitter posted in January 2009 grew in fits and starts as word spread. @JustinReid wrote a tool to allow me to add user photos and 2020science gave the project a major boost with his bubble chart. Hat tip to Mary Knudson for perspective. Also thanks to Faith Hayden at C&EN for the interview and for mentioning this project and to the hundreds, if not thousands, of science types on twitter who have retweeted the link to this page.
Those with an algorithmic mind may care to check out my Twitter decision flowchart. Helps you decide whether or not to follow someone who follows you. It’s a little tongue in cheek, but gives you a reasonable decision tree.
The original list of scientists on Twitter is no longer being updated, as you could probably see from the many avatar gaps, the out of date bios, the defunct accounts, and the fact that new entries were not being added. All members can now be found by twitterID alphabetically arranged, please check those if you asked to be added recently.
193 Responses to “Hundreds of scientific Twitter friends”
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An excellent idea to collect all the science twitterers @sciencebase! There are over 600 by now [link to post]
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@sciencebase, @geneticmaize: Thanks! Great to be among such illustrious folk!
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@sciencebase Good idea with alphabetical order of scientwists on [link to post]!
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Todd Harris @tharris bioinformaticist and geneticist is 600th scientwist
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Yeah! I made it! RT @sciencebase: 599 scientwists so far! Will add one more to the list before October – [link to post]