600 Scientific Twitter Friends
There are hundreds of science types on Twitter – I coined the name scientwists to pigeonhole them (although, of course, pigeons don’t tweet, they coo).
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, scientwists 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 scientwists 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 scientwists 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 scientwists are now 600 members as of close of business September 30.
My original list of 100 scientwists 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 scientwists 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The original list of scientists on Twitter is no longer being updated, as you could probably see from the many avatar gaps, the out of date bios, the defunct accounts, and the fact that new entries were not being added.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.
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