Nov 3, 2009

List categories for Twitter scientists

Posted in Science at 9:38 am by David Bradley

UPDATE – NOV 5: Still working through the almost 650 members of the list, but now up to the P’s.

Pressure was on from lots of science tweeps for to categorise my scientwist list…so I’ve made a start.

The spillover (lots of tweeps in the T to Z group from the TweepML.org version of my scientwist list have now each been given a category as I cannot squeeze them into the 500 limit for the main scientwist list.

Everyone else will get a second list assignment where appropriate as follows:

• bio – med, health, psy, bioinformatics, pharma
• chem – chemical sciences
• earth – geo, environment, climate, oceans
• physics – physics, maths
• sci-comms – science communicators of all breeds
• tech – science computing, technology, engineering
• space – astronomy, space travel

If you’re a science type on twitter and aren’t yet on the list then let me know, either by commenting, email, or tweeting. Retweets of the list always welcome.

However, if you’re not following me and I am not following you, then remedy that situation first – I’m @sciencebase. Also, if you’re updates are protected, unprotect them otherwise there’s little point in adding you.