1. ddobbs
  2. Gold in the tweetstream

Gold in the tweetstream

By ddobbs on March 17, 2010.

I'll try doing this now and then, maybe regularly, to gather the more notable tweets I get in my twitter feed.

Darwin2009: Population-level traits that affect, and do not affect, invasion success http://ow.ly/1mMUp

jayrosen_nyu: "The New York Times is now as much a technology company as a journalism company." <--- Bill Keller http://jr.ly/2pfz

dhayton: âH-Madnessâ is a new blog on the history of psychiatry, madness, etc. For and by scholars: http://historypsychiatry.wordpress.com/

stevesilberman: The brains of psychopaths may be hypersensitive to dopamine rewards - http://bit.ly/daP9Go     

vaughanbell: Empirical evidence for the extended mind hypothesis. http://is.gd/aBUQm

mocost: Footage from a 1964 experiment testing the effects of LSD on British marines http://j.mp/ayCZpw [you'll find it almost as funny as they did]

PD_Smith: "From an environmental point of view, dense cities are scalable; Thoreauâs cabin is not." David Owen http://bit.ly/9HGGvS #city

CliftonWiens: Fantastic review of @lunaticcarl's "The Lunatic Express" by @simonwinchester in WSJ: http://bit.ly/9qi0S7. Agree 100 percent!

edyong209: @dgmacarthur savages an appalling op/ed on personal genomics in the Sunday Times http://bit.ly/cwc5J5 Many twists of knife

Tags
Books
Brains and minds
Environment/nature
evolution
Genetics & genomics (incl behav genetics)
History/philosophy of science
psychiatry
Science
Writing
Carl Hoffman
Henry David Thoreau
Journalism
New Y
New York Times
personal genomics
Untitled
Books
evolution
psychiatry
Writing

More like this

#SMWUSC

Below the fold, you'll find a complete listing of all tweets from #SMWUSC, in reverse chronological order.

Using Twitter to learn economy of words - try to summarize your research paper in 140 characters or less!

A couple of weeks ago, there was a flurry of tweets, tagged with #sci140 hashtag on Twitter. What was that about? People were trying to summarize scientific papers in 140 characters or less.

Twitter Analytics? Inspect your Twitter feed for impact

You can now see what happens when you tweet something. Twitter has a web page that tells you how many "impressions" a tweet has, how many "Engagements" (any kind of click on your tweet) and, for convenience, the percentage of tweets with which your tweeps engaged.

Friday Fun: Professor Tweets Complaining about Student Tweets Reaches All-Time High

And perhaps student tweets complaining about professor tweets also reaches an all-time high! Anyways, here it is, 11am on a holiday Friday morning and all I really want to do is relax and read a book. But what do I have to do? Write a Friday Fun post! What a drag.