From Patients to Researchers: How Patients Helped Define Long COVID
“Researchers analyzed 2.8 million tweets from 2020 to 2022 to better understand how people came together to define, research, and share information about long COVID.”
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Unicorns’ Magical Healing Power: Combatting Misleading Medical Information on Social Media
“The authors discerned four distinct categories or themes to combat misleading information: educational, debunking, algorithmic, and regulatory responses.
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Guess Who? Scientist Edition
“Effective science communication isn’t just about explaining research clearly—it also requires making expertise easier to recognize.”
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The echo chamber of social media: Are you interacting with others, or simply looking in a mirror?
“When users can actively shape what they see, such as on Reddit, they are actually less isolated. It’s platforms with hidden, unchangeable algorithms, like Facebook and Twitter (editor’s note: now X), that lock us into segregated bubbles.”
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Why Some Science Posts Go Viral
Linguistic and cultural factors come into play as science communication takes to social media.
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The rabbit hole and the way out: escaping YouTube’s conspiracy theory echo chamber
How forward facing social media, such as YouTube, can be a gateway for anti-scientific misinformation and conspiracy theories.
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Want to know how to get better SciComm Youtube engagement? Like and Subscribe to find out!
Science YouTube videos that get more likes and are mobile phone friendly could reach more viewers.
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Understanding the Divide: How Science Influencers Shape Science Perceptions
Science influencers rely on identity language to nurture their communities. But this language inadvertently polarizes science.
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ZooTube – A Review of Zoos on YouTube
Zoos use YouTube for science communication and choose which animals and educational facts to include, whilst still being entertaining.
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From Clicks to Change: Empowering Society through Science Communication on Social Media
This article delves into science communicators’ impact on social media, spotlighting John Green’s #PatientsNotPatents campaign.
