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Communicating climate change through social media

December 2, 2020 · by · in Climate, Communication, Media, Policy, Presentations, social media, Twitter · Leave a comment

I updated my previous talk for scientists on surviving social media for a more general audience – this time for MSc students. They were an engaging bunch, and a 50 minute lecture stretched into a two-and-a-half-hour mega discussion, which obviously I’m all for. One thing that came up is that one of the students was […]

More on surviving social media

April 30, 2018 · by · in Climate, Communication, Media, Presentations, Twitter, Uncategorized · Leave a comment

I updated this talk [download slides] from last summer (time flies!), offering some personal thoughts on surviving a sometimes-hostile social media environment. [The sound gets better after I decide to hold the tiny mic rather than have it stuck in my shirt.] I was talking to my peers this time, so the mood is somewhat […]

Could we run a twitter poster session?

April 16, 2015 · by · in Climate, Communication, Meetings, Twitter · Leave a comment

I’ve been enjoying following the mega-meetup-12k-scientist-strong EGU conference via the hashtag #EGU15. In particular, people are tweeting pictures of and links to their posters, as adverts for other scientists that happen to be on twitter. This got me to thinking: could we use twitter to run an online-only poster session? I really like poster sessions […]

How to win at twitter

August 21, 2014 · by · in Climate, Communication, Media, Twitter · 4 Comments

Here is a list of ways to win at twitter*. 1. Start offensive Get off to a good start by being deliberately offensive right at the start of a debate, and put your opponent on the wrong foot. They’ll be too perturbed, emotional and quite possibly angry to make a rational argument. This is a […]