Health tech professor: LinkedIn is my connection to business and to other fields of research
/2 Comments/by Mike YoungThe real time Twitter window: What you miss if you only pre-schedule tweets
/2 Comments/by Mike YoungThe TwiLi Index – a new method to count scientists’ social media following
/11 Comments/by Mike YoungBig news in small countries – international journalists at work in Denmark
/0 Comments/by Mike YoungWhat is it like to work as an international journalist in a Danish media environment? And how can international journalism skills be applied to jobs in strategic communication, marketing, and niche news services?
Three top international journalists will discuss this, …
Innovation professor: I am a Twitter hub for others’ research
/2 Comments/by Mike YoungFor Professor Marcel Bogers, his tweets are intertwined with his work and career
With more than 8,600 followers on last count, he is only one tweet away from getting thousands of people to spread the word about his own new …
Astrophysicist is now a cybersecurity analyst (and on LinkedIn)
/0 Comments/by Mike YoungIa Kochiashvili did her PhD research monitoring the remotest galaxies of the Universe. Now she monitors computer networks.
A few years ago I spent a day at the Dark Cosmology Centre at the University of Copenhagen for a feature in …
The strength of weak ties – why researchers use Twitter and LinkedIn
/12 Comments/by Mike YoungWhy do your best opportunities come from your more distant contacts rather than your close friends? If you are a scientist and know the answer to this, the chances are that you use Twitter and LinkedIn.
Think of the job …
So … someone secretly made a clone of you. Now what?
/0 Comments/by Mike YoungHow would you feel if you found out someone had deliberately duplicated your genes and made exact copies of you?
Would you be flattered (the more of me, the merrier!) Disturbed? (My unique value hinges upon me only being one.) …
Clickbait! The dynamics of headlines in the era of tweets
/0 Comments/by Mike YoungZahle’s Gymnasium in Copenhagen invited me over to do an interactive workshop on headlines. We had lots of fun. But there was also a more serious purpose.
Writing headlines that ‘stick’ and get people to ‘click’ has always been …
143,000 people have seen Maria’s biological experiments
/5 Comments/by Mike YoungOver the course of three years she reached an audience of do-it-yourself biology enthusiasts in 162 countries. This is the story behind her story. But it is also a story about how a niche interest can reach a global audience …
A Number by Caryl Churchill – a philosophical analysis
/7 Comments/by Lillian WildeLillian Wilde is a graduate in the field of phenomenology. In this guest blog post, she asks some existential questions about a soon-to-be-staged play on human cloning.
That Theatre, an English-language theatre group in Copenhagen, is staging the play ‘A …