Innovation professor: I am a Twitter hub for others’ research
For 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 published research. But for Marcel Bogers, who is Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the […]
Astrophysicist is now a cybersecurity analyst (and on LinkedIn)
Ia 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 university newspaper. One of the people I met was Ia Kochiashvili. She was doing […]
So … someone secretly made a clone of you. Now what?
How 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.) The same? (My identity is not only my genes). When I put this question to […]
Clickbait! The dynamics of headlines in the era of tweets
Zahle’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 a fine art. But in recent years it has also become a data-driven science. Also for the types […]
143,000 people have seen Maria’s biological experiments
Over 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 if it hits the right format and is shared to the right people. It was […]
A Number by Caryl Churchill – a philosophical analysis
Lillian 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 Number’ by Caryl Churchill in February and March 2018. The play, which explores the consequences […]
How to keep track of news in your own scientific field
…or, how to make your own research field visible to others by acting like a news editor and finding the good stuff to share on LinkedIn and Twitter. As a specialised professional you have many reasons to follow, like, and share developments in your own field on social media. Your perspective, your angle, and your […]