Boost your research career and networking with social media (new course!)

Are you a University of Copenhagen scientist or science communicator? The course ’Boost your research and career with social media’ will be 1 November 2024. Please spread the word!

The course is for scientists, researchers and staff who want to extend their reach and international impact on social media platforms. Main focus will be on LinkedIn, but the course will also cover X (former Twitter) and newer alternatives like Bluesky and Mastodon. This particular course is open to all University of Copenhagen researchers and staff, but I also offer courses like this at other universities and research institutions! You sign up for the University of Copenhagen course on this page here.

Here is a short introductory video:

Boost your research career and network with social media

Platforms like LinkedIn, X (formerly Twitter), and alternatives like Mastodon and Bluesky, allow you to find and reach out to other experts and collaboration partners throughout the world. And they give you a potential global audience for your own specific research field and project.

In this course, you will:

  • learn how to monitor specific fields on social media
  • share via new networks that include LinkedIn, X, and some of the alternative social media platforms (for example Reddit, Mastodon) that are used by scientists
  • integrate social media into conferences, seminars, research and communication.

The course takes place on South Campus at the University of Copenhagen. (Photo courtesy of Instagram user l.troika)

Goals

You will:

  • Learn how to use LinkedIn, X, and alternatives to these platforms to support your work and career as a researcher
  • Find a social media routine that fits your personality and research field

Content

You will see what the platforms like LinkedIn, X and the alternatives, can do on their own, and how you as a researcher and communicator can get the platforms to work together. In the course we will go through the following. How to:

  • be strategic in your use of social media
  • set up personal routines, augmented by AI, for monitoring news and ideas from specific research areas.
  • integrate social media in events and conferences
  • get other people involved in your research
  • use social media to expand your network
  • crowdsource content for specific research projects
  • create a personal social media brand, centred on your own expertise
  • extend your reach and better define your own research field at an international level
Twitter and LinkedIn course

The course will also introduce you to some offline and online networking tricks for events and conferences. (Photo: Esther Vargas, Flickr, Creative Commons license)

Course format

The course consists of 1-2 hours preparation, an in-person workshop, and a subsequent 20 minute feedback session.

You take as your point of departure your own specific research, or research networking, goal. And you will learn how to apply social media platforms to achieve it. Can your own research area, or specialty, be used for a good social media routine or concept on X, LinkedIn, Reddit or, say, Mastodon? We aim to find out how.

You will get feedback from the instructor (Mike) and your fellow participants on your social media work and you will refine your concept for even greater impact. You will be introduced to monitoring and analysis tools, and learn how to target posts and tweets for even greater impact.

Target group / eligible participants

For researchers, scientists, and staff working with research communication at the University of Copenhagen.

Prior experience and expectations

The course is relevant for both beginners and experienced users.

Beginners need to set off time (2 hours) to prepare on their own before the first workshop. Participants need to at least have a 1. LinkedIn and 2. X (or Mastodon/Bluesky) account, and to have familiarized yourself with the basic functions of their platforms of choice. Participants will receive a link to introductory videos.

Write to Mike Young on mike@mikeyoungacademy.dk for any questions on the prior experience level needed.

Note: The course will be held in English.

Dates

1 November 2024 from 9.00 to 16.30 – the course includes preparation prior to the course. ​

Course fee

DKK 1,410

You sign up for this course here .

Does your department, faculty or university need to boost its researchers’ international impact? My workshops in social media introduce researchers to the systematic use of X, LinkedIn and other specialized social media and tracking applications. All Mike Young Academy workshops are bespoke and custom-fitted to specific scientific fields. Workshops can be held in-person, or online as a combination of video-conferenced live-sessions with group ‘breakout’ rooms, individual feedback, and homework.

Labs on social media: The most followed research departments in the Nordic region

Which research institutions have a good social media presence in the Nordic region?

The people who run the social media accounts for research institutions hardly ever get credit. All the congratulations, all the success stories, and all the bragging rights, accrue to researchers.

This is a shame. And I want to do something about it!

Because research institutions’ social media accounts have a vital role to play in the scientific ecosystem. And the people behind them are often anonymous, hiding behind account names like Helsus, CWS and UiB Ocean.

For many of the institutions on this list, it has taken years to build up their position and following

They lend status and credibility to their institution’s scientists, and they make it easier for new scientists to enter established scientific networks. And through their large followings they take up a central position in disseminating new science.

The nodes on this image are research institutions’ Twitter accounts, the lines signify following. The coloured clusters correspond to the four Nordic countries that have been examined.

Following on from my TwiLi Index of top scientists, I am now releasing a list with top research institutions on Twitter in the Nordic region (minus Iceland). It is only Twitter, I am afraid, as that was the data I could get. I know! Many institutions also have a large LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube presence, but this is what it is right now.

Twitter (or ‘X’) has been given a battering over the last year with the takeover of Elon Musk and his recent changes. But it is still a platform where scientific institutions showcase what their affiliated scientists are working on, boost their scientists’ network, and help spur on collaborative ideas.

For many of the institutions on this list, it has taken years to build up their position and following. They use their Twitter accounts to show what their scientists are doing to funding agencies, get more applicants for researcher positions, and to be a force for positive change by fostering contacts with media, politicians, and the general public.

More importantly, the institutions’ Twitter accounts work as network hubs for the institutions’ own associated scientists, making it easier for individual scientists to find and follow each other, and thereby increasing their own reach.

Unsung heroes

Research institutions’ accounts are sometimes run by a member of staff who has the role as communications officer, center administrator, research assistant, or even student assistant. Sometimes they are run as a curation circle, with scientists taking turns to keep the account active.

I administer an institution’s account, but I lack inspiration and fear looking uninformed. What should I do?

Workshop participant

The people who run the accounts – let us call them ‘the curators’ – are often participants on my social media workshops, and they have given me insight into the challenges that they face.

Curators of institutional social media accounts may, for example, have a different expertise than the research field of their institution. So they have to uphold a regular volume of posts from the account in spite of the fact that their own expertise within the field is limited.

As a curator on one of my workshops put it:

“I administer an institution’s account, but I lack inspiration and fear looking uninformed. What should I do?”

A research coordinator who curates a popular institutional account told me that she  “lacks the scientific knowledge to tweet, and even to assess the value of someone’s tweets to retweet from the institutional account. But I have to do the best I can.”

The people who run the institutional accounts perceive their outsider status, relative to their scientist colleagues, as a disadvantage.

But, I tell them, it can be an advantage!

Less prior knowledge of a specific field means that you have an intuition of when something is hard to understand. You thereby easily become a link between the scientists and their peers, the institution’s stakeholders, and the general public. Apart from this many curators have other specialty skills, sometimes in the field of communication.

So let’s get on with it!

Here below are the top 100 institutions in terms of Twitter following in the Nordic region.

If you are a part of the Nordic science and research community, the institutions (see below) can serve as inspiration for new contacts. Why not follow them?

Are you not on the list? I have almost certainly missed a few active research institutions who have large followings and influence on Twitter. If your institution’s account should be on this list, please email me on mike@mikeyoungacademy.dk. An updated list will be released soon thereafter.

I thank my good colleague Lasse Hjort Madsen who helped me extract the raw data for this list!

The top 100 research institutions on Twitter in the Nordic region

Here are the top 100 research institutions in terms of Twitter following in the Nordic region (minus Iceland) The data was collected in May 2023.

Format: Rank / Name of account / Location / Bio on Twitter / Twitter followers / Link to Twitter account.

1 – Statens Serum Inst. – Copenhagen, Denmark

Official account for Statens Serum Institut. Research & news about health topics #sundhed #health & more. No counselling. We can’t guarantee answers to tweets. Tw. followers: 22,069 Follow Statens Serum Inst.´s Twitter account here:

2 – Arctic_Centre – Rovaniemi, Finland

Research institute, Science Centre #Arktikum and science communications. Tweets #ArcticCentre and #Arctic. https://t.co/H3IudGhvHD Tw. followers: 9,131 Follow Arctic_Centre´s Twitter account here:

3 – UppsalaPeaceConflict – Uppsala, Sweden

Department of Peace & Conflict Research @UppsalaUni Research, education, & policy relevance. Home of @UCDP @AlvamyrdalCN and @UURotaryPeace Tw. followers: 8,485 Follow UppsalaPeaceConflict ´s Twitter account here:

Danish institutional accounts are in the light blue cluster. Each node represents an account. An edge represents that one of the accounts follows the other.

4 – DIIS Denmark – Copenhagen

DIIS – Danish Institute for International Studies. We carry out independent research and analysis within globalisation, security and development. Tw. followers: 7,930 Follow DIIS Denmark ´s Twitter account here:

5 – C-REX – Oslo, Norway

Center for Research on Extremism (C-REX): The Extreme Right, Hate Crime, and Political Violence, @UniOslo Tw. followers: 7,807 Follow C-REX ´s Twitter account here:

6 – Kavli Neuroscience – Trondheim, Norway

Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience is a leading centre for 🧠 research aiming to understand the emergence of higher brain functions. Tweets by @Elmkvist Tw. followers: 7,006 Follow Kavli Neuroscience ´s Twitter account here:

7 – iCourts – Copenhagen, Denmark

The Danish National Research Foundation’s Centre of Excellence for International Courts (iCourts), Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen Tw. followers: 5,699 Follow iCourts ´s Twitter account here:

8 – PluriCourts – Oslo, Norway

PluriCourts is a centre of excellence for the study of the legitimacy of international courts and tribunals, at the @UniOslo, Norway. Tw. followers: 4,733 Follow PluriCourts ´s Twitter account here:

9 – MAX IV Laboratory – Lund, Sweden

We make the invisible visible. 🇸🇪 Synchrotron Radiation Facility. Tw. followers: 4,664 Follow MAX IV Laboratory ´s Twitter account here:

10 – CBMR – Copenhagen

Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, @koebenhavns_uni

👨‍🔬👩‍💻🧬🧫 Interdisciplinary research into cardiometabolic health and disease” Tw. followers: 4,603 Follow CBMR ´s Twitter account here:

11 – Interacting Minds – Århus, Denmark

“The Interacting Minds Centre (IMC) provides a transdisciplinary platform to study human interaction.
Director: Christine Parsons @ce_parsons” Tw. followers: 4,546 Follow Interacting Minds ´s Twitter account here:

12 – Birkeland Centre – Bergen, Norway

Birkeland Centre for Space Science is a Centre of Excellence at the Univ. of Bergen. The objective of BCSS is to understand how Earth is coupled to space. Tw. followers: 4,526 Follow Birkeland Centre ´s Twitter account here:

13 – Copenhagen Cardiovascular Research Center – Copenhagen, Danmark

Research center focused on register sdys, RCTs, & pharma-epi. adm @Pallisgaard_MD Tw. followers: 4,366 Follow Copenhagen Cardiovascular Research Center ´s Twitter account here:

14 – Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge (LUCK) – Lund and beyond

Bringing together historians of knowledge • Lund University • https://t.co/z7irByyujt Tw. followers: 4,212 Follow Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge (LUCK) ´s Twitter account here:

Swedish institutional accounts are well-integrated and are represented by the purple cluster to the lower left

15 – Institute for International Economic Studies – Stockholm University, Sweden

Welcome to the IIES @Stockholm_Uni, one of Europe’s leading institutions for research in economics. Tw. followers: 4,066 Follow Institute for International Economic Studies ´s Twitter account here:

16 – HELSUS – Helsinki, Finland

Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science. The mission: sustainability transformations of societies. #HELSUS #HelsinkiSustainability @HelsinkiUni Tw. followers: 3,952 Follow HELSUS ´s Twitter account here:

17 – UiB Ocean – Bergen, Norge

We are the #SDG14 Hub @ImpactUN and SDG14 Cluster Lead for @IAU_AIU. 🐟⚓️🌊 #OceanDecade #OceanLiteracy #SaveOurOcean Tw. followers: 3,904 Follow UiB Ocean ´s Twitter account here:

18 – CMI Bergen – Bergen, Norway

Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI) is an independent centre for research on international development and policy. Tw. followers: 3,896 Follow CMI Bergen ´s Twitter account here:

19 – CMEC – University of Copenhagen

We are the Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate (CMEC). Follow for news on research, events and daily life @Globe_UCPH 🌎 Tweets in ENG+DAN 🐦 Tw. followers: 3,887 Follow CMEC ´s Twitter account here:

20 – Centre for Development and the Environment – Sandakerv. 130, Oslo, Norway

SUM is a dynamic, international research centre at the @UniOslo with broad expertise within social and environmental sustainability. Tw. followers: 3,830 Follow SUM – Centre for Development and the Environment ´s Twitter account here:

21 – The ECG – Arhus, Denmark / Cambridge, UK

The Embodied Computation Group @cfin_au & @psychiatry_ucam is a multidisciplinary lab investigating brain-body dynamics and interoception, led by @micahgallen. Tw. followers: 3,694 Follow The ECG ´s Twitter account here:

22 – CWS – War Studies – Odense, Danmark

Center for War Studies at SDU: https://t.co/5rUKU2M47I. We deliver an MSc in Int’l Security and Law https://t.co/6wGOX3czn6 Tw. followers: 3,513 Follow CWS – War Studies ´s Twitter account here:

23 – UNEP Copenhagen Climate Centre – Copenhagen, Denmark

UNEP Copenhagen Climate Centre (formerly the UNEP DTU Partnership) is a leading advisory institution on energy, climate and sustainable development. Tw. followers: 3,474 Follow UNEP Copenhagen Climate Centre ´s Twitter account here:

24 – Center for Militære Studier – Copenhagen, Denmark

Center for Militære Studier er et forskningscenter på KU / Centre for Military Studies is a research centre based at University of Copenhagen. RT ≠ endorsement. Tw. followers: 3,408 Follow Center for Militære Studier ´s Twitter account here:

25 – SUDA – Stockholm, Sweden

The Stockholm University Demography Unit, Department of Sociology, @Sociologi_SU @Stockholm_uni. Stockholms universitets demografiska avdelning, SUDA. Tw. followers: 3,386 Follow SUDA ´s Twitter account here:

26 – DTU Biosustain – Capital Region, Denmark

DTU Biosustain at the Technical University of Denmark develops cell factories, which can convert biomass into valuable biochemicals and pharmaceuticals. Tw. followers: 3,267 Follow DTU Biosustain ´s Twitter account here:

27 – HiLIFE_Helsinki – Helsinki, Finland

HiLIFE Helsinki Institute of Life Science @helsinkiuni is a leading life science research institute in Nordics with @BIOTECH_UH, @UH_Neuro and @FIMM_UH as units Tw. followers: 3,258 Follow HiLIFE_Helsinki ´s Twitter account here:

28 – Oslo School of Environmental Humanities (OSEH) – Oslo, Norway

Initiative at the University of Oslo to strengthen research and teaching in the environmental humanities. Tw. followers: 3,135 Follow Oslo School of Environmental Humanities (OSEH) ´s Twitter account here:

29 – FangGroup – Oslo, Norway

A research group located in The University of Oslo on healthy aging and Alzheimer’s disease. Coordinating NO-Age and NO-AD networks Tw. followers: 3,020 Follow FangGroup ´s Twitter account here:

30 – Sahlgrenska Academy – Gothenburg, Sweden

Research and education in medicine, dentistry, pharmacology and health and care sciences. Tw. followers: 3,001 Follow Sahlgrenska Academy ´s Twitter account here:

31 – LUCSUS_LU – Lund, Sweden

LUCSUS @lunduniversity produces world class #sustainability research, teaching and impact that contribute to solving global environmental change challenges. Tw. followers: 2,934 Follow LUCSUS_LU ´s Twitter account here:

32 – KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory – Stockholm, Sweden

The EHL is a part of the Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment at KTH. We have been Undisciplining Environmental Humanities since 2011. Tw. followers: 2,901 Follow KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory ´s Twitter account here:

33 – Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen – Denmark

Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen er Skandinaviens største diabeteshospital inden for behandling, klinisk forskning, sundhedsfremmeforskning og uddannelse. Tw. followers: 2,890 Follow Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen ´s Twitter account here:

34 – #ENVHUMMONTH – Environment and Society – Helsinki, Finland

#envhum #envhummonth #environment&society Tw. followers: 2,863 Follow #ENVHUMMONTH – Environment and Society ´s Twitter account here:

35 – reNEW – Copenhagen, Denmark

The twitter account of The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Stem Cell Medicine, reNEW Tw. followers: 2,841 Follow reNEW ´s Twitter account here:

36 – FIMM HelsinkiUni – Helsinki, Finland

Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland FIMM in the University of Helsinki – Suomen molekyylilääketieteen instituutti (FIMM), Helsingin yliopisto Tw. followers: 2,828 Follow FIMM HelsinkiUni ´s Twitter account here:

37 – NanoESC Lab – Barcelona and Copenhagen

NanoElectrocatalysis & Sustainable Chemistry Lab led by @MariaEscEsc. Tailored interfaces and nanomaterials for renewable energy, fuels and chemicals. @icn2nano Tw. followers: 2,790 Follow NanoESC Lab ´s Twitter account here:

38 – NaturalHistoryDK – Copenhagen, Denmark

“News and stories from the museum tweeted by the museum’s communications department ✍️
#statensnaturhistoriskemuseum
#naturalhistoryDK
#parkmuseerne” Tw. followers: 2,675 Follow NaturalHistoryDK ´s Twitter account here:

39 – Dept. of Economics, Stockholm University – Stockholm, Sweden

Department of Economics, Stockholm University Tw. followers: 2,671 Follow Dept. of Economics, Stockholm University ´s Twitter account here:

40 – Kilden kjønnsforskning.no – Norway

Nasjonalt kunnskapssenter for kjønnsperspektiver og kjønnsbalanse i #forskning. Vårt nyhetsmagasin er med i Fagpressen. English: @genderresearch Tw. followers: 2,616 Follow Kilden kjønnsforskning.no ´s Twitter account here:

41 – Bioacoustics AU – Aarhus University, Denmark

We study the sensory physiology & behavioural ecology of animals with focus on bioacoustics. Lead by Prof Peter T Madsen @ZoophysiologyAU @NatSci_AU @AarhusUni Tw. followers: 2,607 Follow Bioacoustics AU ´s Twitter account here:

42 – CPRatUCPH – Copenhagen, Denmark

Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research at UCPH promotes basic & applied discovery research on human proteins of medical relevance. Tw. followers: 2,550 Follow CPRatUCPH ´s Twitter account here:

43 – CoAStAL NLP – Copenhagen, Denmark

Research collective at University of Copenhagen interested in all things NLP and a ton of things not NLP. Tw. followers: 2,508 Follow CoAStAL NLP ´s Twitter account here:

44 – Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies – Aarhus, Denmark

The Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies @AarhusUni supports free and independent research from all scientific disciplines for scholars from across the world. Tw. followers: 2,449 Follow Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies ´s Twitter account here:

45 – Sociologi SU – Stockholm, Sweden

Department of Sociology, @Stockholm_uni. Home of @SUDA_Sthlm Tw. followers: 2,433 Follow Sociologi SU ´s Twitter account here:

46   OsloAnthropology – Oslo, Norway

Department of Social Anthropology, @UniOslo. Our researchers study society and culture through extensive, ethnographic fieldwork. Tw. followers: 2,413 Follow OsloAnthropology ´s Twitter account here:

47 – Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science – CSS, Copenhagen, Denmark

Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS) is an interdisciplinary research center at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Copenhagen. Tw. followers: 2,382 Follow Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science ´s Twitter account here:

48 – UI Research – Stockholm, Sweden

The Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI) is an independent institute and a platform for research and analysis. For Swedish: @UISweden Tw. followers: 2,374 Follow UI Research ´s Twitter account here:

49 – Nordicom – Univ. of Gothenburg, Sweden.

“Nordicom, centrum för nordisk medieforskning vid Göteborgs universitet.
Nordicom, centre for Nordic media research at the University of Gothenburg.” Tw. followers: 2,353 Follow Nordicom ´s Twitter account here:

50 – Noragric, Norwegian University of Life Sciences – Ås, Norway

Updates on #development, #InternationalRelations and the #environment from @UniNMBU’s Department of International Environment and Development Studies. Tw. followers: 2,334 Follow Noragric, Norwegian University of Life Sciences ´s Twitter account here:

51 – Aleksanteri Institute – University of Helsinki, Finland

Aleksanteri Institute – Finnish Centre for Russian, Eurasian and Eastern European Studies. Tw. followers: 2,332 Follow Aleksanteri Institute ´s Twitter account here:

52 – Umeå Epidemiology and Global Health – Umeå, Sweden

“Centre for global health 🫶 spanning health in Scandinavia and the world 🌍 Climate, infections, social determinants, NCDs all matter!
Hosting @GlobalHealthAct” Tw. followers: 2,306 Follow Umeå Epidemiology and Global Health ´s Twitter account here:

53 – Department of Government, Uppsala University – Uppsala, Sweden

Department of Government, @UppsalaUni @UU_University. Political Science Research & Education. Est. 1622. Home of @SkyttePrize. #400yearsPolSciUppsala Tw. followers: 2,301 Follow Department of Government, Uppsala University ´s Twitter account here:

Research institutions in Norway are clustered together in the green and purple/blue to the right.

54 – The Techno-Anthropology Lab – Copenhagen, Danmark

Computational humanities at AAU Copenhagen. Tw. followers: 2,292 Follow The Techno-Anthropology Lab ´s Twitter account here:

55 – SCEEUS – Stockholm, Sweden

Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies (SCEEUS) at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs @UISweden @ResearchUI Tw. followers: 2,275 Follow SCEEUS ´s Twitter account here:

56 – Skogforsk – Uppsala, Sweden

Skogforsk är det svenska skogsbrukets forskningsinstitut, finansierat av skogsnäringen och staten. Vi forskar för ett hållbart skogsbruk. Tw. followers: 2,265 Follow Skogforsk ´s Twitter account here:

57 – High North Center – Bodø, Norway

“National center for research, education and dialogue about business, politics and increased activities in the High North.
#HNC” Tw. followers: 2,263 Follow High North Center ´s Twitter account here:

58 – PMR-C – Amager-Hvidovre Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark

Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Research – Copenhagen (PMR-C) @AmagerHvidovre | Excellence | Integrity | Transparency | Diversity | Kindness Tw. followers: 2,240 Follow PMR-C ´s Twitter account here:

59 – NORCE – Norway

“#Forskning og #innovasjon innen #energi #helse #klima #miljø #samfunn #teknologi.
#Research: #Energy #Health #Climate #Environment #SocialScience #Technology.” Tw. followers: 2,232 Follow NORCE ´s Twitter account here:

60 – Constructive Institute – Aarhus, Denmark

An independent institute that lies at the heart of the constructive journalism movement. Tw. followers: 2,158 Follow Constructive Institute ´s Twitter account here:

61 – AU CEH – Aarhus, Denmark

The Centre for Environmental Humanities at Aarhus University: Re-engaging the environment by connecting scholars and catalysing research. Tw. followers: 2,123 Follow AU CEH ´s Twitter account here:

62 – Uppsala Antibiotic Center – Uppsala, Sweden

Research, education & innovation on #Antibiotics & #AntibioticResistance with a multidisciplinary approach at @UU_University. Producing #theAMRstudio! Tw. followers: 2,103 Follow Uppsala Antibiotic Center ´s Twitter account here:

63 – Misum – Mistra Center for Sustainable Markets – Stockholm, Sweden

Misum is a multidisciplinary social science research center at the Stockholm School of Economics – research-based solutions for sustainable development. Tw. followers: 2,096 Follow Misum – Mistra Center for Sustainable Markets ´s Twitter account here:

64 – DEEP at Stockholm University – Stockholm, Sweden

Join us on our quest to understand more about Biodiversity and the Planet. The Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences @Stockholm_Uni. Tw. followers: 2,067 Follow DEEP at Stockholm University ´s Twitter account here:

65 – CEMUS – Uppsala, Sweden

CEMUS is a university center at @uppsalauni & @_SLU Our student-led education and outreach activities including research collaborations focus on sustainability. Tw. followers: 2,057 Follow CEMUS ´s Twitter account here:

66 – Danish Diabetes and Endocrine Academy – Odense, Denmark

🔬 Our mission is to foster early-career research talent in #diabetes and #endocrinology 👉 #DDEA 🤝 Funded by the Novo Nordisk Foundation Tw. followers: 2,050 Follow Danish Diabetes and Endocrine Academy ´s Twitter account here:

67 – Technologies in Practice – Copenhagen, Denmark

Research Group & Teaching @ITUkbh. #STS, #Anthro, #HCI & #CSCW. Digital technologies’ mediation of work practices & everyday life. Tweets by @kaisirlin Tw. followers: 2,042 Follow Technologies in Practice ´s Twitter account here:

68 – Analytical Sociology – Norrköping, Sweden

The Institute for Analytical Sociology (IAS) at Linköping University conducts big-data influenced research on important social, political, and cultural matters. Tw. followers: 2,040 Follow Analytical Sociology ´s Twitter account here:

69 – DEMOS – Aalborg, Denmark

DEMOS (Democracy, Migration, and Society) is a research group, which focuses on the study of democracy from an interdisciplinary perspective. Tw. followers: 2,027 Follow DEMOS ´s Twitter account here:

70 – The Copenhagen Center for Disaster Research – Copenhagen, Denmark

The Copenhagen Center for Disaster Research (COPE) – multidisciplinary & cross-institutional disaster & climate research centre hosted at @uni_copenhagen Tw. followers: 2,018 Follow The Copenhagen Center for Disaster Research ´s Twitter account here:

71 – The Institute – Lund, Sweden

The International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE) at Lund University in Sweden. Advancing Sustainable Solutions! Tw. followers: 1,964 Follow The Institute ´s Twitter account here:

72 – Lund Vision Group – Lund, Sweden

Internationally recognized cluster of seven research labs in visual ecology and neuroethology at Lund University, Sweden. Feed admin @Anna_Honkanen Tw. followers: 1,941 Follow Lund Vision Group ´s Twitter account here:

73 –  DIKU – Department of Computer Science, UCPH – Copenhagen, Danmark

Computing for a better future💻 Denmark’s first and best ranked Computer Science department🥇 We tweet about the newest research, events, and vacancies. Tw. followers: 1,933 Follow DIKU – Department of Computer Science, UCPH ´s Twitter account here:

74 – Lund University School of Economics and Management – Lund, Sweden

A world-class business school – and more. Working to understand, explain, and improve our world and the human condition. We are #LUSEM (Ekonomihögskolan). Tw. followers: 1,926 Follow Lund University School of Economics and Management ´s Twitter account here:

75 – Rousk Lab – Lund, Sweden

We study the #ecology of #soil #microbes, how #communities depend on & respond to their #environment & run global #biogeochemistry; part of @MicroBioGeo_LU Tw. followers: 1,913 Follow Rousk Lab ´s Twitter account here:

76 – DTU Bioengineering – Lyngby-Taarbæk, Danmark

DTU Bioengineering adresses important social and scientific challenges within biotechnology, biomedicine, food technology and human and animal health. Tw. followers: 1,907 Follow DTU Bioengineering ´s Twitter account here:

77 –  SustainUCPH – Copenhagen, Denmark

The Sustainability Science Centre, University of Copenhagen. Creating an integrated scientific community ready to engage in societal debate. #SustainTalk #ucph Tw. followers: 1,904 Follow SustainUCPH ´s Twitter account here:

78 – Wenkel Lab – UPSC, Umeå University, Sweden

Here tweets Stephan Wenkel, the PI of the microProtein lab at the Umeå Plant Science Centre, Sweden. Opinions are my own. @microProteins@mas.to Tw. followers: 1,899 Follow Wenkel Lab ´s Twitter account here:

My dataset did not include that many Finnish institutions. They are represented by red dots, mostly towards the left.

79 – Turku Institute for Advanced Studies (TIAS) – Turku, Finland

International interidisciplinary research institute in Economics, Education, Humanities, Law and Social Sciences based at the University of Turku. Tw. followers: 1,898 Follow Turku Institute for Advanced Studies (TIAS) ´s Twitter account here:

80 – NordGen – Alnarp, Sweden

NordGen is the Nordic countries’ genebank and knowledge center for genetic resources. Tweets mostly in English but sometimes in Swedish. Tw. followers: 1,887 Follow NordGen ´s Twitter account here:

81 – The Posthumanities Hub – Linköping, Sweden

Postconventional transdisciplinary research group: humanities/natural sciences/technology/society/art Tw. followers: 1,886 Follow The Posthumanities Hub ´s Twitter account here:

82 – ETHOS Lab – Copenhagen, Denmark

ETHOS Lab is an experimental space for students and faculty at The IT University of Copenhagen. A methods lab exploring data landscapes in contemporary society. Tw. followers: 1,880 Follow ETHOS Lab ´s Twitter account here:

83 – BIOCHANGE – Aarhus, Denmark

BIOCHANGE – Center for Biodiversity Dynamics in a Changing World headed by Center Director @JCSvenning @AarhusUni, Denmark Tw. followers: 1,864 Follow BIOCHANGE ´s Twitter account here:

84 – Jørgensen Group – Aarhus, Denmark

Research group based in Aarhus. Asymmetric organocatalysis. Student run account. Tw. followers: 1,863 Follow Jørgensen Group ´s Twitter account here:

85 – DTU Compute – Tech. University of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark

DTU Compute is an internationally unique academic environment spanning the scientific disciplines mathematics, statistics, computer science, and engineering. Tw. followers: 1,859 Follow DTU Compute ´s Twitter account here:

86 – NO-Age and NO-AD Joint Venture – Oslo, Norway

Scientists and clinicians from the Norwegian Center on Healthy Ageing (NO-Age) and the Norwegian National anti-Alzheimer´s Disease (NO-AD) networks Tw. followers: 1,848 Follow NO-Age and NO-AD Joint Venture ´s Twitter account here:

87 – Bergen Centre for Ethics and Priority Setting – University of Bergen, Norway

BCEPS is an interdisciplinary research centre that aims to understand and promote ethically fair and efficient priority setting in national health systems. Tw. followers: 1,838 Follow Bergen Centre for Ethics and Priority Setting ´s Twitter account here:

88 – Teknologisk Institut – Taastrup, Denmark

Teknologi til gavn for virksomheder, samfund og mennesker. Adm af Kommunikation – Fang os på mobil 7220 1066 Privatlivspolitik: https://t.co/NBakAP6QXS Tw. followers: 1,822 Follow Teknologisk Institut ´s Twitter account here:

89 – Institute of Biotechnology (BI) – Univ. of Helsinki, Finland

Our mission is to advance fundamental discoveries in biosciences to benefit people and the environment @HiLIFE_helsinki @helsinkiuni Tw. followers: 1,801 Follow Institute of Biotechnology (BI) ´s Twitter account here:

90 – SASNET – Lund, Sverige

SASNET at Lund University, Sweden is an interdisciplinary network for the promotion of research, education, and information about South Asia. Tw. followers: 1,788 Follow SASNET ´s Twitter account here:

91 – EnvHumNTNU – Trondheim, Norway

We are the Environmental Humanities research group at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim. Tw. followers: 1,758 Follow EnvHumNTNU ´s Twitter account here:

92 – Sport and Health Sciences (SHS) – Odense, Danmark

Follow news on Sport and Health from our research group at University of Southern Denmark, led by Professor Peter Krustrup Tw. followers: 1,750 Follow Sport and Health Sciences (SHS) ´s Twitter account here:

93 – LawTransform – CMI & Univ. of Bergen, Norway

Centre on Law & Social Transformation. Joint initiative by @cmi_no and @UiB (@uibjus @UiBsamfunn @UiB_Gov). We research law as an instrument of social change. Tw. followers: 1,737 Follow LawTransform ´s Twitter account here:

94 – Water @ Uppsala Uni – Uppsala, Sweden

Water research @UU_University from Hydrology and Environmental Analysis research disciplines at the Department of Earth Sciences. Tw. followers: 1,730 Follow Water @ Uppsala Uni ´s Twitter account here:

95 – The Lab of Adaptive Immunity and Homeostasis – Oslo, Norway

Jan Terje Andersen, professor Tw. followers: 1,717 Follow The Lab of Adaptive Immunity and Homeostasis ´s Twitter account here:

96 – CECS Copenhagen Law – Copenhagen, Denmark

Centre for European and Comparative Legal Studies (CECS), Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen. Tw. followers: 1,714 Follow CECS Copenhagen Law ´s Twitter account here:

97 – PlantLink – Alnarp-Lund, Sweden

PlantLink is a strategic alliance between Lund University and Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences to strengthen plant research in Southern Sweden. Tw. followers: 1,687 Follow PlantLink ´s Twitter account here:

98 – CCEEL – Joensuu, Finland

The Center for Climate Change, Energy and Environmental Law (CCEEL) is a platform for research and education at @UEFLawShool at @UniEastFinland. Tw. followers: 1,663 Follow CCEEL ´s Twitter account here:

99 – Institut for Idræt og Ernæring – Københavns Universitet, Copenhagen, Denmark

Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports, Uni. of Copenhagen / Institut for Idræt og Ernæring, Kbh. Uni. Ny viden om Idræt, fys. akt, ernæring – og sundhed. Tw. followers: 1,660 Follow Institut for Idræt og Ernæring ´s Twitter account here:

100 – Centre for Contemporary Buddhist Studies – University of Copenhagen, Denmark

CCBS is engaged in understanding contemporary processes that impact the manner in which Buddhism is practiced and understood today. Tw. followers: 1,658 Follow Centre for Contemporary Buddhist Studies ´s Twitter account here:

101 – EastGRIP Camp – Greenland

EastGRIP is an international science station on the Greenland ice sheet (76N 36W), led by @uni_copenhagen. We drill deep into the ice to understand past climate Tw. followers: 1,635 Follow EastGRIP Camp ´s Twitter account here:

102 – IFRO – Department of Food and Resource Economics – University of Copenhagen, Denmark

We tweet about research within the fields of #environment, #naturalresources, #globaldevelopment, #food, #agriculture, #consumption, #bioethics, and #governance Tw. followers: 1,628 Follow IFRO – Department of Food and Resource Economics ´s Twitter account here:

103 – Department of Comparative Politics, UiB – Bergen, Norway

“Sampol • Institutt for sammenliknende politikk • @UiB
Comparative Politics – Political Science – University of Bergen
➡️ @sampol@mstdn.science” Tw. followers: 1,595 Follow Department of Comparative Politics, UiB ´s Twitter account here:

104 – Institutt for global helse og samfunnsmedisin – Universitetet i Bergen, Norway

Institutt for global helse og samfunnsmedisin/Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care at University of Bergen Tw. followers: 1,589 Follow Institutt for global helse og samfunnsmedisin ´s Twitter account here:

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Scientists in Denmark — the top 100 on social media in 2022

Which scholars are surging ahead on the Danish social web?

In an age of populism and science denial, I feel that scientists that garner attention to themselves and their work should be celebrated.

If they only had the chance! These Danish scientists would have aced it on the TwiLi Index. Do you recognize them? See who they are at the bottom of this article.

This was why I started releasing my annual TwiLiIndex four years ago, partly in reaction to the Kardashian Index, that made fun of scientists by measuring the discrepancy between scholars’ social media following and their citations.

My own index started in Denmark, and this year I have extended it to Norway and Sweden, so there are three separate indices to compare and evaluate.

The scientists who rank on the index for their high social media followings are all respected scientists in their own right. The way I see it, there is nothing, nothing to be ashamed of. Nothing to hide.

So here it is! Here below are the top 100 scientists in Denmark in 2022.

Please take it in a positive spirit! The index takes a lot out of me, but it is also rewarding, and I will keep on releasing these indices every year until the last person says ‘good job and keep up the good work!’

You can read about the methodology of it here.

It is called the TwiLi Index (=Twitter/LinkedIn index) – and you say it like you would say ‘twilight’ without the ‘t’. It ranks academic scholars affiliated to research institutions based on their Twitter and LinkedIn following. Twitter and LinkedIn are the platforms most used by researchers and scientists in a professional sense, as they allow networking and interaction within highly specialized fields.

Since 2019, the TwiLi Index has been reviewed in several publications. Some point to its usefulness as one of many measures of researcher success that supplement bibliometric scores, citations, and educational activities.

My TwiLi Index is based on a TwiLi score. Below you will see two separate measures of scientists’ impact, centrality and pagerank on Twitter (see explanation below). To do this I partnered up with my good friend, the data scientist Lasse Hjorth Madsen, who developed a bespoke web app for Mike Young Academy to organise publicly available data extracted using the Twitter API.

Centrality and pagerank are not integrated into the scientists’ TwiLi. So for the TwiLi index that is listed below, the top 100 scientists are ranked only on their TwiLi score. Each of the top 100 scientists then have their centrality and pagerank ranks — among nearly 4,000+ scientists on Twitter in the Nordic countries — listed after their name.

Centrality

Centrality evaluates scientists as hubs for flows of information on Twitter. A scientist has ‘centrality’ if they are the shortest path between other scientists in a network. Scientists score high on centrality if they are the shortest path many times. Centrality in this case has been calculated based on a network of more than 4,000+ scientists on Twitter in the Nordic region, so if you have a centrality rank of 23 in the table below, you are the 23rd highest centrality scoring scientist among the 4,000+ scientists. If you are a scientist with a network that is outside these countries, you may score and rank lower on centrality.

Pagerank

Pagerank evaluates scientists as attractors of influential followers. It is an indirect, proxy measure of scientists’ impact based on their followers’ follower numbers on Twitter. A scientist has a high Twitter-pagerank if the people who follow them have many followers. So getting followed by another scientist who has a high following on Twitter improves your own pagerank. However, getting followed by, say, a media Twitter account with many followers will also increase a scientists’ pagerank. So pagerank tends to favour ‘celebrity’ scientists known for other things like politics, or established scientists in fields that are in the public eye.

As can be seen when you browse down the names on the index (below) it is an ‘index for Denmark’ but not a ‘Danish’ index. International scholars are well represented in the top 100.

If you are a part of the Danish science and research community, my ranking (see below) can serve as inspiration for new contacts!

Are you not on the list? This ranking is partly based on manually extracted data (see methodology here) and I may have missed a few active scientists and researchers who have large followings. If you know someone who should be on this list, (maybe you!), please write below in the comments, or write to mike@mikeyoungacademy.dk. Updated, final, 2022 rankings will be released at the end of October 2022.

The 2022 TwiLi Index for Denmark

Here are the top 100 scientists in Denmark on social media as ranked on my TwiLi index! The data was collected May-June 2022.

Oh yes! You would like to take a deep dive into the methodology of the TwiLi Index here!

Format: TwiLi index rank / Up , down , or no change ⇒, since 2021 / Name / Affiliation / Bio on Twitter / Twitter followers / LinkedIn followers / TwiLi index score / Centrality rank among 4,000+ Nordic scientists / Pagerank rank among 4,000+ Nordic scientists / Link to Twitter account.

1 – () – Svend Brinkmann – AAU

Psychologist & Professor Tw. followers: 48,932 LI followers: 38,045 TwiLi index: 21.48 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 26 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 2 Follow Svend Brinkmann´s Twitter account here:

2 – () –  Sahra Ahmed Koshin – UCPH

PhD Candidate, gender & Somali diaspora humanitarianism in complex crises @KU_IFRO, @IDS_UONBI, @Diaspora_Hum | Storyteller & Founder @SomGenderHub, @PuntlandW Tw. followers: 29,160 LI followers: 27,855 TwiLi index: 19.85 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 1,572 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 2,996 Follow Sahra Ahmed Koshin´s Twitter account here:

3 – () – Alf Rehn – SDU

Professor of innovation, design, and management. In addition a writer, speechifier, and popular culture geek. Tw. followers: 64,294 LI followers: 10,459 TwiLi index: 19.33 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 33 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 100 Follow Alf Rehn´s Twitter account here:

4 – () – Alireza Dolatshahi-Pirouz – DTU

Assoc. Prof at DTU Health (Denmark), CTO & co-founder OuroBionics, co-founder #TeamBioEngine. |Cyborganics|&|LivingMaterials| Tw. followers: 9,897 LI followers: 31,560 TwiLi index: 17.98 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 1 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 103 Follow Alireza Dolatshahi-Pirouz´s Twitter account here:

5 – () –  Bent Flyvbjerg – ITU

Professor @UniofOxford @ITUkbh. Award-winning author, speaker, adviser Papers for free here: http://bit.ly/172rVR0 Books: http://amzn.to/384cZte Dialogue yes, polemics no Tw. followers: 8,468 LI followers: 24,145 TwiLi index: 17.22 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: #VÆRDI! Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: #VÆRDI! Follow Bent Flyvbjerg´s Twitter account here:

6 – () –  Christine Stabell Benn – SDU

Professor, Global Health @SyddanskUni. Studying the overall health effects of vaccines, discovering that they have important non-specific effects #NSEvac. Tw. followers: 16,851 LI followers: 11,770 TwiLi index: 17.21 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 29 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 15 Follow Christine Stabell Benn´s Twitter account here:

7 – () – Lars Christensen – CBS

International economist, “Money Doctor”, sports analytics nerd, research associate Copenhagen Business School, lacsen@gmail.com +45 52 50 25 06 Tw. followers: 15,733 LI followers: 9,891 TwiLi index: 16.77 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 286 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 586 Follow Lars Christensen´s Twitter account here:

8 – () – Finn Tarp – UCPH

Danish Professor of Development Economics at @uni_copenhagen🇩🇰, coordinator of @DERG_DK and former Director of @UNUWIDER🇺🇳 (2009-2018). #DERGDK Tw. followers: 26,961 LI followers: 3,466 TwiLi index: 15.69 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 104 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 54 Follow Finn Tarp´s Twitter account here:

9 – () – James Rogers – SDU

DIAS Associate Prof | Senior Fellow @CornellTPL | @LSEIDEAS | Adviser @NATO, @UN, @APPGDrones | #TEDx Speaker | Podcast @HistoryHitWW2 | Agent @TheSohoAgencyUK Tw. followers: 13,444 LI followers: 4,399 TwiLi index: 15.04 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 93 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 250 Follow James Rogers ´s Twitter account here:

10 – () – Peter Nedergaard – UCPH

Tweeter om politisk ufornuft og manglende udsyn i Danmark og i Europa. Tweets on political irrationalities in Denmark and Europe. Tw. followers: 2,193 LI followers: 29,301 TwiLi index: 14.93 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 938 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 515 Follow Peter Nedergaard´s Twitter account here:

11 – () – Diego F. Aranha – Aarhus

Associate Professor at @csaudk in 🇩🇰. Security researcher and scientist forged by medical quackery and insecure e-voting. #TeamAdditive for ECC notation. Tw. followers: 14,356 LI followers: 3,869 TwiLi index: 14.91 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 1,992 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 2,837 Follow Diego F. Aranha´s Twitter account here:

12 – () –  Roslyn Layton – AAU

International Tech Policy, US/China/EU. Aalborg University Copenhagen Tw. followers: 13,635 LI followers: 3,946 TwiLi index: 14.87 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: #VÆRDI! Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: #VÆRDI! Follow Roslyn Layton´s Twitter account here:

13 – () –  Olivier Schmitt – SDU

Director of Research and Studies @IHEDN | Professor wsr of War Studies @CWSWarStudies | Alliances/military innovation/defence policies | Views my own Tw. followers: 16,777 LI followers: 3,123 TwiLi index: 14.76 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 569 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 137 Follow Olivier Schmitt´s Twitter account here:

14 – () – Flemming Besenbacher – Aarhus

Professor in nansocience and chairman of @CarlsbergGroup. Tweets about #dkforsk #dkbiz #circulareconomy #SDGs etc. Tw. followers: 5,130 LI followers: 9,199 TwiLi index: 14.71 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 3 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 3 Follow Flemming Besenbacher´s Twitter account here:

15 – () –  Peter Krustrup – SDU

Professor i Sport og Sundhed, SDU, forsker i sport som forebyggelse & behandling, og præstation i elitesport. Leder af PRoKIT & Football is Medicine platformen. Tw. followers: 1,943 LI followers: 26,743 TwiLi index: 14.56 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 56 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 767 Follow Peter Krustrup´s Twitter account here:

16 – () – Kristian Thorborg – UCPH

Professor – Orthopedic & Sports PT #ucph | Professor – Sports Sciences #lunduniversity | Research Lead @SORC_C | Editor @BJSM_BMJ | MC @DBUfodbold | Views MO | Tw. followers: 18,963 LI followers: 2,414 TwiLi index: 14.47 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 230 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 619 Follow Kristian Thorborg´s Twitter account here:

17 – () –  Morten Sodemann – SDU

Professor of Global & migrant health, Senior Consultant Infect Diseases. Health systems research, Equity, social determinants,globalhealth Tw. followers: 9,115 LI followers: 4,259 TwiLi index: 14.37 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 14 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 12 Follow Morten Sodemann´s Twitter account here:

18 – () – Ravinder Kaur – UCPH

Author: Brand New Nation (Stanford 2020, HarperCollins India 2021) https://t.co/AeF92XWgFj @uni_copenhagen @GlobHistHarvard Tw. followers: 6,073 LI followers: 6,164 TwiLi index: 14.34 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 210 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 373 Follow Ravinder Kaur´s Twitter account here:

19 – () –  Michael Bang Petersen – Aarhus

Professor of Political Science and illuminator of the evolved psychology of everything dark in politics: Pandemics, misinformation, violence and discrimination. Tw. followers: 32,735 LI followers: 1,403 TwiLi index: 14.21 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 4 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 1 Follow Michael Bang Petersen´s Twitter account here:

20 – () – Nicolai Foss – CBS

Father, husband, management professor, scribbler. Tw. followers: 4,390 LI followers: 7,237 TwiLi index: 14.06 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 753 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 223 Follow Nicolai Foss´ Twitter account here:

21 – () – Marlene Wind – UCPH

Prof. European politics and law at @uni_copenhagen 🇪🇺 Special Advisor to HR/VP | @EUI_EU alumni | Columnist at @Berlingske | Personal account Tw. followers: 10,615 LI followers: 2,900 TwiLi index: 13.94 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 28 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 16 Follow Marlene Wind´s Twitter account here:

22 – () – Carsten Rahbek – UCPH

Professor & Director of Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, Univer of Copenhagen. I tweet on #nature, #biodiversity, #climatechange, #SDG & #science Tw. followers: 13,952 LI followers: 2,300 TwiLi index: 13.93 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 21 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 35 Follow Carsten Rahbek´s Twitter account here:

23 – () – Serge Belongie – UCPH

Professor, DIKU @Uni_Copenhagen | PI @BelongieLab | Computer Vision & Machine Learning | Director, Pioneer Centre for AI @AiCentreDK Tw. followers: 8,823 LI followers: 3,201 TwiLi index: 13.83 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 66 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 83 Follow Serge Belongie´s Twitter account here:

24 – () – Jens Svenning – Aarhus

Ecologist w strong interest in global #biodiversity patterns & dynamics, ecosystem #restoration & #rewilding, human-nature interrelations, and #remotesensing Tw. followers: 7,663 LI followers: 3,409 TwiLi index: 13.72 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 23 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 46 Follow Jens Svenning´s Twitter account here:

25 – () –  Lars L. Andersen – NFA

Professor | Pain | Healthy Ageing | Work Environment | SeniorWorkingLife | Exercise Physiology | Strength Training | Speaks 🇺🇸 🇪🇸 🇩🇰 | Views are my own Tw. followers: 3,025 LI followers: 8,649 TwiLi index: 13.70 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 1,598 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 1,897 Follow Lars L. Andersen´s Twitter account here:

26 – () –  Anja C. Andersen – UCPH

Professor at the Niels Bohr Institute with focus on the Universe. Tweets on astrophysics, gender and education. Tw. followers: 7,636 LI followers: 3,100 TwiLi index: 13.56 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 137 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 14 Follow Anja C. Andersen´s Twitter account here:

27 – () – Lene Tanggaard – AAU

Rektor for Designskolen Kolding, Professor AAU, cand. psych., Ph.d. “Ikke mennesket, men mennesker bebor denne planet. Pluralitet er jordens lov”. Tw. followers: 2,054 LI followers: 11,700 TwiLi index: 13.48 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 1,149 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 259 Follow Lene Tanggaard´s Twitter account here:

28 – () – Brian Vad Mathiesen – AAU

Prof of #SmartEnergySystems 100% #RenewableEnergy #SDG7 | Director MSc #SustainableCities | @HeatRoadmapEU @ReInvestEU @4DHresearch @sEEnergies EiC #SmartEnergy Tw. followers: 7,834 LI followers: 2,743 TwiLi index: 13.39 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 2,763 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 190 Follow Brian Vad Mathiesen´s Twitter account here:

29 – () –  Kresten Lindorff-Larsen – UCPH

Protein and coffee lover, professor of biophysics and sudo scientist at the #LinderstrømLang Centre for Protein Science @uni_copenhagen 🇩🇰 #PRISM #BRAINSTRUC Tw. followers: 7,802 LI followers: 2,554 TwiLi index: 13.26 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 34 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 77 Follow Kresten Lindorff-Larsen´s Twitter account here:

30 – () – Martin Brynskov – Aarhus

Passionate, state-certified techno-skeptic/-addict. Gauging the digital, from ripples to tsunamis @AarhusUni @OASCities @SyncCityIoT @NGIoT4eu @score_nsr Tw. followers: 2,955 LI followers: 6,604 TwiLi index: 13.26 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 455 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 370 Follow Martin Brynskov´s Twitter account here:

31 – () – Henning Langberg – UCPH

Innovationschef CIO @Rigshospitalet – globalt fyrtårn for innovation. Professor https://t.co/OXr0GnLVVM. KU. bestyrelsesarbejde ☎️ 26127913, ♥️@FCBarca Tw. followers: 2,065 LI followers: 9,389 TwiLi index: 13.17 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 530 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 145 Follow Henning Langberg´s Twitter account here:

32 – () – Christian Bueger – UCPH

Professor of International Relations, research on #oceans #maritimesecurity #bluecrime #piracy #practicetheory #praxiography #expertise @safeseas1 @PolsciCph Tw. followers: 3,020 LI followers: 5,843 TwiLi index: 13.11 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 200 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 362 Follow Christian Bueger´s Twitter account here:

33 – () –  Akos T. Kovacs – DTU

Professor at DTU Bioengineering – Biofilms, Experimental Evolution, Sociomicrobiology, Bacteria-Plant/Fungi interaction; Senior Editor of ‘Biofilm’ (gold #OA) Tw. followers: 12,560 LI followers: 1,560 TwiLi index: 13.09 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 191 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 188 Follow Akos T. Kovacs´s Twitter account here:

34 – () – Jesper Juul – KADK

Video game theorist. Author of Handmade Pixels: Independent Video Games and the Quest for Authenticity. https://t.co/wL4uDurVux Tw. followers: 8,013 LI followers: 2,217 TwiLi index: 13.06 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 2,663 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 1,388 Follow Jesper Juul´s Twitter account here:

35 – () –  Claes de Vreese – SDU

#AI #media #democracy #journalism #EU #polcomm #disinformation • University Professor @UvA_Amsterdam • Director @DDC_SDU • Co-leader @ALGOSOC_ • 🇩🇰🇳🇱🇪🇺 Tw. followers: 10,743 LI followers: 1,569 TwiLi index: 12.88 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 493 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 99 Follow Claes de Vreese´s Twitter account here:

36 – () – Andreas Wieland – CBS

Assoc. Prof. @CBScph | #SupplyChainResilience | born 339ppm | blog: https://t.co/ZWKOFbEaTv | private views | #SocialEcological #Resilience #Transformation 🇪🇺🌻🐝🚄🚲 Tw. followers: 1,732 LI followers: 8,759 TwiLi index: 12.77 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 752 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 2,846 Follow Andreas Wieland´s Twitter account here:

37 – () – Mikkel Flyverbom – CBS

Author of ‘The Digital Prism’ & tech-columnist @Politiken. Professor mso and Academic Director at Copenhagen Business School – mf.msc@cbs.dk Tw. followers: 2,480 LI followers: 5,750 TwiLi index: 12.76 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 41 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 71 Follow Mikkel Flyverbom´s Twitter account here:

38 – () –  Anton Pottegård – SDU

Professor of pharmacoepidemiology at @SUND_SDU. Research/tweets on use of medicines and medicine safety. Reach me at +45 28913340 / apottegaard@health.sdu.dk. Tw. followers: 3,383 LI followers: 4,094 TwiLi index: 12.75 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 74 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 44 Follow Anton Pottegård´s Twitter account here:

39 – () – Barbara Plank – ITU

Full Professor in Natural Language Processing (NLP), Chair of AI & CompLing @LMU_Muenchen, co-lead of @CisLMU, Prof ITU, Denmark #NLProc, co-lead of @NLPnorth Tw. followers: 6,681 LI followers: 2,151 TwiLi index: 12.75 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 824 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 492 Follow Barbara Plank´s Twitter account here:

40 – () –  Hanne Leth Andersen – RUC

Rector at Roskilde University, professor of Higher Education. Dedicated to research based critical transdisciplinary Education #uddpol #dkvid #dkpol. Tw. followers: 2,570 LI followers: 5,465 TwiLi index: 12.75 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 265 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 47 Follow Hanne Leth Andersen´s Twitter account here:

41 – () – Rebecca Adler-Nissen – UCPH

Professor in Political Science | International Relations in Theory and Practice | EU | Diplomacy | Digital Technologies. I’m also Deputy Director of @CPH_SODAS Tw. followers: 7,625 LI followers: 1,887 TwiLi index: 12.72 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 5 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 5 Follow Rebecca Adler-Nissen´s Twitter account here:

42 – () – David Budtz Pedersen – AAU

Professor of Science Communication, Department of Communication & Psychology, Aalborg University. Knowledge Broker for Algorithms Data & Democracy @ADDprojektet Tw. followers: 3,614 LI followers: 3,597 TwiLi index: 12.65 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 11 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 9 Follow David Budtz Pedersen´s Twitter account here:

43 – () – Thomas Ryberg – AAU

Professor, Aalborg University – interested in networked learning and emerging technologies Tw. followers: 5,084 LI followers: 2,573 TwiLi index: 12.64 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 16 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 32 Follow Thomas Ryberg´s Twitter account here:

44 – () – Pernille Bærendtsen – CBS

phd st @cbscph | MA African Studies | fmr journalist & dvt worker in East Africa | ❤️ tilted to the Balkans & Africa | board @TimbuktuFonden | 1/3 @thekangabook Tw. followers: 8,489 LI followers: 1,623 TwiLi index: 12.62 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 413 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 798 Follow Pernille Bærendtsen´s Twitter account here:

45 – () – Katherine Richardson – UCPH

Prof. in Biol. Oceanography, Leader Sustainability Science Centre, Univ. Copenhagen Tw. followers: 2,373 LI followers: 5,392 TwiLi index: 12.60 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 414 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 56 Follow Katherine Richardson´s Twitter account here:

46 – () –  Paul Hünermund – CBS

Assistant Professor @SI_Copenhagen @CBScph | Co-founder of https://t.co/LC4u3brQsg | Associate Editor at Journal of Causal Inference | Executive Team @AOM_TIM Tw. followers: 13,840 LI followers: 1,075 TwiLi index: 12.56 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 551 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 453 Follow Paul Hünermund´s Twitter account here:

47 – () – Sune Auken – UPCH

#Genre researcher, cheerleader, daily reminder, Grundtvig scholar. Pastor’s wife. #VivaWoke. #ClimateChange. #RandomActsOfKindness. Tweeting joy. Tw. followers: 18,596 LI followers: 845 TwiLi index: 12.50 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 738 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 410 Follow Sune Auken´s Twitter account here:

48 – () – Michael Svarer – Aarhus

Tw. followers: 3,320 LI followers: 3,437 TwiLi index: 12.45 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 1,470 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 228 Follow Michael Svarer´s Twitter account here:

49 – () –  Carl-Johan Dalgaard – UCPH

Professor of economics at the University of Copenhagen. Chairman of the Danish Economic Councils (“overvismand”). Tw. followers: 4,853 LI followers: 2,325 TwiLi index: 12.41 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 568 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 64 Follow Carl-Johan Dalgaard´s Twitter account here:

50 – () –  Jens Lundgren – UCPH

Professor, infektionsmediciner, forsker, lidende immunsystem, (pan)epidemier, COVID-19, HIV, influenza, +4535455763 Tw. followers: 6,857 LI followers: 1,698 TwiLi index: 12.39 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 1,648 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 21 Follow Jens Lundgren´s Twitter account here:

51 – () –  Somdeep Sen – RUC

Development Studies @roskildeuni | Decolonizing Palestine @cornellpress | Globalizing Collateral Language @ugapress | RT≠endorsement | views my own | 🇮🇳 🇩🇰 Tw. followers: 2,752 LI followers: 3,934 TwiLi index: 12.37 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 196 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 588 Follow Somdeep Sen´s Twitter account here:

52 – () – Kai Hockerts – CBS

Professor of Social Entrepreneurship, Copenhagen Business School (CBS) Tw. followers: 1,883 LI followers: 5,880 TwiLi index: 12.35 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 2,805 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 2,547 Follow Kai Hockerts´ Twitter account here:

53 – () –  Christina Gravert – UCPH

Associate Professor in Economics at @EconomicsUCPH & @CEBI_UCPH | Co-Founder of @impactually | nudging | behavioral economics | field experiments Tw. followers: 4,446 LI followers: 2,345 TwiLi index: 12.30 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 109 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 160 Follow Christina Gravert´s Twitter account here:

54 – () –  Bjarke Møller – CBS

A free spirit tweeting on EU, green transition, politics and global sustainability. Journalist. Honorary adjunct professor at CBS. Author of “Politics of Hope” Tw. followers: 5,664 LI followers: 1,884 TwiLi index: 12.29 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 385 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 97 Follow Bjarke Møller´s Twitter account here:

55 – () – María Escudero Escribano – UCPH

Associate Professor @UCPH_research. Group Leader @NanoElectrocat. Co-PI @HEAcatalysis. Electrochemistry, Energy, Decarbonisation, Power-to-X. She/her. Tw. followers: 4,489 LI followers: 2,303 TwiLi index: 12.28 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 403 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 993 Follow María Escudero Escribano´s Twitter account here:

56 – () –  Nikos Ntoumanis – SDU

“Professor of Motivation Science
Danish Centre for Motivation & Behaviour Science (DRIVEN);
https://t.co/0du7nHxHBT” Tw. followers: 5,278 LI followers: 1,960 TwiLi index: 12.26 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 998 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 1,837 Follow Nikos Ntoumanis´ Twitter account here:

57 – () – Stine Liv Johansen – Aarhus

Lektor, ph.d. i børns medier ved @AarhusUni. Tw. followers: 4,544 LI followers: 2,043 TwiLi index: 12.11 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 58 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 41 Follow Stine Liv Johansen´s Twitter account here:

58 – () – Rasmus Elling – UCPH

Iran, History, Sociology // Assoc. Prof., Head of Mid East Studies Unit @uni_copenhagen // Author, ‘Minorities in Iran’, ‘Irans Moderne Historie’. Views my own Tw. followers: 7,956 LI followers: 1,261 TwiLi index: 12.10 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 302 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 174 Follow Rasmus Elling´s Twitter account here:

59 – () – Tara Ballav Adhikari – Aarhus

PhD Fellow @AarhusUni | SGM @HIFA_org | Editor @BMC_Series #PublicHealth & @PLOSGPH| Founder @NCDWatchNepal & @HealthyLungNep| Tweets #GlobalHealth #NCDs #Nepal Tw. followers: 2,831 LI followers: 3,190 TwiLi index: 12.10 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 1,257 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 3,406 Follow Tara Ballav Adhikari´s Twitter account here:

60 – () –  Rasmus Dahlberg – Forsvarsakademiet

Katastrofehistorikeren – for der er kun én i 🇩🇰. Konservativ, men alligevel sjov og åben for det meste. Tweeter for egen regning og giver gerne en omgang. Tw. followers: 3,153 LI followers: 2,813 TwiLi index: 12.07 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 460 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 707 Follow Rasmus Dahlberg ´s Twitter account here:

61 – () –  Mathias Poulsen – Designskolen Kolding

PhD @designskolenkd. Studying play as democratic participation in the tradition of adventure playgrounds. Founded @counterplayfest. We should all be feminists. Tw. followers: 5,344 LI followers: 1,701 TwiLi index: 12.05 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 81 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 187 Follow Mathias Poulsen´s Twitter account here:

62 – () – Pablo Iván Nikel – DTU

Metabolic engineer @DTUBiosustain · Proud PI @LabNikel · Coordinator @fonia_sin · @F1000 board · @NovoNordiskFond Ascending Investigator · He/Him · Views my own Tw. followers: 3,716 LI followers: 2,302 TwiLi index: 12.01 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 506 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 547 Follow Pablo Iván Nikel´s Twitter account here:

63 – () – Isabelle Augenstein – UCPH

“Associate Professor @CopeNLU @uni_copenhagen
Formerly @ucl_nlp, @SheffieldNLP. Explainable AI, Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning.” Tw. followers: 9,689 LI followers: 1,014 TwiLi index: 11.99 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 430 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 371 Follow Isabelle Augenstein´s Twitter account here:

64 – () – Mikkel Vedby Rasmussen – UCPH

Tweets about a world in the making – in English as well as på dansk. Dean of Faculty of Social Science at University of Copenhagen. RTs not endorsements. Tw. followers: 4,391 LI followers: 1,921 TwiLi index: 11.96 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 206 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 30 Follow Mikkel Vedby Rasmussen´s Twitter account here:

65 – () – Rune Møller Stahl – CBS

Assistant professor in political economy at @CBScph. Reseaching inequality, democracy and capitalism. Bylines at @informeren and @jacobinmag. Tw. followers: 5,936 LI followers: 1,411 TwiLi index: 11.89 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 35 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 27 Follow Rune Møller Stahl´s Twitter account here:

66 – () – Mona Kanwal Sheikh – DIIS

Senior researcher/head of unit #globalsecurity #worldviews @diisdk. PI @transjihad. Research: expansion/containment of #jihad #terrorism #religiousconflict #IR Tw. followers: 2,449 LI followers: 3,188 TwiLi index: 11.88 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 915 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 265 Follow Mona Kanwal Sheikh´s Twitter account here:

67 – ()   Pedro Oliveira – CBS

Professor mso Copenhagen Business School @CBScph| Gulbenkian Chair Professor Nova School of Business & Economics @FCGulbenkian @NovaSBE| Founder @PatientInnov Tw. followers: 1,358 LI followers: 5,915 TwiLi index: 11.82 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 2,151 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 2,333 Follow Pedro Oliveira´s Twitter account here:

68 – () –  Mads Albertsen – AAU

Dad | DNA Sequencing Nerd | Prof. AAU | Co-founder DNASense Tw. followers: 7,304 LI followers: 1,080 TwiLi index: 11.72 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 235 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 36 Follow Mads Albertsen´s Twitter account here:

69 – () – Cristina Legido-Quigley – Steno

Precision Medicine @StenoDiabetes @KingsCollegeLon Head of Systems Medicine🤍 #Metabolomics #Lipidomics. Passionate 🔎 #diabetes & #dementia R&D #WomeninSTEM Tw. followers: 3,618 LI followers: 1,938 TwiLi index: 11.70 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 217 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 809 Follow Cristina Legido-Quigley´s Twitter account here:

70* – () –  Emil Engelund Thybring – UCPH

Lektor (Associate Prof.) @science_ku @uni_copenhagen . Passion: #Wood #Science 💚 Fokus: holdbare, #bæredygtige træprodukter🌲 #dkgreen #dkklima #dkbyg #dkforsk Tw. followers: 666 LI followers: 13,196 TwiLi index: 11.64 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: n/a Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: n/a Follow Emil Engelund Thybring´s Twitter account here:

70 – () –  Sebastian Risi – ITU

Research: AI, Neuroevolution, Artificial Life, Hybrid Intelligence, ML, Games, Robots. Professor, ITU Copenhagen. Co-founder of https://t.co/EeVHNpBENS Tw. followers: 6,193 LI followers: 1,149 TwiLi index: 11.61 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 952 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 951 Follow Sebastian Risi´s Twitter account here:

72 – () –  Jeremy Morris – Aarhus

Безродный космополит и разночинец. Professor of Russian and Global Studies. “O Freunde, nicht diese Töne” Tw. followers: 7,240 LI followers: 1,013 TwiLi index: 11.60 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 683 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 1,369 Follow Jeremy Morris´ Twitter account here:

73 – () –  Frederik Schaltz-Buchholzer – SDU

MD, PhD, postdoc at Bandim Health Project working with vaccine trials & epidemiology of neonatal + maternal BCG 💉. Tweets mine, ☎ 42702170, frederik@bandim.org Tw. followers: 4,072 LI followers: 1,625 TwiLi index: 11.59 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 525 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 990 Follow Frederik Schaltz-Buchholzer´s Twitter account here:

74 – () – Mickey Gjerris – UCPH

Bioetiker og teolog med hang til spørgsmål om natursyn, klimahåb, dyrevelfærd, biotek og meningen med det hele. Have towel – need lift 🤙🚀🐢 Tw. followers: 2,120 LI followers: 3,050 TwiLi index: 11.59 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 1,116 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 512 Follow Mickey Gjerris´ Twitter account here:

75 – () –  Luca Maria Aiello – ITU

Associate professor of Data Science @ITUkbh Copenhagen, member of @nerdsitu. Formerly @BellLabs, @YahooResearch, @IUBloomington, fellow of @ISI_Fondazione. Tw. followers: 2,733 LI followers: 2,352 TwiLi index: 11.59 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 1,479 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 1,527 Follow Luca Maria Aiello´s Twitter account here:

76 – () – Veronika Cheplygina – ITU

Failed academic & associate prof @ITUkbh 💪 🇳🇱 ➡ 🇩🇰 Blogger 🌎 Pattern Recognition 🧮 Cats 🦝 Chaotic good 🎲 Bipolar 🧠 #BiInSci 🌈 Survivor ⚡ She/her Tw. followers: 6,688 LI followers: 1,006 TwiLi index: 11.49 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 649 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 535 Follow Veronika Cheplygina´s Twitter account here:

77 – () – Andreas Lieberoth – Aarhus

“Psych professor @DPUAarhusUni asking questions about how tech affects learning, thinking, work, play, wellbeing 👾📊🧠👥

Wrote books about games, imagination👇” Tw. followers: 3,893 LI followers: 1,562 TwiLi index: 11.47 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 15 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 40 Follow Andreas Lieberoth´s Twitter account here:

78 – () – Anders Perner – UCPH

“#ICU Rigshospitalet UCPH
Collaboration for Research in Intensive Care
Vicechair Danish Medical Societies
#6S #TRISS #CLASSIC #COVID_STEROID trials #sepsis #RCT” Tw. followers: 3,977 LI followers: 1,517 TwiLi index: 11.45 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 578 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 109 Follow Anders Perner´s Twitter account here:

79 – () – Petar Popovski – AAU

Professor in Connectivity. Editor in Chief at IEEE JSAC. Interested in how to process information and how information processes us. Tw. followers: 926 LI followers: 7,121 TwiLi index: 11.43 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 2,700 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 2,612 Follow Petar Popovski´s Twitter account here:

80 – () – Carlos Henríquez-Olguin – UCPH

PhD, PostDoc at @MolecularUCPH Physiology 🇩🇰| Skeletal Muscle lover and Microscopy enthusiast🔬 🏃🧫🧬#Myotwitter #RedoxBiology #ExerciseMetabolism #Insulin Tw. followers: 2,437 LI followers: 2,371 TwiLi index: 11.43 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 656 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 1,096 Follow Carlos Henríquez-Olguin´s Twitter account here:

81 – () – Sune Lehmann – DTU

“A leading leader in unusual methods

Celeb endorsement: https://t.co/SQwn2PgjuP” Tw. followers: 4,578 LI followers: 1,319 TwiLi index: 11.43 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 750 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 57 Follow Sune Lehmann´s Twitter account here:

82 – () – Peter Kurrild-Klitgaard – UCPH

Professor of political science, newspaper columnist & happy warrior Tw. followers: 3,077 LI followers: 1,874 TwiLi index: 11.42 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 1,189 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 461 Follow Peter Kurrild-Klitgaard´s Twitter account here:

83 – () – Didde Elnif – SDU

Journalistic lecturer & PhD student at @CFJSDU. Talk to me about digital journalism & internet culture. My favourite dinosaur is the stegosaurus. Tw. followers: 4,476 LI followers: 1,249 TwiLi index: 11.31 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 368 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 313 Follow Didde Elnif´s Twitter account here:

84 – () –  Rasmus Corlin Christensen – CBS

Political economist | Postdoc @CBScph | Tax, global governance, expertise, professionals Tw. followers: 7,662 LI followers: 807 TwiLi index: 11.30 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 732 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 204 Follow Rasmus Corlin Christensen´s Twitter account here:

85 – () –  Claire Yorke – SDU

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow @CWSWarStudies | via @JacksonYale, @ISSYale and a PhD @warstudies | #Empathy #Emotions #Politics #Leadership #Strategy #Diplomacy Tw. followers: 2,756 LI followers: 1,906 TwiLi index: 11.29 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 774 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 1,685 Follow Claire Yorke´s Twitter account here:

86 – () – Asmus Leth Olsen – UCPH

Professor (MSO) in behavioral public administration • University of Copenhagen • #behavioralPA • https://t.co/vsK0pOw1gq Tw. followers: 6,279 LI followers: 932 TwiLi index: 11.28 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 97 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 13 Follow Asmus Leth Olsen´s Twitter account here:

87 – () –  Christopher Røhl – DTU

Nomineret til Dialogprisen 2022 – Stem nedenfor / Gruppeleder for @radikaleKbh på Kbhs rådhus & fhv leder af @radikalungdom / PhD stud. på DTU / Tlf: 28862072 Tw. followers: 3,041 LI followers: 1,723 TwiLi index: 11.27 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 2,121 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 962 Follow Christopher Røhl´s Twitter account here:

88 – () – Ewa Roos – SDU

Professor of Musculoskeletal Function and Physiotherapy @FOF_research. Focus on prevention and treatment of joint injury and osteoarthritis. Tw. followers: 5,559 LI followers: 991 TwiLi index: 11.22 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 2,426 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 1,039 Follow Ewa Roos’ Twitter account here:

89 – () – Bo Abrahamsen – SDU

Professor & endocrinologist. Osteoporosis. Epidemiology. International Man of Mystery. Check with your doctor if health concerns. Odense Holbæk Oxford. Tw. followers: 4,402 LI followers: 1,193 TwiLi index: 11.21 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 449 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 779 Follow Bo Abrahamsen´s Twitter account here:

90 – () – Peter Dalsgaard – Aarhus

Professor of Interaction Design @AarhusUni, director of @CreativityAU. I explore the design & use of IT from a humanistic perspective. Reach me at +45 20652942. Tw. followers: 3,000 LI followers: 1,663 TwiLi index: 11.20 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 36 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 19 Follow Peter Dalsgaard´s Twitter account here:

91 – () – Ole Sejer Iversen – Aarhus

Professor in Interaction Design, Aarhus University (DK). Head of Center for Computational Thinking & Design. Member of the Danish national UNESCO commission Tw. followers: 1,855 LI followers: 2,649 TwiLi index: 11.19 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 748 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 268 Follow Ole Sejer Iversen´s Twitter account here:

92 – () – Stefano Ponte – CBS

Prof International Political Economy @CBScph | Author: Business, Power & Sustainability | GlobalValueChains | Africa | coffee | wine | pers views solidarity🇺🇦 Tw. followers: 2,723 LI followers: 1,805 TwiLi index: 11.19 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 101 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 178 Follow Stefano Ponte´s Twitter account here:

93 – () – Ruth Mottram – DMI

“Climate scientist and glaciologist @dmidk, working on Greenland, Arctic and Antarctic climate and ice.

🇪🇺 🇩🇰 🇬🇧

Views my own but freely shared.” Tw. followers: 9,867 LI followers: 623 TwiLi index: 11.17 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 86 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 26 Follow Ruth Mottram´s Twitter account here:

94 – () – Michael Linden-Vørnle – DTU

Astrophysicist and Chief Adviser at the National Space Institute in Denmark. My main interests are cosmology, astrobiology, space safety and autonomy. Tw. followers: 2,211 LI followers: 2,160 TwiLi index: 11.16 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 2,874 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 702 Follow Michael Linden-Vørnle´s Twitter account here:

95 – () – Theresa Scavenius – AAU

PhD, associate professor, researcher in climate politics and democracy, Aalborg University Copenhagen. Spokesperson, Momentum. theresascavenius@gmail.com Tw. followers: 2,301 LI followers: 2,040 TwiLi index: 11.13 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 2,588 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 615 Follow Theresa Scavenius´ Twitter account here:

96 – () –  Stefania Serafin – AAU

Professor and mom; sonic Interaction design, VR/AR https://t.co/TyTE0JwyHu and https://t.co/L7kQdbyYdf Tw. followers: 1,666 LI followers: 2,803 TwiLi index: 11.11 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 228 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 987 Follow Stefania Serafin´s Twitter account here:

97 – () – Sjúrður Hammer – UFI

Researcher interested in wildlife conservation, marine ecology, #teamskua #seabirds, #invasivespecies #plasticpollution #oology @uofglasgow @aberdeenuni alumni Tw. followers: 5,248 LI followers: 954 TwiLi index: 11.09 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 278 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 1,658 Follow Sjúrður Hammer ´s Twitter account here:

98 – () – Luke Patey – DIIS

Author, ‘How China Loses’ https://t.co/05tjMautkM & ‘The New Kings of Crude’ | Senior researcher @diisdk & @OxfordEnergy. Tw. followers: 3,302 LI followers: 1,409 TwiLi index: 11.08 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 931 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 695 Follow Luke Patey´s Twitter account here:

99 – () – Timo Minssen – UCPH

Law Prof.,⚖️🦠🧬🤖💊 @CeBIL_Center Dir.,@uni_copenhagen, Advisor @EUofficio, @lunduniversity, Blues aficionado #AI #Biomed #Data #Regulation #IPR #HealthLaw Tw. followers: 980 LI followers: 5,021 TwiLi index: 11.07 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 612 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 1,339 Follow Timo Minssen´s Twitter account here:

100 – () – Afton Halloran – UCPH

Consultant in Sustainable #FoodSystems / Systems Thinker / Researcher / Host of @The_Nordics Nordic Talks Podcast / Head of Nominations @FoodPlanetPrize Tw. followers: 1,957 LI followers: 2,291 TwiLi index: 11.06 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 884 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 1,950 Follow Afton Halloran´s Twitter account here:

101 – () – Marin Jovanovic – CBS

Assistant Professor at Copenhagen Business School @CBScph Research on #digitaltransformation #businessmodels #AI #platforms #ecosystems #publichealth Tw. followers: 1,224 LI followers: 3,796 TwiLi index: 11.06 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 1,891 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 2,686 Follow Marin Jovanovic´s Twitter account here:

* = Data from September 2022

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Who are the scientists on the picture at the top of the page? From the left: Johan Ludvig Heiberg, philologist, Ole Rømer, astronomer and Sophie Brahe, horticulturalist.

Peace and conflict professor: Twitter is my platform to influence decision-makers

In Uppsala, people may be waking up to the fact that they have a global opinion shaper in their midst

Some scientists uphold a ‘strictly-research’ – ‘only-science’ — approach to Twitter. Their tweets are only either about their own research or the research of scientists in their own field.

Other scientists, sometimes more experienced ones, take a step further. They post about public issues based on their relevant expertise. In this way, a virologist might tweet about — say — vaccine policy.

Ashok Swain was recently in Nikko, Japan. In the background, the Three Wise Monkeys of the Toshogu Shrine representing the traditional ‘see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil’ phrase.

“Even if it is time-consuming and perilous, academics should actively contribute to the political debate of the country”

Ashok Swain is one of these, and he believes that his own expertise and experience obligate him to engage with the policies of this age based on his knowledge of water co-operation and conflicts between nations.

Pinned to the top of his Twitter profile is the tweet:

“If the politics of a country goes seriously wrong, all contributions academics are hoping to make will become useless. Thus, even if it is time-consuming and perilous, academics should actively contribute to the political debate of the country.”

Inspired by PhD student

Scrolling down Ashok Swain’s Twitter feed is an insight into his world as a public intellectual. He is not afraid to tweet about the conflicts and issues of the age.

Ashok Swain is Professor and Head of Department of the Department of Peace and Conflict Research in Uppsala, but he also holds the position as UNESCO Chair on International Water Cooperation, and is Editor-in-Chief of ‘Environment and Security’ journal.

He is also, as I recently found out, a top scientist on my just-released TwiLiIndex for Sweden, which ranks the top 100 scientists on social media. He does this mostly on the back of his 430,000+ followers on Twitter.

Let that sink in for a moment. That is 430,000 — a medium-sized city.

So on a sweltering day in August I called him to ask WHAT it was that made him so hot on the social networks.

“If something comes out wrong, your whole reputation is on the line. This would not be the case if you had a small number of followers. You open yourself to larger scrutiny”

“I think it was my PhD student that more or less forced me to get a Twitter account back in 2009.” Ashok Swain laughs, “and now this PhD student has become a successful scientist in his own right, and I am very active on Twitter.”

It has been his position at the crux of conflicts in South Asia, the Middle East and Africa that has generated his following, he explained to me.

“I started tweeting about politics in connection with the Indian election of 2014. Here a new regime came to power that, in a European sense, would be considered far right. And there have been other big things happening in the world, where my tweets gave a boost to my follower numbers: For example the 2019 [Pulwama] attack in Kashmir, which involved India and Pakistan in conflict,” he explains.

“But apart from South Asia I have a large number of followers in the Middle East, partly because I write a regular column for the [UAE-based, ed.] Gulf News that is also related to my area of research. I also comment quite a bit on the Nile water dispute [involving Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia], which is of course related to my area of research on water cooperation and conflict.”

Quantity has a quality of its own

With his large following, Ashok Twain is not afraid to tweet about the issues of the day, and these are more likely to be picked up by news channels by virtue of his huge following. Like his recent take on the Finnish prime minister’s dance moves that was picked up by CNN.

.. or a recent tweet that went viral:

“Once you have a certain number of followers you gain credibility, just as a result of that. But having lots of followers has its challenges, because you become a ‘target’”, he says, adding that “if something comes out wrong, your whole reputation is on the line. This would not be the case if you had a small number of followers. You open yourself to larger scrutiny.“

Awareness of the costs of not co-operating

It is not all world affairs, though. Like most scientists, Ashok Swain, has integrated his use of Twitter into a professional research routine.

“People give you feedback on your work via Twitter, and I promote their research via my Twitter account. Others help promote my own research also.”

If I was ‘just’ a researcher in Uppsala, without the following, I would not have had that reach. Twitter is significant in this way, potentially influencing decision makers

Sometimes, the high follower numbers on Twitter help Ashok Swain get his own research onto news sites in multiple countries, helping to put water co-operation on the agenda, and influencing a wider public debate.

Recent research work for Oxfam on the costs of non-cooperation of between these countries is an example of this.

“Journalists contacted me, wanting access to the paper. And it was covered in both Bangladesh, India and Nepal. If I was ‘just’ a researcher in Uppsala, without the following, I would not have had that reach. Twitter is significant in this way, potentially influencing decision makers,” he says.

When I ask him about his social media routine, Ashok Swain says that when he gets up at 7 am, he checks what is going on via Twitter, and responds to any direct messages. A few tweets may follow. Then he works, and may tweet again in the evening.

What about ‘working hours’?

“I am not a disciplined person, by nature” Ashok Swain answers by way of response, adding that he does indeed sometimes tweet during the day if the need arises either from his phone, his laptop, or desktop computer. “But I have several demanding jobs. And I have a family, although the kids are grown up now. And I still need to cook!” he laughs.

Less restrictive

In Uppsala, in the meantime, the locals may have to wizen up to the fact that they have a global influencer in the field of water conflict and co-operation in their midst.  A recent article on a local news site highlighting his social media influence may help.

“I don’t do research that I don’t sincerely believe in, neither do I have a problem with stating my opinions. So this is the platform for me”

In a recent month he had 76 million impressions in a month on Twitter, meaning that Ashok Swain’s tweets have been ‘seen’ 76 million times on the platform. As if more than the whole population of the UK scrolled past.

His activity on LinkedIn is much more limited, and his following, though significant at 4,700+, much smaller. For Ashok Swain, it is Twitter that still represents a kind of freedom for him:

“Twitter is a place where you can express your opinion without being restricted. I don’t do research that I don’t sincerely believe in, neither do I have a problem with stating my opinions. So this is the platform for me.”

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Scientists in Sweden — the top 100 on social media in 2022

Who is storming ahead on social in the land of IKEA, Spotify and Carl von Linné?

A few years back, it was trendy to make fun of scientists for having large followings on social media.

The Kardashian Index ridiculed researchers by measuring the discrepancy between their social media following and their citations. It was hilarious at the time — and still is! — eight long, and social-media-savvy, years later.

These Swedish scientists would have aced it on social media if they had the chance. You do not recognize them? See who they are at the bottom of this article.

But most people understand that, everything else equal, having a large social media following as a scientist cannot be something bad.

A high number of followers simply shows that a large number of people are interested in what you have to say. As a scientist in an age of populism and science scepticism, this, surely, is a good thing.

This is why I started releasing my annual TwiLiIndex four years ago. It started in Denmark, and this year I have extended it to Norway and Sweden. The scientists who rank on the index for their high social media followings are all respected scientists in their own right. Nothing to be ashamed of. Nothing to hide.

So this is it! Toot toot! Here below are the top 100 scientists in Sweden in 2022.

I love this index, but it takes a lot out of me, so please take it in a positive spirit.

You can read about the methodology of it here.

It is called the TwiLi Index (=Twitter/LinkedIn index) – and you say it like you would say ‘twilight’ without the ‘t’. It ranks academic scholars affiliated to research institutions based on their Twitter and LinkedIn following. Twitter and LinkedIn are the platforms most used by researchers and scientists in a professional sense, as they allow networking and interaction within highly specialized fields.

Since 2019, the TwiLi Index has been reviewed in several publications. Some point to its usefulness as one of many measures of researcher success that supplement bibliometric scores, citations, and educational activities.

My TwiLi Index is based on a TwiLi score. Below you will see two separate measures of scientists’ impact, centrality and pagerank on Twitter (see explanation below). To do this I partnered up with data scientist Lasse Hjorth Madsen, who developed a bespoke web app for Mike Young Academy to organise publicly available data extracted using the Twitter API.

Centrality and pagerank are not integrated into the scientists’ TwiLi. So for the TwiLi index that is listed below, the top 100 scientists are ranked only on their TwiLi score. Each of the top 100 scientists then have their centrality and pagerank ranks — among nearly 4,000+ scientists on Twitter in the Nordic countries — listed after their name.

Centrality

Centrality evaluates scientists as hubs for flows of information on Twitter. A scientist has ‘centrality’ if they are the shortest path between other scientists in a network. Scientists score high on centrality if they are the shortest path many times. Centrality in this case has been calculated based on a network of more than 4,000+ scientists on Twitter in the Nordic region, so if you have a centrality rank of 23 in the table below, you are the 23rd highest centrality scoring scientist among the 4,000+ scientists. If you are a scientist with a network that is outside these countries, you may score and rank lower on centrality.

Pagerank

Pagerank evaluates scientists as attractors of influential followers. It is an indirect, proxy measure of scientists’ impact based on their followers’ follower numbers on Twitter. A scientist has a high Twitter-pagerank if the people who follow them have many followers. So getting followed by another scientist who has a high following on Twitter improves your own pagerank. However, getting followed by media and journalist Twitter accounts with many followers will also increase a scientists’ pagerank. So pagerank may favour ‘celebrity’ scientists known for other things like politics, or established scientists in fields that are in the public eye.

As can be seen when you browse down the names on the index (below) it is an ‘index for Sweden’ but not a ‘Swedish’ index. International scholars are well represented in the top 100. I interviewed Ashok Swain, one of the very top scientists on social media in Sweden, here.

If you are a part of the Swedish science and research community, my ranking (see below) can serve as inspiration for new contacts. After all, these scientists clearly know what they are doing, at least in terms of social media!

Are you not on the list? This ranking is partly based on manually extracted data (see methodology here) and I may have missed a few active scientists and researchers who have large followings. If you know someone who should be on this list, (maybe you!), please write below in the comments, or write to mike@mikeyoungacademy.dk. Updated, final, 2022 rankings will be released at the end of September 2022.

The 2022 TwiLi Index for Sweden

Here are the top 100 scientists in Sweden on social media as ranked on my TwiLi index! The data was collected May-June 2022.

Oh yes! You would like to take a deep dive into the methodology of the TwiLi Index here!

Format: TwiLi index rank / Name / Affiliation / Bio on Twitter / Twitter followers / LinkedIn followers / TwiLi index score / Centrality rank among 4,000+ Nordic scientists / Pagerank rank among 4,000+ Nordic scientists / Link to Twitter account.

1 – Ashok Swain – UU

Professor of Peace and Conflict Research @UU_Peace Uppsala University ‘Right is Wrong’ column, @gulf_news Views my own Tw. followers: 385,861 LI followers: 4,648 TwiLi index: 20.49 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 1,042 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 542 Follow Ashok Swain ´s Twitter account here:

≈2* – Magnus Ranstorp – Swedish Defence University

Leading Terrorism Expert since 1990. Special Advisor to @RANEurope. Vice Chair of @NordicSafeCity All views expressed here are personal Tw. followers: 86,700 LI followers: 11,949 TwiLi index: 20.13 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: n/a Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: n/a Follow Magnus Ranstorp´s Twitter account here:

2 – Andreas Umland – Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies

Analyst @SCEEUS_UI @UISweden: https://t.co/IkOoexeE4e. Associate Professor @NaUKMA. Board Member @FascismJournal @WAJournal https://t.co/52yGgxQXK9 https://t.co/J3lPwjnF6q. Ukraine, Russia, IR Tw. followers: 28,622 LI followers: 31,200 TwiLi index: 20.03 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 704 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 792 Follow Andreas Umland ´s Twitter account here:

4 – Christian Guttmann – Karolinska

Making an impact with #ArtificialIntelligence and #Data. Top 100 Global AI Leader by @deeptech_vc. Nordic AI Institute @nordicinst @karolinskainst Tw. followers: 34,120 LI followers: 23,441 TwiLi index: 19.81 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 1,048 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 662 Follow Christian Guttmann ´s Twitter account here:

5 – Eleonora Rosati – SU

👩🏼‍🏫 Professor of IP Law @Stockholm_Uni @ip_llm & Director @IFIMStockholm 🐦🐦 Of Counsel @twobirds 😺 Blogger @IPKat 📰 Editor @JIPLP Tw. followers: 8,536 LI followers: 8,913 TwiLi index: 15.53 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 2,379 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 1,825 Follow Eleonora Rosati ´s Twitter account here:

6 – Virginia Dignum – Umeå

🇵🇹🇳🇱🇸🇪🇪🇺 Prof #AI @umeauniversity; program director @wasp_hs; EU High Level Expert Group on AI; @ALLAI_EU; author #responsibleAI https://t.co/1m6uN7T2qz Tw. followers: 11,775 LI followers: 6,431 TwiLi index: 15.50 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 837 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 112 Follow Virginia Dignum ´s Twitter account here:

≈7* – Richard Klein – LiU

Research on international climate risk and adaptation @SEIclimate • #AdaptationWithoutBorders • review editor @IPCC_CH #AR6 • founder @ClimDevJournal • RT≠E Tw. followers: 11,200 LI followers: 5,299 TwiLi index: 15.08 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: n/a Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: n/a Follow Richard Klein´s Twitter account here:

7 – Petter Brodin – Karolinska

Professor of Pediatric Immunology • Pediatrician • Systems Immunology • Experiments • Computation • @imperialcollege • @karolinskainst Tw. followers: 10,844 LI followers: 4,690 TwiLi index: 14.81 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 141 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 156 Follow Petter Brodin ´s Twitter account here:

9 – David Sumpter – UU

Professor of Applied Maths, Football and Writing Books. Buy The Ten Equations today! Tw. followers: 24,431 LI followers: 2,320 TwiLi index: 14.77 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 1,537 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 1,336 Follow David Sumpter ´s Twitter account here:

10 – Florian Krampe – SIPRI

Director of Climate Change and Risk Programme @SIPRIorg | #ClimateSecurity, conflict dynamics, peacebuilding, & international security | PhD @UU_Peace. Tw. followers: 8,924 LI followers: 4,828 TwiLi index: 14.55 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 105 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 155 Follow Florian Krampe ´s Twitter account here:

11 – Ulf Bjereld – GU

Professor i statsvetenskap, Göteborgs universitet. Tw. followers: 28,501 LI followers: 1,666 TwiLi index: 14.35 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 69 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 45 Follow Ulf Bjereld ´s Twitter account here:

≈12* – David Cuartielles – MU

Co-founder of Arduino: http://arduino.cc, Researcher at Malmo University: http://nav.mah.se/person/id/K3DA… , king of spreadsheet, master of calendars, lord of word Tw. followers: 19,800 LI followers: 2,088 TwiLi index: 14.27 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: n/a Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: n/a Follow David Cuartielles´ Twitter account here:

12 – Kimberly Nicholas – Lund

Sustainability & climate scientist @lunduniversity. Actionable, evidence-based climate advice: 📖 UNDER THE SKY WE MAKE & 💌 https://t.co/dHouKprTfm Tw. followers: 13,974 LI followers: 2,642 TwiLi index: 14.19 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 281 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 76 Follow Kimberly Nicholas ´s Twitter account here:

14 – Stefan Swartling Peterson – Karolinska

Prof Global Transformations for Health Karolinska Institutet. Affiliated Uppsala & Makerere Universities. Cofounder MSF Sweden. XChief of Health UNICEF. Caveats Tw. followers: 10,768 LI followers: 2,933 TwiLi index: 13.98 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 124 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 175 Follow Stefan Swartling Peterson ´s Twitter account here:

15 – JanBosch – Chalmers

Software engineering professor in industry working on open innovation, architecture and software reuse Tw. followers: 2,330 LI followers: 12,098 TwiLi index: 13.75 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 3,235 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 3,196 Follow JanBosch ´s Twitter account here:

16 – Mikael Karlsson – UU

Associate Professor Climate Change Leadership @uppsalauni. Associate Professor (Docent) Environmental Science. Honorary Member European Environmental Bureau. Tw. followers: 8,944 LI followers: 2,930 TwiLi index: 13.70 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 1,654 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 433 Follow Mikael Karlsson ´s Twitter account here:

17 – Louise Bringselius – Lund

Välfärdsforskare, författare o kolumnist. Docent i organisation. Leder @inspalund, Lunds universitet. Pol oberoende. / PhD, Associate Professor, Lund University Tw. followers: 3,141 LI followers: 8,202 TwiLi index: 13.69 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 161 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 184 Follow Louise Bringselius ´s Twitter account here:

18 – Robert Egnell – Swedish Defence University

Vice-Chancellor/President of the Swedish Defence University. Professor of Leadership. Tw. followers: 4,761 LI followers: 5,044 TwiLi index: 13.62 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 112 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 247 Follow Robert Egnell ´s Twitter account here:

19 – Christian Munthe – UG

#Philosophy prof at @goteborgsuni, #Bioethics researcher. Active in @CelamGU & @CARe_GU. Also: published fiction writer and musician at: https://t.co/3gb848x7o3 . Tw. followers: 6,674 LI followers: 3,422 TwiLi index: 13.52 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 316 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 106 Follow Christian Munthe ´s Twitter account here:

20 – Agnes Wold – GU

Professor, överläkare Tw. followers: 96,650 LI followers: 441 TwiLi index: 13.19 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 512 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 11 Follow Agnes Wold ´s Twitter account here:

21 – Tobias Denskus – MU

Associate Professor in Development Studies @malmouni, Sweden; coordinator online blended part-time MA in Communication for Development @mahcomdev Tw. followers: 5,524 LI followers: 3,237 TwiLi index: 13.14 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 567 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 970 Follow Tobias Denskus ´s Twitter account here:

22 – Stefan Holmlid – LiU

Researcher, professor and educator in design for service and policy. Curious and passionate about the power of #design and users in innovation. #servicedesign Tw. followers: 1,979 LI followers: 9,558 TwiLi index: 13.12 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 3,262 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 2,641 Follow Stefan Holmlid ´s Twitter account here:

23 – Tigran Haas – KTH

Assoc. Prof. KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Former Director Centre 4 Future of Places; MIT Guest Scholar; KTH Digital Futures Faculty; CEO Awards Recipient; Tw. followers: 6,194 LI followers: 2,726 TwiLi index: 13.03 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 1,104 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 2,877 Follow Tigran Haas ´s Twitter account here:

24 – Reza Younesi – UU

Assoc. Prof. @UU_University; here tweets on Iran & politics; for Science & Chemistry see @younesi توئيتهای مرتبط با رشته كاريم در @younesi Tw. followers: 5,543 LI followers: 2,933 TwiLi index: 12.98 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 4,014 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 3,906 Follow Reza Younesi ´s Twitter account here:

25 – Carl Heath – RISE

Senior Researcher – Prototyping Societies – RISE Tw. followers: 3,918 LI followers: 4,061 TwiLi index: 12.97 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 2,377 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 1,081 Follow Carl Heath ´s Twitter account here:

26 – Kajsa Hallberg Adu – KTH

👓Scholar 💻Blogger 👋🏼 New friend? Between 🇸🇪&🇬🇭 🎓MA @UU_PoliSci 🎓Ph.D. @IASUG @univofgh🏛@KTHuniversity 💡#HigherEducation, #EDTech, #Migration #Youth Tw. followers: 13,825 LI followers: 1,316 TwiLi index: 12.92 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 2,737 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 3,233 Follow Kajsa Hallberg Adu ´s Twitter account here:

27 – Jesper Stromback – UG

Professor in journalism and political communication at U of Gothenburg. Humanist. Believe in the importance of open minds, open hearts, and the open society. Tw. followers: 5,619 LI followers: 2,365 TwiLi index: 12.65 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 305 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 182 Follow Jesper Stromback ´s Twitter account here:

28 – Ricardo Vinuesa – KTH

“Associate Professor @KTHuniversity
@ERC_Research #Consolidator Grantee
Vice Director #KTH #Digitalization #Platform
#FluidMechanics #AI #CFD #Sustainability” Tw. followers: 2,552 LI followers: 5,163 TwiLi index: 12.65 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 532 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 1,830 Follow Ricardo Vinuesa ´s Twitter account here:

29 – Abhijeet Singh – SLU

Development economist at Stockholm School of Econ @handels_sse. Past: @NuffieldCollege @EconUCL. Tweets on economics, education, India, some miscellanea. Tw. followers: 8,435 LI followers: 1,609 TwiLi index: 12.59 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 965 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 451 Follow Abhijeet Singh ´s Twitter account here:

30 – Henrik Ekengren Oscarsson – GU

Professor i Statsvetenskap vid Göteborgs universitet, leder det svenska Valforskningsprogrammet. Forskar om val, opinion & demokrati. Tw. followers: 14,705 LI followers: 1,038 TwiLi index: 12.57 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 570 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 74 Follow Henrik Ekengren Oscarsson ´s Twitter account here:

31 – Tor Bjorn Minde – Luleå

“Head of Lab RISE ICE Data center research
Think BIG, start small, do it quickly!
Tech and business innovator” Tw. followers: 3,943 LI followers: 2,938 TwiLi index: 12.47 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 3,757 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 3,947 Follow Tor Bjorn Minde ´s Twitter account here:

32 – Fredrik Heintz – LiU

AI researcher Linköping University SWE. Member EU High Level Expert Group on AI, Coordinator TAILOR, President Swedish AI Society, Director WASP Graduate School Tw. followers: 1,943 LI followers: 6,072 TwiLi index: 12.44 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 456 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 363 Follow Fredrik Heintz ´s Twitter account here:

33 – Rahel Weldeab – MU

Postcolonial Feminist, Pan-Africanist, Political Scientist, PhD candidate in Global Politics, Eritrean, #Eritrea #Afresist #DecolonizationOrBust @MsPoCoAfricana Tw. followers: 8,894 LI followers: 1,386 TwiLi index: 12.41 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 2,896 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 3,397 Follow Rahel Weldeab ´s Twitter account here:

34 – Abdulhakim Abdi – Lund

Researcher at @CEC_Lund | AE @RSECJournal | TEDx Speaker | WWF🇸🇪 Environment Nominee | Bringing together #EarthObservation🛰️ & #Birding🔭 | #BlackLivesMatter Tw. followers: 7,335 LI followers: 1,596 TwiLi index: 12.38 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 150 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 1,020 Follow Abdulhakim Abdi ´s Twitter account here:

35 – Victor Galaz – SU

Deputy Director @sthlmresilience @Stockholm_Uni & Beijer Institute. Politics, finance and tech in the Anthropocene. 🇸🇪 🇨🇱👨🏽‍💻ibland för @SvDKultur Tw. followers: 6,072 LI followers: 1,862 TwiLi index: 12.37 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 37 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 62 Follow Victor Galaz ´s Twitter account here:

36 – Johannes Haushofer – SU

Economist at @SU_Economics. Founder @malengo @busaracenter. Also @jainfamilyinst @NUSingapore @eeg_mpi @IFN_Stockholm @cepr_org @nberpubs BREAD Tw. followers: 21,477 LI followers: 707 TwiLi index: 12.35 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 317 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 116 Follow Johannes Haushofer ´s Twitter account here:

37 – H-C Holmberg – Luleå

Prof SportScience @UBCKin @karolinskainst Director R&D Training/Performance @SWEOlympic Scientific Board @E_C_S_S PhysioBiomech Tw. followers: 1,555 LI followers: 5,715 TwiLi index: 11.99 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 469 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 1,063 Follow H-C Holmberg ´s Twitter account here:

38 – Bitte Hammargren – SIIA

Independent MENA & Turkey analyst & writer. Senior associate fellow @UISweden. Ex @FOIresearch; Ex Turkey & MENA correspondent @SvD. Usual caveats. Tw. followers: 5,624 LI followers: 1,377 TwiLi index: 11.77 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 1,853 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 850 Follow Bitte Hammargren ´s Twitter account here:

39 – Jan Lotvall – UG

Proud “22”, MD PhD, Prof, @EAACI @ISEV, EiC JEV, #Exosomes, Entrepreneur, love science and data, https://t.co/SNRVK1OtKq I now block rude tweeters with immediacy. Tw. followers: 3,447 LI followers: 2,017 TwiLi index: 11.69 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 1,327 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 1,637 Follow Jan Lotvall ´s Twitter account here:

40 – Amir Rostami – IFS

Assoc. Prof./S.lecturer in criminology | Police Superintendent | Research organised crime, extremism, pol.violence | Distinguished Fellow @ottawa_of & @RutgersU Tw. followers: 8,578 LI followers: 930 TwiLi index: 11.68 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 561 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 546 Follow Amir Rostami ´s Twitter account here:

41 – Tomas Akenine-Möller – Lund

Researcher @ NVIDIA, professor @ Lund Uni, Real-Time Rendering, https://t.co/NtcN1BKX7H, Ray Tracing Gems, crime fiction book: Gamla kirurgen (https://t.co/zjOgTsMrcc) Tw. followers: 7,206 LI followers: 1,048 TwiLi index: 11.66 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 4,025 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 3,611 Follow Tomas Akenine-Möller ´s Twitter account here:

42 – Johan Stahre – Chalmers

🇪🇺 @Chalmersuniv Professor of Production Systems. #People, #Automation, #Digitalisation & #Innovation @Produktion2030 @EITmanufactur /My tweets Tw. followers: 1,564 LI followers: 4,192 TwiLi index: 11.57 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 1,426 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 2,358 Follow Johan Stahre ´s Twitter account here:

43 – Patrik Johansson – Chalmers

🔋researcher at Chalmers Sweden 🇸🇪. Co-director Alistore-ERI (CNRS FR 3104) 🇫🇷. Develops new concepts & materials for future next generation batteries. Tw. followers: 3,556 LI followers: 1,728 TwiLi index: 11.50 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 1,039 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 2,257 Follow Patrik Johansson ´s Twitter account here:

44 – Eva Åkesson – Lund

Koordinator Science Village kontoret och professor i kemisk fysik vid Lunds universitet. Tw. followers: 3,385 LI followers: 1,781 TwiLi index: 11.48 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 357 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 75 Follow Eva Åkesson ´s Twitter account here:

45 – Reza Younesi – UU

“Assoc. Prof. @UU_University;
Founder of ALTRIS AB;
Interested in energy storage & batteries 🔋

توییت‌های غیرمرتبط با رشته کاریم در @RezaYounesi” Tw. followers: 1,988 LI followers: 2,935 TwiLi index: 11.44 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 761 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 2,638 Follow Reza Younesi ´s Twitter account here:

46 – Kristoffer Magnusson – Karolinska

Clinician (on paper). Mostly stats, visualization, open science, and psychotherapy. Come hang out on the “Git Gud Science” discord https://t.co/sooOMAibSp Tw. followers: 6,537 LI followers: 975 TwiLi index: 11.41 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 658 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 469 Follow Kristoffer Magnusson ´s Twitter account here:

47 – Stephen Woroniecki – LiU

Research nature, power, adaptation. Post doc @LiU_EnvChange. Assoc @NatureBasedSols. Love Sci-fi, electronic music & this pale blue dot 🌏 Tw. followers: 10,123 LI followers: 695 TwiLi index: 11.39 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 148 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 281 Follow Stephen Woroniecki ´s Twitter account here:

48 – Jonny Holmström – Umeå

Professor in information systems, director and co-founder of Swedish Center for Digital Innovation Tw. followers: 4,021 LI followers: 1,418 TwiLi index: 11.36 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 100 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 527 Follow Jonny Holmström ´s Twitter account here:

49 – Michael Krona – MU

Media Scholar and Assistant Professor at @malmouni . Works on Islamic State propaganda. Co-editor and author of “The Media World of ISIS” (2019) Tw. followers: 7,606 LI followers: 832 TwiLi index: 11.34 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 258 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 413 Follow Michael Krona ´s Twitter account here:

50 – Annick T.R. Wibben – Swedish Defence University

Feminism. Security. Violence. #FemSecSt #FemPRN | Anna Lindh Professor for Gender, Peace & Security @forsvarshogsk #FHSgps | She/her Tw. followers: 6,384 LI followers: 922 TwiLi index: 11.29 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 2,033 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 905 Follow Annick T.R. Wibben ´s Twitter account here:

51 – Kasper Moth-Poulsen – Chalmers

ICREA prof. @icmabCSIC, Prof. at CHALMERS, ERC StG & CoG, FRSC, Assoc. Editor at J. Mater. Chem. C, @SolartesAB, @NanoScientifica & @ConScienceAB Tw. followers: 2,376 LI followers: 2,000 TwiLi index: 11.15 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 537 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 1,065 Follow Kasper Moth-Poulsen ´s Twitter account here:

52 – Kes McCormick – Lund

Associate Professor @IIIEElund @lunduniversity #sustainability #climate #energy #nature #governance #missions #innovation #cities https://t.co/890VWdWL1B @citymoocs Tw. followers: 1,808 LI followers: 2,635 TwiLi index: 11.14 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 1,338 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 1,048 Follow Kes McCormick ´s Twitter account here:

53 – Alan Said – UG

Should be writing (more) papers at @uniofgothenburg/@tillampad_it_GU. #recsys, #research, #education, #artificialintelligence. Tw. followers: 2,023 LI followers: 2,328 TwiLi index: 11.13 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 3,892 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 3,719 Follow Alan Said ´s Twitter account here:

54 – Erik Angner – SU

Professor of Practical Philosophy @Stockholm_Uni. Author of _How Economics Can Save the World_ (@penguinrandom 2023). Opinions &c. my own. Agent: JP Marshall. Tw. followers: 8,055 LI followers: 682 TwiLi index: 11.07 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 9 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 85 Follow Erik Angner ´s Twitter account here:

55 – Johan Farkas – MU

PhD Student. Author of ‘Post-Truth, Fake News and Democracy’ (https://t.co/4YEE0S5WMq) @MalmoUniversity. #FirstGen 🎓. he/him. Free access to my work via link below Tw. followers: 6,673 LI followers: 754 TwiLi index: 11.01 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 22 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 79 Follow Johan Farkas ´s Twitter account here:

56 – Julian Nowag – Lund

“Assoc Prof in #EULaw focus #CompetitionLaw @LawFaculty
@lunduniversity, @OxfordCCLP’s managing editor of @OUPlaw’s JAE
– on #law, #EULaw, #antitrust” Tw. followers: 1,562 LI followers: 2,644 TwiLi index: 10.93 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 1,435 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 2,529 Follow Julian Nowag ´s Twitter account here:

57 – Eduardo Villablanca – Karolinska

Mucosal Immunologist interested in the complexity of IBD. Associate Professor @Karolinskainst, Wallenberg Fellow & editor @MucosalImmunol. Opinions are my own Tw. followers: 2,000 LI followers: 1,973 TwiLi index: 10.88 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 1,352 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 908 Follow Eduardo Villablanca ´s Twitter account here:

58 – Charlotte Wåhlin – LiU

Associate professor, Occupational Medicine and Ergonomics at #LiU For safety and health at work #OSH🌍 Gillar #Arbetsmiljö #Ergonomi #FysiskAktivitet #främjafys Tw. followers: 4,593 LI followers: 924 TwiLi index: 10.86 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 98 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 842 Follow Charlotte Wåhlin ´s Twitter account here:

59 – Eva Hartell – KTH

teacher in STEM w great interest in formative assessment. Dr, as well btw. Researcher in Haninge & @ KTH. Ambassador 4 researchED Scandinavia Tw. followers: 3,354 LI followers: 1,186 TwiLi index: 10.84 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 1,871 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 2,709 Follow Eva Hartell ´s Twitter account here:

60 – Olivia Biermann – Karolinska

Evidence-informed policy and practice • Equity • Researcher @karolinskainst • Commissioner @LancetChildAdol • Consultant @WHO • Fellow @3DCommission @ev4gh Tw. followers: 2,063 LI followers: 1,835 TwiLi index: 10.82 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 2,530 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 2,282 Follow Olivia Biermann ´s Twitter account here:

≈61* – Åsa Plesner – SU

Redovisningsdoktorand, @tsbalans -skribent, välmenande dysterkvist. Tw. followers: 11,300 LI followers: 454 TwiLi index: 10.78 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: n/a Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: n/a Follow Åsa Plesner´s Twitter account here:

61 – Per Runeson – Lund

Excellent empirical research on software engineering, lead by Prof. Per Runeson Tw. followers: 2,734 LI followers: 1,362 TwiLi index: 10.77 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 638 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 1,293 Follow Per Runeson ´s Twitter account here:

63 – Alastair Creelman – Linnaeus

E-learning specialist at Linnaeus University in Kalmar/Växjö, Sweden. I post news & comments on technology in education in English, Swedish & Norwegian. Tw. followers: 3,461 LI followers: 1,093 TwiLi index: 10.76 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 1,310 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 1,532 Follow Alastair Creelman ´s Twitter account here:

64 – Staffan I. Lindberg – UG

Director, @vdeminstitute, Principal Investigator – Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Professor, Dept. of Political Sc., Univ. of Gothenburg Tw. followers: 2,912 LI followers: 1,266 TwiLi index: 10.75 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 170 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 197 Follow Staffan I. Lindberg ´s Twitter account here:

65 – Johanna Rickne – SU

Professor of Economics at Stockholm University. Research fellow at @cepr_org and @iza_bonn. I study gender economics and political economics. Tw. followers: 5,051 LI followers: 777 TwiLi index: 10.71 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 120 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 66 Follow Johanna Rickne ´s Twitter account here:

66 – James Benedict Brown – Umeå

Associate Professor of Architecture @UmeaUniversitet. Lives in the northern Swedish forest with @Typey_Type. Brexile. Header: @clickclickjim Tw. followers: 2,920 LI followers: 1,199 TwiLi index: 10.67 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 2,877 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 3,764 Follow James Benedict Brown ´s Twitter account here:

67 – Margareta Groth – Luleå

Head of Department, Engineering Sciences and Mathematics @LTU , Mission – making the world a better place Tw. followers: 2,310 LI followers: 1,462 TwiLi index: 10.65 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 326 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 442 Follow Margareta Groth ´s Twitter account here:

68 – Ian Cousins – SU

Professor @AcesSthlmUni @Stockholm_Uni Environmental Chemist who tweets about research, job postings, and more… Assoc. Ed. @EnvSciTech & Environmental Au Tw. followers: 1,813 LI followers: 1,850 TwiLi index: 10.65 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 1,970 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 2,833 Follow Ian Cousins ´s Twitter account here:

69 – Adam Altmejd – SU

Economist interested in education and household finance. Post-doc at @SOFI_su_se and @SHouseofFinance. Tw. followers: 2,822 LI followers: 1,174 TwiLi index: 10.60 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 1,122 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 314 Follow Adam Altmejd ´s Twitter account here:

70 – Andrew Ewing – UG

Research on nano/neuro chemistry, echem, chemical imaging @goteborgsu. Member Swedish Academy of Science. Opinions are entirely my own. Take them or leave them! Tw. followers: 6,902 LI followers: 569 TwiLi index: 10.58 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 2,258 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 2,640 Follow Andrew Ewing ´s Twitter account here:

71 – Gürdal Şahin – Lund

MD, PhD. Neurologist and neuroscientist. Headache and movement disorders specialist. Creative thinker, innovator, bibliophilic. Tw. followers: 5,734 LI followers: 652 TwiLi index: 10.58 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 4,038 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 4,136 Follow Gürdal Şahin ´s Twitter account here:

72 – Lucie Delemotte – KTH

Computational biophysicist, scilifelab fellow and associate professor at KTH. Loves membrane proteins and all kinds of mathematical models. Tw. followers: 3,167 LI followers: 1,049 TwiLi index: 10.58 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 395 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 805 Follow Lucie Delemotte ´s Twitter account here:

73 – Ardavan M. Khoshnood – Lund

MD. PhD. Assoc. Prof. @lunduniversity. Criminologist. Editorial board @EJ_EmergencyMed, @EMSurgeryBMC & @GSIS_Journal. Researcher @BESA_Center. Tw. followers: 3,247 LI followers: 1,024 TwiLi index: 10.57 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 2,771 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 2,639 Follow Ardavan M. Khoshnood ´s Twitter account here:

74 – Mattias Folkestad – SU

PhD student in economics @IIES_Sthlm. Previously Hallberg. More about me and my work at https://t.co/lJCiWDmMbE Tw. followers: 2,328 LI followers: 1,324 TwiLi index: 10.51 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 1,393 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 1,584 Follow Mattias Folkestad ´s Twitter account here:

75 – Paul T. Levin – SU

Director, Sthlm University Institute for Turkish Studies & Consortium for European Symposia on 🇹🇷. IR Docent. Painter. Private acc https://t.co/bIGiWllnRn Tw. followers: 5,502 LI followers: 644 TwiLi index: 10.51 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 646 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 904 Follow Paul T. Levin ´s Twitter account here:

76 – Brent Loken – WWF

PhD | WWF Global Food Lead Scientist | WWF Global Science | Father and pragmatic idealist Tw. followers: 1,854 LI followers: 1,630 TwiLi index: 10.50 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 3,476 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 2,597 Follow Brent Loken ´s Twitter account here:

77 – Tove Fall – UU

Professor of molecular epidemiology: diabetes, -omics, Covid Symptom Study, Uppsala Uni, Swedish Young Academy. and a veterinary degree from SLU 🐴🐕🐄 Tw. followers: 6,391 LI followers: 563 TwiLi index: 10.47 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 59 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 87 Follow Tove Fall ´s Twitter account here:

78 – Per Kristensson – Karlstad

Professor researching psychology with implications for business, innovation and consumers. Talks and travels much Tw. followers: 1,679 LI followers: 1,712 TwiLi index: 10.43 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 2,164 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 2,647 Follow Per Kristensson ´s Twitter account here:

79 – Christina Löfving – UG

PdD student, Gothenburg, Sweden: digital competence/ digital literacy. MA in Education/ Action research. Formerly (not very) known as itmamman. Tw. followers: 4,728 LI followers: 663 TwiLi index: 10.37 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 3,487 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 3,306 Follow Christina Löfving ´s Twitter account here:

80 – Andreas Bergh – LU

Välfärdsforskare & föreläsare, Lunds universitet & IFN. https://t.co/yxwZMfGlZi Tw. followers: 6,658 LI followers: 510 TwiLi index: 10.36 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 490 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 105 Follow Andreas Bergh ´s Twitter account here:

81 – James Pamment – Lund

Research: strategic communication, diplomacy & counter-influence Tw. followers: 2,008 LI followers: 1,323 TwiLi index: 10.31 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 653 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 1,013 Follow James Pamment ´s Twitter account here:

82 – Åsa Persson – SEI

Research Director and Deputy Director at SEI @seiresearch @seiclimate. Agenda 2030 and climate policy. Island dweller. Tw. followers: 2,493 LI followers: 1,074 TwiLi index: 10.30 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 1,318 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 488 Follow Åsa Persson ´s Twitter account here:

83 – Lance M McCracken – UU

Professor of Clinical Psychology, Head of the Division of Clinical Psychology, Psychology Department, Uppsala University. My views my own. Tw. followers: 1,983 LI followers: 1,296 TwiLi index: 10.27 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 3,363 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 3,440 Follow Lance M McCracken ´s Twitter account here:

84 – Melanie During – UU

“PhD Student Virtual Palaeontology of Early Tetrapods at Uppsala University.
#Paleontology #MomInScience #Firstgenscientist. BLM 🏳️‍🌈Ally🏳️‍⚧️. Dutch/English” Tw. followers: 2,967 LI followers: 899 TwiLi index: 10.26 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 3,547 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 3,848 Follow Melanie During ´s Twitter account here:

85 – Henrik Paulsson – Swedish Defence University

“Visiting fellow @ Marine Corps University; normally PhD’ing & teaching land ops @ Swedish Defence University.
I study change.” Tw. followers: 5,071 LI followers: 581 TwiLi index: 10.25 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 2,011 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 2,015 Follow Henrik Paulsson ´s Twitter account here:

86 – Mariassunta Giannetti – SSE

Professor of Finance @handels_sse @SHouseofFinance Research Associate @ecgiorg Research Fellow @cepr_org Ph.D.@UCLAecon @uniBocconi alumna 🇪🇺🇮🇹 Tw. followers: 1,635 LI followers: 1,432 TwiLi index: 10.15 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 3,690 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 2,750 Follow Mariassunta Giannetti ´s Twitter account here:

87 – Jessica Jewell – Chalmers

Finding feasible solutions to climate change @chalmersuniv & @UiBCET | #energytwitter #climatetwitter | @ERC_Research grantee enamored of science. Tw. followers: 2,287 LI followers: 1,043 TwiLi index: 10.14 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 492 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 500 Follow Jessica Jewell ´s Twitter account here:

88 – Garry Peterson – SU

Professor of Environmental Science with focus on Resilience in Social-Ecological Systems at https://t.co/EJ1rJNdTsM Tw. followers: 9,767 LI followers: 345 TwiLi index: 10.14 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 300 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 215 Follow Garry Peterson ´s Twitter account here:

89 – Andreas Theodorou – Umeå

Research Fellow (permanent/faculty) in Responsible AI @UmeaUniversity | AI Ethics, Governance, Systems AI, and a bit of HCI/HRI Tw. followers: 2,405 LI followers: 949 TwiLi index: 10.07 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 1,882 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 1,835 Follow Andreas Theodorou ´s Twitter account here:

90 – Cecilia Hermansson – KTH

Researcher, Banking and Finance, KTH; Senior Economist, Swedbank. My mission is to link economics, business studies and behavioral finance. Tw. followers: 2,818 LI followers: 823 TwiLi index: 10.06 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 2,961 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 1,754 Follow Cecilia Hermansson ´s Twitter account here:

91 – Anders Eklund – LiU

Associate professor (biträdande professor) in neuroimaging. Tweets in Swedish and English. Libertarian. Tw. followers: 4,536 LI followers: 562 TwiLi index: 10.06 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 892 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 1,468 Follow Anders Eklund ´s Twitter account here:

92 – Josefin Wangel – SLU

Sustainable urban development. Climate & energy justice. Un-disciplined futuring. Works with research funding @FormasForsk Tweets are my own. She/her. Tw. followers: 1,566 LI followers: 1,401 TwiLi index: 10.06 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 374 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 521 Follow Josefin Wangel ´s Twitter account here:

93 – Paul Vrieze – GU

PhD research on Myanmar, School of Global Studies, @goteborgsuni. Formerly journalist @Myanmar_Now_Eng, @IrrawaddyNews, @cambodiadaily Tw. followers: 9,863 LI followers: 327 TwiLi index: 10.05 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 3,815 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 3,844 Follow Paul Vrieze ´s Twitter account here:

94 – Per Mickwitz – Lund

Professor and pro vice-chancellor for research, sustainability and campus development at Lund University Tw. followers: 1,985 LI followers: 1,094 TwiLi index: 10.03 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 359 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 147 Follow Per Mickwitz ´s Twitter account here:

95 – Martin Lackéus – Chalmers

Researcher at Chalmers on scientific, entrepreneurial, digital, sustainable, vocational education. Philosophy to practice. Building research tool https://t.co/JNtHAgq4sI. Tw. followers: 2,038 LI followers: 1,041 TwiLi index: 9.99 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 2,314 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 3,186 Follow Martin Lackéus ´s Twitter account here:

96 – Björn Fägersten – SIIA

Senior research fellow at @UIsweden. European affairs, geoeconomics, political risk, espionage and gossip. Plenty of views. Tw. followers: 2,889 LI followers: 737 TwiLi index: 9.93 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 1,597 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 694 Follow Björn Fägersten ´s Twitter account here:

97 – Maria Hägglund – UU

Researcher in Health Informatics & Implementation science at Uppsala University, Sweden. Keane OpenNotes Scholar at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston Tw. followers: 1,870 LI followers: 1,065 TwiLi index: 9.91 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 2,172 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 3,104 Follow Maria Hägglund ´s Twitter account here:

98 – Lisa Sällvin – Mitt

Ingenjör som bildar it-ingenjörer. Universitetsadjunkt i data- och systemvetenskap. Medlem i Sundsvall Makers, Cykelfrämjandet och Naturskyddsföreningen. Tw. followers: 2,430 LI followers: 841 TwiLi index: 9.91 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 821 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 1,852 Follow Lisa Sällvin ´s Twitter account here:

99 – Katharina Reindl – Lund

“Researcher @IIIEElund, @lunduniversity, #energyresearch, #buildings, #sociology #climatechange, #sustainability
Dog mum, painting, hiking, photography🇦🇹 🇸🇪” Tw. followers: 2,140 LI followers: 926 TwiLi index: 9.88 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 841 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 1,944 Follow Katharina Reindl ´s Twitter account here:

100 – Caterina Doglioni – Lund

Researcher at the @ATLASexperiment at @CERN, from @UoMparticle and @lunduniversity. Archbishop of Gantterbury. She/her. Tweets my own or by garden birds. Tw. followers: 2,619 LI followers: 770 TwiLi index: 9.87 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 1,359 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 3,365 Follow Caterina Doglioni ´s Twitter account here:

101 – Maria Edström – UG

Associate professor at JMG, University of Gothenburg. Tweets mostly about gender, ageing & media. Dedicated to OA, everyday biking & Iyengar yoga. Tw. followers: 2,249 LI followers: 852 TwiLi index: 9.83 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 417 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 872 Follow Maria Edström ´s Twitter account here:

102 – Ebba Lindqvist – Karolinska

Plastic surgeon and head of the breast unit @Sodersjukhuset. Cancer researcher and adjunct lecturer @karolinskainst. #cancer #surgery #epidemiology #leadership Tw. followers: 3,135 LI followers: 638 TwiLi index: 9.81 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 1,088 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 1,171 Follow Ebba Lindqvist ´s Twitter account here:

103 – Gonçalo Castelo Branco – Karolinska

Professor of Glial Cell Biology @karolinskainst • epigenomics • single-cell • oligodendrocytes • myelin • multiple sclerosis • neural development • and… Robyn Tw. followers: 1,857 LI followers: 999 TwiLi index: 9.81 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 783 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 528 Follow Gonçalo Castelo Branco ´s Twitter account here:

104 – Kurt Mitman – IIES

Assoc. Prof. @IIES_Sthlm, Editor @RevEconStudies, PhD @Penn, @MarshallAlums @UVA macro research @virtualmacrosem organizer @iza_bonn @cepr_org 🌈🇩🇪🇸🇪🇺🇸 Tw. followers: 5,844 LI followers: 397 TwiLi index: 9.80 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 2,790 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 721 Follow Kurt Mitman ´s Twitter account here:

* = Data from September 2022


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Who are the scientists on the picture at the top of the page? From the top, Anders Celsius, physicist, Eva Ekeblad, agronomist and Carl von Linné, botanist.

Climate researcher: You evolve on Twitter as your followers evolve

For Glen Peters, Twitter is integrated into his working day: It lets him, for example, get more ‘miles out of’ all the graphs, figures and tables that otherwise might not end up in finished papers.

Doing science involves a constant commentary on digitalized figures, tables and tabulated numbers. And by sharing this work with your peers on Twitter, you can get feedback on these figures and tables as you go along. This is according to Glen Peters, Research Director at CICERO, a Norwegian climate research institute, whose own research is on things like the global carbon cycle, climate policy and emissions.

Glen Peters at the University of Oslo (Photo: Hege Fantoft Andreassen — CICERO)

Glen Peters is ranked as one of the top scientists in Norway in terms of social media following on the just-released Mike Young Academy Twi-Li Index for 2022, and has 45,700 followers on Twitter at last count. He is originally from Australia, and lives permanently with his family in Oslo.

Without Twitter, “you would quite often end up reinventing the wheel”

“You work with lots of figures and ideas that may or may not end up in a finished scientific paper. One way to get more miles out of these is to tweet about them. I used to be more active writing a blog post, and my Twitter feed is an excellent supplement to that,” he told me when I called him in connection with the Twi-Li Index release.

Below is a random tweet selected from Glen Peter’s Twitter feed which, as he explains, has “an older figure, to bring out a bit of info people have overlooked.”

The crafting of tweets surrounding a new piece of climate data is a part of his thinking work. Without Twitter, “you would quite often end up reinventing the wheel,” he says. But colleagues in the climate field will quickly point out how to improve his ideas.

And it is not just your ideas that are evolving in this process, according to Glen Peters.

Glen Peters: “You are evolving and your followers are evolving in their understanding of climate”

He describes how his Twitter routine “takes my followers along my journey.” As you share thoughts and ideas, your followers are evolving with you, on their own parallel trajectories. The general understanding of a whole research field evolves alongside you.

“A tweet that a year ago might get 100 retweets might get zero today. This is because you are evolving. And it is because your followers are evolving in their understanding of climate,” he says.

As a climate scientist, Glen Peters discussions on Twitter could be on things like: “What are the emissions of this country? How do you show that? How do you show what is happening now, as opposed to what is happening two years ago?” A tweet could be “over emissions scenarios, or a graphic on how energy systems might evolve,” he says, adding that he only tweets research-related material, never personal opinions.

“This may or may not be the optimal strategy, but this works for me,” he says.

Below is one of Glen Peter’s tweets (go ahead and click on the video button in the tweet if it does not load) that, he “tweeted a Friday afternoon, not expecting any retweets, but Greta Thunberg saw it,” he says.

Glen Peters has a good LinkedIn following with a partly different, partly overlapping audience. His followers are mostly working on climate finance, or working on companies’ environmental, social, and governance policies.

But Twitter is the platform that is most integrated into Glen Peter’s working day. He used to use Tweetdeck for scheduling tweets, but now schedules natively on the Twitter app, he says:

“I have a strategy where I try to tweet at least once a day to keep it regular. I often schedule tweets, so that they come out around 8 or 9 in the European morning, also early afternoon, and this ties in well with the North American morning.“

See the top 100 scientists on social media in Norway 2022 list here.

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Scientists in Norway — the top 100 on social media in 2022

Who are the scientists with the biggest social media impact in Norway?

Scientists and researchers are constantly being assessed and evaluated for their ‘impact’. The h-index , for example, measures the productivity and citation impact of a scholar.

The h-index, however, does not measure other forms of academic impact like teaching and outreach activities, and it tends to favour scholars in the natural sciences. Researchers also have a wider impact on society than what can be measured through article citations like in the h-index: They teach younger researchers, engage in public debate and influence policymakers and other experts in their field.

These historical Norwegian scientists would have had a large social media impact if they had only had the chance! Their names are at the bottom of the index below.

A further measure of impact is how good scientists are at networking with their peers in other universities and with the general public: Here a social media ‘impact’ of a researcher may be more interesting.

My own TwiLi Index offers a measure of this type of wider impact, and I now release a set of data for scientists and research in Norway. I have already released an index for Denmark/the Copenhagen region every summer since 2019, and you can read about the methodology of it here. Upcoming releases include Sweden and Denmark (2022 version soon) with Finland planned to go live in 2023.

The TwiLi Index – or the ‘Twitter-LinkedIn’ index, and pronounced like the English word ‘twilight’ without the ‘t’ at the end  – ranks academic scholars affiliated to research institutions based on their Twitter and LinkedIn following. Twitter and LinkedIn are the platforms of choice for most researchers and scientists globally, as they allow networking and interaction within highly specialized fields.

Since 2019, the TwiLi Index has been reviewed in several publications. Some point to its usefulness as one of many measures of researcher success that supplement bibliometric scores, citations, and educational activities.

An alternative measure of scientific impact for scholars in the Land of the Midnight Sun

In addition to the index, which is calculated purely based on Twitter and Linkedin follower numbers, I release two separate measures of scientist impact, centrality and pagerank on Twitter (see explanation below). This has been developed in partnership with data scientist Lasse Hjorth Madsen, who developed a bespoke web app for Mike Young Academy that organizes publicly available data extracted using the Twitter API.

Centrality and pagerank are not integrated into the scientists’ TwiLi score. So the top 100 scientists are ranked only on their TwiLi score for the TwiLi index that is listed below. Each of the top 100 scientists then have their centrality and pagerank rankings — among more than 4,000 scientists on Twitter in Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Norway — listed after their name.

Centrality

Centrality evaluates scientists as hubs for flows of information on Twitter. A scientist has ‘centrality’ if they are the shortest path between other scientists in a network. Scientists score high on centrality if they are the shortest path many times. Centrality in this case has been calculated based on a network of more than 4,000 scientists on Twitter in the Nordic countries, so if you have a centrality rank of 23 in the table below, you are the 23rd highest centrality scoring scientist among the 4,000+ scientists. Centrality is one measure of impact, but it does tend to overestimate local, rather than international scientists. If you are an international scientist that has just arrived in one of the Nordic countries with a network that is mostly abroad, you may rank lower on centrality on this measure.

Pagerank

Pagerank evaluates scientists as attractors of influential followers. It is an indirect, proxy measure of scientists’ impact based on their followers’ follower numbers on Twitter. A scientist has a high Twitter-pagerank if the people who follow them have many followers. So getting followed by another scientist who has a high following on Twitter improves your own pagerank. However, getting followed by, say, media and journalist Twitter accounts with many followers will also increase a scientists’ pagerank. So pagerank may favour ‘celebrity’ scientists known for other things like politics, or established scientists in fields that are in the public eye.

As can be seen when you browse down the names on the index (below) it is an ‘index for Norway’ but not a ‘Norwegian’ index. International scholars are, as in all my country indexes, well represented in the top 100. I interviewed Glen Peters, a top scholar on the list, about his Twitter routine here.

If you are a part of the Nordic science and research community, the ranking (see below) can serve as inspiration for new contacts. After all, these scientists clearly know what they are doing in terms of social media, so why not follow them? (You will thereby indirectly increase their TwiLi score for next year’s ranking, but hey! why not!)

Enjoy!

Are you not on the list? This ranking is partly based on manually extracted data (see methodology here) and I may have missed a few active scientists and researchers who have large followings. If you know someone who should be on this list, (maybe you!), please write below in the comments, or write to mike@mikeyoungacademy.dk. Updated, final, 2022 rankings will be released at the end of September 2022.

The 2022 TwiLi Index for Norway

Here are the top 100 scientists in Norway on social media as ranked on my TwiLi index! The data was collected in May and June of 2022.

Oh yes! You would like to take a deep dive into the methodology of the TwiLi Index here!

Format: TwiLi index rank / Name / Affiliation / Bio on Twitter / Twitter followers / LinkedIn followers / TwiLi index score / Centrality rank among 4,000+ Nordic scientists / Pagerank rank among 4,000+ Nordic scientists / Link to Twitter account.

1 – Glen Peters – CICERO

Research Director @CICERO_klima on past, current, & future trends in energy & emissions. Projects: @V_ERIFY_H2020, @4C_H2020, @ParisReinforce, @CoCO2_project Tw. followers: 44,596, LI followers: 2,364 TwiLi index: 15.68 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 282. Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 4  Follow Glen Peters´ Twitter account here:

≈1*  –  Geir Jordet – NSSS

Professor Norwegian School of Sport Sciences. Football psychology. Tw. followers: 40,100 , LI followers: 7,112 TwiLi index: 17.73 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: n/a Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: n/a Follow Geir Jordet´s Twitter account here:

3 – Sofie A. E. Høgestøl – UiO

Associate Professor of Law @UniOslo | 1. vara på Stortinget for @Venstre | USA-synser på fritiden | For foredragbooking: carrie@brandpeople.no Tw. followers: 14,565  LI followers: 2,735 TwiLi index: 14.31 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 50 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 39 Follow Sofie A. E. Høgestøl ´s Twitter account here:

≈3*  Cedric De Coning – NUPI

Research Prof @NUPInytt Snr Advisor @ACCORD_online Fellow @STIAS_SA #Complexity #AdaptivePeace #PeaceOperations #Peacebuilding #ClimateSecurity Tw. followers: 7,663 LI followers: 4,838 TwiLi index: 14.31 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: n/a Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: n/a Follow Cedric De Coning´s Twitter account here:

≈5*   Stephen Seiler – Agder

Studying the endurance training process in a global laboratory and sharing what I learn in a global classroom Tw. followers: 21,400 , LI followers: 1,680 TwiLi index: 13.97Centrality rank among Nordic countries: n/a Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: n/a Follow Stephen Seiler´s Twitter account here:

5 – Arne Krokan – NTNU

professor dr polit, Norwegian University of Science and Technnology Forfatter av Det friksjonsfrie samfunn Nettverksøkonomi Smart læring Den digital økonomien Tw. followers: 7,971  LI followers: 3,360 TwiLi index: 13.76 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 2,125 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 1,156 Follow Arne Krokan´s Twitter account here:

7 – Steven J. Gibbons – Norwegian Geotechnical Institute

Geoscientist (CFD, seismology, tsunami). ❤️ @marthemor. Norgesvenn, Internationalist, European. sgoslo on Insta. Nor/Eng. Works for NGI but views here are mine. Tw. followers: 21,308 , LI followers: 1,450 TwiLi index: 13.69 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 304 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 859 Follow Steven J. Gibbons´s Twitter account here:

8* Jørgen Carling – PRIO

Research Professor, Co-Director of PRIO Migration Centre. | Global migration, transnationalism, immobility | Leader of #MIGNEX and ERC CoG FUMI. Tw. followers: 8,245 , LI followers: 2,886 TwiLi index: 13.55 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: n/a Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: n/a Follow Jørgen Carling´s Twitter account here:

9 – Indra Overland – NUPI

Research Professor at NUPI | energy and climate change | FSU | ASEAN |
squash player | foodie | for tweets in Norwegian see @IndraOeverland Tw. followers: 2,135  LI followers: 9,776 TwiLi index: 13.29 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 574 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 669 Follow Indra Overland ´s Twitter account here:

10 – Anine Kierulf – UiO

Nonsense upon stilts. Free speaking constitutional lawyer. https://t.co/9m7UVJr3GB Tw. followers: 23,391 LI followers: 1,050 TwiLi index: 13.20 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 130 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 48 Follow Anine Kierulf ´s Twitter account here:

11 – Ari Mamshae – UiO

PhD Research Fellow at University of Oslo | Political Science, Public Administration | Formerly @UniofOxford’s @BlavatnikSchool & @UKH_official & @Kurdistan Tw. followers: 4,898 LI followers: 3,503 TwiLi index: 13.08 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 3,971 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 3,751 Follow Ari Mamshae´s Twitter account here:

12 – Konstantin Stadler – NTNU

Scientist. Digital Lab Manager at @indecol / @NTNU. Interested in #Sustainability, #ClimateChange, #SDG, #DataScience, #MRIO, #Evolution, #OpenScience. Tw. followers: 4,309 LI followers: 3,940 TwiLi index: 13.07 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 145 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 938 Follow Konstantin Stadler ´s Twitter account here:

13 – Tricia L Larose – UiO

Principal Investigator #tumorsinspace @UniOslo_MED funded by @ESA l Inventor @Inven2as | Candidate @POSSUMastronaut | Adjunct @ISUnet l views my own Tw. followers: 5,738 LI followers: 2,696 TwiLi index: 12.90 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 333 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 1,112 Follow Tricia L Larose ´s Twitter account here:

14 – Tor Grønsund – UiO

Research fellow @IservComputing & Assistant professor II @UniOslo. Research: Aligning humans and AI with humans in the loop. Between science and startups. Tw. followers: 5,724 LI followers: 2,142 TwiLi index: 12.52 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 1384 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 2,147 Follow Tor Grønsund´s Twitter account here:

15 – Carola Lingaas – VID

Associate Professor of Law. Interests: International Criminal Law, IHL, Human Rights Law. Previously, Red Cross (ICRC South Sudan, NorCross) Tw. followers: 3,543 LI followers: 3,290 TwiLi index: 12.49 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 343 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 749 Follow Carola Lingaas ´s Twitter account here:

16 – Kristian B Harpviken – PRIO

Research Professor, Peace Research Institute Oslo @PRIOresearch. Mostly English, but occasional tweets in Norwegian. Tw. followers: 2,383 LI followers: 4,958 TwiLi index: 12.48 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 555 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 329 Follow Kristian B Harpviken ´s Twitter account here:

17 – Thor Edvardsen – OUH

Professor and head, Dept of Cardiology, Oslo University Hospital, Norway. EACVI Past-President 2020-2022. @escardio #eacvi Tw. followers: 3,271 , LI followers: 3,282 TwiLi index: 12.36 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 3,890 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 3,782 Follow Thor Edvardsen ´s Twitter account here:

18 – Joanna Siekiera – UiB

International lawyer, Legal Advisor | Pacific law, Law of armed conflict | Dr @uibjus 🇳🇴 former @WellingtonUni 🇳🇿 #HighCaliberWoman 🇵🇱🌏 Tw. followers: 2,340 LI followers: 4,154 TwiLi index: 12.19 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 703 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 1,442 Follow Joanna Siekiera´s Twitter account here:

19 – Carlos Velasco – BI

Associate professor at @HandelshoyskBI. Author of “Multisensory experiences: Where the senses meet technology” ✨ https://t.co/sts1Q4KKGO Tw. followers: 3,017 LI followers: 3,104 TwiLi index: 12.15 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 1,265 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 1,810 Follow Carlos Velasco ´s Twitter account here:

20 – Silvia Masiero – UiO

PhD from @LSEManagement. Associate prof @UniOslo, writing book on unfair #digitalID – #ICT4D, #platforms4d & their discontents – #homecooking tweets👩‍🍳 Tw. followers: 4,902 LI followers: 1,585 TwiLi index: 11.81 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 295 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 818 Follow Silvia Masiero ´s Twitter account here:

21 – Atle Dyregrov – UiB

Psychologist (PhD), Professor Emeritus , Center for Crisis Psychol. Founding member Children and War Foundation & European Society for Traumatic Stress Studies Tw. followers: 4,043 LI followers: 1,743 TwiLi index: 11.69 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 3,712 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 2,454 Follow Atle Dyregrov ´s Twitter account here:

22 – Emre Yaksi – NTNU

My passion is to understand the life and the universe surrounding us, together with wonderful people that I got to meet during this journey. Tw. followers: 3,457 LI followers: 2,010 TwiLi index: 11.69 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 691 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 769 Follow Emre Yaksi ´s Twitter account here:

23 – Malcolm Langford – UiO

Professor, University of Oslo and Co-Director, Centre for Law and Social Transformation. Tweets on rights, investment, methods, constitutions and technology. Tw. followers: 2,166 LI followers: 3,155 TwiLi index: 11.67 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 327 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 213 Follow Malcolm Langford ´s Twitter account here:

24 – Kjell Terje Ringdal – Kristiania University College

Ass professor i retorikk på Høyskolen Kristiania. Leder Washingtonseminaret. Holder foredrag, skriver bøker, baker brød og mikser byens nest beste GT. Tw. followers: 5,854 LI followers: 1,223 TwiLi index: 11.63 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 3,081 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 2,418 Follow Kjell Terje Ringdal ´s Twitter account here:

25 – Atle Rotevatn – UiB

Geology Prof @UiB. HOD @uibgeo. EIC @BasinResearch. Board of @UiB_museet @iEarth_no @csd_uib @CDeepSea. Rock doc🏔️Dad*4👭👬 Player of pianos 🎹 Pilot in spe🛩️ Tw. followers: 4,106 LI followers: 1,605 TwiLi index: 11.59 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 277 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 378 Follow Atle Rotevatn ´s Twitter account here:

26 – Marte C W Solheim – UoS

Associate Professor|Head of @UniStavanger Centre for Innovation Research| https://t.co/TdMvtLPxm0 @yngreforskere @rsa_norway | #Diversity #Innovation🌈she/her Tw. followers: 3,448 LI followers: 1,858 TwiLi index: 11.57 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 40 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 172 Follow Marte C W Solheim ´s Twitter account here:

27 – Anne-Britt Gran – BI

Prof. på Handelshøyskolen BI og leder av forskningssenteret BI Centre for Creative Industries (@BI_CCI). (Foto: Hanna von Bergen) Tw. followers: 5,252 LI followers: 1,228 TwiLi index: 11.50 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 450 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 502 Follow Anne-Britt Gran ´s Twitter account here:

28 – Anita Leirfall – UoB

Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Bergen @UiB_philosophy @UiB Tw. followers: 20,184 LI followers: 464 TwiLi index: 11.49 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 117 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 159 Follow Anita Leirfall ´s Twitter account here:

29 – Anne Kjersti Befring – UiO

Legal faculty, Oslo. UIO: Associate professor. Medical Law, Biolaw, Human rights, EU Law. Public Law. Former Chief Negotiator (Dnlf). Tw. followers: 3,949 LI followers: 1,494 TwiLi index: 11.42 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 433 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 416 Follow Anne Kjersti Befring ´s Twitter account here:

30 – Kjartan Vibe Fersum – UiB

Associate Professor, Musculoskeletal physiotherapist, interest in human behavior and management of persistent pain. Views are my own. Tw. followers: 3,939 LI followers: 1,469 TwiLi index: 11.39 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 2,834 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 2,316 Follow Kjartan Vibe Fersum ´s Twitter account here:

31 – Kenneth Andresen – UiA

Professor of Media Studies at @UiAgder (Norway). PhD. Collects postcards from Kosovo. YNWA. Chicago Cubs. Drives electric car and rides e-bike. Tw. followers: 4,704 LI followers: 1,260 TwiLi index: 11.39 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 3,650 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 3,596 Follow Kenneth Andresen ´s Twitter account here:

32 – Dag Rune Olsen – UiT

Rector @UiTNorgesarktis (portrettfoto: Ingun A. Mæhlum) Tw. followers: 5686 LI followers: 1023 TwiLi index: 11.31 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 208 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 33 Follow Dag Rune Olsen ´s Twitter account here:

33 – Roger Søraa – NTNU

Dr. Roger A. Søraa, Science & Tech Studies (#STS).
Researching #robots, #AI, #healthTech & #WorkerStudies.
@NTNUHumanities & @DIGIKULT_NTNU 🇳🇴🏳️‍🌈 he/him 空  Tw. followers: 5,693 LI followers: 980 TwiLi index: 11.24 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 30 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 199 Follow Roger Søraa ´s Twitter account here:

34 – Dan Quintana – UiO

Psychological Scientist: Oxytocin, heart rate variability & meta-science @UniOslo | @hertzpodcast producer & co-host | Open Science advocate | 🇳🇴🇦🇺🇨🇴 Tw. followers: 21,381 LI followers: 388 TwiLi index: 11.22 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 44 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 68 Follow Dan Quintana ´s Twitter account here:

35 – Achiba Gargule – CMI

Senior Adviser @TNRCproject @U4_ACRC Researching #natural-resources #corruption & land politics | Nomad | #African Citizen | All views my own Tw. followers: 2,018 LI followers: 2,431 TwiLi index: 11.19 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 1,857 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 3,283 Follow Achiba Gargule´s Twitter account here:

≈36* – Klaus Mohn – UoS

Energy, research, and higher education Tw. followers: 2,911 , LI followers: 1,657 TwiLi index: 11.15464419 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: n/a Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: n/a Follow Klaus Mohn´s Twitter account here:

36 – Lars Jacob Pedersen – NHH

Associate Professor at NHH Norwegian School of Economics. DJ. House full of girls. One half of @RestartBusiness. My work is on sustainable business models. Tw. followers: 2,463 LI followers: 1,903 TwiLi index: 11.12 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 349 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 629 Follow Lars Jacob Pedersen ´s Twitter account here:

38 – May-Britt Moser – NTNU

I am a professor in neuroscience at NTNU, at the Kavli Institute of Systems Neuroscience and I am the director at the Centre for Neural Computation (CNC) Tw. followers: 8,552 LI followers: 658 TwiLi index: 11.09 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 1,198 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 128 Follow May-Britt Moser ´s Twitter account here:

39 – Jonas Stein – UiT

Associate Professor in Political Science & uni board member @UiTNorgesarktis. President @YngreForskere. 3 girls (@drlindastein & 2 daughters) Tw. followers: 3,693 LI followers: 1,234 TwiLi index: 11.03 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 344 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 271 Follow Jonas Stein ´s Twitter account here:

40 – Vigdis Vandvik – UiB

❤️🧠 Plants; Alpine; Ecology; Experiments; Biodiversity; GlobalChange; HigherEd; She/her 🌾🌱📈🌦🐑🔥⛰🌍🚴‍♀️💪👟💃 @bioCEED @BtwnTheFjords @CESAM_UiB @UiB 🇳🇴 Tw. followers: 4,319 LI followers: 1,025 TwiLi index: 10.95 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 43 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 42 Follow Vigdis Vandvik ´s Twitter account here:

41* Jonas R. Kunst – UiO

Professor of Psychology @UniOslo . Past @Yale @Harvard @UiB . Views are my own. Tw. followers: 12,700 , LI followers: 459 TwiLi index: 10.93148793 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: n/a Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: n/a Follow Jonas R. Kunst´s Twitter account here:

42 – Jill Walker Rettberg – UiB

Univ. of Bergen prof of digital culture, visiting UChicago Jan-June 2022. ERC project on cultural effects of Machine Vision. She/hers. Tw. followers: 7,148 LI followers: 674 TwiLi index: 10.91 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 85 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 67 Follow Jill Walker Rettberg ´s Twitter account here:

43 – Pål Brekke – NSA

Norwegian Space Agency, @Romsenteret og https://t.co/zgVVG7z2vX Lead Space Science, foredragsholder og forfatter #aurora #Northernlights #Astrorock, Tw. followers: 1,583 LI followers: 2,522 TwiLi index: 10.89 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 2392 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 2,146 Follow Pål Brekke ´s Twitter account here:

44 – Gentian Zyberi – UiO

Personal account. Professor #NCHR #UiO. Member #HRCtee (2019-22), #PCA (2016-28). Multilingual (re)tweets, usual disclaimers. On sabbatical 2022-June 2023. Tw. followers: 2,531 LI followers: 1,575 TwiLi index: 10.88 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 2288 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 1,242 Follow Gentian Zyberi ´s Twitter account here:

45 – Jan Frich – UiO

Professor of Medicine @UniOslo | Leadership & Management in Health Care | Health services Tw. followers: 2,928 LI followers: 1,366 TwiLi index: 10.87 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 736 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 341 Follow Jan Frich ´s Twitter account here:

46 – Morten Goodwin – UiA

Ph.D., Professor University of Agder, AI researcher, Public Speaker, Dep.Director Centre for AI Research, Author “Myten om maskinene”, https://t.co/JUPo2WtORN Tw. followers: 1,633 LI followers: 2,289 TwiLi index: 10.80 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 1,033 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 1,243 Follow Morten Goodwin ´s Twitter account here:

47 – Carl-Gustav Lindén – UiB

Professor (Data/Computational Journalism) at @UiB. Multitasker OS: writer, researcher, communications specialist, journalist and more. Tw. followers: 1,616 LI followers: 2,241 TwiLi index: 10.75 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 384 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 1,030 Follow Carl-Gustav Lindén ´s Twitter account here:

48 – Ben Clarsen – NIPH

Sports physiotherapist | Associate professor, Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center
🇦🇺🇧🇻 Tw. followers: 4,806 LI followers: 826 TwiLi index: 10.74 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 1053 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 700 Follow Ben Clarsen ´s Twitter account here:

49 – Petter Bae Brandtzaeg – UiO

Working at @UniOslo & @SINTEF_HCI researching the impact of people’s uses of new technologies, such as social media, chatbots and AI. Tw. followers: 3,398 LI followers: 1,082 TwiLi index: 10.72 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 423 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 384 Follow Petter Bae Brandtzaeg ´s Twitter account here:

50 – Svenn-Erik Mamelund – OsloMet

Head of PANSOC https://t.co/uMxwYpeBA1 Pres. 🇳🇴 @NorskForening @UW_CDE 2001 @psupopresearch 2008 @CASOslo 2022-2023″ Tw. followers: 2,939 LI followers: 1,195 TwiLi index: 10.68 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 52 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 153 Follow Svenn-Erik Mamelund ´s Twitter account here:

51 – Anwesha Dutta – CMI

Senior Researcher,Chr. Michelsen Institute.Political Ecology, Biodiversity Conservation, Forests, Natural Resource Governance. #South Asia #India #himalaya Tw. followers: 1,763 LI followers: 1,849 TwiLi index: 10.61 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 1,682 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 1,474 Follow Anwesha Dutta ´s Twitter account here:

52 – Alexander Refsum Jensenius – UiO

Music researcher. Research musician. RITMO. University of Oslo. NIME. NordicSMC. Open Research. Father. He/him. Tw. followers: 2,040 LI followers: 1,570 TwiLi index: 10.58 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 240 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 292 Follow Alexander Refsum Jensenius ´s Twitter account here:

53 – Karen O’Brien – UiO

Professor @UniOslo and Co-Founder @cchange_climate. I am interested in #climatechange, #transformation, #adaptation #sustainability. And quantum social change! Tw. followers: 2,117 LI followers: 1,510 TwiLi index: 10.58 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 2,095 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 368 Follow Karen O’Brien ´s Twitter account here:

54 – Teklehaymanot G. Weldemichel – NTNU

Research fellow @GeographyNtnu, @NTNU. Research on #SDGs in Norway & conservation politics in Africa.
ሽግ ወያነ, Stateless since Nov 3 2020. Stop #TigrayGenocide Tw. followers: 8,360 LI followers: 485 TwiLi index: 10.54 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 1,647 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 2,441 Follow Teklehaymanot G. Weldemichel ´s Twitter account here:

55 – Kenneth Ruud – UiT

Director General of the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment & prof. in theoretical chemistry UiT. Twitters largely about science and science policy. Tw. followers: 3,313 LI followers: 954 TwiLi index: 10.49 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 13 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 72 Follow Kenneth Ruud ´s Twitter account here:

56 – Benedicte Bull – UiB

Professor of political science University of Oslo. Work on Latin America, developmet & the environment. Tweet stuff that amuse, excite, interest or annoy me. Tw. followers: 3,938 LI followers: 819 TwiLi index: 10.48 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 1,213 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 425 Follow Benedicte Bull ´s Twitter account here:

57 – Øyvind Sandbakk – NTNU

Professor and director for the Centre for Elite Sports Research at @NTNU. Editor-in-Chief for the International Journal of Sports Physiology and Performance Tw. followers: 2,035 LI followers: 1,456 TwiLi index: 10.47 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 2,562 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 3,220 Follow Øyvind Sandbakk ´s Twitter account here:

58* Rune Dahl Fitjar – UoS

Vice-Rector for Innovation and Society at @UniStavanger. Project leader @runinproject . Tw. followers: 2,097 , LI followers: 1,409 TwiLi index: 10.46276792 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: n/a Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: n/a Follow Rune Dahl Fitjar´s Twitter account here:

59 – Peggy Simcic Brønn – NBS

Professor, BI/Norwegian Business School, Leader, Center for Corporate Communication Tw. followers: 1,934 LI followers: 1,478 TwiLi index: 10.42 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 3,359 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 3,328 Follow Peggy Simcic Brønn ´s Twitter account here:

60 – Siddharth Sareen – UoS

Associate professor in energy and environment at University of Stavanger Tw. followers: 2,257 LI followers: 1,136 TwiLi index: 10.25 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 72 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 165 Follow Siddharth Sareen ´s Twitter account here:

61 – Josina Vink – OSAD

shaping the systems of health and care | associate professor in service design @AHO_Oslo | formerly @ExperioLab @CTFse @MayoInnovation @CAMHnews | they/them Tw. followers: 1,628 LI followers: 1,462 TwiLi index: 10.17 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 3,432 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 3,197 Follow Josina Vink ´s Twitter account here:

62 – Thomas Hoholm – BI

Head of Department/Associate Professor, Dept Strategy and Entrepreneurship, BI Norwegian Business School. Ethnography of innovation, organization & power. Tw. followers: 1,771 LI followers: 1,324 TwiLi index: 10.14 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 541 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 1,154 Follow Thomas Hoholm ´s Twitter account here:

63 – Kikki Flesche Kleiven – UoB

Director @BjerknesBCCR. Focus on climate outreach&research Board of directors @klimastiftelsen @GRIDArendal @vilvitebergen Leader @ClimateReality Tw. followers: 2,964 LI followers: 812 TwiLi index: 10.10 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 710 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 222 Follow Kikki Flesche Kleiven ´s Twitter account here:

64 – Mari O. Mamre – NMBU

Housing market analyst and Economist. PHD-Research Fellow at NMBU. Lecturer in Quantitative Analysis. Affiliated at Housing Lab. Vegetarian. marimamre@gmail.com Tw. followers: 2,606 LI followers: 892 TwiLi index: 10.08 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 2,541 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 2,384 Follow Mari O. Mamre ´s Twitter account here:

65 – Siri Isaksson – NHH

Assistant Prof in Behavioral Econ @TheChoiceLab examining the role of gender in group work, reproducibility & other topics.atm: RESEARCH. 🇸🇪✡️🇭🇺 Tw. followers: 3,505 LI followers: 673 TwiLi index: 10.03 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 92 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 269 Follow Siri Isaksson ´s Twitter account here:

66 – Kjetil Søreide – SUH

https://t.co/wy2Waywjbu.Research.Leadership.Inclusion.Outcomes #surgicalresearch. Opinions=my own. #diversity Tw. followers: 3,159 LI followers: 730 TwiLi index: 10.03 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 994 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 1,554 Follow Kjetil Søreide ´s Twitter account here:

67 – Siri Gloppen – UiB

Political Science Professor, University of Bergen @UiB_AdmOrg Deputy Dean @UiBsamfunn @UiB Director @LawTransform; Bergen School of Global Studies @BSGS_UiB  Tw. followers: 1,661 LI followers: 1,293 TwiLi index: 10.02 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 287 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 220 Follow Siri Gloppen ´s Twitter account here:

68 – Halla Holmarsdottir – OsloMet

Prof Comparative & International Education PI DigiGen https://t.co/GGtkbsodQD Research technology & youth, gender, social justice, teachers, SDGs Swimmer🏊1st Gen Tw. followers: 2,794 LI followers: 808 TwiLi index: 10.02 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 158 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 489 Follow Halla Holmarsdottir ´s Twitter account here:

69 – Anne Spurkland – UiO

MD, molecular immunologist and Professor of anatomy at UiO. Tweets on medical research, free cakes, Ethiopia and stuff. Mainly in Norwegian https://t.co/kLqkVO1FTF Tw. followers: 5,166 LI followers: 480 TwiLi index: 9.96 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 459 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 266 Follow Anne Spurkland ´s Twitter account here:

70 – Stefano Puliti – NIBIO

Researcher @SmartForest_SFI mapping 🗺️ forest 🌲 resources 🪵 using drones 🚁, satellites 🛰️, lasers ✴️, AI 👨 at @nfi100 @NIBIO_no Tw. followers: 2,036 LI followers: 1,010 TwiLi index: 9.94 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 1,835 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 3,404 Follow Stefano Puliti ´s Twitter account here:

71 – Rahul Ranjan – OsloMet

Postdoc @OsloMet for @Riverine_Rights | Rivers, Himalayas |Author of Birsa Munda and Politics (CUP, 2022)| Editor @InRights | Caffeinated Bihari | Views mine Tw. followers: 4,831 LI followers: 491 TwiLi index: 9.92 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 1,560 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 1,966 Follow Rahul Ranjan ´s Twitter account here:

72 – Jacob Nyrup – UiO

I (try to) conduct research to advance knowledge on dictators, Danish municipalities, and 💵🏠 at @UniOslo. DPhil/PhD @NuffieldCollege, University of Oxford. Tw. followers: 4,265 LI followers: 529 TwiLi index: 9.89 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 474 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 127 Follow Jacob Nyrup ´s Twitter account here:

73 – Øystein Gilje – UiO

Professor @UniOslo_UV // Professor II @UniStavanger #learning #identity #literacy #technology. Prosjekter: #GEPP #MuLVu #SAIL #GrunnDig Faglig leder i @UiO_FIKS Tw. followers: 3,337 LI followers: 633 TwiLi index: 9.88 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 428 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 483 Follow Øystein Gilje ´s Twitter account here:

74 – Lene Pettersen – Kristiania

Anthropologist with a PhD in strategy. Associate professor at School of communication, Kristiania University College. Host in 😇 Good App – Bad App 😈 Tw. followers: 1,637 LI followers: 1,160 TwiLi index: 9.85 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 676 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 1315 Follow Lene Pettersen ´s Twitter account here:

75 – Knut Einar Rosendahl – CICERO

Professor in Economics at NMBU – School of Economics and Business. Research in Environmental and Energy Economics Tw. followers: 2,476 LI followers: 794 TwiLi index: 9.85 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 803 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 243 Follow Knut Einar Rosendahl ´s Twitter account here:

76* Tom Broekel – UoS

Professor in #Regional #Innovation, #Stavanger, #economics, #networks, #maps, #Rstats, #complexity, #EconTwitter, #NordicERSA, #POLISS, #ERSA Tw. followers: 2793 , LI followers: 670 TwiLi index: 9.744194039 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: Follow Tom Broekel´s Twitter account here:

77 – Fredrik Jutfelt – NTNU

Professor @NTNUnorway, Trondheim. Fish physiology, thermal biology, ocean acidification, scientific misconduct 🤿🏄‍♂️🏂🛹🧗‍♂️🇳🇴🇸🇪🇦🇺 Tw. followers: 4,976 LI followers: 421 TwiLi index: 9.71 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 207 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 348 Follow Fredrik Jutfelt ´s Twitter account here:

78 – Christoph Lutz – BI

associate prof at @HandelshoyskBI @BI_NCIS in comm & internet, researching social media & the digital economy Tw. followers: 1,730 LI followers: 992 TwiLi index: 9.71 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 1,451 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 1,600 Follow Christoph Lutz ´s Twitter account here:

79 – Eviane Leidig – UiO

Far right, gender, digital cultures | Res. Fellow @ICCT_TheHague | Affiliated @CrexUiO @GNET_research | Book ms.📚 far-right female influencers | Views own Tw. followers: 4,486  LI followers: 446 TwiLi index: 9.68 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 2,807 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 1,461 Follow Eviane Leidig ´s Twitter account here:

80 – Endre Tvinnereim – UiB

“Carbon pricing, public opinion on climate policies.
Associate professor of political science.” Tw. followers: 1,578 LI followers: 1,047 TwiLi index: 9.66 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 1,749 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 1,006 Follow Endre Tvinnereim ´s Twitter account here:

81 – Siril K. Herseth – CMI

PhD Fellow at Chr. Michelsen Institute Tw. followers: 1,589 , LI followers: 1,031 TwiLi index: 9.65 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 3,467 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 2,857 Follow Siril K. Herseth ´s Twitter account here:

82 – Marte Blikstad-Balas – UiO

Professor @UniOslo interested in adolescent literacy, how teachers teach and how digital technologies are changing schools Tw. followers: 4,479  LI followers: 430 TwiLi index: 9.62 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 73 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 152 Follow Marte Blikstad-Balas ´s Twitter account here:

83 – Ulf Ekelund – NSSS

Professor in Sports Medicine, Physical Activity Epidemiology and Health Norwegian School of Sport Sciences (VIEWS ARE MY OWN)🇺🇦 Tw. followers: 5,271 LI followers: 374 TwiLi index: 9.58 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 2,310 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 1,238 Follow Ulf Ekelund ´s Twitter account here:

84 – Krisztian Balog – UoS

Professor of computer science @UniStavanger, leading @iai_group. Staff research scientist @GoogleAI. General co-chair @ecir2022. Tw. followers: 2,162 LI followers: 738 TwiLi index: 9.57 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 3,558 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 2,946 Follow Krisztian Balog ´s Twitter account here:

85 – Eivind Engebretsen – UiO

Professor & Vice-Dean at @UniOslo_MED Ι #medicalhumanities scholar Ι Founding Executive Chair of @centreShe Ι @CircleU_eu Chair of #GlobalHealth Tw. followers: 1,594 LI followers: 956 TwiLi index: 9.55 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 324 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 578 Follow Eivind Engebretsen ´s Twitter account here:

86 – Trine Eggen – NIBIO

Research Manager/Head of Dep., Department of Bioresources and Recyling Technology, NIBIO. Tweetes are mine Tw. followers: 1,628 LI followers: 859 TwiLi index: 9.43 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 2,329 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 2,345 Follow Trine Eggen ´s Twitter account here:

87 – Jana Krause – UiO

Professor, University of Oslo; author of Resilient Communities https://t.co/KRTeaDbdBx civilian protection/peacebuilding/gender Tw. followers: 2,483 LI followers: 595 TwiLi index: 9.43 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 1,166 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 477 Follow Jana Krause ´s Twitter account here:

88 – Ole-Morten Midtgård – NTNU

“Født i Tromsø på 60-tallet.
Professor Midtgård er her: @MidtgardOle” Tw. followers: 1,909 LI followers: 722 TwiLi index: 9.38 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 3,177 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 2,872 Follow Ole-Morten Midtgård ´s Twitter account here:

89 – Ole Frithjof Norheim – UiB

Professor of Medical Ethics, University of Bergen. Adjunct Professor, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health. Head of Norwegian Biotechnology Advisory Board. Tw. followers: 1,633 LI followers: 826 TwiLi index: 9.38 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 760 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 759 Follow Ole Frithjof Norheim ´s Twitter account here:

90 – Gosia Smieszek – UiT

Coordinator @UiTromso | Adjunct Fellow @EastWestCenter | Arctic, governance, science-policy | Co-building @PlanArctic & #WomenoftheArctic | Ideally outdoors Tw. followers: 2,379 LI followers: 593 TwiLi index: 9,368876232 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 350 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 635 Follow Gosia Smieszek ´s Twitter account here:

91 – Vito Laterza – UiA

Anthropologist, political analyst @AJEnglish @SAfmRadio. Founder and Chief Editor @coronatimesblog Political economy, digitalisation, communication, #Covid19 Tw. followers: 2,588 LI followers: 547 TwiLi index: 9,350981637 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 2,851 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 3,119 Follow Vito Laterza ´s Twitter account here:

92 – Camilla Holm Soelseth – OsloMet

Kulturingeniør, jungeltelegrafist og (digital) humaniora-entusiast. Gift m @sortulv. Holder på med PhD om #instapoesi/#instapoetry, @Oslomet_ABI. @instasociety Tw. followers: 5,016 LI followers: 332 TwiLi index: 9.34 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 106 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 365 Follow Camilla Holm Soelseth ´s Twitter account here:

93 – Manjana Milkoreit – UiO

Postdoc, passionate about climate change, interested in cognition, imagination and future thinking, change in complex systems, social innovation and conflict. Tw. followers: 1,639 LI followers: 797 TwiLi index: 9.33 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 2,481 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 1,786 Follow Manjana Milkoreit ´s Twitter account here:

94 – Dorothy Jane Dankel – UiB

Scientist, feminist, wife, mom, in random order Tw. followers: 1,556 LI followers: 817 TwiLi index: 9.30 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 582 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 351 Follow Dr. Dorothy Jane Dankel ´s Twitter account here:

95 – Bernard Enjolras – ISR

Research Professor Institutt for Samfunnsforskning (@ISFnytt ) Blog:https://t.co/Kv0GV63SEL Tw. followers: 1,988 , LI followers: 620 TwiLi index: 9.22 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 2,318 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 1,514 Follow Bernard Enjolras ´s Twitter account here:

96 – Owen S. Wangensteen – UiT

Marine molecular ecologist at UiT, The Arctic University of Norway. Implementing metabarcoding on marine ecosystems. Vocatives: tío/acho/pisha/muyayo/illo/nen/ Tw. followers: 1,665 LI followers: 722 TwiLi index: 9.21 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 2,854 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 3,060 Follow Owen S. Wangensteen ´s Twitter account here:

97 – Camelia Dewan – UiO

Anthropologist @Unioslo_anthro. Author of #MisreadingTheBengalDelta @uwapress Knowledge production, development, climate change, Bangladesh. She/her. Tw. followers: 2,076  LI followers: 558 TwiLi index: 9.12 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 186 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 1,028 Follow Camelia Dewan ´s Twitter account here:

98 – Anne-Kathrin Kreft – UiO

Postdoc @UniOslo: armed conflict, CRSV, political violence, gender, civil society. Ostwestfälischer Knötterpott 😣 Badly drawn 🐿 Travel & photography Tw. followers: 6,140 LI followers: 252 TwiLi index: 9.11 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 297 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 241 Follow Anne-Kathrin Kreft ´s Twitter account here:

99 – Hanneke Meijer – UiB

Bird paleontologist 🦤🦉🐓| Associate Professor & Curator of Osteology @UiB | @InsideNatGeo Explorer | EiC @OpenQuaternary | @NMNH Tw. followers: 3,173 LI followers: 390 TwiLi index: 9.08 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 516 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 1546 Follow Hanneke Meijer ´s Twitter account here:

100 – Laurence Carvalho – NIVA

Research Manager of Freshwater Ecology section @nivaforskning harmful algal blooms, cyanobacteria, citizen science, freshwater restoration Tw. followers: 2,320 LI followers: 486 TwiLi index: 9.05 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 2,637 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 3,193 Follow Laurence Carvalho ´s Twitter account here:

101 – Panagiotis G. Pavlos – UiO

Help logos and sense preserve their commonness. Ancient and Late Antique Philosophy @UniOslo, Fellow @CamDivinity. Authoring in 🇬🇷🇳🇴🇬🇧. Tw. followers: 3,061 LI followers: 392 TwiLi index: 9.05 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 4,068 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 3,964 Follow Panagiotis G. Pavlos ´s Twitter account here:

102 – Howard I. Browman – IMR

Marine/fisheries ecologist at the Institute of Marine Research, Norway and Editor-in-Chief of ICES Journal of Marine Science Tw. followers: 2,025 LI followers: 533 TwiLi index: 9.02 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 3,044 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 1,589 Follow Howard I. Browman ´s Twitter account here:

103 – Taina Bucher – UiO

My latest book, Facebook, is out now with @politybooks. Author of If…Then (@OUPPolitics). Interested in algorithmic media. Professor at @UniOslo. Tw. followers: 4,736 LI followers: 280 TwiLi index: 9.01 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 272 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 194 Follow Taina Bucher ´s Twitter account here:

104 – Charlotte Haug – SINTEF

Forsker, skribent og lege. MD, researcher and writer. Interested in medicine, health care and scientific communication Tw. followers: 2,051  LI followers: 512 TwiLi index: 8.98 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 3,338 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 1,415 Follow Charlotte Haug ´s Twitter account here:

105 – Anthony Mathelier – UiO

Computational biologist interested in gene expression regulation. Tw. followers: 2,010 LI followers: 503 TwiLi index: 8.93 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 2,758 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 2,349 Follow Anthony Mathelier ´s Twitter account here:

106 – Else C. Sandset – SNL

Norwegian Neurologist – Secretary General of the European Stroke Organisation – Section Editor Treatment-Prevention @StrokeAHA_ASA – @RCSI_irl alumni Tw. followers: 2,112 LI followers: 472 TwiLi index: 8.90 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 2,002 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 2,065 Follow Else C. Sandset ´s Twitter account here:

107 – Kristin Linnerud – CICERO

Økonom og professor i fornybar energi ved NMBU. II-stilling ved HVL. Porteføljestyret for energi, lavutslipp og transport i Forskningsrådet. FME’n NTRANS. Tw. followers: 2,838 LI followers: 375 TwiLi index: 8.90 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 807 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 448 Follow Kristin Linnerud ´s Twitter account here:

108 – Dag Erik Berg – MUC

Academic. Author of ‘Dynamics of Caste and Law’. Currently teaching political theory and globalisation in Molde. Tw. followers: 3,386 LI followers: 321 TwiLi index: 8.86 Centrality rank among Nordic countries: 3,570 Pagerank rank among Nordic countries: 3,352 Follow Dag Erik Berg ´s Twitter account here:

* = Data from September 2022

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Danish scholar refuses to yield to the trolls on Facebook and Twitter

Historian of the Middle East Rasmus Elling took time off in 2021 after being targeted by a disinformation campaign. But he did not give in. Now he explains to me why he is back on Twitter.

Week after week, a cowardly internet army — some of them real people, some of them bots — would tag him on Facebook posts and mention him in tweets.

Rasmus Elling is an associate professor at the University of Copenhagen.

He was a supporter of the regime in Iran, according to their posts, and therefore fair game.

Opening his phone one day in the spring of 2021, he got hundreds of notifications. It was as if thousands of people out there were demanding a response.

And then there were the implied threats — not just against him but also a colleague he had appeared with on Danish TV.

”It would be just below the threshold of what is legal. They went for me personally, to intimidate me,” recounts Rasmus Elling. “For my colleague it was worse: one person posted a video saying he knew where she lives”.

Police got involved.

The tweets can be retweeted by bots or a group of online trolls to increase their retweet count and make them seem credible, and the aspersions may stick.

Rasmus Elling is an associate professor at the Department for Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen. While his research focus is on modern Iran, he sees one of his roles on social media as ‘translating’ what is going on inside and outside Iran to a non-Persian speaking public. Below is a typical tweet from Rasmus Elling.

But in 2021 his social media and public outreach activity made him vulnerable to a disinformation campaign by a well-organised group of Iranian exiles, some of whom support the former monarchy in the country.

“The idea is to present specific, named, academics who do research on Iran, as somehow stooges of the Iranian state. A small group of these people are active in Denmark, and they have, for example, set up a Facebook group that mistranslates posts and articles into Persian. It is some silly stuff. And they just sit there day and night, monitoring the people they want to target,” says Rasmus Elling.

But according to Rasmus Elling, these repeated and amateurish misquotes and disinformation can still have a real world effect. Many who see the posts may not be trained in a source-critical approach, and may not know the person who is targeted. The posts and tweets can be retweeted by bots or a group of online trolls to increase their retweet count and make them seem credible, and the aspersions may stick.

The goal is guilt by association: Some people, enough people, can take the claims seriously.

If one of the claims about a scholar is referenced in a legitimate trusted news channel, even to refute them, they are often amplified by trolls to taint their targets. The goal is guilt by association: Some people, enough people, can take the claims of being an ‘Iranian government agent’ seriously.

”I have written very critically of Iran and the Iranian regime, but this did not fit into the image of an enemy in their narrative. One of the posts, for example, offered ‘proof’ that I worked for the Iranian Embassy. It consisted of an image of a meeting at the Iranian Embassy in London with a blond-haired man on it, which was not me, with an arrow superimposed pointing to the person with the name Rasmus Elling.”

Post attacking Rasmus Elling for being an ‘Marxist Islamist teacher’. I (Mike Young) have deliberately erased the Facebook page name.

“At one point, during the height of the attacks I wrote directly to one of the people who was attacking me: ‘You dare not say these things to my face!’ I said to him: ’Let us meet up.’ He actually turned up to meet me in the central library in Copenhagen, an Iranian man of around 50 years old who in reality did not seem intimidating at all. He explained that he just sat there at home, reacting to the posts that showed up.  As for his own posts, he explained they were ’just the way we do things in Iran’. He even apologised for his behaviour,” Rasmus Elling recounts.

The attacks got to the point that Rasmus Elling had to have a constant negotiation with himself. Do I want to respond to this? Should I respond to this?

“Later I was told by the police,” says Rasmus Elling, “that I should be more wary of trying to meet the people face-to-face who attacked me online.”

The attacks got to the point that Rasmus Elling had to have a constant negotiation with himself. Do I want to respond to this? Should I respond to this? Finally, he admits, it was too much. He was forced to take time off from work due to stress.

Defence can inadvertently spread the trolls’ message

He was back at work soon however. And in spite of what he had gone through, Rasmus Elling is still active on Twitter, and on the messaging service Telegram which has many users in Iran.

”Facebook has become a swamp, especially in Persian,” he says, “and I avoid the platform. But as for Twitter, I asked myself: Should I really have to hide, to censor myself? This cannot be true. So I continue to be active on Twitter, but I often think twice before entering into a debate with someone.

Article continues under fact box below.

Handling controversy
on Twitter

Blocking, muting, lists, ignoring

Blocking on Twitter ensures that you don’t see the blocked person’s tweets, and they don’t see yours.

Muting on Twitter ensures that you don’t see the muted person’s tweets.

Lists allow you to curate your newsfeed, so you only see what interests you.

Rasmus Elling:

  • Blocks people if they repeatedly tweet lies.
  • Mutes people depending on the content they tweet, and only to improve his own Twitter experience: “, for example,” he says, “I mute people who tweet about what they just ate for dinner!”
  • Puts people on lists so that he can better concentrate on specific subject areas
  • If attacked, he checks their profile. If they have no followers in common with him, or otherwise seem fake or malicious, he ignores them

How do you decide whether you will enter into a dialogue with someone on Twitter who disagrees with you?

”I do a cost benefit analysis. I look at their profile bio and see whether this person has a network in common with me, or is followed by credible accounts – or whether it is just a spiteful person. I then make a decision on whether I should respond,” he says. (see Rasmus Elling’s Twitter recommendations in the box to the right)

Rasmus Elling: “As an academic, it is very easy to be perceived as condescending to those who are non-academic”

In guidelines for responding to internet trolls and disinformation, the recommendation is often repeated: ‘Don’t feed the trolls’. Attacking people like Rasmus Elling can give trolls the satisfaction of stoking a (sometimes fake) public outrage. The Center for Countering Digital Hate published a guideline in 2019. According to the guideline “troll propagandists know that when public figures engage with abusive trolls to defend their reputation or their values – a normal behavioural response – this inadvertently spreads and legitimates the trolls’ message and tricks social media algorithms into pushing it into a broader array of users’ timelines.”

But some attacks should still be offered a serious response, according to Rasmus Elling.

Universities encourage outreach

Since the summer of 2021, Rasmus Elling has begun to think about the power dynamic between himself as an academic on Twitter, and some of the people who target him with false claims.

“As an academic, it is very easy to be perceived as condescending to those who are non-academic. But we have a responsibility to respond to non-academics, and to discuss the merits of their arguments” he says.

Scholars like him are forced into a dilemma on social media. Universities encourage scholars to be responsible for their own outreach, and scholars often help brand the university towards the general public. But universities usually offer little help to scholars like Rasmus Elling when they become the object of disinformation campaigns.

Twitter is the place where Rasmus Elling discovers what is new in his field and to “find participants for my projects and colleagues that I do not know already,” he says. He adds that in terms of his research area, Iran, he almost has to be on Twitter and on Telegram.

Rasmus Elling: “What takes place on social media is not an ‘ideal conversation’, and scholars should not allow the platforms to become a record of who you are as a scholar.”

At the same time, he is under no illusions about the limitations of the platforms.

Polemic should not be the first thing people see

”The idealist in me tells me that we need to speak to people at their own level, without condescension, and I get a buzz from feeling that I have an impact. But I also really feel that the use of, say, Twitter is important in terms of transparency, so people know what it is you are doing research on.”

“That said, I do not think the platforms should be considered a kind of ‘Habermas’ian conversation where the better argument will win in the end.”

What takes place on social media is not an ‘ideal conversation’, and scholars should not allow the platforms to become a record of who you are as a scholar. It should be simply used as a tool, he says. (Some of Rasmus Elling’s recommendations are in the fact box above.)

“I could, for example, delete some of my old tweets if I have formulated something in an unfortunate manner or for other reasons. Some people might not like this. But the way I see it, some polemical tweet should not be the first thing that people see when they discover your profile.”

Scientists in Denmark — the top 100 on social media in 2021

Who are the wizards of the Danish scientist web?

For good or for worse, scientists and researchers are assessed and evaluated by their ‘impact’. The h-index , for example, measures the productivity and citation impact of a scholar: but this does not take things like teaching activity and outreach activities into account.

These Danish scientists had, guaranteed, absolutely no social media following whatsoever.

And what about scholars’ wider impact? How good are they at networking with their peers and with the general public? Here a social media ‘impact’ of a researcher may be more interesting.

My own TwiLi Index offers a measure of it and you can read about the methodology of it here.

The TwiLi Index – the ‘Twitter-LinkedIn’ index, and pronounced like ‘twilight’ without the ‘t’ at the end, get it? – ranks academic scholars affiliated to research institutions based on their Twitter and LinkedIn following. Twitter and LinkedIn are the platforms of choice for most researchers and scientists globally, as they allow networking and interaction within highly specialized fields.

It is the third year running that I use the formula to calculate scientists’ TwiLi score based on their Twitter and LinkedIn follower numbers. The 2020 rank for Denmark is here. In 2019 and 2020 I did a separate index the Greater Copenhagen/Øresund area using the same methodology.

Since 2019, the TwiLi Index has been reviewed in several publications. Some point to its usefulness as one of many measures of researcher success that supplement bibliometric scores, citations, and educational activities.

TwiLi-Index top scientists 2021This time, I add two extra and separate measures of scientists’ impact, centrality and pagerank on Twitter (see explanation below). To do this I partnered up with data scientist Lasse Hjorth Madsen, who developed a bespoke web app for Mike Young Academy to organise publicly available data extracted using the Twitter API. Lasse Hjorth Madsen really appreciates you following him on LinkedIn here.

Centrality and pagerank are not integrated into the scientists’ TwiLi score. So the top 100 scientists are ranked only on their TwiLi score for the TwiLi index that is listed below. Each of the top 100 scientists then have their centrality and pagerank ranks — among nearly 3,000 scientists on Twitter in Denmark — listed after their name.

Centrality

Centrality evaluates scientists as hubs for flows of information on Twitter. A scientist has ‘centrality’ if they are the shortest path between other scientists in a network. Scientists score high on centrality if they are the shortest path many times. Centrality in this case has been calculated based on a network of more than 3,000 scientists on Twitter in Denmark, so if you have a centrality rank of 23 in the table below, you are the 23rd highest centrality scoring scientist among the 3,000+ scientists. If you are a scientist with a network that is mostly abroad, you may score and rank lower on centrality in Denmark.

Pagerank

Pagerank evaluates scientists as attractors of influential followers. It is an indirect, proxy measure of scientists’ impact based on their followers’ follower numbers on Twitter. A scientist has a high Twitter-pagerank if  if the people who follow them have many followers. So getting followed by another scientist who has a high following on Twitter improves your own pagerank. However, getting followed by media and journalist Twitter accounts with many followers will also increase a scientists’ pagerank. So pagerank may favour ‘celebrity’ scientists known for other things like politics, or established scientists in fields that are in the public eye.

As can be seen when you browse down the names on the index (below) it is an ‘index for Denmark’ but not necessarily a ‘Danish’ index. International scholars are well represented in the top 100.

If you are a part of the Danish science and research community, my ranking (see below) can serve as inspiration for new contacts. After all, these scientists clearly know what they are doing, at least in terms of social media!

Are you not on the list? This ranking is partly based on manually extracted data (see methodology here) and I may have missed a few active scientists and researchers who have large followings. If you know someone who should be on this list, (maybe you!), please write below in the comments, or write to mike@mikeyoungacademy.dk. Updated, final, 2021 rankings will be released at the end of September 2021.

The 2021 TwiLi Index for Denmark

Here are the top 100 scientists in Denmark on social media as ranked on my TwiLi index! The data was collected in August 2021.

Oh yes! You would like to take a deep dive into the methodology of the TwiLi Index here!

Format: TwiLi index rank / Up or down since 2020 / Name / Affiliation / Bio on Twitter / Twitter followers / LinkedIn followers / TwiLi index score / 2020 rank / Centrality rank among 3,000+ Danish scientists / Pagerank rank among 3,000+ Danish scientists / Link to Twitter account.

1 – () – Svend Brinkmann – AAU

Psychologist & Professor Tw. followers: 42,677 LI followers: 29,563 TwiLi index: 20.70 2020 rank: N/A Centrality rank in DK: 21 Pagerank rank in DK: 2. Follow Svend Brinkmann’s Twitter account here:

2 – () – Alf Rehn – SDU

Professor of innovation, design, and management. In addition a writer, speechifier, and popular culture geek. Tw. followers: 63,836 LI followers: 9,789 TwiLi index: 19.18 2020 rank:Centrality rank in DK: 362 Pagerank rank in DK: 848. Follow Alf Rehn’s Twitter account here:

3 – () –Alireza Dolatshahi-Pirouz – DTU

Assoc. Prof at DTU Health (Denmark), CTO & co-founder OuroBionics, co-founder #TeamBioEngine. |Cyborganics|&|LivingMaterials| Tw. followers: 7,448  LI followers: 30,128 TwiLi index: 17.34 2020 rank:Centrality rank in DK: 4 Pagerank rank in DK: 142. Follow Alireza Dolatshahi-Pirouz’s Twitter account here:

4 () – Lars Christensen – CBS

International economist, “Money Doctor”, sports analytics nerd, research associate Copenhagen Business School, lacsen@gmail.com +45 52 50 25 06 Tw. followers: 13,319  LI followers: 6,640 TwiLi index: 15,77 2020 rank: N/A Centrality rank in DK: 172 Pagerank rank in DK: 297.  Follow Lars Christensen’s Twitter account here:

() – Finn Tarp – UCPH

Danish Professor of Development Economics at @uni_copenhagen🇩🇰, coordinator of @DERG_DK and former Director of @UNUWIDER (2009-2018). #DERGDK Tw. followers: 27,053 LI followers: 3,244 TwiLi index: 15.56 2020 rank: 3 Centrality rank in DK: 125 Pagerank rank in DK: 75. Follow Finn Tarp’s Twitter account here:

() – Peter Nedergaard – UCPH

Tweeter om politisk ufornuft og manglende udsyn i Danmark og i EU. Tweets on political irrationalities in Denmark and Europe. Tw. followers: 2,133  LI followers: 29,331 TwiLi index: 14.87 2020 rank: N/A Centrality rank in DK: 145 Pagerank rank in DK: 145. Follow Peter Nedergaard’s Twitter account here:

7 () –  James Rogers – SDU

DIAS Assistant Prof | Fellow @LSEIDEAS | Adviser @APPGDrones, @UN, @NATO | Historian | #TEDx Speaker | Presenter @HistoryHit | Podcast @HistoryHitWW2 Tw. followers: 12,543 , LI followers: 4,182 TwiLi index: 14.84 2020 rank: 4 Centrality rank in DK: 61 Pagerank rank in DK: 187. Follow James Rogers’ Twitter account here:

8 () – Christine Stabell Benn – SDU

Professor, Global Health @SyddanskUni. Studying the overall health effects of vaccines, discovering that they have important non-specific effects #NSEvac. Tw. followers: 8,359 LI followers: 5,960 TwiLi index: 14.81 2020 rank: N/A Centrality rank in DK: 82 Pagerank rank in DK: 43. Follow Christine Stabell Benn’s Twitter account here:

9 () – Diego F. Aranha – AarhusUni

Associate Professor at @csaudk in 🇩🇰. Security researcher and scientist forged by medical quackery and insecure e-voting. #TeamAdditive for ECC notation. Tw. followers: 13,368 LI followers: 3,564 TwiLi index: 14.66 2020 rank: 9 Centrality rank in DK: 1,043 Pagerank rank in DK: 1741. Follow Diego F. Aranha’s Twitter account here:

10 – () – Flemming Besenbacher – AarhusUni

Chairman of @Carlsbergfondet & @CarlsbergGroup, but also tweets about other interests like #circulareconomy & #SDGs Tw. followers: 4,925  LI followers: 8,762 TwiLi index: 14.56 2020 rank: Centrality rank in DK:Pagerank rank in DK: 1. Follow Flemming Besenbacher’s Twitter account here:

11 () – Kristian Thorborg – UCPH

Professor of Orthopedic and Sports PT | #ucph | Research Lead @SORC_C | Board @DanskIdr | @DBUfodbold Medical com. | President @IntFSPT | Views are my own | Tw. followers: 17,233 , LI followers: 2,094 TwiLi index: 14.07 2020 rank: 7 Centrality rank in DK: 285 Pagerank rank in DK: 931. Follow Kristian Thorborg’s Twitter account here:

12 () – Ravinder Kaur – UCPH

New Book: Brand New Nation (Stanford 2020, HarperCollins India 2021) https://t.co/AeF92XWgFj @uni_copenhagen @GlobHistHarvard Fellow2020-21 Tw. followers: 4,921 , LI followers: 5,703 TwiLi index: 13,87 2020 rank: 23 Centrality rank in DK: 114 Pagerank rank in DK: 123. Follow Ravinder Kaur’s Twitter account here:

13 () – Roslyn Layton – AAU

International Tech Policy. Aalborg University Copenhagen. @aautech @ChinaTechThreat @strand_consult Tw. followers: 7,063  LI followers: 3,436 TwiLi index: 13.61 2020 rank: 26 Centrality rank in DK: 2,038 Pagerank rank in DK: 2,326. Follow Roslyn Layton’s Twitter account here:

14 () – Nicolai J. Foss – CBS

Father, husband, management professor, scribbler. Tw. followers: 3,791  LI followers: 6,308 TwiLi index: 13.60 2020 rank: 10 Centrality rank in DK: 429 Pagerank rank in DK: 102. Follow Nicolai J. Foss’ Twitter account here:

15 () – Marlene Wind – UCPH

Prof. and director @CentreforEUPol + Prof. @iCourts_jur at @uni_copenhagen | @EUI_EU alumni | Columnist at @Berlingske | Author of #TribalizationofEurope | Tw. followers: 9,125 , LI followers: 2,500 TwiLi index: 13.46 2020 rank: 11 Centrality rank in DK: 11  Pagerank rank in DK: 11. Follow Marlene Wind’s Twitter account here:

16 () –  Carsten Rahbek – UCPH

Professor & Director of Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, Univer of Copenhagen. I tweet on #nature, #biodiversity, #climatechange, #SDG & #science Tw. followers: 11,168 , LI followers: 2,090 TwiLi index: 13.44 2020 rank: 19 Centrality rank in DK: 8 Pagerank rank in DK: 14. Follow Carsten Rahbek’s Twitter account here:

17 () –  Lene Tanggaard – AAU

Rektor for Designskolen Kolding, Professor AAU, cand. psych., Ph.d. “Ikke mennesket, men mennesker bebor denne planet. Pluralitet er jordens lov”. Tw. followers: 1,935 , LI followers: 10,928 TwiLi index: 13.28 2020 rank: N/A Centrality rank in DK: 290 Pagerank rank in DK: 73. Follow Lene Tanggaard’s Twitter account here:

18 () –  Serge Belongie – UCPH

Professor, DIKU @Uni_Copenhagen | PI @BelongieLab | Computer Vision & Machine Learning Tw. followers: 7,355  LI followers: 2,577 TwiLi index: 13.19 2020 rank: N/A Centrality rank in DK: 281 Pagerank rank in DK: 140. Follow Serge Belongie’s Twitter account here:

19 () – Martin Brynskov – AarhusUni

Passionate, state-certified techno-skeptic/-addict. Gauging the digital, from ripples to tsunamis @AarhusUni @OASCities @SyncCityIoT @NGIoT4eu @score_nsr Tw. followers: 2,953 , LI followers: 6,182 TwiLi index: 13.16 2020 rank: 12 Centrality rank in DK: 218 Pagerank rank in DK: 124. Follow Martin Brynskov’s Twitter account here:

20 () – Jens Svenning – AarhusUni

Ecologist w strong interest in global #biodiversity patterns & dynamics, ecosystem #restoration & #rewilding, human-nature interrelations, and #remotesensing Tw. followers: 6,225  LI followers: 2,832 TwiLi index: 13.10 2020 rank: 15 Centrality rank in DK: 20 Pagerank rank in DK: 36. Follow Jens Svenning’s Twitter account here:

21 () –  Henning Langberg – UCPH

Innovationschef CIO @Rigshospitalet – globalt fyrtårn for innovation. Professor https://t.co/OXr0GnLVVM. KU. bestyrelsesarbejde ☎️ 26127913, ♥️@FCBarca Tw. followers: 2065 , LI followers: 8752 TwiLi index: 13,07 2020 rank: 13 Centrality rank in DK: 254 Pagerank rank in DK: 76. Follow Henning Langberg’s Twitter account here:

22 () – Morten Sodemann – SDU

Professor of Global & migrant health, Senior Consultant Infect Diseases. Health systems research, Equity, social determinants, globalhealth Tw. followers: 7,976 LI followers: 2,120 TwiLi index: 12.98 2020 rank: 33 Centrality rank in DK: 5 Pagerank rank in DK: 10. Follow Morten Sodemann’s Twitter account here:

23 – () – Jesper Juul – Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts

Video game theorist. Author of Handmade Pixels: Independent Video Games and the Quest for Authenticity. https://t.co/wL4uDurVux Tw. followers: 7839 , LI followers: 2147 TwiLi index: 12.98 2020 rank: 14 Centrality rank in DK: 1,301 Pagerank rank in DK: 724. Follow Jesper Juul’s Twitter account here:

24 () – Brian Vad Mathiesen – AAU

Prof of #SmartEnergySystems 100% #RenewableEnergy #SDG7 | Director MSc #SustainableCities | @HeatRoadmapEU @ReInvestEU @4DHresearch @sEEnergies EiC #SmartEnergy Tw. followers: 6,543  LI followers: 2,299 TwiLi index: 12.83 2020 rank: 18 Centrality rank in DK: N/A Pagerank rank in DK: N/A. Follow Brian Vad Mathiesen’s Twitter account here:

25 () – Pernille Bærendtsen – CBS

PhD fellow @cbscph & @everyhumanTZ #Humanitarianism #Diaspora & 🇹🇿 | MA #African Studies | Fmr journalist, dvt worker & more in 🌍 & #Balkan. + @thekangabook Tw. followers: 8,523 LI followers: 1,602 TwiLi index: 12.60 2020 rank: 16 Centrality rank in DK: 219 Pagerank rank in DK: 309. Follow Pernille Bærendtsen’s Twitter account here:

26 () – Christian Bueger – UCPH

Professor of International Relations, research on #oceans #maritimesecurity #bluecrime #piracy #practicetheory #praxiography #expertise @safeseas1 @PolsciCph Tw. followers: 2,454  LI followers: 5,020 TwiLi index: 12.55 2020 rank: 41 Centrality rank in DK: 166 Pagerank rank in DK: 214. Follow Christian Bueger’s Twitter account here:

27 () – Filip Wallberg – SDU

CTO hos @mediacatchio. Journalistisk lektor hos @SyddanskUniv. Fang mig via filip@sdu.dk, filip@mediacatch.io eller 2440 1522. Tw. followers: 7,349 LI followers: 1,740 TwiLi index: 12.53 2020 rank: 17 Centrality rank in DK: N/A Pagerank rank in DK: N/A. Follow Filip Wallberg’s Twitter account here:

28 () – Rebecca Adler-Nissen – UCPH

Professor in Political Science • International Relations in Theory and Practice • EU • Diplomacy • Digital Technologies • Social Media @CPH_SODAS @KuSamf Tw. followers: 6,970 , LI followers: 1,728 TwiLi index: 12.44 2020 rank: 22 Centrality rank in DK: 3 Pagerank rank in DK: 4. Follow Rebecca Adler-Nissen’s Twitter account here:

29 () – Mikkel Flyverbom – CBS

Author of ‘The Digital Prism’, shortlisted for Academy of Management Book Award, 2020. Professor and Academic Director at Copenhagen Business School +4538153375 Tw. followers: 2,234 , LI followers: 5,186 TwiLi index: 12.44 2020 rank: 28 Centrality rank in DK: 23 Pagerank rank in DK: 32. Follow Mikkel Flyverbom’s Twitter account here:

30 () – Lars L. Andersen – National Research Centre for the Working Environment

Professor | Pain | Healthy Ageing | Work Environment | SeniorWorkingLife | Exercise Physiology | Strength Training | Speaks Amerikansk flag Spansk flag Dansk flag | Views are my own Tw. followers: 2,919 LI followers: 3,868 TwiLi index: 12.43 2020 rank: 27 Centrality rank in DK: N/A Pagerank rank in DK: N/A. Follow Lars L. Andersen’s Twitter account here:

31 () – Andreas Wieland – CBS

Assoc. Prof. @CBScph | #SupplyChainResilience | born 339ppm | blog: https://t.co/ZWKOFbEaTv | own&private views | #SocialEcological #Resilience #Transformation 🇪🇺🌻🚲 Tw. followers: 1,640 , LI followers: 7,301 TwiLi index: 12.42 2020 rank: 37 Centrality rank in DK: 488 Pagerank rank in DK: 1813. Follow Andreas Wieland’s Twitter account here:

32 () – Thomas Ryberg – AAU

Professor, Aalborg University – interested in networked learning and emerging technologies Tw. followers: 4,867 , LI followers: 2,302 TwiLi index: 12.40 2020 rank: 25 Centrality rank in DK: 12 Pagerank rank in DK: 18. Follow Thomas Ryberg’s Twitter account here:

33 () – David Budtz Pedersen – AAU

Professor of Science Communication, Department of Communication & Psychology, Aalborg University. Knowledge Broker for Algorithms Data & Democracy @ADDprojektet Tw. followers: 3,394 , LI followers: 3,191 TwiLi index: 12.37 2020 rank: 24 Centrality rank in DK: 10 Pagerank rank in DK: 7. Follow David Budtz Pedersen’s Twitter account here:

34 () – Kresten Lindorff-Larsen – UCPH

Protein and coffee lover, professor of biophysics and sudo scientist at the #LinderstrømLang Centre for Protein Science @uni_copenhagen 🇩🇰 #PRISM #BRAINSTRUC Tw. followers: 4,769 , LI followers: 2,255 TwiLi index: 12.34 2020 rank: 35 Centrality rank in DK: 18 Pagerank rank in DK: 45. Follow Kresten Lindorff-Larsen’s Twitter account here:

35 () – Sune Auken – UCPH

#Genre researcher, cheerleader, content accumulator, daily reminder, Grundtvig scholar. Pastor’s wife. #VivaWoke. #ClimateChange. #RandomActsOfKindness. Tw. followers: 17,111 , LI followers: 818 TwiLi index: 12.34 2020 rank: 20 Centrality rank in DK: 311 Pagerank rank in DK: 162. Follow Sune Auken’s Twitter account here:

36 () – Akos T. Kovacs – DTU

Professor at DTU Bioengineering – Biofilms, Experimental Evolution, Sociomicrobiology, Bacteria-Plant/Fungi interaction; Senior Editor of ‘Biofilm’ (gold #OA) Tw. followers: 9,390  LI followers: 1,233 TwiLi index: 12.28 2020 rank: 29 Centrality rank in DK: 79 Pagerank rank in DK: 74. Follow Akos T. Kovacs’ Twitter account here:

37 () – Kai Hockerts – CBS

Professor of Social Entrepreneurship, Copenhagen Business School (CBS) Tw. followers: 1,874  LI followers: 5,648 TwiLi index: 12.28 2020 rank: 21 Centrality rank in DK: 714 Pagerank rank in DK: 1166. Follow Kai Hockerts’ Twitter account here:

38 () – Claes de Vreese – SDU

#AI #media #democracy #journalism #EU #polcomm #disinformation • Distinguished University Professor @UvA_Amsterdam • Incoming Director @DDC_SDU • 🇩🇰🇳🇱🇪🇺 Tw. followers: 8,092 , LI followers: 1,321 TwiLi index: 12.20 2020 rank: N/A Centrality rank in DK: 254 Pagerank rank in DK: 99. Follow Claes de Vreese’s Twitter account here:

39 () – Barbara Plank – ITUcph

Professor in Natural Language Processing (NLP), Computer Science, ITU, Denmark #NLProc, co-lead of @NLPnorth Tw. followers: 5,249 LI followers: 1,894 TwiLi index: 12.19 2020 rank: 31 Centrality rank in DK: 150 Pagerank rank in DK: 169. Follow Barbara Plank’s Twitter account here:

40 () – Katherine Richardson – UCPH

Prof. in Biol. Oceanography, Leader Sustainability Science Centre, Univ. Copenhagen Tw. followers: 2,177 LI followers: 4,056 TwiLi index: 12.05 2020 rank: 32 Centrality rank in DK: 198 Pagerank rank in DK: 27. Follow Katherine Richardson’s Twitter account here:

41 () – Michael Svarer – AarhusUni

Tw. followers: 2,918  LI followers: 2,935 TwiLi index: 12.02 2020 rank: 40 Centrality rank in DK: 259 Pagerank rank in DK: 60. Follow Michael Svarer’s Twitter account here:

42 () – Anton Pottegård – SDU

Professor of pharmacoepidemiology at @SUND_SDU. Research/tweets on use of medicines and medicine safety. Reach me at +45 28913340 / apottegaard@health.sdu.dk. Tw. followers: 2,612 LI followers: 3,103 TwiLi index: 11.93 2020 rank: N/A Centrality rank in DK: 37 Pagerank rank in DK: 38. Follow Anton Pottegård’s Twitter account here:

43 () – Rasmus Elling – UCPH

Iran, History, Sociology // Assoc. Prof. @uni_copenhagen // Author, ‘Minorities in Iran’, ‘Irans Moderne Historie’; https://t.co/pg8srvpJgo Views my own; قاسم Tw. followers: 7,414  LI followers: 1,186 TwiLi index: 11.90 2020 rank: 30 Centrality rank in DK: 38 Pagerank rank in DK: 57. Follow Rasmus Elling’s Twitter account here:

44 () – Tara Ballav Adhikari – AarhusUni

PhD Fellow @AarhusUni | Tweets on #GlobalHealth • #NCDs • #COPD • #LungHealth • #CHWs • #Nepal | SG Member @HIFA_org • Assoc.Editor @BMC_Series #PublicHealth Tw. followers: 2,691  LI followers: 2,871 TwiLi index: 11.86 2020 rank: 38 Centrality rank in DK: 1,398 Pagerank rank in DK: 2,320. Follow Tara Ballav Adhikari’s Twitter account here:

45 () – Stine Liv Johansen – AarhusUni

Lektor, ph.d. i børns medier ved @AarhusUni. Formand for Medierådet for Børn og Unge. Tw. followers: 4,213  LI followers: 1,751 TwiLi index: 11.76 2020 rank: 34 Centrality rank in DK: 46 Pagerank rank in DK: 25. Follow Stine Liv Johansen’s Twitter account here:

46 () – Michael Bang Petersen – AarhusUni

Professor of Political Science and illuminator of the evolved psychology of everything dark in politics: Pandemics, misinformation, violence and discrimination. Tw. followers: 9,511 LI followers: 892 TwiLi index: 11.74 2020 rank: 59 Centrality rank in DK: 7 Pagerank rank in DK: 3. Follow Michael Bang Petersen’s Twitter account here:

47 () – Anja C. Andersen – UCPH

Professor at the Niels Bohr Institute with focus on the Universe. Tweets on astrophysics, gender and education. Tw. followers: 3,201 LI followers: 2,173 TwiLi index: 11.70 2020 rank: 65 Centrality rank in DK: 197 Pagerank rank in DK: 19. Follow Anja C. Andersen’s Twitter account here:

48 () – Rune Møller Stahl – UCPH

Postdoc in Political Science at Copenhagen Uni. Reseaching Inequality, democracy and capitalism. Bylines at @informeren and @jacobinmag. Tw. followers: 5,171 LI followers: 1,311 TwiLi index: 11.58 2020 rank: 47 Centrality rank in DK: 16 Pagerank rank in DK: 15. Follow Rune Møller Stahl’s Twitter account here:

49 () – Isabelle Augenstein – UCPH

Associate Professor @CopeNLU @uni_copenhagen, research co-lead @checkstep Formerly @ucl_nlp, @SheffieldNLP. AI, Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning Tw. followers: 8,854 LI followers: 856 TwiLi index: 11.58 2020 rank: 53 Centrality rank in DK: 157 Pagerank rank in DK: 173. Follow Isabelle Augenstein’s Twitter account here:

50 () – Mikkel Vedby Rasmussen – UCPH

Tweets about a world in the making – in English as well as på dansk. Dean of Faculty of Social Science at University of Copenhagen. RTs not endorsements. Tw. followers: 3,458 LI followers: 1,827 TwiLi index: 11.55 2020 rank: 39 Centrality rank in DK: 102 Pagerank rank in DK: 17. Follow Mikkel Vedby Rasmussen’s Twitter account here:

51 – () – María Escudero Escribano – UCPH

Associate Professor @uni_copenhagen @HEAcatalysis, leading @NanoElectrocat. EBM @CommsChem & @ChemElectroChem. Electrochemistry, Energy, Sustainability. She/her Tw. followers: 3,524 LI followers: 1,771 TwiLi index: 11.52 2020 rank: 51 Centrality rank in DK: 92 Pagerank rank in DK: 425. Follow María Escudero Escribano’s Twitter account here:

52 (– Pedro Oliveira – CBS

Professor mso Copenhagen Business School @CBScph| Gulbenkian Chair Professor Nova School of Business & Economics @FCGulbenkian @NovaSBE| Founder @PatientInnov Tw. followers: 1,239  LI followers: 5,227 TwiLi index: 11.50 2020 rank: 45 Centrality rank in DK: 1216 Pagerank rank in DK: 1144. Follow Pedro Oliveira’s Twitter account here:

53 () – Carl-Johan Dalgaard – UCPH

Professor of economics at the University of Copenhagen. Chairman of the Danish Economic Councils (“overvismand”). Tw. followers: 4,133  LI followers: 1,511 TwiLi index: 11.50 2020 rank: 54 Centrality rank in DK: 132 Pagerank rank in DK: 41. Follow Carl-Johan Dalgaard’s Twitter account here:

54 () – Jens Lundgren – UCPH

Professor infektionsmediciner, forsker, lidende immunsystem, #personligmedicin, COVID-19, HIV, influenza, +4535455763 Tw. followers: 4,050 LI followers: 1,508 TwiLi index: 11.47 2020 rank: N/A Centrality rank in DK: 545 Pagerank rank in DK: 31. Follow Jens Lundgren’s Twitter account here:

55 () – Christina Gravert – UCPH

Assistant Professor in Economics at @uni_copenhagen & @CEBI_UCPH | Co-Founder of @impactually | nudging | behavioral economics | field experiments Tw. followers: 3,062  LI followers: 1,937 TwiLi index: 11.46 2020 rank: 88 Centrality rank in DK: 98 Pagerank rank in DK: 113. Follow Christina Gravert’s Twitter account here:

56 () – Pablo Iván Nikel – DTU

Metabolic engineer @DTUBiosustain · Proud PI @LabNikel · Coordinator @fonia_sin · @F1000 board · @NovoNordiskFond Ascending Investigator · He/Him · Views my own Tw. followers: 2,672  LI followers: 2,135 TwiLi index: 11.41 2020 rank: 50 Centrality rank in DK: 214 Pagerank rank in DK: 267. Follow Pablo Iván Nikel’s Twitter account here:

57 () – Cristina Legido-Quigley – Steno

Scientist & Advisor @StenoDiabetes @KingsCollegeLon amazed by molecules, #metabolomics #lipidomics. Dedicated to #diabetes, #cognition & #dementia research 🤍OA Tw. followers: 3,373  LI followers: 1,712 TwiLi index: 11.41 2020 rank: 43 Centrality rank in DK: 151 Pagerank rank in DK: 452. Follow Cristina Legido-Quigley’s Twitter account here:

58 () – Veronika Cheplygina – ITUcph

Failed academic & associate prof @ITUkbh 💪 🇳🇱 ➡ 🇩🇰 Blogger 🌎 Pattern Recognition 🧮 Cats 🦝 Bipolar 🧠 #BiInSci 🌈 Survivor ⚡ She/her Tw. followers: 6,620  LI followers: 954 TwiLi index: 11.39 2020 rank: N/A Centrality rank in DK: 546 Pagerank rank in DK: 378. Follow Veronika Cheplygina’s Twitter account here:

59 () – Andreas Lieberoth – AarhusUni

Psych professor @DPUAarhusUni asking questions about how tech affects behavior, learning, work, play, wellbeing 👾📊🧠. Wrote a book about imagination. Tw. followers: 3,738  LI followers: 1,481 TwiLi index: 11.33 2020 rank: 48 Centrality rank in DK: 14 Pagerank rank in DK: 24. Follow Andreas Lieberoth’s Twitter account here:

60 () – Didde Elnif – SDU

Journalistic lecturer & PhD student at @CFJSDU. Talk to me about digital journalism & internet culture. Teaching everything digital journalism. Tw. followers: 4,429  LI followers: 1,231 TwiLi index: 11.27 2020 rank: 42 Centrality rank in DK: 83 Pagerank rank in DK: 104. Follow Didde Elnif’s Twitter account here:

61 () – Paul Hünermund – CBS

Assistant Professor of Strategy and Innovation at Copenhagen Business School @CBScph @SI_Copenhagen | Co-founder of https://t.co/LC4u3bJrjO | Executive Team @AOM_TIM Tw. followers: 8,362 LI followers: 732 TwiLi index: 11.24 2020 rank: N/A Centrality rank in DK: 949 Pagerank rank in DK: 551. Follow Paul Hünermund’s Twitter account here:

62 () – Carlos Henríquez-Olguín – UCPH

PostDoc. Section of Molecular Physiology- NEXS, Univ. of Copenhagen | Research in #CellBiology #ExerciseMetabolism #Myotwitter #InsulinAction #RedoxSignaling| Tw. followers: 2,150 LI followers: 2,329 TwiLi index: 11.22 2020 rank: 44 Centrality rank in DK: 376 Pagerank rank in DK: 890. Follow Carlos Henríquez-Olguín’s Twitter account here:

63 () – Sebastian Risi – ITUcph

Research: AI, Neuroevolution, Artificial Life, Hybrid Intelligence, ML, Games, Robots. Professor, ITU Copenhagen. Co-founder of https://t.co/MHwPXADC3S Tw. followers: 5,084  LI followers: 1,045 TwiLi index: 11.19 2020 rank: 55 Centrality rank in DK: 276 Pagerank rank in DK: 376. Follow Sebastian Risi’s Twitter account here:

64 () – Ewa Roos – SDU

Professor of Musculoskeletal Function and Physiotherapy @FOF_research. Focus on prevention and treatment of joint injury and osteoarthritis. Tw. followers: 5,184 LI followers: 990 TwiLi index: 11.13 2020 rank: 46 Centrality rank in DK: 1815 Pagerank rank in DK: 990. Follow Ewa Roos’ Twitter account here:

65 () – Mona Kanwal Sheikh – DIIS

Senior researcher/head of unit #globalsecurity #worldviews @diisdk. PI @transjihad. Research: expansion/containment of #jihad #terrorism #religiousconflict #IR Tw. followers: 1,504 LI followers: 3,110 TwiLi index: 11.10 2020 rank: N/A Centrality rank in DK: 588 Pagerank rank in DK: 177. Follow Mona Kanwal Sheikh’s Twitter account here:

66 () – Sune Lehmann – DTU

A leading leader in unusual methods Celeb endorsement: https://t.co/SQwn2PgjuP Tw. followers: 4,092 LI followers: 1,167 TwiLi index: 11.08 2020 rank: 67 Centrality rank in DK: 477 Pagerank rank in DK: 37. Follow Sune Lehmann’s Twitter account here:

67 () – Peter Kurrild-Klitgaard – UCPH

University professor of political science, newspaper columnist & wanna-be Prince of Darkness Tw. followers: 2,528 LI followers: 1,790 TwiLi index: 11.07 2020 rank: 36 Centrality rank in DK: N/A Pagerank rank in DK: N/A. Follow Peter Kurrild-Klitgaard’s Twitter account here:

68 () – Mickey Gjerris – UCPH

Bioetiker og teolog med hang til spørgsmål om natursyn, klimahåb, dyrevelfærd, biotek og meningen med det hele. Have towel – need lift 🤙🚀🐢 Tw. followers: 1,815 LI followers: 2,449 TwiLi index: 11.05 2020 rank: N/A  Centrality rank in DK: 390 Pagerank rank in DK: 204. Follow Mickey Gjerris’ Twitter account here:

69 () – Ole Sejer Iversen – AarhusUni

Professor in Interaction Design, Aarhus University (DK). Head of Center for Computational Thinking & Design. Member of the Danish national UNESCO commission Tw. followers: 1,765  LI followers: 2,464 TwiLi index: 11.01 2020 rank: N/A Centrality rank in DK: 461 Pagerank rank in DK: 94. Follow Ole Sejer Iversen’s Twitter account here:

70 () – Bo Abrahamsen – SDU

Professor & endocrinologist. Osteoporosis. Epidemiology. Aviation. Occasionally reasonable. @ECTS_soc President. Check with your doctor if health concerns. Tw. followers: 3,827 LI followers: 1,174 TwiLi index: 11.00 2020 rank: 52 Centrality rank in DK: 359 Pagerank rank in DK: 464. Follow Bo Abrahamsen’s Twitter account here:

71 () – Peter Dalsgaard – AarhusUni

Professor of Interaction Design @AarhusUni, director of @CreativityAU, member of @DetUngeAkademi. I explore the design & use of IT from a humanistic perspective Tw. followers: 2,876 LI followers: 1,512 TwiLi index: 11.00 2020 rank: 49 Centrality rank in DK: 25 Pagerank rank in DK: 16. Follow Peter Dalsgaard’s Twitter account here:

72 () – Somdeep Sen – Roskilde

Development Studies @roskildeuni | ✍️ “Decolonizing Palestine” @cornellpress | ✍️ @washingtonpost @jacobin @AJEnglish @ForeignPolicy…| Views my own | 🇮🇳 🇩🇰 Tw. followers: 1,370 LI followers: 3,194 TwiLi index: 11.00 2020 rank: N/A Centrality rank in DK: 235 Pagerank rank in DK: 386. Follow Somdeep Sen’s Twitter account here:

73 () – Sjúrður Hammer – Faroe environment agency

Researcher interested in wildlife conservation, marine ecology, #teamskua #seabirds, #invasivespecies, inorganic chemistry #plasticpollution #oology he/him Tw. followers: 5,157  LI followers: 909 TwiLi index: 10.99 2020 rank: N/A Centrality rank in DK: 507 Pagerank rank in DK: 1,304. Follow Sjúrður Hammer’s Twitter account here:

74 () – Petar Popovski – AAU

Professor in Connectivity. Interested in how to process information and how information processes us. Also (jazz) music and politics. Tw. followers: 814  LI followers: 5,923 TwiLi index: 10.98 2020 rank: 57 Centrality rank in DK: 995 Pagerank rank in DK: 1,462. Follow Petar Popovski’s Twitter account here:

75 () – Mads Albertsen – AAU

Dad | DNA Sequencing Nerd | Prof. AAU | Co-founder DNASense Tw. followers: 4,773  LI followers: 951 TwiLi index: 10.96 2020 rank: N/A Centrality rank in DK: 153 Pagerank rank in DK: 48. Follow Mads Albertsen’s Twitter account here:

76 () – Stefano Ponte – CBS

Prof International Political Economy @CBScph | Director @cbdsCBS | Author Business, Power & Sustainability | GlobalValueChains | Africa | Biz & Dev | pers views Tw. followers: 2,456 LI followers: 1,704 TwiLi index: 10.96 2020 rank: 56 Centrality rank in DK: 65 Pagerank rank in DK: 90. Follow Stefano Ponte’s Twitter account here:

77 () – Afton Halloran – UCPH

Consultant in Sustainable #FoodSystems / Systems Thinker / Researcher / Host of @The_Nordics Nordic Talks Podcast Tw. followers: 1,884 LI followers: 2,177 TwiLi index: 10.93 2020 rank: N/A Centrality rank in DK: 562 Pagerank rank in DK: 1,039. Follow Afton Halloran’s Twitter account here:

78  () – Anders Perner – UCPH

#ICU Rigshospitalet UCPH Collaboration for Research in Intensive Care Vicechair Danish Medical Societies #6S #TRISS #CLASSIC #COVID_STEROID trials #sepsis #RCT Tw. followers: 3,305  LI followers: 1,274 TwiLi index: 10.93 2020 rank: 58 Centrality rank in DK: 733 Pagerank rank in DK: 129. Follow Anders Perner’s Twitter account here:

79 () – Roberto Flore – DTU

Head DTU Skylab FoodLab / I have a vision and i’m on a journey / Hands-on future of food, Food-tech, innovation and sustainability. SDG champion Tw. followers: 1,764  LI followers: 2,173 TwiLi index: 10.84 2020 rank: 60 Centrality rank in DK: 295 Pagerank rank in DK: 658. Follow Roberto Flore’s Twitter account here:

80 () – Marin Jovanovic – CBS

Assistant Professor at Copenhagen Business School @CBScph Research on #digitaltransformation #businessmodels #AI #platforms #ecosystems Tw. followers: 1,138 LI followers: 3,457 TwiLi index: 10.82 2020 rank: 66 Centrality rank in DK: 1,331 Pagerank rank in DK: 1,685. Follow Marin Jovanovic’ Twitter account here:

81 () – Michael Linden-Vørnle – DTU

Astrophysicist and Chief Adviser at the National Space Institute in Denmark. My main interests are cosmology, astrobiology, space safety and autonomy. Tw. followers: 1,897 LI followers: 1,978 TwiLi index: 10.81 2020 rank: 74 Centrality rank in DK: N/A Pagerank rank in DK: N/A. Follow Michael Linden-Vørnle’s Twitter account here:

82 () – Michael Christiansen – Statens Serum Institute

Professor, chief physician. #genomics, #cardiac #psychiatry, #fetal #publichealth Statens Serum Institut & Copenhagen University. Tweets are mine and only mine. Tw. followers: 4,202  LI followers: 958 TwiLi index: 10.81 2020 rank: 69 Centrality rank in DK: 267 Pagerank rank in DK: 750. Follow Michael Christiansen’s Twitter account here:

83 () – Asmus Leth Olsen – UCPH

Professor (MSO) in behavioral public administration • University of Copenhagen • #behavioralPA • https://t.co/vsK0pOw1gq Tw. followers: 5,410 LI followers: 773 TwiLi index: 10.79 2020 rank: 79 Centrality rank in DK: 50 Pagerank rank in DK: 12. Follow Asmus Leth Olsen’s Twitter account here:

84 () – Rikke Toft Nørgård – AarhusUni

AssocProf in EduDesign&Tech @AarhusUni, steeringgroup @HigherEdFutures, board @Pathes_Society, researching education futures+design+playful HE+humanistic tech Tw. followers: 2,243  LI followers: 1,650 TwiLi index: 10.78 2020 rank: 63 Centrality rank in DK: 262 Pagerank rank in DK: 127. Follow Rikke Toft Nørgård’s Twitter account here:

85 () – Luke Patey – DIIS

Author, ‘How China Loses’ https://t.co/05tjMautkM & ‘The New Kings of Crude’ | Senior researcher @diisdk & @OxfordEnergy. Tw. followers: 3,023  LI followers: 1,242 TwiLi index: 10.77 2020 rank: 70 Centrality rank in DK: 980 Pagerank rank in DK: 289. Follow Luke Patey’s Twitter account here:

86 () – Timo Minssen – UCPH

Law Prof.,⚖️🦠🧬🔬💊 @CeBIL_Center Dir.,@uni_copenhagen, Advisor @EUofficio, @lunduniversity, Blues aficionado #AI #Biomed #Data #Regulation #IPR #HealthLaw Tw. followers: 898  LI followers: 4,318 TwiLi index: 10.74 2020 rank: 75 Centrality rank in DK: 183 Pagerank rank in DK: 395. Follow Timo Minssen’s Twitter account here:

87 () – Theresa Scavenius – AAU

PhD, forsker i klimapolitik og demokrati på AAU. Talsperson, Momentum theresascavenius@gmail.com Tw. followers: 1,990  LI followers: 1,779 TwiLi index: 10.72 2020 rank: 99 Centrality rank in DK: 789 Pagerank rank in DK: 137. Follow Theresa Scavenius’s Twitter account here:

88 () – Frederik Hjorth – UCPH

associate professor at @polscicph @uni_copenhagen • @CPH_SODAS hangaround • @DigDemLab fellow • dad • occasional tweets in Danish Tw. followers: 3,742 LI followers: 1,000 TwiLi index: 10.72 2020 rank: 64 Centrality rank in DK: 187 Pagerank rank in DK: 26. Follow Frederik Hjorth’s Twitter account here:

89 () – Andreas Rasche – CBS

#Professor and Associate Dean at Copenhagen Business School @CBScph @CBSSust II focused on #sustainability and #ESG Tw. followers: 1,165  LI followers: 3,116 TwiLi index: 10.72 2020 rank: 71 Centrality rank in DK: 867 Pagerank rank in DK: 867. Follow Andreas Rasche’s Twitter account here:

90 () – Ruth Mottram – DMI

Climate scientist and glaciologist @dmidk, working on Greenland, Arctic and Antarctic climate and ice 🇪🇺 🇩🇰 🇬🇧 Views my own but freely shared. Tw. followers: 9,055 LI followers: 508 TwiLi index: 10.71 2020 rank: 84 Centrality rank in DK: 97 Pagerank rank in DK: 84. Follow Ruth Mottram’s Twitter account here:

91 () – Felix Riede – AarhusUni

Evolutionary archaeologist at-large interested in cultural transmission, environmental/computational archaeology and pizza. @ERC_Research CoG PI @ERC_CLIOARCH Tw. followers: 3,258  LI followers: 1,078 TwiLi index: 10.66 2020 rank: 83 Centrality rank in DK: 13 Pagerank rank in DK: 72. Follow Felix Riede’s Twitter account here:

92 () – Carsten Fogh Nielsen – SDU

Filosof, tegneserieelsker, superhelt in spe. Til dagligt i lære som menneske. Trofast #wcpic’er, opfinder af #AEBMB og generelt storforbruger af hashtags. Tw. followers: 4,503 LI followers: 822 TwiLi index: 10.65 2020 rank: N/A Centrality rank in DK: 155 Pagerank rank in DK: 40. Follow Carsten Fogh Nielsen’s Twitter account here:

93 () – Anja Bechmann – AarhusUni

Professor & Director @AUDATALAB // Thinker in Residence at Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and Arts //Co-Chair AOIR Ethics Tw. followers: 1,575  LI followers: 2,129 TwiLi index: 10.64 2020 rank: N/A Centrality rank in DK: 131 Pagerank rank in DK: 68. Follow Anja Bechmann’s Twitter account here:

94 () – Kristian Helin – UCPH

Tw. followers: 1,394  LI followers: 2,408 TwiLi index: 10.64 2020 rank: N/A Centrality rank in DK: 350 Pagerank rank in DK: 294. Follow Kristian Helin’s Twitter account here:

95 () – Kalle Johannes Rose – CBS

Assoc. Prof. at @CBSLAW2 researching #moneylaundering, #compliance and #sustainablefinance #FightFinancialCrime #FinCENFiles #OpenLux #NFGS https://t.co/K006tNnTgR Tw. followers: 1,913 , LI followers: 1,719 TwiLi index: 10.62 2020 rank: N/A Centrality rank in DK: 164 Pagerank rank in DK: 679. Follow Kalle Johannes Rose’s Twitter account here:

96 () – Graham Butler – AarhusUni

Associate Professor of Law, Aarhus University, Denmark. #eulaw #cjeu Tw. followers: 2,360  LI followers: 1,377 TwiLi index: 10.59 2020 rank: N/A Centrality rank in DK: 53 Pagerank rank in DK: 244. Follow Graham Butler’s Twitter account here:

97 () – Miguel Sicart – ITUcph

“play scholar, among other things. He/Him” Tw. followers: 3,600 LI followers: 946 TwiLi index: 10.59 2020 rank: 62 Centrality rank in DK: 185 Pagerank rank in DK: 467. Follow Miguel Sicart’s Twitter account here:

98 () – Maja Horst – DTU

“Professor i ansvarlig teknologi på DTU, Bestyrelsesformand i DFF, President elect for EASST
Følg mig fagligt på engelsk på @MajahorstI” Tw. followers: 2,145 LI followers: 1,454 TwiLi index: 10.54 2020 rank: 77 Centrality rank in DK: 36 Pagerank rank in DK: 5. Follow Maja Horst’s Twitter account here:

99 () – Stefania Serafin – AAU

Professor and mom; sonic Interaction design, VR/AR https://t.co/TyTE0JwyHu and https://t.co/L7kQdbyYdf Tw. followers: 1,387 LI followers: 2,254 TwiLi index: 10.54 2020 rank: 94 Centrality rank in DK: 168 Pagerank rank in DK: 659. Follow Stefania Serafin’s Twitter account here:

100 () – Roland Hachmann – UCsyd

Hjerne Ass. Prof., Ph.D., PostDoc| Socioculturalist | #Learning #Technology #ComputationalThinking #Design #Transfer | +45 72665025 | rhac@ucsyd.dk Tw. followers: 1,021  LI followers: 3,125 TwiLi index: 10.52 2020 rank: 61 Centrality rank in DK: N/A Pagerank rank in DK: N/A. Follow Roland Hachmann’s Twitter account here:

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Why do I tweet about lectures, webinars and conferences?

The philosophy behind the @MkeYoungAcademy Twitter account. 

Online or in-person: People need to be made aware of lectures and conferences, even if they are not directly within their own field of research.

Many years ago, one of the cool things I remember from starting university was that you could go to any lecture that caught your fancy — anywhere on campus — on any subject.

My student days started on an anthropology programme: but I soon found out that I could sit in on lectures in history, philosophy and even a course on beginners’ Ancient Greek, no questions asked.

Academic silos not only go against Humboldt’s ideal model of what a university should be, they undersell invited speakers and lecturers. They are, frankly, a waste of taxpayers’ money.

Later, when I returned to academia as editor for the University of Copenhagen’s University Post, I was struck by how much of the university’s intellectual life and energy was cooped up in small academic silos.  Many university departments and subjects made no concerted effort to attract an outside following for lectures. The underlying assumption was that lectures, even with esteemed invited international scholars and public intellectuals, are too technical and complicated for other subject areas to understand, never mind a lay public. Keeping it all in-house helps demarcate the department’s academic and social identity, and ensures that you know exactly how many people (five!) are coming to the lecture, so the organiser knows exactly how many packets of cookies to buy for the snack table.

But these academic silos not only go against Humboldt’s ideal model of what a university should be, they undersell the value of invited speakers and lecturers. They are, frankly, a waste of taxpayers’ money.

Luckily, the guerrilla culture of sitting in on other fields’ lectures still exists among students and researchers. My ambition was that the @MkeYoungAcademy Twitter account would harbour and foster it.

Later, when I started tweeting about upcoming events at Danish universities, I realised I was also pushing for a culture change. Students, PhD students and more senior scientists need an overview of the full programme of lectures, conferences and events. I felt that the students and scientists should ‘shop’ between academic specialties, at least in their choice of lectures and events. This is what makes the university system great.

Here below is a typical tweet from my account. To ensure people can scroll and skim the events, I try to keep my own tweets in almost the same format with lecture first, then date, then organiser, then tags. Creative? Not really. But effective:

Some universities are good at ensuring that all lectures and events are put up on academic calendars and widely disseminated — but others are useless, and seem to rely on word-of-mouth. I will not name names, but I do wonder why. A university-wide calendar is technically easy to implement. It adds value to the departments or centres that organise the events, to the invited speakers, and to the participating academics in related fields. And it serves as an outreach to a lay public.

Luckily, the guerrilla culture of sitting in on other fields’ lectures still exists among students and researchers. And when I started up on my own in 2016 my ambition was that the @MkeYoungAcademy Twitter account would harbour and foster it.

Then the corona pandemic put a stop to physical lectures, seminars and conferences throughout the globe. But this guerrilla culture has, if anything, been reinforced. ‘Fifth columnists’ from other fields and universities can now easily take part on Zoom lectures in specialty fields throughout the globe. All they have to do is register and get the link.

As to how many students and scientists actually do shop around for interesting lectures in related fields on the other side of the world during the corona pandemic, is, as far as I know, an open question, and I am looking forward to the studies that document it. But the culture should, if anything, have been reinforced.

I run this account as a hobby, for no reason except that I enjoy it.

My hypothesis is that while the total amount of university lectures, seminars and conferences dropped sharply during the pandemic, the greater potential reach of those that are organized as online webinars ensures that there is a wider, more geographically dispersed, and diverse range of participants.

I run this account as a hobby, for no reason except that I enjoy it. Once in a blue moon, someone who has seen a tweet or retweet orders one of my courses, but the account is not an effective ‘marketer’ of my services and I have not conceived it as one.

I have set up a good routine for it to make things easier for me. This includes various feeds and monitoring tools that suggest events that I can tweet and retweet. I also schedule tweets on Tweetdeck so that I can concentrate on my other work.

As from August 2021 the account will extend its range, move beyond Denmark, and tweet about interesting lectures, webinars and conferences throughout the Nordic region. I hope that this extension of range does not set off an exodus among my already existing followers!

Feel free to tip me off about an upcoming event by mentioning @MkeYoungAcademy in a tweet, or sending me a direct message.

You can follow the Twitter account here:

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