The real time Twitter window: What you miss if you only pre-schedule tweets

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Scheduling your tweets to post at a later time slot is a great way to keep your focus on other work. But Twitter is driven by the energy of real time — and not scheduled — interactions. Assistant Professor James Rogers talked to me about the Twitter ‘moment’ and the Twitter ‘window’.

I am a big fan of scheduling social media posts and planning ahead.

I myself use social media management tools like Hootsuite, Buffer, and Tweetdeck to monitor my own area of expertise and to schedule posts to be published at a time when I know my audience is on the platforms (Like on my account that covers seminars and conferences in Denmark here).

Three of the most popular social media management platforms, Hootsuite (left), Buffer (centre), and Tweetdeck (right)

For some reason, I have never been able to sleep beyond 6 am in the morning, and I enjoy working on my social media accounts at this time. But in my time zone nobody else does. So if I tweeted in real time at 6 am few people would notice.

And then there is the planning part of it.

Sometimes I stumble upon something that I would like to share with, say, my LinkedIn network, but I don’t want to get out of the flow of concentrated work and I don’t have the time to write the post.

So I just add a note (maybe three words) on my phone, and go back to work, knowing that I can do the post at the end of the day, or probably more likely the all-too-early morning after.

Planning and scheduling allows me, in this way, to ‘manage’ my own accounts and keep me focussed on the job at hand without losing the networking benefits.

I see it is an active research tool, as opposed to a staged engagement tool

But I know that all this strategizing and automation of tweets comes at a price: And James Rogers, who I talked to while preparing for a webinar recently, has helped me gain some perspective on just what that price is.

James Rogers is Assistant Professor of War Studies at the Danish Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS), a TEDx speaker, and a presenter of the popular History Hit series in the UK. He does research on drone warfare, security policy, and the history of warfare. He ranks fourth among all scientists on social media in Denmark, according to the Mike Young Academy 2020 TwiLi Index ranking.

“I don’t use social media management, and I don’t schedule things. I want to read and see what comes up native on the Twitter platform.  For me, I see it is an active research tool, as opposed to a staged engagement tool. If you do that, stage the engagement too much, or don’t engage at all, you don’t build up any form of clout or meaningful interaction,” he explained to me.

Making your own Twitterverse

Clout, which in general means influence or power, has a more specific meaning on Twitter. It means that people actually pay attention to your tweets, and is measured with engagement metrics like retweet numbers. James Rogers uses the term in both the general and the Twitter sense.

James Rogers (left) before a TV interview. On Twitter he opts for spontaneity rather than planning (Photo: Brittany Patton)

Like me, he checks Twitter in the mornings he says. But unlike me, he has Twitter more completely integrated into his working day.

“I see Twitter as the number one tool I have for research dissemination. But it is also a core part of scholarly engagement, and research itself,” he says.

Just like Marcel Bogers another scholar who I interviewed last year, James Rogers follows, and is followed by, a lot of people. He follows more than 7,800 people, and has a lot of followers himself, more than 10,500 in fact. His Twitter community has been built up through more than 10 years of Twitter activity.

“Everyone has their own ‘Twitterverse’. For my own part, if something is happening in my own field of drone warfare, my newsfeed is filled with people who are constantly sharing information within this field.”

Journalists use Twitter to find the right experts to talk to, and James Rogers has become the person to go to whenever the topic is drone warfare. Part of the tweet thread that started this particular interaction can be seen below.

“For example when the Saudi oil company Aramco was bombed in September 2019, that was related to my own area of expertise, and Twitter was how journalists found me,” he says.

The ‘moment’ of Twitter

“I don’t post too much. And I don’t post about everything. Neither do I engage with everything that is related to my field. But I do go in, and out of, Twitter almost every day from my desktop,” he says.

James Rogers at a recent TEDxOdense presentation on drone warfare (screenshot of YouTube video)

Twitter users, who are either tweeting, retweeting or replying to others’ tweets, want a brisk dialogue without waiting too long for other tweeters to react, according to James Rogers.

“It is important to maintain the quality of your tweets and replies. But I think that there is a ‘moment’ on Twitter, and you can’t leave it too late. There is a moment where you can engage with people, and where you need to engage with people, a ‘Twitter window,’” he says.

“Immediacy is important on the platform. If someone starts to engage with a thread that you have replied to, I often reply quickly, as it sparks a conversation. It is better than just ignoring it completely,” he says.

Global computer in the cloud

James Rogers’ perspective and Twitter routine ties in well with the thoughts expressed by Venkatesh Rao, an Indian-American author and consultant (Twitter accounts: @vgr and @ribbonfarm)  who, in a conversation on the EconTalk podcast with Russ Roberts (@EconTalker),  refers to Twitter as the ‘global computer in the cloud’ .

It’s a big distributed computer. But to participate in it, you have to be willing to let your individuality be subsumed in the larger conversation

There is something noble, something human, and something productive on Twitter. And it is not just entertainment. Taking part in conversations in real time is doing something good in the world. As Venkatesh Rao put it:

“The idea is that this is an extraordinarily powerful computing and intelligence-extracting mechanism that functions something like a market. It’s a big distributed computer. But to participate in it, you have to be willing to let your individuality be subsumed in the larger conversation. So, when you’re on Twitter and bantering back and forth with a bunch of other smart people, what you say and what you do and the memes and the clever coinages you come up with – that matters.”

In this sense, the planning, strategic scheduling, and delaying of activity on Twitter undermines the whole point of it all.

At the time when I talked to James Rogers, he was about to present a TV show with Dan Snow called Untold History.

James Rogers’ tweets are related to his own field of research, but this field is widely defined, and he also tweets in his role as speaker and presenter. Judging from his follower numbers, people on Twitter like him for it.

“For me Twitter is about the quality of your posts and the engagement rather than the quantity. Through the last couple of years I have tried to build my own Twitter. I follow people specifically who are interested in the same things I am interested in myself.  That said, I am not an academic who fits into one box, and this may have helped me also.“

As for social media management tools, James Rogers won’t be trying them out any time soon.

“Scheduling and using social media management tools may have their uses,” James Rogers told me (to my relief!) when I explained to him my own routine.

“But I think that you have to engage in real time also.”

Does your department, faculty or university need to boost the international impact and career of your researchers? Here is more about my courses in social media for researchers. See other Mike Young Academy services here.

Scientists in Denmark – the top 100 on social media in 2020

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Who is acing it on the networking sites in the land of Bohr, Holberg and Lehmann?

Research impact is a notoriously difficult thing to measure. The h-index  measures the productivity and citation impact of a scholar: but this index does not take things like education, funding and outreach activities into account.

A Danish physicist, a playwright and historian, and a geologist. OK, so Ludvig Holberg was also Norwegian. (Underlying image: Carsten Wiehe, CC license)

And what about the social media impact of a researcher? My own TwiLi Index offers a measure of it.

After releasing the index for the Greater Copenhagen/Øresund region last week, I now release the index for Denmark.

My TwiLi Index – pronounced like ‘twilight’ without the ‘t’ at the end – ranks academic scholars affiliated to research institutions using a simple, reproducible formula based on their follower numbers on Twitter and LinkedIn. Twitter and LinkedIn are the platforms of choice for researchers and scientists, as they allow networking and interaction with niche audiences throughout the world in highly specialized fields.

You can read about the methodology of the index here.

The index for Denmark and the index for the Greater Copenhagen area partially overlap.

Note that the Greater Copenhagen/Øresund regional index is not a subset of the index for Denmark, as it also includes researchers from the Swedish side of the region. This can be illustrated by the map on the left.

Since I launched the first index, for the Greater Copenhagen / Øresund area in 2019, it 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.

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 extremely well represented on the top 100.

The Denmark index uses exactly the same methodology as the Greater Copenhagen/Øresund index for 2019 and 2020. In future indices, I plan to include measures of engagement in the algorithm.

Many scientists use social media to communicate their own research and network with other scientists. The platforms extend their reach, let them discuss research with international peers, and serve as a catalyst for inspiration in the research process. Scientists and researchers are often supported in this by university institutions as they each strive to improve their own brand among stakeholders, other scientists and institutions, and the wider public.

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 is the first time I try to map out the social media field of scientists and researchers in Denmark. It 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, 2020 rankings will be released at the end of September 2020.

The 2020 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 August 2020.

Oh yes! You would like to read about the methodology of the TwiLi Index here!

1 – Alf Rehn – SDU

Professor of innovation, design, and management. In addition a writer, speechifier, and popular culture geek.Tw. followers: 63612, LI followers: 9082, TwiLi index: 19.01

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2 – Alireza Dolatshahi-Pirouz – DTU

Assoc. Prof at DTU Health (Denmark), #StemCellBioengineering #FlexibleMaterials #FlecoIonics #TissueEngineering #Biomaterials #Cyborganics# Tw. followers: 4804, LI followers: 26452, TwiLi index: 16.28

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3 – 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: 27156, LI followers: 2929, TwiLi index: 15.37

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4 – James Rogers – SDU

DIAS Assistant Professor in War Studies | Fellow @LSEIDEAS | Special Adviser @APPGDrones | Historian | #TEDx Speaker | Presenter @HistoryHit | Agent @PFDAgents Tw. followers: 10586, LI followers: 3638, TwiLi index: 14.33

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5 – Marcel Bogers – UCPH

#OpenInnovation; Professor @uni_copenhagen; @GarwoodCenter #Fellow @BerkeleyHaas; @webofscience #HighlyCited2019; PhD @EPFL; MSc @TUeindhoven — RT≠endorsement Tw. followers: 9433, LI followers: 3953, TwiLi index: 14.30

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6 – Flemming Besenbacher – Aarhus

Tweets for @Carlsbergfondet on how research, education & innovation can contribute to sustainable growth. Contact: Kirstine Rasmussen, kr@carlsbergfoundation.dk Tw. followers: 4590, LI followers: 7988, TwiLi index: 14.29

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7 – Kristian Thorborg – UCPH

Professor of Orthopedic and Sports PT Copenhagen University #ucph Tw. followers: 15800, LI followers: 1901, TwiLi index: 13.77

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8 – Behrooz Adineh – AAU

Phd Student in Semnan, Iran. Guest Phd student in Aalborg University, Denmark. Tw. followers: 2460, LI followers: 11152, TwiLi index: 13.72

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9 – Diego F. Aranha – Aarhus

Associate Professor of Computer Science @AarhusUni in 🇩🇰. I cannot save the day, but I can surely save you some cycles! Tw. followers: 8226, LI followers: 3160, TwiLi index: 13.70

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10 – Nicolai Foss – CBS

Management Professor, Scribbler Tw. followers: 3173, LI followers: 5650, TwiLi index: 13.14

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11 – Marlene Wind – UCPH

Professor in European Politics and Law, Director of CEP (Centre of European Politics). Prof at iCourts, Centre of Excellence for international Courts. Tw. followers: 8111, LI followers: 2201, TwiLi index: 13.07

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12 – Martin Brynskov – Aarhus

Passionate, state-certified techno-skeptic/-addict. Gauging the digital, from ripples to tsunamis @AarhusUni @OASCities @SyncCityIoT @NGIoT4eu @score_nsr Tw. followers: 2956, LI followers: 5380, TwiLi index: 12.95

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13 – Henning Langberg – UCPH

Direktør InnovationPLUS @Rigshospitalet – vi har noget at tilbyde verden. Professor https://t.co/OXr0GnLVVM. KU. Foredrag om innovation ☎️ 26127913, ♥️@FCBarca Tw. followers: 2024, LI followers: 8044, TwiLi index: 12.91

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14 – Jesper Juul – KADK

Video game theorist. Author of Handmade Pixels: Independent Video Games and the Quest for Authenticity. Tw. followers: 7576, LI followers: 2059, TwiLi index: 12.86

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15 – Jens-Christian Svenning – Aarhus

Ecologist w strong interest in global #biodiversity patterns & dynamics, ecosystem #restoration & #rewilding, human-nature interrelations, and #remotesensing Tw. followers: 4855, LI followers: 2458, TwiLi index: 12.50

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16 – Pernille Bærendtsen – CBS

PhD Fellow @cbscph | MA African Studies | fmr journalist & dev. worker | ♡ #Balkans #Africa | Part of @EveryHumanTZ @globalvoices @thekangabook @timbuktufonden Tw. followers: 7761, LI followers: 1555, TwiLi index: 12,42

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17 – Filip Wallberg – SDU

Journalistisk lektor, @SyddanskUniv. Står bl.a. bag: @deviralenyheder, @journalistpip og @politikerpip. Tlf 2440 1522. Fokus på #dkmedier, #smdk og #somedkTw. followers: 5196, LI followers: 1610, TwiLi index: 12.38

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18 – Brian Vad Mathiesen – AAUcph

Professor of #SmartEnergySystems + 100% #RenewableEnergy #SDG7|Prog Director MSc #SustainableCities|@HeatRoadmapEU @ReInvestEU @4DHresearch|Own opinions Tw. followers: 5645, LI followers: 1936, TwiLi index: 12.33

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19 – 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: 5196, LI followers: 1864, TwiLi index: 12.15

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20 – Sune Auken – UCPH

#Genre researcher, cheerleader, content accumulator, daily reminder, Grundtvig scholar. Pastor’s wife. #ClimateChange. #Presidementia #RAK #Præstekone Tw. followers: 15200, LI followers: 792, TwiLi index: 12.13

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21 – Kai Hockerts – CBS

Professor of Social Entrepreneurship, Copenhagen Business School (CBS) Tw. followers: 1843, LI followers: 5162, TwiLi index: 12.13

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22 – Rebecca Adler-Nissen – UCPH

Professor of Political Science • International Relations in Theory and Practice • EU • Diplomacy • Digital Technologies • Social Media @CPH_SODAS @KuSamf Tw. followers: 6030, LI followers: 1591, TwiLi index: 12.11

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23 – Ravinder Kaur – UCPH

New Book: Brand New Nation (Stanford, Aug 2020) Tw. followers: 1739, LI followers: 5132, TwiLi index: 12.02

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24 – David Budtz Pedersen – AAUcph

Professor of Science Communication (mso), Humanomics Research Centre, Aalborg University. Tweets abt #scipolicy #scicomm and #impact of Research and Technology Tw. followers: 3116, LI followers: 2761, TwiLi index: 12.02

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25 – Thomas Ryberg – AAU

Professor, Aalborg University – interested in networked learning and emerging technologies Tw. followers: 4523, LI followers: 1940, TwiLi index: 12.02

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26 – Roslyn Layton – AAUcph

Evidence-based Tech Policy. Aalborg University Copenhagen. @ChinaTechThreat. Strand Consult. Tw. followers: 2695, LI followers: 2976, TwiLi index: 11.91

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27 – Lars L. Andersen – National Research Centre for the Working Environment

Professor | Pain | Healthy Ageing | Work Environment | SeniorWorkingLife | Exercise Physiology | Strength Training | Speaks 🇺🇸 🇪🇸 🇩🇰 | Views are my own Tw. followers: 2827, LI followers: 2592, TwiLi index: 11.78

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28 – 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: 1749, LI followers: 4231, TwiLi index: 11.76

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29 – Akos T. Kovacs – DTU

DTU Professor at DTU Bioengineering – Bacterial Biofilms, Laboratory Evolution, Sociomicrobiology, Bacteria-Fungi interaction; Senior Editor of ‘Biofilm’ (gold #OA) Tw. followers: 7373, LI followers: 983, TwiLi index: 11.58

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30 – Rasmus Elling – UCPH

Iran, History, Sociology // Assoc. Prof. @uni_copenhagen @UrbanGlobal // Author, ‘Minorities in Iran’, ‘Irans Moderne Historie’; https://t.co/pg8srvpJgo Tw. followers: 6691, LI followers: 1056, TwiLi index: 11.57

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31 – Barbara Plank – ITU

Associate Professor in Natural Language Processing (NLP), ITU, Denmark #NLProc Tw. followers: 4057, LI followers: 1583, TwiLi index: 11.55

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32 – Katherine Richardson – UCPH

Prof. in Biol. Oceanography, Leader Sustainability Science Centre, Univ. Copenhagen Tw. followers: 1875, LI followers: 3328, TwiLi index: 11.53

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33 – Morten Sodemann – SDU

Professor of Global & migrant health, Senior Consultant Infect Diseases. Health systems research, Equity, social determinants,globalhealth Tw. followers: 6445, LI followers: 1046, TwiLi index: 11.51

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34 – Stine Johansen – Aarhus

Lektor, ph.d. i børns medier ved @AarhusUni. Formand for Medierådet for Børn og Unge. Tw. followers: 3889, LI followers: 1574, TwiLi index: 11.48

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35 – 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: 3093, LI followers: 1933, TwiLi index: 11.47

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36 – Peter Kurrild-Klitgaard – UCPH

Professor of Political Science, newspaper columnist & wanna-be Prince of Darkness Tw. followers: 3606, LI followers: 1672, TwiLi index: 11.47

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37 – Andreas Wieland – CBS

Associate Professor of Supply Chain Management @CBScph, read my blog: https://t.co/w15719gXJy, views here don’t reflect CBS #Resilience #SupplyChainManagement Tw. followers: 1171, LI followers: 5432, TwiLi index: 11.46

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38 – Tara Ballav Adhikari – Aarhus

PhD Fellow @AarhusUni | Tweets on #GlobalHealth • #NCDs • #COPD • #LungHealth • #CHWs • #Nepal | SG Member @HIFA_org • Assoc.Editor @BMC_Series #PublicHealth Tw. followers: 2457, LI followers: 2371, TwiLi index: 11.44

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39 – 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: 3156, LI followers: 1754, TwiLi index: 11.35

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40 – Michael Svarer – Aarhus

// Tw. followers: 2150, LI followers: 2418, TwiLi index: 11.28

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41 – Christian Bueger – UCPH

Professor of International Relations, research on #maritimesecurity, #bluecrime, #piracy, #practicetheory, #mauritiusoilspill @safeseas1 Tw. followers: 1427, LI followers: 3611, TwiLi index: 11.23

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42 – Didde Elnif – SDU

PhD student and Journalistic lecturer at @cfjsdu: Talk to me about digital journalism & public spheres. Tw. followers: 4341, LI followers: 1208, TwiLi index: 11.21

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43 – Cristina Legido-Quigley – Steno

Scientist 👩🏻🔬 @StenoDiabetes @KingsCollegeLon #Metabolomics #Lipidomics 🧠brain & liver health 🔎molecular data #dementia #diabetes T2DM✨personal views Tw. followers: 2871, LI followers: 1612, TwiLi index: 11.09

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44 – Carlos Henríquez Olguin – UCPH

Ph.D., PostDoc at Section of Molecular Physiology- NEXS, University of Copenhagen| #Myotwitter #CellBiology #ExerciseMetabolism #InsulinAction #RedoxSignaling | Tw. followers: 1972, LI followers: 2292 , TwiLi index: 11.07

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45 – Pedro Oliveira – CBS

Professor mso Copenhagen Business School @CBScph| Gulbenkian Chair Professor Nova School of Business & Economics @FCGulbenkian @NovaSBE| Founder @PatientInnov Tw. followers: 973 , LI followers: 4860 , TwiLi index: 11.02

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46 – Ewa Roos – SDU

Professor of Musculoskeletal Function and Physiotherapy @FOF_research. Focus on prevention and treatment of joint injury and osteoarthritis. Tw. followers: 4702, LI followers: 990, TwiLi index: 11.00

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47 – Rune Møller Stahl – UCPH

Postdoc in Political Science at Copenhagen Uni. Reseaching Inequality, democracy and capitalism. Bylines at @informeren and @jacobinmag. Tw. followers: 3645, LI followers: 1194, TwiLi index: 10.96

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48 – Andreas Lieberoth – Aarhus

Assistant professor @AarhusUni asking questions about how tech affects behavior, work and play 👾📊🧪🧠. Psychology, experiments, mixed methods. Has opinions. Tw. followers: 3209, LI followers: 1263, TwiLi index: 10.88

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49 – Peter Dalsgaard – Aarhus

“Professor of Interaction Design @AarhusUni and Director of @CreativityAU. I explore the design and use of IT from a humanistic perspective.” Tw. followers: 2741, LI followers: 1426, TwiLi index: 10.85

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50 – Pablo Iván Nikel – DTU

Metabolic engineer @DTUBiosustain · Head @LabNikel · Coordinator @fonia_sin · @F1000 board · Eager #traveler, #opera fan · Views my own (who else’s?) #SynBio Tw. followers: 1894, LI followers: 1968, TwiLi index: 10.80

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51 – María Escudero Escribano – UCPH

Assistant Professor @uni_copenhagen, leading @NanoElectrocat. Co-PI @HEAcatalysis. Chair @DanECSoc. Electrochemistry, Energy, Sustainability. Diversity. She/her Tw. followers: 2728, LI followers: 1346, TwiLi index: 10.76

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52 – Bo Abrahamsen – SDU

Professor& endocrinologist. Osteoporosis. Musculoskeletal Epidemiology. Aviation. Expect replies in English. Check with your doctor if you have health concerns. Tw. followers: 3177, LI followers: 1161, TwiLi index: 10.74

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53 – Isabelle Augenstein – UCPH

Associate Professor @CopeNLU @uni_copenhagen. Formerly @ucl_nlp, @SheffieldNLP. AI, Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning Tw. followers: 6530 , LI followers: 623, TwiLi index: 10.67

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54 – Carl-Johan Dalgaard – UCPH

Professor of economics at the University of Copenhagen. Chairman of the Danish Economic Councils (“overvismand”). Tw. followers: 2817, LI followers: 1218, TwiLi index: 10.65

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55 – Sebastian Risi – ITU

Research: AI, Neuroevolution, Artificial Life, Hybrid Intelligence, ML, Games, Robots. Associate Professor, ITU Copenhagen. Co-founder of https://t.co/MHwPXADC3S Tw. followers: 3838, LI followers: 923, TwiLi index: 10.63

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56 – Stefano Ponte – CBS

Prof of IPE @CBScph | Director @cbdsCBS | Author of Business, Power and Sustainability | GlobalValueChains | Africa | Biz & Development | personal views Tw. followers: 2074 , LI followers: 1599 , TwiLi index: 10.63

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57 – Petar Popovski – AAU

Professor in Connectivity. Interested in how to process information and how information processes us. And in politics. Tw. followers: 698, LI followers: 5331, TwiLi index: 10.60

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58 – Anders Perner – UCPH

“Clinical professor Intensive Care Rigshospitalet UCPH Trialist Collaboration for Research in Intensive Care – CRIC PI #6S #TRISS #CLASSIC trials #sepsis #ICU” Tw. followers: 2853 , LI followers: 1151, TwiLi index: 10.58

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59 – Michael Bang Petersen – Aarhus

Professor of Political Science & director of The Politics and Evolution Lab. Doing research on the evolutionary psychology of politics. Tw. followers: 5827, LI followers: 639, TwiLi index: 10.57

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60 – Roberto Flore – DTU

Manager of 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: 1679, LI followers: 1882 , TwiLi index: 10.56

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61 – Roland Hachmann – UCS

UCS 🧠 Ass. Prof., Ph.D. | 🌎 Socioculturalist | 💡 #Learning #Technology #ComputationalThinking #Design #Transfer #Education | 📞+45 72665025 | 📧 rhac@ucsyd.dk Tw. followers: 998, LI followers: 3087, TwiLi index: 10.47

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62 – Miguel Sicart – ITU

play scholar, among other things. He/Him Tw. followers: 3408, LI followers: 915, TwiLi index: 10.47

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63 – Rikke Toft Nørgård – Aarhus

AssProf in https://t.co/UZrSdK9ntT&tech @AarhusUni, steeringgroup @HigherEdFutures, boardmember @Pathes_Society, researching educational futures & humanistic tech.practice Tw. followers: 1996, LI followers: 1474, TwiLi index: 10.46

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64 – Frederik Hjorth – UCPH

TT assistant professor at #polscicph @uni_copenhagen • @CPH_SODAS hangaround • @DigDemLab fellow • dad • occasional tweets in Danish Tw. followers: 3236, LI followers: 945, TwiLi index: 10.45

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65 – Anja C. Andersen – UCPH

Niels Bohr Institute Tw. followers: 1508, LI followers: 1931, TwiLi index: 10.45

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66 – Marin Jovanovic – CBS

Assistant Professor at Copenhagen Business School @CBScph Research on #digitaltransformation #businessmodels #AI #platforms #ecosystems Tw. followers: 969, LI followers: 3131, TwiLi index: 10.44

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67 – Sune Lehmann – DTU

Your friendly neighborhood suneman Tw. followers: 2942, LI followers: 1005 , TwiLi index: 10.42

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68 – Jacob Taarup-Esbensen – UCC

Associate Professor, PhD, at University College Copenhagen. Specialised in Business continuity and risk management with a keen interest in the Arctic. Tw. followers: 3121, LI followers: 943, TwiLi index: 10.40

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69 – Michael Christiansen – Aarhus

“Professor, chief physician. #genomics, #cardiac #psychiatry, #fetal #publichealth Statens Serum Institut & Copenhagen University. Tweets are mine and only mine.” Tw. followers: 3193, LI followers: 915, TwiLi index: 10.38

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70 – Luke Patey -DIIS

Author of ‘How China Loses’ https://t.co/05tjMautkM & ‘The New Kings of Crude’. Senior researcher @diisdk & @OxfordEnergy. Tw. followers: 2378, LI followers: 1143, TwiLi index: 10.33

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71 – Andreas Rasche – CBS

#Professor at Copenhagen Business School @CBScph @cbsCSR I Visiting Professor Stockholm School of Economics @handels_sse @misum_sse I #CSR #sustainability Tw. followers: 1093, LI followers: 2448, TwiLi index: 10.30

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72 – Abubakar Isa Adamu – DTU

Research Scientist- Tryin to see somethin I cannot find (d other way around is also correct)#Nanotechnology• PhD Candidate•Freelance writer• Messing with Poetry Tw. followers: 4880, LI followers: 618, TwiLi index: 10.30

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73 – Susana Borras – CBS

Professor of #innovation & governance at @CBScph, Denmark. Tweeting about #scipolicy #impact #GlobalEd & on politics. Blogging: https://t.co/n5g9ieczoz Tw. followers: 1251, LI followers: 2009, TwiLi index: 10.23

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74 – Michael Linden-Vørnle – DTU

Astrophysicist and Chief Adviser at the National Space Institute in Denmark. My main interests are cosmology, astrobiology, satellite infrastructure and drones. Tw. followers: 1449, LI followers: 1715, TwiLi index: 10.23

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75 – Timo Minssen – UCPH

Innovation Law Prof. @uni_copenhagen @lunduniversity, @CeBIL_Center Director, X-officio Advisor, Dad & Blues🎸 #AI #Bio #pharma #HealthLaw #IP #Data #Regulation Tw. followers: 769 , LI followers: 3437, TwiLi index: 10.21

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76 – Henrik Ullum – UCPH

Formand for LVS, professor ved Københavns Universitet, far til fire, kaffenyder og cykeltosse. Brænder for sundhedsvæsnet og sundhedsforskning. Tw. followers: 2376, LI followers: 1051, TwiLi index: 10.20

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77 – Maja Horst – UCPH/DTU

“Professor i ansvarlig teknologi på DTU og i forskningskommunikation på Københavns Universitet. Følg mig fagligt på engelsk på @MajahorstI” Tw. followers: 1817, LI followers: 1337, TwiLi index: 10.19

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78 – Poul Nissen – Aarhus

Prof. protein biochemistry @AarhusUni, opinions are my own. Structural neurobiology, chemist. Tweets in Danish and English on science, nature, politics etc.Tw. followers: 2150, LI followers: 1128, TwiLi index: 10.18

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79 – Asmus Leth Olsen – UCPH

Professor (MSO) in behavioral public administration • University of Copenhagen • #behavioralPA • https://t.co/yusmp8o78X Tw. followers: 4285, LI followers: 629, TwiLi index: 10.17

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80 – Henrik Breitenbauch – UCPH

Military Studies/Uni Copenhagen and Atlantic Council. On strategy, security, and social sciences. For freedom, books, and cats. Tw. followers: 1929, LI followers: 1241, TwiLi index: 10.17

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81 – Jason Box – GEUS

ice climatologist at Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, contemplating Greenland, Arctic and global climate issues. Views here my own. 🙂 Tw. followers: 18242, LI followers: 241, TwiLi index: 10.17

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82 – Helle Malmvig – DIIS

Senior Researcher @DIISDk, columnist @Weekendavisen, @SOAS alumna, Middle East international politics, Levant, visual art, humour & resistance Tw. followers: 2286, LI followers: 1059, TwiLi index: 10.16

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83 – Felix Riede – Aarhus

Evolutionary archaeologist at-large interested in cultural transmission, environmental/computational archaeology and pizza. @ERC_Research CoG PI @ERC_CLIOARCH Tw. followers: 2533, LI followers: 954, TwiLi index: 10.15

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84 – 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: 8133, LI followers: 388, TwiLi index: 10.13

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85 – Rasmus Corlin Christensen – CBS

Political economist @CBScph, research associate @ICTDtax, researching international taxation and professions Tw. followers: 3569, LI followers: 695, TwiLi index: 10.10

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86 – Jonas Geldmann – Aarhus

Nature conservationist working on citizen science & protected area effectiveness at @Macroecology and with WCPA. Also tweeting about 🇩🇰 & 🌍 environ policy Tw. followers: 1994, LI followers: 1112, TwiLi index: 10.06

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87 – Mikael Rask Madsen – UCPH

Professor of law and Director of iCourts, Centre of Excellence for International Courts, Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen Tw. followers: 1617, LI followers: 1354, TwiLi index: 10.05

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88 – Christina Gravert – UCPH

Assistant Professor in Economics at @uni_copenhagen & @CEBI_UCPH | Co-Founder of @impactually | nudging | behavioral economics | evidence-based policy Tw. followers: 1927, LI followers: 1129, TwiLi index: 10.03

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89 – Ove Christensen – PH Absalon

Historian of Ideas. Educational Researcher and teacher educator @ #PHAbsalon #SocialLearning, #EdResearch #PLC ‘Bildung’ and #SoMe #skolechat #EdCamp #EdcampDK Tw. followers: 3160, LI followers: 732, TwiLi index: 10.03

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90 – Natalie Schluter – ITU

“#NoJusticeNoPeace Senior Research Scientist at Google Brain, and Associate Professor at IT University, Copenhagen” Tw. followers: 3443, LI followers: 673, TwiLi index: 10.01

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91 – Aske Kammer – DIS

DMJH Docent in Media Innovation at @dmjx. I research the intersection of (news) media work, technology, and business. Current working on the datafied news industry. Tw. followers: 2987, LI followers: 740, TwiLi index: 9.98

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92 – Holger Sandte – DIS

Economist | Lecturer at DIS Copenhagen | European with a 🇩🇪 passport living in 🇩🇰. RT = Read This. Like means like or bookmark. Tw. followers: 2081, LI followers: 994, TwiLi index: 9.95

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93 – Carmelo Cennamo – CBS

Professor @CBScph | Director Digital Markets Competition Forum | Platform economy, Platform markets, Ecosystems, Digital transformation, Competition Tw. followers: 1137 , LI followers: 1749 , TwiLi index: 9.91

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94 – Stefania Serafin – AAUcph

Professor and mom; sonic Interaction design, VR/AR http://melcph.create.aau.dk and https://smc.aau.dk Tw. followers: 1000, LI followers: 1980, TwiLi index: 9.89

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95 – Niels Brügger – Aarhus

Internet research, web history, media studies, Digital Humanities. Professor, Aarhus University, in Media studies. Managing Ed of Internet Histories Tw. followers: 2291, LI followers: 863, TwiLi index: 9.87

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96 – Lone Koefoed Hansen – Aarhus

associate prof in digital art & design @AarhusUni. Feminist mind and curious brain. Editor of @AUforsker. Eng+Danish. When in doubt, assume good faith. She/her. Tw. followers: 3893, LI followers: 555, TwiLi index: 9.86

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97 – Helle Rabøl Hansen – Aarhus

Cand. jur. P.hd. Postdoc/DPU. Tilknyttet NO!SE. Tw. followers: 665, LI followers: 3092, TwiLi index: 9.86

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98 – Bertil F. Dorch – SDU

Astrophysicist, Library Director and Associate Professor @ SDU, sci fi nerd, karate-do, former President of the Danish Research Library Association (2014-2020) Tw. followers: 995, LI followers: 1901, TwiLi index: 9.83

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99 – Theresa Scavenius – AAU

PhD, forsker i klimapolitik og demokrati på AAU. Foredragsholder og klimaformidler. theresascavenius@gmail.com Tw. followers: 1481, LI followers: 1236, TwiLi index: 9.81

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100 – Stine Ejsing-Duun – AAU

Associate professor. Design as modes of inquiry. Design thinking in education. Computational thinking. Gender & Tech. Play. Games. Creativity. Tinkering. Tw. followers: 1090, LI followers: 1667, TwiLi index: 9.79

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101 – Andreas Roepstorff – Aarhus

Professor, Aarhus University. See also @interact_minds centre and my Danish tweets @androrff Tw. followers: 1962, LI followers: 931, TwiLi index: 9.78

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102 – Jeremy Morris – Aarhus

I write ethnographically about Russia and other things. Безродный космополит и разночинец. Associate Prof. Global Studies @AarhusUni. Tw. followers: 2344, LI followers: 780, TwiLi index: 9.75

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Copenhagen scientists – the top 100 on social media in 2020

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Who are the most popular scientists on Twitter and LinkedIn in the Copenhagen region?

My own TwiLi Index ranks scientists based on their follower numbers. I now release the 2020 edition, based on active scientists and researchers in the Greater Copenhagen/Øresund region. A separate index for Denmark is here. Since I launched the index in 2019, it has been reviewed in several publications like here in CBS Wire. Some in the research community point to its usefulness as one of many measures of researcher success that supplement bibliometric scores, citations, and educational activities.

This index covers the wider research hub of Copenhagen (including Roskilde, Lyngby) and the Swedish side of the Øresund (Lund, Malmö)

My plan was originally to tweak the algorithm this year to include measures of ‘engagement’ or activity on the two platforms. But these adjustments are not ready yet, so I am releasing two 2020 rankings (Greater Copenhagen and Denmark) with the exact same methodology as the 2019 index. As a positive side effect, this enables comparison with the 2019 tables, so scientists can see whether they are trending up, or down! There are now 100 scientists on the ranking. Here is the original post explaining the methodology. Many scientists use social media to communicate their own research and network with other scientists. The platforms extend their reach, let them discuss research with international peers, and serve as a catalyst for inspiration in the research process. Scientists and researchers are often supported in this by university institutions as they each strive to improve their own brand among stakeholders, other scientists and institutions, and the wider public. Social media like Twitter and LinkedIn are the platforms of choice for researchers and scientists, as they, unlike other platforms, let them focus their professional, academic interactions with niche audiences in highly specialized fields throughout the world. The TwiLi Index ranking is calculated using an algorithm based on the raw numbers of Twitter followers and LinkedIn followers (note, not connections, but followers!).

To those who already have followers, more shall be given…

If you are a part of the Copenhagen science and research community, the ranking offers the added bonus that it shows you who to follow, just because, apparently, everyone else is! And so the index can’t help but reinforce the Matthew effect that we already know from the Good Book: To those who already have followers, more shall be given… I have written about the methodology of my ranking here. The TwiLi Index is pronounced like ‘twilight’ without a ‘t’.

Are you not on the list? This is the second time I try to map out the social media field of scientists and researchers in Copenhagen. It 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, 2020 rankings will be released at the end of September 2020.

The 2020 TwiLi Index for Greater Copenhagen

Here are the top 100 Copenhagen scientists on social media as ranked on my TwiLi index! The data was collected August 2020. Yes you DO want to read about the methodology of the TwiLi Index here!

1 – Alireza Dolatshahi-Pirouz – DTU

Assoc. Prof at DTU Health (Denmark), #StemCellBioengineering #FlexibleMaterials #FlecoIonics #TissueEngineering #Biomaterials #Cyborganics# Tw. followers: 4804, LI followers: 26452, TwiLi index: 16.28 Follow Alireza Dolatshahi-Pirouz’s Twitter account here:

2 – 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: 27156, LI followers: 2929, TwiLi index: 15.37 Follow Finn Tarp’s Twitter account here:

3 – Marcel Bogers – UCPH

#OpenInnovation; Professor @uni_copenhagen; @GarwoodCenter #Fellow @BerkeleyHaas; @webofscience #HighlyCited2019; PhD @EPFL; MSc @TUeindhoven — RT≠endorsement Tw. followers: 9433, LI followers: 3953, TwiLi index: 14.30 Follow Marcel Bogers’s Twitter account here:

4 – Kristian Thorborg – UCPH

Professor of Orthopedic and Sports PT Copenhagen University #ucph Tw. followers: 15800, LI followers: 1901, TwiLi index: 13.77 Follow Kristian Thorborg’s Twitter account here:

5 – Marlene Wind – UCPH

Professor in European Politics and Law, Director of CEP (Centre of European Politics). Prof at iCourts, Centre of Excellence for international Courts. Tw. followers: 8111, LI followers: 2201, TwiLi index: 13.07 Follow Marlene Wind’s Twitter account here:

6 – Nicolai Foss – CBS

Management Professor, Scribbler Tw. followers: 3173, LI followers: 5650, TwiLi index: 13.14 Follow Nicolai Foss’ Twitter account here:

7 – Henning Langberg – UCPH

Direktør InnovationPLUS @Rigshospitalet – vi har noget at tilbyde verden. Professor https://t.co/OXr0GnLVVM. KU. Foredrag om innovation ☎️ 26127913, ♥️@FCBarca Tw. followers: 2024, LI followers: 8044, TwiLi index: 12.91 Follow Henning Langberg’s Twitter account here:

8 – Jesper Juul – KADK

Video game theorist. Author of Handmade Pixels: Independent Video Games and the Quest for Authenticity. Tw. followers: 7576, LI followers: 2059, TwiLi index: 12.86 Follow Jesper Juul’s Twitter account here:

9 – Tobias Denskus – Malmö

Senior Lecturer Communication for Development @mahcomdev, @MalmoUniversity, Sweden Tw. followers: 4590, LI followers: 2722, TwiLi index: 12.58 Follow Tobias Denskus’s Twitter account here:

10 – Pernille Bærendtsen – CBS

PhD Fellow @cbscph | MA African Studies | fmr journalist & dev. worker | ♡ #Balkans #Africa | Part of @EveryHumanTZ @globalvoices @thekangabook @timbuktufonden Tw. followers: 7761, LI followers: 1555, TwiLi index: 12,42 Follow Pernille Bærendtsen’s Twitter account here:

11 – Brian Vad Mathiesen – AAUcph

Professor of #SmartEnergySystems + 100% #RenewableEnergy #SDG7|Prog Director MSc #SustainableCities|@HeatRoadmapEU @ReInvestEU @4DHresearch|Own opinions Tw. followers: 5645, LI followers: 1936, TwiLi index: 12.33 Follow Brian Vad Mathiesen’s Twitter account here:

12 – 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: 5196, LI followers: 1864, TwiLi index: 12.15 Follow Carsten Rahbek’s Twitter account here:

13 – Sune Auken – UCPH

#Genre researcher, cheerleader, content accumulator, daily reminder, Grundtvig scholar. Pastor’s wife. #ClimateChange. #Presidementia #RAK #Præstekone Tw. followers: 15200, LI followers: 792, TwiLi index: 12.13 Follow Sune Auken’s Twitter account here:

14 – Kai Hockerts – CBS

Professor of Social Entrepreneurship, Copenhagen Business School (CBS) Tw. followers: 1843, LI followers: 5162, TwiLi index: 12.13 Follow Kai Hockerts’ Twitter account here:

15 – Rebecca Adler-Nissen – UCPH

Professor of Political Science • International Relations in Theory and Practice • EU • Diplomacy • Digital Technologies • Social Media @CPH_SODAS @KuSamf Tw. followers: 6030, LI followers: 1591, TwiLi index: 12.11 Follow Rebecca Adler-Nissen’s Twitter account here:

16 – Ravinder Kaur – UCPH

New Book: Brand New Nation (Stanford, Aug 2020) Tw. followers: 1739, LI followers: 5132, TwiLi index: 12.02 Follow Ravinder Kaur’s Twitter account here:

17 – David Budtz Pedersen – AAUcph

Professor of Science Communication (mso), Humanomics Research Centre, Aalborg University. Tweets abt #scipolicy #scicomm and #impact of Research and Technology Tw. followers: 3116, LI followers: 2761, TwiLi index: 12.02 Follow David Budtz Pedersen’s Twitter account here:

18 – Roslyn Layton – AAUcph

Evidence-based Tech Policy. Aalborg University Copenhagen. @ChinaTechThreat. Strand Consult. Tw. followers: 2695, LI followers: 2976, TwiLi index: 11.91 Follow Roslyn Layton’s Twitter account here:

19 – Kimberly Nicholas – LUND

Sustainability Scientist @lunduniversity. #climate solutions; sustainable land, food, & wine; flyingless. Author, UNDER THE SKY WE MAKE (2021, @PutnamBooks). Tw. followers: 7387, LI followers: 1169, TwiLi index: 11.87 Follow Kimberly Nicholas’ Twitter account here:

20 – Hakim Abdi – LUND

Postdoc in satellite🛰️ data science at @CEC_Lund | A/Editor @RSECJournal | Savannas & drylands🌿, drought impacts♨️, machine learning👨🏾💻| Birds & Birding🐦 Tw. followers: 6724, LI followers: 1253, TwiLi index: 11.86 Follow Hakim Abdi’s Twitter account here:

21 – Lars L. Andersen – National Research Centre for the Working Environment

Professor | Pain | Healthy Ageing | Work Environment | SeniorWorkingLife | Exercise Physiology | Strength Training | Speaks 🇺🇸 🇪🇸 🇩🇰 | Views are my own Tw. followers: 2827, LI followers: 2592, TwiLi index: 11.78 Follow Lars L. Andersen’s Twitter account here:

22 – 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: 1749, LI followers: 4231, TwiLi index: 11.76 Follow Mikkel Flyverbom’s Twitter account here:

23 – Akos T. Kovacs – DTU

DTU Professor at DTU Bioengineering – Bacterial Biofilms, Laboratory Evolution, Sociomicrobiology, Bacteria-Fungi interaction; Senior Editor of ‘Biofilm’ (gold #OA) Tw. followers: 7373, LI followers: 983, TwiLi index: 11.58 Follow Akos T. Kovacs’ Twitter account here:

24 – Rasmus Elling – UCPH

Iran, History, Sociology // Assoc. Prof. @uni_copenhagen @UrbanGlobal // Author, ‘Minorities in Iran’, ‘Irans Moderne Historie’; https://t.co/pg8srvpJgo Tw. followers: 6691, LI followers: 1056, TwiLi index: 11.57 Follow Rasmus Elling’s Twitter account here:

25 – Barbara Plank – ITU

Associate Professor in Natural Language Processing (NLP), ITU, Denmark #NLProc Tw. followers: 4057, LI followers: 1583, TwiLi index: 11.55 Follow Barbara Plank’s Twitter account here:

26 – Katherine Richardson – UCPH

Prof. in Biol. Oceanography, Leader Sustainability Science Centre, Univ. Copenhagen Tw. followers: 1875, LI followers: 3328, TwiLi index: 11.53 Follow Katherine Richardson’s Twitter account here:

27 – 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: 3093, LI followers: 1933, TwiLi index: 11.47 Follow Kresten Lindorff-Larsen’s Twitter account here:

28 – Peter Kurrild-Klitgaard – UCPH

Professor of Political Science, newspaper columnist & wanna-be Prince of DarknessTw. followers: 3606, LI followers: 1672, TwiLi index: 11.47 Follow Andreas Wieland’s Twitter account here:

29 – Andreas Wieland – CBS

Associate Professor of Supply Chain Management @CBScph, read my blog: https://t.co/w15719gXJy, views here don’t reflect CBS #Resilience #SupplyChainManagement Tw. followers: 1171, LI followers: 5432, TwiLi index: 11.46 Follow Andreas Wieland’s Twitter account here:

30 – 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: 3156, LI followers: 1754, TwiLi index: 11.35 Follow Mikkel Vedby Rasmussen’s Twitter account here:

31 – Mi Lennhag – LUND

“Political Scientist @LundUniversity Sweden & freelance journalist. Focus: Post-Soviet area, Swedish politics, EU, military, corruption. Tweets: 🇸🇪🇬🇧🇩🇪🇷🇺🇺🇦🇵🇱🇩🇰” Tw. followers: 10907, LI followers: 635, TwiLi index: 11.32 Follow Mi Lennhag’s Twitter account here:

32 – Christian Bueger – UCPH

Professor of International Relations, research on #maritimesecurity, #bluecrime, #piracy, #practicetheory, #mauritiusoilspill @safeseas1 Tw. followers: 1427, LI followers: 3611, TwiLi index: 11.23 Follow Christian Bueger’s Twitter account here:

33 – Cristina Legido-Quigley – Steno

Scientist 👩🏻🔬 @StenoDiabetes @KingsCollegeLon #Metabolomics #Lipidomics 🧠brain & liver health 🔎molecular data #dementia #diabetes T2DM✨personal views Tw. followers: 2871, LI followers: 1612, TwiLi index: 11.09 Follow Cristina Legido-Quigley’s Twitter account here:

34 – Carlos Henríquez Olguin – UCPH

Ph.D., PostDoc at Section of Molecular Physiology- NEXS, University of Copenhagen| #Myotwitter #CellBiology #ExerciseMetabolism #InsulinAction #RedoxSignaling | Tw. followers: 1972, LI followers: 2292 , TwiLi index: 11.07 Follow Carlos Henríquez Olguin’s Twitter account here:

35 – Louise Bringselius – LUND

Docent i organisation vid Lunds universitet. Älskar forskning. Kolumnist i Sydsvenskan. Fd forskningsledare i Tillitsdelegationen. Pol oberoende. Privata tw. Tw. followers: 1654 , LI followers: 2670, TwiLi index: 11.03 Follow Louise Bringselius’ Twitter account here:

36 – Pedro Oliveira – CBS

Professor mso Copenhagen Business School @CBScph| Gulbenkian Chair Professor Nova School of Business & Economics @FCGulbenkian @NovaSBE| Founder @PatientInnov Tw. followers: 973 , LI followers: 4860 , TwiLi index: 11.02 Follow Pedro Oliveira’s Twitter account here:

37 – Rune Møller Stahl – UCPH

Postdoc in Political Science at Copenhagen Uni. Reseaching Inequality, democracy and capitalism. Bylines at @informeren and @jacobinmag. Tw. followers: 3645, LI followers: 1194, TwiLi index: 10,96268076 Follow Rune Møller Stahl’s Twitter account here:

38 – Pablo Iván Nikel – DTU

Metabolic engineer @DTUBiosustain · Head @LabNikel · Coordinator @fonia_sin · @F1000 board · Eager #traveler, #opera fan · Views my own (who else’s?) #SynBio Tw. followers: 1894, LI followers: 1968, TwiLi index:10.80 Follow Pablo Iván Nikel’s Twitter account here:

39 – María Escudero Escribano – UCPH

Assistant Professor @uni_copenhagen, leading @NanoElectrocat. Co-PI @HEAcatalysis. Chair @DanECSoc. Electrochemistry, Energy, Sustainability. Diversity. She/her Tw. followers: 2728, LI followers: 1346, TwiLi index: 10.76 Follow María Escudero Escribano’s Twitter account here:

40 – Michael Krona – Malmö

Media Scholar and Assistant Professor at @MalmoUniversity. Works on Islamic State propaganda. Co-editor and author of “The Media World of ISIS” (2019) Tw. followers: 6085 , LI followers: 687 , TwiLi index: 10.74 Follow Michael Krona’s Twitter account here:

41 – Isabelle Augenstein – UCPH

Associate Professor @CopeNLU @uni_copenhagen. Formerly @ucl_nlp, @SheffieldNLP. AI, Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning Tw. followers: 6530 , LI followers: 623, TwiLi index: 10.67 Follow Isabelle Augenstein’s Twitter account here:

42 – Carl-Johan Dalgaard – UCPH

Professor of economics at the University of Copenhagen. Chairman of the Danish Economic Councils (“overvismand”). Tw. followers: 2817, LI followers: 1218, TwiLi index: 10.65 Follow Carl-Johan Dalgaard’s Twitter account here:

43 – Sebastian Risi – ITU

Research: AI, Neuroevolution, Artificial Life, Hybrid Intelligence, ML, Games, Robots. Associate Professor, ITU Copenhagen. Co-founder of https://t.co/MHwPXADC3S Tw. followers: 3838, LI followers: 923, TwiLi index: 10.63 Follow Sebastian Risi’s Twitter account here:

44 – Stefano Ponte – CBS

Prof of IPE @CBScph | Director @cbdsCBS | Author of Business, Power and Sustainability | GlobalValueChains | Africa | Biz & Development | personal views Tw. followers: 2074 , LI followers: 1599 , TwiLi index: 10.63 Follow Stefano Ponte’s Twitter account here:

45 – Anders Perner – UCPH

“Clinical professor Intensive Care Rigshospitalet UCPH Trialist Collaboration for Research in Intensive Care – CRIC PI #6S #TRISS #CLASSIC trials #sepsis #ICU” Tw. followers: 2853 , LI followers: 1151, TwiLi index: 10.58 Follow Anders Perner’s Twitter account here:

46 – Roberto Flore – DTU

Manager of 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: 1679, LI followers: 1882 , TwiLi index: 10.56 Follow Roberto Flore’s Twitter account here:

47 – Miguel Sicart – ITU

play scholar, among other things. He/Him Tw. followers: 3408, LI followers: 915, TwiLi index: 10.47 Follow Miguel Sicart’s Twitter account here:

48 – Frederik Hjorth – UCPH

TT assistant professor at #polscicph @uni_copenhagen • @CPH_SODAS hangaround • @DigDemLab fellow • dad • occasional tweets in Danish Tw. followers: 3236, LI followers: 945, TwiLi index: 10.45 Follow Frederik Hjorth’s Twitter account here:

49 – Anja C. Andersen – UCPH

Niels Bohr Institute Tw. followers: 1508, LI followers: 1931, TwiLi index: 10,45 Follow Anja C. Andersen’s Twitter account here:

50 – Marin Jovanovic – CBS

Assistant Professor at Copenhagen Business School @CBScph Research on #digitaltransformation #businessmodels #AI #platforms #ecosystems Tw. followers: 969, LI followers: 3131, TwiLi index: 10.44 Follow Marin Jovanovic’s Twitter account here:

51 – Sune Lehmann – DTU

Your friendly neighborhood suneman Tw. followers: 2942, LI followers: 1005 , TwiLi index: 10,41732246 Follow Sune Lehmann’s Twitter account here:

52 – Jacob Taarup-Esbensen – UCC

Associate Professor, PhD, at University College Copenhagen. Specialised in Business continuity and risk management with a keen interest in the Arctic. Tw. followers: 3121, LI followers: 943, TwiLi index: 10.40 Follow Jacob Taarup-Esbensen’s Twitter account here:

53 – Ton Falqués – LUND

Bioquímic codinenc expatriat a Suècia. Fent ciència a @lunduniversity. De tant en tant xerro per @onacodinenca i vibro amb el @chpsantfeliu. Opinions personals. Tw. followers: 2481 , LI followers: 1140, TwiLi index: 10.38 Follow Ton Falqués’ Twitter account here:

54 – Luke Patey -DIIS

Author of ‘How China Loses’ https://t.co/05tjMautkM & ‘The New Kings of Crude’. Senior researcher @diisdk & @OxfordEnergy. Tw. followers: 2378, LI followers: 1143, TwiLi index: 10.33 Follow Luke Patey ‘s Twitter account here:

55 – Kes McCormick – LUND

Associate Professor @IIIEElund Honorary Fellow @MSSImelb Working with #sustainability #cities #governance #innovation #climate Coordinating @sharing_sweden Tw. followers: 1363, LI followers: 1966, TwiLi index: 10.33 Follow Kes McCormick’s Twitter account here:

56 – Andreas Rasche – CBS

#Professor at Copenhagen Business School @CBScph @cbsCSR I Visiting Professor Stockholm School of Economics @handels_sse @misum_sse I #CSR #sustainability Tw. followers: 1093, LI followers: 2448, TwiLi index: 10.30 Follow Andreas Rasche’s Twitter account here:

57 – Abubakar Isa Adamu – DTU

Research Scientist- Tryin to see somethin I cannot find (d other way around is also correct)#Nanotechnology• PhD Candidate•Freelance writer• Messing with Poetry Tw. followers: 4880, LI followers: 618, TwiLi index: 10.30 Follow Abubakar Isa Adamu’s Twitter account here:

58 – Susana Borras – CBS

Professor of #innovation & governance at @CBScph, Denmark. Tweeting about #scipolicy #impact #GlobalEd & on politics. Blogging: https://t.co/n5g9ieczoz Tw. followers: 1251, LI followers: 2009, TwiLi index: 10.23 Follow Susana Borras’ Twitter account here:

59 – Michael Linden-Vørnle – DTU

Astrophysicist and Chief Adviser at the National Space Institute in Denmark. My main interests are cosmology, astrobiology, satellite infrastructure and drones. Tw. followers: 1449, LI followers: 1715, TwiLi index: 10.23 Follow Michael Linden-Vørnle’s Twitter account here:

60 – Timo Minssen – UCPH

Innovation Law Prof. @uni_copenhagen @lunduniversity, @CeBIL_Center Director, X-officio Advisor, Dad & Blues🎸 #AI #Bio #pharma #HealthLaw #IP #Data #Regulation Tw. followers: 769 , LI followers: 3437, TwiLi index: 10.21 Follow Timo Minssen’s Twitter account here:

61 – Maysam Behravesh – LUND

PhDing @LundUniversity • Analyst @GulfStateAnalyt • Intelligence analyst & security policy advisor (Iran, 2008-2010) • @ForeignAffairs @ForeignPolicy @Reuters.. Tw. followers: 6234, LI followers: 488, TwiLi index: 10.21 Follow Maysam Behravesh’s Twitter account here:

62 – Henrik Ullum – UCPH

Formand for LVS, professor ved Københavns Universitet, far til fire, kaffenyder og cykeltosse. Brænder for sundhedsvæsnet og sundhedsforskning. Tw. followers: 2376, LI followers: 1051, TwiLi index: 10.20 Follow Henrik Ullum’s Twitter account here:

63 – Maja Horst – UCPH/DTU

“Professor i ansvarlig teknologi på DTU og i forskningskommunikation på Københavns Universitet. Følg mig fagligt på engelsk på @MajahorstI” Tw. followers: 1817, LI followers: 1337, TwiLi index: 10.19 Follow Maja Horst’s Twitter account here:

64 – Asmus Leth Olsen – UCPH

Professor (MSO) in behavioral public administration • University of Copenhagen • #behavioralPA • https://t.co/yusmp8o78X Tw. followers: 4285, LI followers: 629, TwiLi index: 10.17 Follow Asmus Leth Olsen’s Twitter account here:

65 – Henrik Breitenbauch – UCPH

Military Studies/Uni Copenhagen and Atlantic Council. On strategy, security, and social sciences. For freedom, books, and cats. Tw. followers: 1929, LI followers: 1241, TwiLi index: 10.17 Follow Henrik Breitenbauch’s Twitter account here:

66 – Jason Box – GEUS

ice climatologist at Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, contemplating Greenland, Arctic and global climate issues. Views here my own. 🙂 Tw. followers: 18242, LI followers: 241, TwiLi index: 10.17 Follow Jason Box’ Twitter account here:

67 – Helle Malmvig – DIIS

Senior Researcher @DIISDk, columnist @Weekendavisen, @SOAS alumna, Middle East international politics, Levant, visual art, humour & resistance Tw. followers: 2286, LI followers: 1059, TwiLi index: 10.16 Follow Helle Malmvig’s Twitter account here:

68 – Gürdal Şahin – LUND

MD, PhD. Neurologist and neuroscientist. Headache and movement disorders specialist. Creative thinker, innovator, bibliophilic. Tw. followers: 4565, LI followers: 595, TwiLi index: 10.16 Follow Gürdal Şahi’s Twitter account here:

69 – 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: 8133, LI followers: 388, TwiLi index: 10.13 Follow Ruth Mottram’s Twitter account here:

70 – Rasmus Corlin Christensen – CBS

Political economist @CBScph, research associate @ICTDtax, researching international taxation and professions Tw. followers: 3569, LI followers: 695, TwiLi index: 10.10 Follow Rasmus Corlin Christensen’s Twitter account here:

71 – Andreas Bergh – LUND

“Välfärdsforskare och föreläsare, Lunds universitet & IFN. Författare till “”Två filter – Varför du har fel om nästan allt, men ändå inte vill ändra dig””.” Tw. followers: 6020, LI followers: 460, TwiLi index: 10.07 Follow Andreas Bergh’s Twitter account here:

72 – Mikael Rask Madsen – UCPH

Professor of law and Director of iCourts, Centre of Excellence for International Courts, Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen Tw. followers: 1617, LI followers: 1354, TwiLi index: 10.05 Follow Mikael Rask Madsen’s Twitter account here:

73 – Christina Gravert – UCPH

Assistant Professor in Economics at @uni_copenhagen & @CEBI_UCPH | Co-Founder of @impactually | nudging | behavioral economics | evidence-based policy Tw. followers: 1927, LI followers: 1129, TwiLi index: 10.03 Follow Christina Gravert’s Twitter account here:

74 – Ove Christensen – PH Absalon

Historian of Ideas. Educational Researcher and teacher educator @ #PHAbsalon #SocialLearning, #EdResearch #PLC ‘Bildung’ and #SoMe #skolechat #EdCamp #EdcampDK Tw. followers: 3160, LI followers: 732, TwiLi index: 10,03 Follow Ove Christensen’s Twitter account here:

75 – Natalie Schluter – ITU

“#NoJusticeNoPeace Senior Research Scientist at Google Brain, and Associate Professor at IT University, Copenhagen” Tw. followers: 3443, LI followers: 673, TwiLi index: 10.01 Follow Natalie Schluter’s Twitter account here:

76 – Julian Nowag – LUND

Associate Prof in #EULaw focus #CompetitionLaw @LawFaculty @lunduniversit, associate @OxfordCCLP & managing editor @OUP ’s JAE – on #law, #EULaw & #antitrust Tw. followers: 1099, LI followers: 1922, TwiLi index: 9,99 Follow Julian Nowag’s Twitter account here:

77 – Holger Sandte – DIS

Economist | Lecturer at DIS Copenhagen | European with a 🇩🇪 passport living in 🇩🇰. RT = Read This. Like means like or bookmark. Tw. followers: 2081, LI followers: 994, TwiLi index: 9.95 Follow Holger Sandte’s Twitter account here:

78 – Carmelo Cennamo – CBS

Professor @CBScph | Director Digital Markets Competition Forum | Platform economy, Platform markets, Ecosystems, Digital transformation, Competition Tw. followers: 1137 , LI followers: 1749 , TwiLi index: 9.91 Follow Carmelo Cennamo’s Twitter account here:

79 – Stefania Serafin – AAUcph

Professor and mom; sonic Interaction design, VR/AR http://melcph.create.aau.dk and https://smc.aau.dk Tw. followers: 1000, LI followers: 1980, TwiLi index: 9.89 Follow Stefania Serafin’s Twitter account here:

80 – Theresa Scavenius – AAUcph

PhD, forsker i klimapolitik og demokrati på AAU. Foredragsholder og klimaformidler. theresascavenius@gmail.com Tw. followers: 1481, LI followers: 1236, TwiLi index: 9.82 Follow Theresa Scavenius’ Twitter account here:

81 – Stine Ejsing-Duun – AAUcph

Associate professor. Design as modes of inquiry. Design thinking in education. Computational thinking. Gender & Tech. Play. Games. Creativity. Tinkering.Tw. followers: 1090, LI followers: 1667, TwiLi index: 9.79 Follow Stine Ejsing-Duun’s Twitter account here:

82 – Daniela DeBono – Malmö

Tweets and lectures on #migration, #asylum #human rights #borders #justice #migrantreturns. Research on irregularised migration at #EU borders & #Mediterranean. Tw. followers: 1160, LI followers: 1550, TwiLi index: 9.78 Follow Daniela DeBono’s Twitter account here:

83 – Johan Farkas – Malmö

PhD Student. Author of ‘Post-Truth, Fake News and Democracy’ (https://t.co/MsIN1TKdHK). @MalmoUniversity. Full texts of my work: https://t.co/rG7LnsesxT Tw. followers: 2978, LI followers: 649, TwiLi index: 9.77 Follow Johan Farkas’ Twitter account here:

84 – David Lusseau – DTU

Professor of marine sustainability @DTUtweet | #SDG | socioecological models | blue economy | Conseiller des Français de l’étranger @UDI_off | my own views Tw. followers: 2105, LI followers: 849, TwiLi index: 9.74 Follow David Lusseau’s Twitter account here:

85 – Joshka Wessels – Malmö

Visual anthropologist/human geographer #Syria #Sudan #Media #Migration #Water #Environment @MahComDev Author of the book ‘Documenting Syria’ @BloomsburyBooks Tw. followers: 1399, LI followers: 1210, TwiLi index: 9.70 Follow Joshka Wessels’ Twitter account here:

86 – Rasmus Dahlberg – DTU

Defence Academy Researches #disaster #catastrophe #emergencies #civilmilitaryrelations #resilience #militaryhistory #complexity #emergencymanagement #warstudies Tw. followers: 710, LI followers: 2454, TwiLi index: 9.67 Follow Rasmus Dahlberg’s Twitter account here:

87 – James Pamment – LUND

Research: strategic communication, diplomacy & counter-influence. Lund University & Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Tweets ≠ anything Tw. followers: 1593, LI followers: 1043, TwiLi index: 9.67 Follow James Pamment’s Twitter account here:

88 – Kalle Johannes Rose – CBS

Asst. Prof. at @CBSLAW2 researching #moneylaundering, #compliance and #sustainable economy/finance #FightFinancialCrime Tw. followers: 1392, LI followers: 1183, TwiLi index: 9.66 Follow Kalle Johannes Rose’s Twitter account here:

89 – Per Mickwitz – LUND

Director & Professor at The International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE) at Lund University Tw. followers: 1590, LI followers: 976, TwiLi index: 9.57 Follow Per Mickwitz’ Twitter account here:

90 – Sílvia Fornós – ITU

#PhD @ITUkbh Center for Computer Games Research🎮@CHARMINGH2020 @MSCActions 🌍#GameDesign #GameDev #AR and #VR for #STEAM. Previously @Nintendo @SquareEnix Tw. followers: 1001, LI followers: 1544, TwiLi index: 9.57 Follow Sílvia Fornós’ Twitter account here:

91 – Thomas Bandholm – UCPH

#ucph Professor of Clinical Exercise Physiology & Rehabilitation @PhysMed_CPH (PMR-C). Author of the PREPARE Trial guide (#openaccess): http://bit.ly/2yuPE51 Tw. followers: 2159, LI followers: 696, TwiLi index: 9.48 Follow Thomas Bandholm’s Twitter account here:

92 – Caterina Doglioni – LUND

Researcher at the @ATLASexperiment at @CERN, from @lunduniversity. Archbishop of Gantterbury. She/her. Tweets my own unless contributed by garden birds. Tw. followers: 2091, LI followers: 715, TwiLi index: 9.48 Follow Caterina Doglioni’s Twitter account here:

93 – Mikkel Jarle Christensen – UCPH

Sociology & criminal justice beyond the state. Principal Investigator of #JustSites (funded by @ERC_research), Chair @justice360cost, professor WSR @iCourts_jur Tw. followers: 1457, LI followers: 981, TwiLi index: 9.47 Follow Mikkel Jarle Christensen’s Twitter account here:

94 – Kasper Hornbæk – UCPH

Researcher in human-computer interaction @ Uni Copenhagen Tw. followers: 1381, LI followers: 1032, TwiLi index: 9.47 Follow Kasper Hornbæk’s Twitter account here:

95 – Maria Nilsson – LUND

“Archaeologist, PhD, Lund University Marie Curie Fellow Director Gebel el Silsila Project @natgeo explorer, @ExplorersClub fellow, @pastpreservers presenter” Tw. followers: 2129, LI followers: 696, TwiLi index: 9.47 Follow Maria Nilsson’s Twitter account here:

96 – Dolores Romero Morales – CBS

Professor in Operations Research at Copenhagen Business School, in love with Sevilla, Betis enthusiast Tw. followers: 644, LI followers: 2258, TwiLi index: 9.43 Follow Dolores Romero Morales’ Twitter account here:

97 – Signe Cold-Ravnkilde – DIIS

Senior Researcher at @diis.dk security and development politics, peace and conflict in Africa/Sahel. Tw. followers: 1008, LI followers: 1350, TwiLi index: 9,41 Follow Signe Cold-Ravnkilde’s Twitter account here:

98 – Thomas Bjarnsholt – UCPH

“Professor at University of Copenhagen and Copenhagen University Hospital Investigating the Role of Biofilms in Chronic Infections” Tw. followers: 1222, LI followers: 1063, TwiLi index: 9.35 Follow Thomas Bjarnsholt’s Twitter account here:

99 – Pernille Bjorn – UCPH

Professor, Computer Science University of Copenhagen, DIKU https://t.co/qzT3OUic3O https://t.co/t6kqwM46AC Tw. followers: 928, LI followers: 1380, TwiLi index: 9.32 Follow Pernille Bjorn’s Twitter account here:

100 – Lene Fischer – UCPH

“Open Source GIS, @QGIS, Point Cloud, UAV pilot, LIDAR. Associate Professor at University of Copenhagen, Forest and Landscape College” Tw. followers: 1780, LI followers: 735, TwiLi index: 9.32 Follow Lene Fischer’s Twitter account here:

101 – Pikka Jokelainen – DTU

SSI President @_SBSP_ | 1st Vice-President WFP | Chair @FINepidemiology | Editor #PAREPI | @ICOPAnhagen2022 | DVM, PhD, Adj. prof. | work @SSI_dk | views mine Tw. followers: 1292, LI followers: 964, TwiLi index: 9.29 Follow Pikka Jokelainen’s Twitter account here:

102 – Andreas Laustsen – DTU

Associate Professor & Biotech Entrepreneur Tw. followers: 517, LI followers: 2599, TwiLi index: 9,2( Follow Andreas Laustsen’s Twitter account here:

103 – Andrew Mazibrada – UCPH

PhD Fellow @jura_ku (Law, U. Copenhagen): AI and cyber, disinformation, human rights, and international law. Sometime SF writer. @SidetrackedMag editor. Tw. followers: 1713, LI followers: 732, TwiLi index: 9.27 Follow Andrew Mazibrada’s Twitter account here:

104 – Bent Petersen – UCPH

Associate Professor in computational Biodiscovery – GLOBE Institute at the University of Copenhagen, UCPH Tw. followers: 772, LI followers: 1607, TwiLi index: 9.26 Follow Bent Petersen’s Twitter account here:

You can compare with the 2019 TwiLi Index for Greater Copenhagen here.

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The Science Stories podcast – getting people to listen

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It is easy to get people to click once. More difficult to get people to listen. And even harder to get people to click on that follow/subscribe button.

I am helping out with a project called Science Stories, a Danish-language podcast series that also airs on local radio. Each episode consists of an interview or talk by a scientist, and covers everything from surviving in outer space, to the cardiac capacities of horses. It is fascinating, informative, well-produced by accomplished Danish journalists, and now has more than 50 episodes that you can scroll through and see here.

Artist’s impression from the video ‘Hera: ESA’s Planetary Defence Mission’ (credit; ESA) and illustration to the podcast episode on Space Safety called ‘It’s only a question of time before the Earth is hit’.

It started up in May last year, and my job is to get the Science Stories podcasts in front of a bigger audience. So far, this has been by working out a social media and distribution strategy, doing a social media workshop for the science journalists, and by organising the different Science Stories’ social media streams, primarily Facebook and Twitter. I have had a small budget for social media advertising.

As a journalist and editor, I know a lot about getting people to click and read. What I did not know much about before I started working on this project was how to get people to click and listen. How do you get other people to click and play or, even better, to click and subscribe to your shows and playlists?

The strategy

At Science Stories, we hope to gain a large and loyal group of listeners. The point of our social media activity is not to lure people into clicking onto a webpage; it is to get curious listeners to voluntarily opt into subscribing and following our podcasts so that they listen to us again, and again. This can be a challenge when most people understandably prefer to avoid clicking on anything – or if they do click, to click in and bounce out, never to come back again.

This has implications for what we post. Given that this is our long-term goal, social media posts always have the purpose of getting followers and subscribers on the podcast platforms where Sound Stories is hosted and played, rather than, say, one-off traffic to our website ScienceStories.dk. When a listener ‘follows’ or ‘subscribes’ to us on a hosted podcast provider like Apple Podcasts (for iPhones), Spotify, or SoundCloud, we are on their phones, available, when they open their podcasts on their daily commute. Listeners can also see new podcasts when they are released, and will often shop around in our backlog of podcasts, depending on the listeners’ interests. This traffic to our older backlog, and returning traffic from our followers, will, we hope, make up a larger and larger portion of our play statistics in the longer term.

How has it gone so far?

Below is a graph showing the development in traffic measured in ‘plays’ of Science Stories’ podcasts in 2019. The traffic is only podcast traffic and does not include listening numbers via our local radio partner. A total of 49 programmes were released between the launch in April 2019 and the end of the year. Science Stories achieved 11,321 plays.

Plays of Science Stories’ podcasts in the period April to December 2019. The graph is based on numbers from the statistics shown on our podcast-host SoundCloud.

The graph looks exponential. And traffic has continued this growth path, through year-end, to the time of writing (January 2020). At some point the graph will drop off and become linear, I expect, as new subscribers cannot be expected to listen to all new programmes, and there is a limit to the number of interested people who can listen.

Here below is one of Science Stories’ podcasts, an English-language interview with Nobel Prize winner Michael Rosbash. You can click and listen:

Our social media posts have mostly been intended to make our followers/subscribers aware of new podcast releases (49 of them in 2019), and to achieve the (difficult) recruitment of new followers and subscribers, preferably directly on their podcast players like Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

After an initial slow pick-up of subscribers and followers, these numbers are now going up, and Science Stories is now gaining a good proportion of its total play traffic from listeners who have chosen to follow/subscribe to us on the main podcast players.

It looks good, but the exponential increase in the number of plays is actually no big surprise to me. Especially for a podcast that’s uploading good, new content at a constant rate, and where older episodes are also gaining new traffic with every new subscriber and follower. Remember, each time a new visitor arrives on the site, or subscribes to a feed, they now have a whole backlog of podcasts that they can listen to. This means that later subscribers, and later website visitors have a higher incentive to listen to a lot of podcast episodes.

I hope we can keep it up!

What we do on each platform

One of the fortunate side effects of our social media activity has been increasing follower numbers on Facebook and Twitter. Our numbers here have been growing, no big revelations here, with 671 following us on Facebook and 531 following us on Twitter at the time of writing.

Our Twitter and Facebook tactics are different, but they both play into the overall strategy of aiming for returning listeners rather than one-off clicks.

If you see this logo, please follow!

We post on both platforms in Danish to a Danish-speaking audience.

In Denmark, Twitter is the preferred platform for scientists, professionals, policymakers, and interest groups. As a platform, it is ideal for making scientists who work in the same field as a specific podcast episode aware of it. For promoted (paid) posts, its algorithms also allow us to target audiences with specific interests like, say, astronomy for podcasts on space. We tag the scientists in our posts to make them aware of programmes that touch on their specific expertise, allowing them to retweet to their followers, who, of course, are already interested in their field.

On Twitter posts (tweets), our programmes can actually be directly embedded. Listeners can start a programme with one click (see image below). This, in effect, turns Twitter into a hosting platform in and of itself, so that our Twitter followers are, for all intents and purposes, a ‘subscriber’ to our feed. Scrolling down our Twitter profile is an easy way for potential listeners to get an overview of what programmes we have to offer.

When podcasts can be embedded directly on a platform, the platform becomes the host. Scrolling down can be the best way to see the offering of episodes.

Facebook is shunned by the elites, and by the young. But it is still the most popular social media platform in Denmark. And it still gets science-interested people to click on the headline, go to the page on a website … and listen. Without regular boosts (advertising of specific posts), the circle of followers on Facebook remains relatively static and localized. For this reason, we have made targeted boosts of the posts that have already proven to perform well organically.

We are also present on LinkedIn, so far without spending a lot of time and energy there, but you are welcome to follow us if you want!

We plan to have a larger presence on YouTube in 2020. Right now, there is a nice set of shorter videos with kitchen science.

More than 70 per cent of traffic to the ScienceStories.dk website comes directly from social media (people clicking on a link that is posted on Facebook or Twitter).

Science Stories organizes a series of small-scale public events called ‘Videnskabssaloner’ or science salons, which are wonderful ways to get out and meet sciencey people if you are in the Copenhagen area. Some of these events can also be seen on our YouTube channel.

Is it working?

I think so.

The idea is to support the growth in the number of plays by convincing listeners to subscribe and follow us on podcast players, rather than to get visits to our own website. The strategy is starting to pay off: A large proportion of our traffic to new programmes now already comes from returning listeners.

So things are going well.

During the course of the Science Stories project, I got valuable advice from marketers like ‘Maggie’ Jane Magaard, and podcasters like Camilla Lærke Lærkesen and Mark Khurana. Thanks guys!

If you understand Danish I recommend you try out one of the podcasts on our list here. Follow us on:

☞ Facebook
☞ Twitter
☞ Apple/iTunes
☞ Spotify
☞ RSS

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The TwiLi Index – a new method to count scientists’ social media following

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Simply adding up followers doesn’t make sense. This new method is better, I reckon, and can be used as a proxy to assess scientists’ relative social media impact.

[This post was updated in September 2022]

I wanted to do this for an awful long time: Find a method that could compare follower numbers on the social media platforms that are the most used by scientists and researchers, namely Twitter and LinkedIn.

Living and working with science communication in the Copenhagen area, I wanted also to use the Danish metropolis as a first test case to find out which researchers and scientists would get on, say, a top 100 ranking.

What I cooked up, I hereby (drum roll!) name the ‘TwiLi Index’ (pronounced like ‘Twilight’ without the ‘t’) . Its first application was seen in 2019, where I ranked the top 50 scientists and researchers in the Greater Copenhagen / Øresund region.

The latest (2022) rank of scientists in Denmark can be found here.

Previous TwiLi Index ranking releases:

The problem

For good or for worse, scientists and researchers are assessed and evaluated by their ‘impact’. Most often, it is the number of scholarly citations that is considered the most important measure of this. Google Scholar, f.ex., shows researchers and scientists h-index, which is based on the scientist’s most cited papers and the number of citations in other scholarly work.

Each scientist is represented by a dot. On the x-axis is the log of their number of Twitter followers. On the y-axis is the log of their number of LinkedIn followers

At the same time, many scientists have embraced the use of social media to disseminate their research, and to network with other scientists. They are often supported in this by their affiliated university institutions that can improve their brand among stakeholders, other scientists, and the wider public if their own scientists are active on social media.

In all spheres of life nowadays, the number of social media followers correlates with real, or certainly perceived, status. Academia is no exception, and follower numbers seem to correlate well with other measures of success.

The TwiLi Index is, I feel, a better, more honest, way to calculate the numbers.

The number of social media followers is visible, and important. If for nothing else then certainly as a ‘vanity metric’ that supports researchers and their institutions’ egos.

A well-known metric that calculates social media impact for researchers is the so-called Kardashian Index (K-Index), named after the pop star Kim Kardashian. It is a measure of the discrepancy between a scientist’s social media profile and their publication record. The measure compares the number of followers a researcher has on Twitter to the number of citations they have for their peer-reviewed work.

The trouble with the Kardasian index, which was invented by Neil Hall, is that the index itself is a criticism of scientists having to have a social media impact at all.

To slightly misquote the Good Book, ‘for every one who has followers, more will be given…’

The TwiLi Index is, I feel, a better, more honest, way to calculate the numbers. A high social media following for a scientist is, everything being equal, surely a good thing. But apart from that, I take no stand on the deeper issue of whether activity on social media, or (heaven forbid!) competition over social media impact is a good thing for science in general.

The method

You could just count followers.

But the trouble with just counting followers is that social media platform followings are susceptible to a runaway, Matthew, effect. To slightly misquote the Good Book, ‘for every one who has followers, more will be given…’ People are more likely to follow the accounts that already have many followers. And this effect is exacerbated by the effect of accumulation over time, so that the longer an account holder is active on an account, the higher the likelihood that he or she has many followers. This favours long-serving, distinguished researchers who have been at it a long time, and who are more likely to have a successful academic career behind them: Succesful professors who have many followers, tend to have many, many followers.

So if we are to compare social media following in any meaningful way, we need to reduce this effect. So my first intervention is to use a base 10 logarithm of the follower number to counteract it.

At the same time, the number of followers on one platform, say Twitter, correlates quite well with the number of platforms on another platform, say LinkedIn (see graph above).

As far as I can see, there are three reasons for this.

First and most important. If you have many followers on one platform, you likely already have the status and leverage that attracts followers on another.

Second, if you are very active/successful on Twitter, you are also likely quite active/successful on LinkedIn and vice versa, as you are predisposed to social media activity.

I think it works pretty well. Runaway numbers on one platform don’t give you an unfair advantage. And your index is higher if you have good numbers on both platforms, rather than low numbers on one and excellent numbers on the other.

Third, the posts and information that is accessed on one platform can be leveraged with success on the other, making your other platform more popular.

From this I deduce that just adding the base 10 log of Twitter followers to the base 10 log of LinkedIn followers does not capture this affect. That is why I propose multiplying the two numbers.

Finally I add 2 to each follower number. This is so that if you have zero followers, or only one follower, on one of the platforms, you can still get a meaningful TwiLi number.

The resulting formula is the following.

TwiLi Index number = log (2 + A) x log (2 + B)

Where A = number of Twitter followers and B = number of LinkedIn followers.

I think it works pretty well: Runaway numbers on one platform don’t give you an unfair advantage. Your index is higher if you have good numbers on both platforms, rather than low numbers on one and excellent numbers on the other. And the TwiLi Index ranks researchers in a different way than simply adding or even multiplying follower numbers.

Gathering the data

So how did I proceed in this, my first, tentative, case?

First off, and the most difficult part of it, is to try and find all the scientists in Denmark that have large follower numbers.

Luckily my own @MkeYoungAcademy Twitter account, which I have been running for several years and which tweets about seminars and lectures in the Nordic region, consistently follows and is followed by scientists and researchers in that region. So I used the group I was following as a starting set of data that I could augment as I went along.

I got some help at this point from my good friend and data scientist Lasse Hjort Madsen who helped me to extract good data from my Twitter account to a workable spreadsheet.

Since then, whenever I stumbled across a Twitter account that identified itself as a scientist in the region, I simply added them to the spreadsheet.

I ended up with a macro list with a set of upwards of 3,000 researchers. My daughter Atlanta Young, a historian by training and yet another data ‘ninja’ helped me at this point. She spent some time working up a reasonably fast routine to cross-check the researchers’ LinkedIn follower numbers.

Note here that we looked for LinkedIn followers, and not connections. Connections are, by default, followers. But not every follower is a connection. For most people the two numbers are nearly the same. However for top scientists, the follower numbers can be higher. The follower metric is more comparable to Twitter.

I am also hoping that scientists and researchers who are interested in this ranking – and this goes both for those who make up the top, and those who didn’t make it this time round – will give me feedback on my methodology.

Some scientists were excluded from the list at this point, if they failed to live up to our inclusion criteria (see box above).

Now it was time to apply the formula to the data, and to extract the index. Here I was helped by Andreas Junge. He is a maths whiz who is the CEO of Methodica Ventures when he is not helping his friends with their pet data projects.

The result: The new Twi Li Index, which had its first iteration as a top 50 scientists and researchers in the Greater Copenhagen / Øresund region.

Other metrics of engagement and influence

The social media impact of a scientist cannot, of course, be measured by just putting follower numbers through a formula. There are other, more subtle, measures of social media influence, and my ambition was to find ones that would function in scientist networks.

I have had many a discussion with data scientist Lasse Hjorth Madsen about this, and we came up with two workable measures that we applied in 2021, namely ‘centrality’ and ‘pagerank’.  For this, Lasse developed a bespoke web app for Mike Young Academy to organise a set of publicly available data that was extracted using the Twitter API.

My dataset now consists of more than 3,000 scientists and researchers, but new scientists are being added all the time.

I decided not to integrate Twitter centrality and Twitter pagerank directly into the scientists’ TwiLi score, but list it separately for each of the scientists that made the top 100. I want to keep the TwiLi score separate so scientists can compare their own score with previous years. Also, the beauty of TwiLi is that everyone can check out their own score, just by plotting in their own numbers.  This is not the case with centrality and pagerank, which is a far more data-intensive calculation.

Centrality

Centrality — or technically ‘betweenness centrality’ — sees scientists as hubs for flows of information on Twitter. A scientist has centrality on Twitter if they are shortest pathway between two other people on the Twitter network of scientists.  Say Jill follows me, and I follow Jack. If Jill and Jack don’t follow each other directly, then I am the shortest pathway between them.  You score high on centrality if you are the shortest path between others 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 are a scientist with a network that is mostly abroad, you may score lower on centrality in Denmark.

Pagerank

Pagerank, a measure inspired by Google’s original namesake algorithm to rank websites on google searches, sees 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 your pagerank. This means that pagerank may favour scientists well-known for other things like politics, business, sport or in fields that are in the public eye.

What now?

My dataset now consists of more than 4,500 scientists and researchers, but new scientists are being added all the time.

My hope is that each summer, I will be able to redo the ranking based on the same methodology. Hopefully with more comprehensive and accurate datasets, and in new geographical areas.

I am also hoping that scientists and researchers who are interested in this ranking – and this goes both for those who make up the top, and those who didn’t make it this time round – will give me feedback on my methodology.

I appreciate any help! Feel free to leave any feedback in the comments below. Or write to me on mike@mikeyoungacademy.dk if you know someone who needs to be on a ranking who I have missed.

My sincere thanks and appreciation go to Lasse Hjorth Madsen, Atlanta Young and Andreas Junge for feedback and help with this project!

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Copenhagen scientists – the top 50 on social media in 2019

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Who are the most popular scientists in the Greater Copenhagen area?

If you define popularity as ‘social media following’ then the 50 scientists on this new ranking might give you a good idea.

I am proud to present a new Mike Young Academy ranking, using a new methodology. This first iteration focusses on active scientists and researchers in the Greater Copenhagen / Øresund region.

Many scientists embrace the use of social media to disseminate their research, and to network with other scientists. They argue that the platforms extend their reach, let them discuss research with international peers, and serve as a catalyst for inspiration. Scientists and researchers are often supported in this by their affiliated university institutions, that strive to improve their own brand among stakeholders, other scientists and institutions, and the wider public.

Social media platforms like Twitter and LinkedIn are ideal for researchers and scientists, as they make it easy to network with niche audiences in highly specialized fields throughout the world.

This new ranking is calculated from the number of Twitter followers and LinkedIn followers (note, not connections, but followers) and the plan is to update it once a year.

If you scroll down, this article gives you an overview of who you should follow if you want to follow the Copenhagen scientists that everyone else … apparently … is following!

I have written about the methodology of my new ranking, that I have christened the ‘TwiLi Index’ pronounced like ‘twilight’ without a ‘t’, here.

this … gives you an overview of who you should follow if you want to follow the scientists that everyone else … apparently … is following!

Are you not on the list?

This is the first time I try to map out the social media field of scientists and researchers in Copenhagen. It is based on part-manually extracted data (see methodology here) and I may have missed some 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.

My sincere thanks and appreciation go to Lasse Hjorth Madsen, Atlanta Young and Andreas Junge for feedback and help with this project!

The 2019 TwiLi Index (updated)

So here it is. This year’s top 50 Copenhagen scientists on social media as ranked on my TwiLi index! (Latest data collected 31 August – 1 September 2019 – more about the methodology here)

1 – Marcel Bogers – UCPH

Full Professor @ku_ifro @science_ku @uni_copenhagen & Research Fellow @GarwoodCenter @BerkeleyHaas @UCBerkeley — PhD:@EPFL MSc:@TUeindhoven — RT≠endorsement

Tw. followers: 8880, LI followers: 3526, TwiLi index: 14.01

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2 – Alireza Dolatshahi – DTU

Asst. Prof DTU Nanotech (Denmark), TEDMED2015 Scholar #StemCellBioengineering#FlexibleMaterials#MobileDisplays#TissueEngineering#Biomaterials#Nanomaterials# 

Tw. followers: 2168, LI followers: 11954, TwiLi index: 13.60

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3 – Kristian Thorborg – UCPH

Sportsphysiotherapist, Ass. Professor, Ph.D. Special interest in hip, groin, hamstring and knee injuries. HAGOS developer. @IntFSPT Vice President

Tw. followers: 13900, LI followers: 1567, TwiLi index: 13.24

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4 – Henning Langberg – UCPH

Sundhedsdata – professor (link: http://dr.med) dr.med  KU 🎓og CEO Data Redder Liv CHC💡data, sundhed og kunstig intelligens ☎️ foredrag 26127913 MBA, CBS Excecutive bestyrelsesudd

Tw. followers: 1730, LI followers: 7290, TwiLi index: 12.51

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5 – Rebecca Adler-Nissen- UCPH

Professor of Political Science. International relations in theory and practice, EU, diplomacy, digital technologies, social media and everything in between…,

Tw. followers: 4854, LI followers: 1441, TwiLi index: 11.65

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6 – David Budtz Pedersen – AAU

Professor of Impact Studies | Head of Research | Velux Foundation’s Humanomics Research Centre | Aalborg University. Tweets about #scipolicy #impact #SSH

Tw. followers: 2699, LI followers: 2416, TwiLi index: 11.61

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7 – Sune Auken – UCPH

Ally, cheerleader, content accumulator, supporting cast member. Tweets on #genre and stuff. @Grundtvig scholar; pastor’s wife and father of four. #ClimateChange

Tw. followers: 11100, LI followers: 724, TwiLi index: 11.57

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8 – Hakim Abdi – UCPH

Postdoc in remote sensing. Researching carbon cycle, image classification, landscape ecology, climate & drought impacts | Part-time Birder | Full-time Dad

Tw. followers: 4547, LI followers: 1174, TwiLi index: 11.23

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9 – M.V. Rasmussen – UCPH

Tweets about a world in the making – in English as well as på dansk. Teaches strategy and security at University of Copenhagen. RTs not endorsements.

Tw. followers: 2782, LI followers: 1740, TwiLi index: 11.16

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10 – Ravinder Kaur – UCPH

Histories of Global Transformations in the 20-21st C

Tw. followers: 934, LI followers: 4498, TwiLi index: 10.85

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11- Akos T. Kovacs – DTU

Professor at DTU Bioengineering – Bacterial Biofilms, Laboratory Evolution, Sociomicrobiology, Bacteria-Fungi interaction; Senior Editor of ‘Biofilms’ (gold OA)

Tw. followers: 5391, LI followers: 806 , TwiLi index: 10.85

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12 – Mikkel Flyverbom – CBS

Professor mso, Director of Digital Transformations Platform & BSc in Digital Management at Copenhagen Business School

Tw. followers: 1103, LI followers: 3330, TwiLi index: 10.72

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13 – Carlos Henríquez O. – UCPH

Ph.D, Section of Molecular Physiology- NEXS, University of Copenhagen #ExerciseMetabolism #InsulinAction #RedoxSignaling

Tw. followers: 1603, LI followers: 1984, TwiLi index: 10.57

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14 – Katherine Richardson – UCPH

Prof. in Biol. Oceanography, Leader Sustainability Science Centre, Univ. Copenhagen

Tw. followers: 1313, LI followers: 2307, TwiLi index: 10.49

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15 – Cristina Legido-Quigley – Steno

Scientist. Head of Systems Medicine @StenoDiabetes  A/Prof @KingsCollegeLon #Metabolomics #Lipidomics Chemistry in #Brain
& #Liver 4 Healthy Aging #WomeninSTEM

Tw. followers: 2111 , LI followers: 1422, TwiLi index: 10.49

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16 – Jesper Falkheimer – Lund

Director Research, Collaboration, Innovation and Professor in Strategic Communication, Lund University. All tweets are personal.

Tw. followers: 1332, LI followers: 2232, TwiLi index: 10.47

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17 – Carsten Rahbek – UCPH

Professor and Director of the Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, University of Copenhagen & Professor of Macroecology, Imperial College, London.

Tw. followers: 2066 , LI followers: 1432 , TwiLi index: 10.47

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18 – Rune Møller Stahl – UCPH

Lecturer in Pol.Sci @ Copenhagen Uni. Bylines at @informeren and @jacobinmag. Tweets are never own opinion, always objective truth

Tw. followers: 2590, LI followers: 1092 , TwiLi index: 10.37

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19 – Michael Christiansen – UCPH

Professor, chief physician. #genomics, #cardiac #psychiatry, #fetal
#publichealth Statens Serum Institut & Copenhagen University. Tweets are mine and only mine.

Tw. followers: 3366, LI followers: 865 , TwiLi index: 10.36

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20 – Stephen Woroniecki – Lund

PhD #ClimateChange Adaptation #NatureBasedSolutions & #Justice. Love Sci-fi, electronic music and this pale blue dot ð

Tw. followers: 6742, LI followers: 505, TwiLi index: 10.36

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21 – Roberto Flore – DTU

Manager of 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: 1626, LI followers: 1612, TwiLi index: 10.30

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22 – Mi Lennhag – Lund

Political Scientist @LundUniversity Sweden & freelance journalist.
Focus: Post-Soviet area, Swedish politics, EU, military, corruption.

Tw. followers: 10K, LI followers:  372 , TwiLi index: 10.29

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23 – Miguel Sicart – ITU

Associate professor IT university of Copenhagen

Tw. followers: 3185, LI followers: 851, TwiLi index: 10.27

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24. Isabelle Augenstein – UCPH

Tenure-track Assistant Professor @CopeNLU @uni_copenhagen. Formerly @uclmr, @SheffieldNLP. AI, Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning

Tw. followers: 4968, LI followers: 577, TwiLi index: 10.21

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25 – Rasmus Elling – UCPH

Iran, Urban Studies, History, Sociology // Associate Professor @uni_copenhagen @UrbanGlobal // Author of ‘Minorities in Iran’, ‘Irans Moderne Historie’

Tw. followers: 2389, LI followers: 1008, TwiLi index: 10.15

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26 – Pablo Iván Nikel – DTU

Metabolic engineer @DTUBiosustain, head of @LabNikel, coordinator of @fonia_sin, eager traveler, opera fan, views my own (who else’s?) #SynBio #SysBio

Tw. followers: 1298, LI followers: 1687 TwiLi index: 10.05

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27 – Susana Borras – CBS

Professor of #innovation & governance at @CBScph, Denmark. Tweeting about #scipolicy #impact #GlobalEd & on politics. Blogging: http://susanaborras.com

Tw. followers: 1135 , LI followers: 1931, TwiLi index: 10.04

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28 – Ove Christensen – UC Absalon

Educational Researcher #EdResearch @ #PHAbsalon #DesignThinking. #SocialLearning,  #PLC ‘Bildung’ and #SoMe #skolechat #edusocmedia #EdCamp #EdcampDK #sumuDK

Tw. followers: 3143, LI followers: 713, TwiLi index: 9.98

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29 – Sune Lehmann – DTU

Your friendly neighborhood suneman

Tw. followers: 2464, LI followers: 827, TwiLi index: 9.90

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30 – Maja Horst – UCPH

Professor i forskningskommunikation på Københavns Universitet. Følg mig fagligt på engelsk på @MajahorstI

Tw. followers: 1503,  LI followers: 1161 , TwiLi index: 9.74

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31 – Rasmus Corlin Christensen – CBS

PhD Fellow @CBScph | International Political Economy, Taxation, Professions

Tw. followers: 2973, LI followers: 625, TwiLi index: 9.72

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32 – María Escudero Escribano – UCPH

Assistant Professor of Chemistry @uni_copenhagen, leading @NanoElectrocat. Chair, Danish Electrochem. Soc. Electrochemistry, Catalysis, Energy, Sustainability.

Tw. followers: 1882 , LI followers: 858, TwiLi index: 9.61

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33 – Timo Minssen – UCPH

Prof., Director & Founder of @CeBIL_Center, cross-border roamer, Health & Life Science Law + Blues enthusiast #AI #Bio #pharma #HealthLaw #IP #Data #Econ

Tw. followers: 641, LI followers: 2500, TwiLi index: 9.54

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34 – Stefan K. S-Madsen – CBS

From the terrace to the boardroom and back again I went. Now PhD in sales @CBScph. Millwall, Punk, British style & Liberty.

Tw. followers: 1143, LI followers: 1269 , TwiLi index: 9.49

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35 – Daniela DeBono – Malmö

Lecturer @MalmoUniversity #migration, #asylum #human rights #borders Researcher @EuropeanUni on irregular migration at the southern borders of the EU.

Tw. followers: 979, LI followers: 1465 , TwiLi index: 9.47

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36 – Asmus Leth Olsen – GEUS

Professor with special responsibilities in behavioral public administration • University of Copenhagen • #behavioralPA

Tw. followers: 3261 , LI followers: 487  TwiLi index: 9.45

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37 – Niels Poulsen – GEUS

PhD. Geologist. CO2 storage. Married & father. Views here my own.

Tw. followers: 689 , LI followers: 2075, TwiLi index: 9.42

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38 – Stefania Serafin – AAU

Professor in sonic Interaction design at Aalborg University in Copenhagen. From Venice Italy, living in Copenhagen Denmark.

Tw. followers: 809, LI followers: 1705, TwiLi index: 9.40

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39 – Thomas Bandholm – UCPH

#ucph Professor of Clinical Exercise Physiology & Rehabilitation @PhysMed_CPH (PMR-C). Author of the PREPARE Trial guide (#openaccess): https://t.co/CY9DjRDrLA,

Tw. followers: 2017, LI followers: 688, TwiLi index: 9.38

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40 – Stine Ejsing-Duun – AAU

Associate professor. Design as modes of inquiry. Researches how tech allows us to  transcend ourselves in everyday spaces providing us with new perspetives.

Tw. followers: 973, LI followers: 1368 , TwiLi index: 9.38

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41 – Per Mickwitz – Lund

From January 2019 Director & Professor at The International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE) at Lund University

Tw. followers: 1467, LI followers: 888, TwiLi index: 9.34

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42 – Sílvia Fornós – ITU

#PhD fellow #GameDesign #GBL @ITUkbh @ccgritu Center for Computer Games Research🎮#Multilingual 🌍@EU_H2020 Game making as STEAM learning st

Tw. followers: 883, LI followers: 1427, TwiLi index: 9.30

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43 – Sahra-Josephine Hjorth – AAU

Co-founder @Canopy_LAB. Faculty at @SUNordic and @singularityu focusing on the Future of Learning. PhD fellow at Aalborg University.

Tw. followers: 600, LI followers: 2127, TwiLi index: 9.25

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44 – Johan Farkas – Malmö

PhD Fellow | Digital media, politics, antagonism, propaganda | @MalmoUniversity | Chair of YECREA | Full texts of my work at https://t.co/rG7LnsesxT

Tw. followers: 1994, LI followers: 623 , TwiLi index: 9.23

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45 – Balkan Devlen – UCPH

Assoc. Prof. @uni_copenhagen. Leaders, decision-making, foreign policy, security, forecasting/foresight. On the side: political warfare, AI, evolution.

Tw. followers: 1537, LI followers: 776, TwiLi index: 9.21

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46 – Leon Derczynski – ITU

Scientist: AI, #nlproc, language. British. Currently at IT University of Copenhagen ⇨ @NLPatITU. Prev: U.Sheffield, 南航, Aarhus U, Иннополис, UC San Diego.

Tw. followers: 2250, LI followers: 540, TwiLi index: 9.17

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47 – James Pamment – Lund

Research: strategic communication, diplomacy & counter-influence. Lund University. Tweets ≠ anything

Tw. followers: 1271, LI followers: 876, TwiLi index: 9.14

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48 – Kasper Hornbæk – UCPH

Researcher in human-computer interaction @ Uni Copenhagen

Tw. followers: 1117, LI followers: 964, TwiLi index: 9.10

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49 – Niels Buus Lassen – CBS

PhD Fellow, Predictive Modelling with Social Media data, Copenhagen Business School.

Tw. followers: 780, LI followers: 1365, TwiLi index: 9.07

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50 – Bent Petersen – UCPH

Associate Professor in computational Biodiscovery at Copenhagen University https://t.co/3mSfRTC3gj CEO at @bisonseqtech

Tw. followers: 686 , LI followers: 1548 , TwiLi index: 9.05

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— Up-and-coming list —


51 – Kristine Samson – Roskilde

urbanist. nomad. theorist. DIY academic. urban design. affective urbanism. activism. artivism. associate professor. performance design. Roskilde University

Tw. followers: 1423 , LI followers: 732, TwiLi index: 9,04

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52. Leonard Seabrooke – CBS

Professor of International Political Economy at the Copenhagen Business School. Now researching: global tax reform / demographic change / impact of consultants

Tw. followers: 1265 , LI followers: 811, TwiLi index: 9.03

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53 – Mikkel Jarle Christensen – UCPH

Sociology & criminal law beyond the state. Principal Investigator of #JustSites (funded by @ERC_research), associate professor @iCourts_jur 

Tw. followers: 1219, LI followers: 832, TwiLi index: 9.02

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54 – Lisbeth Klastrup – ITU

Happy nerd & Digital Culture & Social Media Researcher, IT University, DK. Mostly tweets @ events + research I like.  Writes in both DK and ENG.

Tw. followers: 1622, LI followers: 628, TwiLi index: 8.99

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55. Christina Gravert – UCPH

Assistant Professor in Economics at @uni_copenhagen | Founder of @impactually|nudging|behavioral economics | evidence-based policy

Tw. followers: 1233, LI followers: 789, TwiLi index: 8.96

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56. Mads K. Eberholst – Roskilde

Journalist, lecturer, PhD fellow, social media expert, Roskilde University. Phone +45 297 297 74. GPG-key: 604BC13E

Tw. followers: 909, LI followers: 991, TwiLi index: 8.87

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Ia Kochiashvili

Astrophysicist is now a cybersecurity analyst (and on LinkedIn)

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Ia Kochiashvili did her PhD research monitoring the remotest galaxies of the Universe. Now she monitors computer networks.

A few years ago I spent a day at the Dark Cosmology Centre at the University of Copenhagen for a feature in the university newspaper. One of the people I met was Ia Kochiashvili.

Ia Kochiashvili

Ia did her astrophysics PhD on extremely distant galaxies

She was doing her PhD on types of objects called Lyman Alpha emission line galaxies. Only telescopes can observe them. Out there, distant, at the ends and beginnings of the Universe.

Now, seeing that Ia had recently started being active on LinkedIn, I decided to catch up. I am interested in how researchers make the social media transition from intense, focussed, PhD work at university, to a job in the private sector. Here, wider networking skills and partnerships, and other types of work routines are more pervasive.

Ia seemed to be an excellent example of someone who had made this transition. Why is she suddenly there on LinkedIn? What is the difference, between now and then?

Opted out of academic career

Originally from Georgia, Ia grew up on a high mountain observatory. Her mother is also an astronomer.

”When I was in the middle of my PhD I was consumed by it, and I thought I was going to do postdoctoral research. But I realised towards the end that it would be hard to to continue down an academic career path, and I also realised I wanted to do something different. And as for LinkedIn and Twitter, I had accounts, but that was it.”

“You get views from people that are related to people – that are related to people – that you know.”

”After my PhD, my husband got a job here in Turin, Italy, and we moved. And then we had a son. There were no jobs, specifically, in my astrophysics field. However before my time at the Dark Cosmology Centre I did some courses on computer networks, and reckoned that I should branch into that. So I did a six month intensive Cisco course on computer networks. It was all in Italian, which was tough for me at the time, but the written material was in English, so I managed.”

Ia Kochiashvili

The data can be something you collect from the telescope, or it can be something you collect from the network.

”At the end of the course, a cybersecurity consulting company was hiring new personnel to work on their new advanced product they had called Aramis, which detects anomalies on networks. It sounded interesting, and I went for the interview. Cybersecurity is, after all, the future!”

Data from skies, data from networks

The leap from astrophysics to cybersecurity analysis is not as big as you might think, she says.

”There is the whole data science part of cybersecurity. The data can be anything. It can be something that you collect from the telescope, or it can be something that you collect from the network. Data science is not something, specifically, that I haven’t done yet because I wanted to get more into understanding malware, and in to understanding attack methods.  But the next thing for me is that I would like to do more on the data science side of cyber security.”

“If you are active, your name is top of mind for people in the specific field that you are interested in.”

As for LinkedIn, Ia now spends 15-20 minutes a day on it. She uses it to keep up to date on the news related to her field, her own specialty interest in aviation cyber security, and catching up with former and present colleagues, she says, She doesn’t feel that she has missed anything from not using the platform during her PhD, but she admits that she can never know.

Related to those who are related

Seeing the reach on her own posts is always interesting, she says:

”You get views from people that are related to people – that are related to people – that you know. This, at some point I hope, can help me in the future. If you are active, your name is top of mind for people in the specific field that you are interested in.”

Some people prefer to have specific times of day allotted to their professional use of social media platforms. But for Ia Kochiashvili, Linkedin is tied into the flow of her working day.

”It is a way of mentally resting between one task and another task on the job. I get away from my screen as well, of course, for breaks. But I sometimes go to Linkedin between tasks.”

To monitor their clients’ security 24 hours a day, she and her colleagues uphold different time shifts to cover all the working hours. This gives her the opportunity to go on to Linkedin every now and again.

Since Ia started being active on the platform a year and half ago she has ”already got a couple of job offers,” she says.

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Jack Fisher

Here is how a Twitter campaign is putting global health on the agenda

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In just three years, Jack Fisher has made himself a leading advocate of a social startup in global health. I caught up with him to talk about how he uses Twitter to forge relationships and maintain a global movement.

Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are defined as diseases that are not caused by infections.

NCDs – like heart disease, stroke, cancers and diabetes – are the leading cause of death and suffering throughout the world, with a rapid rise in low- and middle-income countries.

Jack Fisher

Jack Fisher with NCDFREE’s Europe and Africa Coordinator Diana Isabel Sotomayor

Jack Fisher is helping co-ordinate a global fight against NCD’s through the non profit volunteer-led start up NCDfree, which puts the topic on the agenda of students and young professionals through creative communications and advocacy.

His interest in preventable chronic diseases came from his time at university, first at Glasgow Caledonian University in Scotland, and later at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark where he completed a MSc in Global Health.

“I spent a year volunteering helping people with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) in one of the most socioeconomically deprived areas of Glasgow. People with COPD get out of breath from walking just a few metres, and it brought home to me two things: First, just how harsh and debilitating it can be to have a chronic disease and the strain this can have on friends and family. Second, how strong, resilient and inspiring people can be when faced with limited treatment options and a diminishing quality of life.”

“When you interact with someone on the platform, it becomes the entry point for an interaction in real life or an opportunity”

“When I came to Copenhagen, I realised that the same diseases which were occurring in my home town in Scotland were occurring across the world. I travelled to Sri Lanka and Tanzania where I saw diseases like diabetes, cancers, heart disease and respiratory disease, rising with little focus on prevention and treatment.

This led me to a perspective that I should help communicate and advocate these individual stories to inspire a global change. Ultimately, it’s important to bring these individual perspectives to the next generation of leaders if we truly wish to tackle these multifactorial global health challenges.”

“During this time, I met Alessandro Demaio, a medical doctor and global health scientist, who was launching NCDfree. It was then I had the first opportunity to contribute to their first global campaign. He has since been a friend and mentor to me in the field of global health”.

Staked out his own place

As a master’s student in Copenhagen, it was the Twitter platform that exposed him to professionals in his field and helped him stake out his own place as an advocate for global health causes.

“At first, Twitter just gave me the opportunity to get an overview of the landscape and of the actors in global health. But then you start interacting with established figures, something that is much easier on Twitter. And when you interact with someone on the platform, it becomes the entry point for an interaction in real life or an opportunity. And after interacting in real life, Twitter afforded me the follow-up point,” he explains.

“If there are two things which people hate it is ‘sin’ and ‘taxation’. But we believe this is a serious public health issue …”

Now Jack often gets invitations to speak, via his own personal account, as a side effect of his own posts, and through his comments and replies to others on the platform.

He and four colleagues run the NCDfree account on Twitter which now has more than 7,200 followers.

Condemnation, then inspiration

The interactions on the platform are often a source of inspiration for him as a young leader.

“Just last week I was inspired by something said by Gunhild Stordalen,” he says, referring to a tweet (see below) by fellow global health advocate (@G_stordalen).

Gunhild Stordalen

Director-General of the World Health Organisation Tedros Ghebreyesus had been scorned for appointing Zimbabwe President Mugabe as goodwill ambassador.

With one tweet, Gunhild Stordalen made the point that it was Tedros’ own admittance of the mistake, that showed leadership.

Makes local story global

NCDfree makes short films that focus on particular NCD topics, like heart disease in Mongolia, health systems in Ghana, and community health in Melbourne. .

Last year they decided to take on the sugar taxation discussion by humanizing the public health issue of rising obesity and sugar based beverage consumption. Different governments’ attempts to reduce sugar intake and improve global health by implementing a soda tax have been labelled as a ‘sin tax’ by critics, media and the sugar lobby.

“If there are two things which people hate it is ‘sin’ and ‘taxation’. But we believe this is a serious public health issue and identified this as an opportunity to put a human face to the topic.”

NCDfree posted a short film about Veronica, a young musician from Mexico City who explained how soda had affected her and her father’s health.

“We tried to change the narratives around this topic. We released it on YouTube and then posted it on Twitter, and the World Health Organisation Global Coordination Mechanism for NCDs saw the film. They were soon to be hosting a meeting on NCDs and wanted to highlight the voices of those living with NCDs.”

“There are millions of others like Veronica who have a story to tell, and we want to use our social movement to provide a much needed platform.”

“The result. Not only did the WHO want to show our short film at the meeting, but they wanted to invite Veronica to the conference to tell her story in person to the range of high level ministers and decision makers in the room.”

“Ultimately, when you have an individual telling their personal story about how they are affecting or affected by NCDs, then this is a very powerful communication tool. It has much more impact than hearing someone just talking about the burden and various statistics.”

“Giving people like Veronica a voice, through social media, will lead to more opportunities like at the WHO, and will lead to a sustained change. There are millions of others like Veronica who have a story to tell, and we want to use our social movement to provide a much needed platform.”

Follow Jack Fisher on Twitter here.

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