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Book launch: Social Media for Research Impact

Mike Young — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 13:00:28 +0000

Launch event for our new book 'Social Media for Research Impact' will be 19 February in Copenhagen. Everyone is welcome!

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Tweetorials: Why they may still be worth it

Mike Young — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 06:47:05 +0000

There is something quietly subversive about unfolding an idea step by step. I asked Tony Breu, who helped shape tweetorials as a genre, what it is that still makes them special.

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Ice sheet or ice shelf: What’s the difference?

Mike Young — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 12:04:35 +0000

How a glaciology paper got pulled into the climate wars — and what you can learn from research that went viral for all the wrong reasons

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LinkedIn and social media networking — course for health science PhD students

Mike Young — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 01:49:00 +0000

PhD course at the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences in Copenhagen. It is free of charge for PhD students at Danish universities (except CBS) and for PhD students at graduate schools in the other Nordic countries!

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Why niche social platforms like iNaturalist matter to science

Mike Young — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 10:54:50 +0000

Forget viral content. Here is a quiet social platform where researcher impact comes from verified observations and open science

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Researchers are (also) stoking politics on Bluesky. Here is how to avoid it

Mike Young — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 05:31:41 +0000

When researchers migrated from X to Bluesky, the hope was for a quieter space. They wanted less outrage, and more science. But reality is biting back. So here are a few tips to avoid the politics anyway.

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For scholars, being kind could be contagious

Mike Young — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 11:58:13 +0000

A new paper argues that small, voluntary acts of kindness can ripple through communities, improving mental health. What might this mean for researchers on social media?

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What I learned from co-authoring a book

Mike Young — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 13:21:48 +0000

A few reflections on how co-writing a book has been a powerful experience for me.

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Call for experts: Social media for research impact

Mike Young — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 12:16:33 +0000

I (Mike) am writing a book on social media for research impact with Marcel Bogers — an expert on open and collaborative innovation. We appreciate your help!

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Bluesky is emerging as the new platform for science

Mike Young — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 12:32:39 +0000

Scientific Twitter is about to find its true successor. And it is not X. This, our latest release, shows that the Bluesky network of scientists is growing — and growing.

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