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

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A practical, hands-on workshop in health science networking and communication via LinkedIn and other social media platforms. 

The course will be held in the new Maersk Tower at the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen. (Image with permission from Instagram user @Dead_Lab

This PhD course at the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences in Copenhagen is free of charge for PhD students at Danish universities (except CBS) and for PhD students at graduate schools in the other Nordic countries. You can read more about the course and sign up here.

Scientists within the health and medical sector will find LinkedIn (and other social media platforms like Bluesky) particularly useful:

  • The platforms allow real time access to, for example, patients’ and public perspectives, communities of support, and to advocacy groups internationally — but within a narrow medical specialization.
  • The increased use of visual abstracts and digital formats in communicating research has been helped by the LinkedIn and Bluesky/X scientific community.

There are more details below this short introductory video:

The course is at the University of Copenhagen’s Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences and is open to all PhD students at Danish universities (except Copenhagen Business School) and for PhD students at most graduate schools in other Nordic countries.

A typical ‘visual abstract’. A shareable digital format that has taken off in recent years, particularly in the health and medical sciences.

The course goals

You will:

  • Learn how to use LinkedIn and other social media platforms to support your work and career as a researcher
  • Find a social media routine that fits your personality, daily routine and specific medical specialty
  • See how to be strategic in your use of social media
  • Set up personal routines, augmented by automation, for monitoring news and ideas from specific research areas.

Photo with kind permission of Instagram user @nazanins_daily

The course is relevant for both beginners and experienced users.

“Very ‘hands on’. I will definitely recommend this to other PhD students” —  previous participant

Dates: 11 + 25 March 2026, both days from 09:00 to 13:00

There is more information and you sign up for this course here.

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

Why niche social platforms like iNaturalist matter to science

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

For marine biologist Trond Roger Oskars, the niche social media platform iNaturalist has become a vital tool for both research and outreach.

“iNaturalist is a social media where you upload images of animals or other organisms you’ve photographed, and then experts and knowledgeable amateurs give their opinion on what species it is,” Trond Roger Oskars explained to me, calling it the “Twitter for species”.

I interviewed him recently in preparation for the book Social Media for Research Impact that I have co-authored with Marcel Bogers and that is due for release by the publisher Routledge in early 2026. I was interested in Trond’s use of niche platforms outside the mainstream: In the book we advocate for the use of niche platforms with small-scale — but cumulative — impact, and platforms that are designed with other functions in mind, but that have a social media component.

Closest to us on Trond Roger Oskars’ hand is a common sunstar, (crossaster papposus). Behind that is a blood star.

iNaturalist is a site for hobbyists, but its structure is built for scientific contribution. When a species identification receives enough consensus, it’s marked as ‘research grade’ and automatically added to the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)  — one of the world’s largest public biodiversity databases.

In other words, what begins as a casual photo taken by a diver or beachgoer can end up as a verified datapoint in an international repository. This is social media acting not just as a tool for research dissemination, but as scientific infrastructure.

For Trond Roger Oskars of the Møreforsking Institute in Norway, the effects are clear in practice: “Recreational  divers are essential for documenting rare species — they often send me images or specimens that I wouldn’t encounter otherwise. If they didn’t go around photographing every small thing, I don’t think the marine field would move forward,” he says.

Trond Roger Oskars’ own research on snails has led to major taxonomic revisions.

The collaborative verification model of iNaturalist makes it possible to integrate contributions from non-researchers into formal science, in near real time.

This is most likely a Diaphana minuta, a species of gastropod found in Europe and North America…

The platform also supports open content use. “I use iNaturalist to get images. Most of the images that are uploaded there are in the public space, or CC BY 4.0,” Trond Roger Oskars says. This makes the platform a valuable source for visual material for presentations, outreach posts, and educational content.

…in this case it was observed by someone off the coast of the US.

What sets iNaturalist apart is how it combines structured data collection with community input — making it both a crowdsourced field tool and a global biodiversity hub. Scientists in remote or underfunded areas, or those working in highly specific taxonomies, can gain access to a distributed community of identifiers and observers.

As a niche medium, iNaturalist, does extremely well what mainstream social media like LinkedIn and Facebook only do well with their Groups functionality, with separated private or semi-private communities based on shared interests. What separates a niche platform like iNaturalist from the Group communities of mainstream social media, is that it is solely focused on what users are on the platform are there to do, with no distractions from newsfeeds cluttered by advertising and influencer content.

Trond Roger Oskars is also active on two Facebook Groups where people upload images, one focused on marine invertebrates, one focused specifically on sea slugs.

iNaturalist and these two Facebook Groups are a supplement to the traditional dive books – printed guides used by recreational divers to help identify marine species in specific diving regions.

…then experts like Trond Roger Oskars helped identify it.

“Usually a diver has just clicked a picture and doesn’t know what species it. So people usually just tag me directly in the groups. They get to learn something new and engage more closely to nature so that’s a bit of fun. A lot of the old dive books are now obsolete. So they have to go to social media to get a correct image, and people are happy that there’s someone that can answer, “ says Trond Roger Oskars. The largest Facebook Group has 60,000 members and includes both diverse scientists, and people who just like the images.

Both iNaturalist  and Facebook groups like this one for sea slug enthusiasts have turned into networks that connect scientists, to divers, to wider publics, according to Trond Roger Oskars.

“It’s really great that they have brought both the people with the specialized expertise and the people with the hands-on experience together.”

Social media for research impact is a new book by Mike Young and Marcel Bogers (forthcoming). It invites you to think more clearly — and ethically — about how to use social media. Not just to disseminate your research, but to connect, ideate, co-create, and stay open to the unexpected. The book page is here.

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

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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.

Is scientific Bluesky being swamped by US politics?

The posts from influential scientists that are driving ‘engagement’ in the form of likes and reposts on Bluesky is not science. It is political commentary and cultural hot takes – mostly focused on left-of-centre and progressive US politics.

This is according to an analysis of 18,000 posts from influential scientist accounts by my colleague Lasse Hjorth Madsen. He has looked at the highest performing posts in terms of likes and reposts among 200 highly influential science accounts on the platform. Lasse’s post analysis comes after several iterations where he and I (Mike) have jointly mapped out the emerging Bluesky scientific community, finding the most central and influential scientists and research fields on the platform.

Lasse’s latest analysis points to something uncomfortable: Some academics are not just victims of the attention economy, they are active participants in it. And the tone of the posts that spread, mirrors the posts that spread elsewhere online — politics, outrage, frustration, and protest.

The table above shows the most liked original posts (not reposts) among our influential scientists’ group.

Before we go on, I need to both hedge my claims, and try to give an explanation of what is going on:

  • Bluesky, to a much higher degree than other platforms, enables you to set up your newsfeed so that you only see what you are interested in. The most savvy Bluesky users can avoid the politics, and some of them will do so (see my tips below). That is one of the reasons why many scientists are there in the first place.
  • The analysis is based on the top 200 of our ‘most influential’ list, based on centrality measures. This group could be already pre-selected to have centrality because they are already in a non-science politically-oriented community that enables the wider traction. What we see is a kind of circular logic that might not prove anything.
  • When you count reposts of academics’ original posts, all of the reposts are not necessarily coming from academics themselves. On Bluesky, when you repost, it can be shown on your own followers’ feeds. What this means is that a political post from a scientist, could be highly reposted outside the scientific community, then circle back to be seen by other scientists after it has been circling around the political echo chamber gaining likes and reposts from people who want to virtue signal a specific political standpoint.
  • A large part of scientific Bluesky is scientists from the United States, so it is, actually, no surprise that posts about US politics dominate global feeds.
  • Scientists are, in fact, generally mostly left of centre in terms of their politics.
  • Scientists on Bluesky are, to a higher degree, left of centre in terms of politics, precisely because a large group of them have migrated from X after the controversy surrounding the Elon Musk takeover.
  • The group of scientists who get the most likes and reposts is likely hiding a much larger undergrowth of scientists on Bluesky who avoid politics, and are happy to avoid viral hot takes.

We have to be really careful we are not mistaking correlation for causation here. Our analysis does not show that posting political hot takes lead to more reposts or higher follower numbers. Heaven forbid, this will not lead to more understanding and more impact for science. Our analysis just shows that highly central scientists in our group got the most reposts when they did post politically.

The lesson? A new platform doesn’t erase the old dynamics. If researchers want Bluesky to become more than an alternative outrage machine, they will need to make some conscious choices.

What can you do to avoid politics?

So how can we help this along? What do you do if you want to avoid politics in a professional or academic context altogether?

As a first step use the functionality of Bluesky to set up different feeds for different topics and modes of working. If you really want to see the politics, then leave the standard newsfeed that lets you see ‘Following’ (you can see my feed on the image above – the feed that is headed ‘Following’). Otherwise set your front page so that you don’t see following as the first thing.

Now set up feeds with only your interests and lists, and make sure that they show first on your newsfeed.

Feeds can be found on the left

See the hashtag symbol on the left? Click on that.

Lists, like good old X, are sets of people that you want to see the posts from. You can find those by clicking on the little bullets symbol below the hashtag. In my set-up shown above right my list of ‘Danish research institutions’ is showing on number fourth spot. Lists on Bluesky are always public.

There is a good guide on how to customize bluesky feeds here.

Click on the cogwheel

But what you need to know is that you can adjust the front page of your Bluesky, so that the first thing you see on the app or on desktop, is a specific feed with your interest. You don’t have to see the posts from the people you are following before you see your interests. This is a great way to avoid getting ensnared in the politics and hot takes.

As a second step, if this does not work, and this goes for Bluesky just as much as any other social platform: Just unfollow the people who post about the politics. Tough, but they had it coming for them. They won’t get a notification.

Click the arrows to adjust which feeds should show first when you open Bluesky. Adjustments apply to both your desktop and phone versions.

As a third step, you can hide a specific account if you see a political post anyway in spite of your unfollow (someone in your network who follows them might have reposted it, which will then put it on your feed). Just click on the three dots at the bottom of the post to mute this particular person. This is also the place where you can block particular people which stops them from interacting with you.

Fourth step. Bluesky’s starter packs feature lets you follow groups of scientists within your own field. This is brilliant. But be aware that large starter packs may include a number of scientists who post about politics. So a fourth step is to unfollow or mute these specific offending scientists afterwards (back to second step!)

Bookmarked searches are the final resort if you can’t get the feeds to shed out all the politics

Fifth step. Sometimes all of the above is not enough to maintain a non-distracting, non-outrage, non US-politics focussed feed anyway. For many specific tasks I resort to bookmarked keyword searches. Just as an example, this link only shows the Bluesky posts that have the ‘University of Copenhagen’ in them.

I hope this helped!

Do you have any further ideas on how to avoid politics on Bluesky? Let me know in the comments!

Social media for research impact is a new book by Mike Young and Marcel Bogers (forthcoming). It invites you to think more clearly — and ethically — about how to use social media. Not just to disseminate your research, but to connect, ideate, co-create, and stay open to the unexpected. The book page is here.

For scholars, being kind could be contagious

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

It is a good idea for governments to promote voluntary acts of kindness. And it is a good idea to practice being kind yourself, according to a paper by Tri-Long Nguyen and Ji Young Lee, both of the University of Copenhagen.

Practicing kindness can improve mental health and well-being in both individuals and at a societal level. In their paper Kindness as a public health action, they argue that policies that encourage voluntary acts of kindness are practical, cost-effective, and ethically sound.

Their paper was recommended to me recently while I was interviewing sources for our forthcoming book on ‘Social Media for Research Impact’. So I thought, could this be applied to the idea of being a kind academic on social media?

Tri-Long Nguyen (left): In the Buddhist tradition being kind to yourself is not in opposition to being kind to others.

Tri-Long Nguyen is an associate professor in epidemiology with a background in pharmacy, statistics, and education. When he is not doing science, he reads a lot about philosophy and Eastern practices like Zen Buddhism. His work with Ji Young Lee, an assistant professor in philosophy and bioethics, makes the case that being kind is not only a nice thing to do: It is evidence-based good practice.

Algorithm as a kind actor

In their paper they used the preventive medicine framework proposed by Geoffrey Rose in work from the 1980s. He is known for the ‘prevention paradox’: Massively applying to the general population an intervention with small individual benefits is more effective than targeting only those at high-risk of disease. This is because the number of people at high risk is small, so targeting only them would prevent a lower number of absolute cases.

“The biggest mental barrier that people have is the fear that they cannot change the world alone from an individual position”

Just like infectious disease, acts of kindness cascade and multiply, Tri-Long Nguyen and Ji Young Lee argue. And just as in preventing disease, the small individual benefits of cultivating kindness, understanding, love and compassion can collectively generate large-scale social impact by propagating positive effects beyond the initial recipient of the kind actions.

Co-author Ji Young Lee posted about their paper on LinkedIn

In a blog post recently I listed 11 kind habits academics should get into on social media. One of my pet theories is that by doing specific kind practices on social media you are shaping a community around yourself so there is a higher chance of these kind of interactions taking place in the future in your social media vicinity.

This is not just the effect of people copying you. It is because platforms’ algorithms tend to surround you with people who are doing the same types of kind actions, this reinforces the practices as a collective action due to network effects. You are basically creating ripples of kindness, and the algorithms may be reinforcing it. So by practicing kind actions on the social media where scholars are active, you are helping the whole of academia become a kinder place.

Collective conciousness

Our paper “is exactly analogous to this,” Tri-Long Nguyen said when I presented my own pet theory to him on our Zoom call.

“The biggest mental barrier that people have is the fear that they cannot change the world alone from an individual position. But I think that when we change ourself we inspire other people to change themselves as well. We’re not on separate islands and that’s what we try to emphasize in the paper.”

I put it to Tri-Long Nguyen that support for the contagiousness of kindness theory can be found on the Reddit platform. People post here anonymously, on different subreddits, each with a different topic. On many of them, people respond voluntarily to help other people, with no other reward than the knowledge that they are helping others. As they are posting anonymously, there is no reason to believe they are doing it for egoistical reasons or to boost their status.  By responding, they are simply helping their community and at the same time increasing the likelihood that other people do the same.

“The non-action is what we cultivate before we speak, before we write, before we perform an act of kindness”

For Tri-Long Nguyen this type of social media practice, and their own paper, ties in well with his practice of Zen Buddhism. If ‘being kind’ propagates to others, it is a sociological phenomenon that can be analyzed through the lens of ‘complexity theory’ and ‘system theory’. But the Buddhist tradition has, through the course of millennia, had a lot to say about it also. For example how being kind to yourself is not in opposition to being kind to others. We are all, in this tradition, ultimately nourishing and cultivating a same ‘collective consciousness’ that we all ‘consume’. There is no separation between you and me, we are interconnected.

Non-action

I showed Tri-Long Nguyen two slides from a recent social media workshop I did for researchers: The first slide outlines a ‘mindful’ approach to social media platforms that protects your attention span, guards your boundaries, and avoids the constant pressure to perform. The focus is on self-care. The second slide outlines an ‘ethical’ approach to the social media platforms that encourages generosity, openness, and support for others. The focus here is on social media as a channel to fulfil our ethical obligations.

I knew, even before I asked him, that Tri-Long Nguyen would politely dismantle my distinction. Are they basically the same thing?

“Yes they are!” Tri-Long Nguyen responded.

“We cite at the very end of our paper the Zen master Thích Nhất Hạnh. He talked a lot about how when we talk about action, we often think about something concrete, like something to do, write, say, or do physically. But there is another aspect that is non-action. The non-action is what we cultivate before we speak, before we write, and before we perform an act of kindness,” Tri-Long Nguyen said.

“Non-action is in a way already action because it increases our well-being and therefore shapes the way that we cultivate loving speech or loving actions to others. So that’s how I relate the two approaches, mindful and ethical.”

Social media for research impact is a new book by Mike Young and Marcel Bogers (forthcoming). It invites you to think more clearly — and ethically — about how to use social media. Not just to disseminate your research, but to connect, ideate, co-create, and stay open to the unexpected. The book page is here.

What I learned from co-authoring a book

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I want to share a few reflections on how co-writing a book has been a powerful experience for me. 

Marcel Bogers and I sent a book manuscript to the publisher recently and our work will be released in a few months time. (No spoilers about the actual book here: I want to stay on message!)

Marcel Bogers (left) and I went for a walk with my family in Grib forest when we had finished the manuscript

This is my first book, and a lot of my previous writing in a professional context has been as a journalist. I have many positive experiences with the collective researching, drafting and writing of journalistic articles and stories. But here, most writing, even nowadays, is as a sole author.  

Efficient, and in control

The way I see it, being the sole author of any piece of writing, including a non-fiction guide like ours, has its advantages:

  • Writing is more efficient, as you don’t have to coordinate with anyone else. You can simply work sequentially: now I work on this chapter, now I work on that.
  • It is written in one tone of voice, and this means that you can spend a lot less time revising to unify this voice once it has been drafted.
  • As sole author you have complete control over the structure, topics, format, and expression.

But co-authoring a book has advantages too. And this was brought home to me the last six months working with Marcel. Collaborating on a book is not just a 1 + 1 = 2 situation. The sum is greater than the parts.

Something new in the world

Having two authors adds something fundamentally different.

Here are the specific advantages that I have thought about in the actual book-writing process:

  • Natality. With two authors, there is a higher chance that something new comes into the world. The discussion in itself leads to new thought emerging that would not have appeared in one of the authors. This reminds me of the concept of ‘natality’ in Hannah Arendt, where being human in a shared space means bringing something fundamentally new into the world.
  • Darlings. In journalism school, you are taught to ‘kill your darlings’. You fall in love with your own ‘cute’ turns of phrase, and you need someone else to take them out. In this work process, I have had many darlings killed!
  • Network. In this type of non-fiction work, you’ll be looking for wide variety of interview sources with insight, experience, or authority. A co-author doesn’t just add volume—they add variety. I have come into proximity with people I wouldn’t normally approach from different disciplines, countries, and platforms.
  • Momentum. Writing a book takes time and you go through bumps and troughs. As co-authors we could take turns to pick up the slack.
  • Blind spots. You bring different assumptions, biases and intellectual traditions to the table. My co-author has shone a light on my own blind spots and made me more self-aware of where I need to learn more.
  • Division of labour. One of you can be good with sources and interviews, another can be good with references and structure. And the funny thing is: you only find out along the way. In this way, we ended up specializing, while at the same time learning from each other.
  • Learning. It deserves another mention. When you write a book with someone else, you don’t just learn more about the topic — you are exposed to practical shortcuts, processes and technological tricks. I got better by working with someone else.

Another way of being human

In one way, I suppose, co-authoring a book is just another way of being human. After all, nearly everything new in the world is the result of a collective endeavour. But writing a book with someone else makes this visible in a way that solo work rarely does.

If you have any thoughts yourself on the subject feel free to write them in the comments below!

Call for experts: Social media for research impact

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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!

The book has a working title — Social Media for Research Impact — and will combine the expertise in innovation, technology and entrepreneurship from Professor Marcel Bogers and my own (Mike) practical work experience helping academics and universities boost their impact through social media. It will be published by Routledge and is likely to be released in the autumn of 2025.

We want this to be a collaborative project, and we’re looking for experts, case studies, and stories to enrich the book. Below are some key topics where we’d love to hear from you (or someone that you can suggest to us in your own network)!

What we’re looking for:

The concept of ‘research impact’ and social media

We need experts on the theory of research impact and how social media practices tie into it. This includes the interplay between scholarship, policymaking, and public engagement.

Social media identity and personal branding

We want insights on how scholars build their online presence. Which platforms work best? What strategies succeed? We’re especially keen on case studies of academics that have built a strong online identity.

Increasing research visibility and impact via social media

We need case studies of scholars who’ve used social media effectively. Have you seen great examples of posting techniques, use of infographics, or creative sharing strategies? Let us know!

Customizing your information environment

How do academics use social media to manage the flow of information? If you’ve developed methods for filtering feeds and managing your time online, we’d love to hear about them.

Automation, AI, and social media

We’re exploring the pros and cons of automation for academics: What works well? Where are the risks? We want to hear from people using tools like scheduling apps, chatbots, or AI content recommendations, custom GPTs for content creation, or tools to find related social media posts and accounts.

Navigating the dark side of social media

We need stories and strategies around handling the challenges of social media: Trolling, self-censorship, burnout, and more. We’re particularly looking for case studies from scholars who have social media experience in politicized or controversial fields.

Kindness and generosity in academic social media

We want to explore the positive side of social media. Do you know of scholars who share openly, help others, or spread kindness in academic spaces? We want to hear those stories.

The future of social media for scholarly impact

We’d love to hear your thoughts on the future of social media for research impact. What promising strategies are on the horizon? Which older approaches might be worth revisiting?

We want diverse perspectives

We recognize that Marcel and I bring certain biases to this project: We’re both men, from Western Europe, and embedded in traditional academic culture.

So we’re actively seeking diverse voices — from different cultural, geographical, and disciplinary backgrounds. We want to hear from:

  • Scholars from underrepresented communities
  • Non-academic stakeholders affected by research
  • People in different fields and stages of their careers

Interested?
We’d love to hear from you!

Email me Mike on mike@mikeyoungacademy.dk if you have any ideas.

This is a collaborative intellectual journey — and we hope you’ll join us!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Unsung heroes

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

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

Workshop participant

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

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

As a curator on one of my workshops put it:

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

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

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

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

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

So let’s get on with it!

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

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

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

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

The top 100 research institutions on Twitter in the Nordic region

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

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

1 – Statens Serum Inst. – Copenhagen, Denmark

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

2 – Arctic_Centre – Rovaniemi, Finland

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

3 – UppsalaPeaceConflict – Uppsala, Sweden

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

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

4 – DIIS Denmark – Copenhagen

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

5 – C-REX – Oslo, Norway

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

6 – Kavli Neuroscience – Trondheim, Norway

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

7 – iCourts – Copenhagen, Denmark

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

8 – PluriCourts – Oslo, Norway

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

9 – MAX IV Laboratory – Lund, Sweden

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

10 – CBMR – Copenhagen

Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, @koebenhavns_uni

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

11 – Interacting Minds – Århus, Denmark

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

12 – Birkeland Centre – Bergen, Norway

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

13 – Copenhagen Cardiovascular Research Center – Copenhagen, Danmark

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

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

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

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

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

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

16 – HELSUS – Helsinki, Finland

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

17 – UiB Ocean – Bergen, Norge

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

18 – CMI Bergen – Bergen, Norway

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

19 – CMEC – University of Copenhagen

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

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

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

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

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

22 – CWS – War Studies – Odense, Danmark

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

23 – UNEP Copenhagen Climate Centre – Copenhagen, Denmark

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

24 – Center for Militære Studier – Copenhagen, Denmark

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

25 – SUDA – Stockholm, Sweden

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

26 – DTU Biosustain – Capital Region, Denmark

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

27 – HiLIFE_Helsinki – Helsinki, Finland

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

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

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

29 – FangGroup – Oslo, Norway

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

30 – Sahlgrenska Academy – Gothenburg, Sweden

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

31 – LUCSUS_LU – Lund, Sweden

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

32 – KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory – Stockholm, Sweden

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

33 – Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen – Denmark

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

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

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

35 – reNEW – Copenhagen, Denmark

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

36 – FIMM HelsinkiUni – Helsinki, Finland

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

37 – NanoESC Lab – Barcelona and Copenhagen

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

38 – NaturalHistoryDK – Copenhagen, Denmark

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

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

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

40 – Kilden kjønnsforskning.no – Norway

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

41 – Bioacoustics AU – Aarhus University, Denmark

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

42 – CPRatUCPH – Copenhagen, Denmark

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

43 – CoAStAL NLP – Copenhagen, Denmark

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

44 – Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies – Aarhus, Denmark

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

45 – Sociologi SU – Stockholm, Sweden

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

46 –  OsloAnthropology – Oslo, Norway

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

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

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

48 – UI Research – Stockholm, Sweden

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

49 – Nordicom – Univ. of Gothenburg, Sweden.

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

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

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

51 – Aleksanteri Institute – University of Helsinki, Finland

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

52 – Umeå Epidemiology and Global Health – Umeå, Sweden

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

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

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

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

54 – The Techno-Anthropology Lab – Copenhagen, Danmark

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

55 – SCEEUS – Stockholm, Sweden

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

56 – Skogforsk – Uppsala, Sweden

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

57 – High North Center – Bodø, Norway

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

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

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

59 – NORCE – Norway

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

60 – Constructive Institute – Aarhus, Denmark

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

61 – AU CEH – Aarhus, Denmark

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

62 – Uppsala Antibiotic Center – Uppsala, Sweden

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

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

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

64 – DEEP at Stockholm University – Stockholm, Sweden

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

65 – CEMUS – Uppsala, Sweden

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

66 – Danish Diabetes and Endocrine Academy – Odense, Denmark

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

67 – Technologies in Practice – Copenhagen, Denmark

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

68 – Analytical Sociology – Norrköping, Sweden

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

69 – DEMOS – Aalborg, Denmark

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

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

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

71 – The Institute – Lund, Sweden

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

72 – Lund Vision Group – Lund, Sweden

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

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

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

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

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

75 – Rousk Lab – Lund, Sweden

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

76 – DTU Bioengineering – Lyngby-Taarbæk, Danmark

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

77 –  SustainUCPH – Copenhagen, Denmark

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

78 – Wenkel Lab – UPSC, Umeå University, Sweden

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

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

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

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

80 – NordGen – Alnarp, Sweden

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

81 – The Posthumanities Hub – Linköping, Sweden

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

82 – ETHOS Lab – Copenhagen, Denmark

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

83 – BIOCHANGE – Aarhus, Denmark

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

84 – Jørgensen Group – Aarhus, Denmark

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

88 – Teknologisk Institut – Taastrup, Denmark

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

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

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

90 – SASNET – Lund, Sverige

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

91 – EnvHumNTNU – Trondheim, Norway

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

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

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

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

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

94 – Water @ Uppsala Uni – Uppsala, Sweden

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

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

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

96 – CECS Copenhagen Law – Copenhagen, Denmark

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

97 – PlantLink – Alnarp-Lund, Sweden

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

98 – CCEEL – Joensuu, Finland

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

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

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

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

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

101 – EastGRIP Camp – Greenland

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Scientists on social media: The problems, the issues … and the solutions

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Participants on my workshops offer each other feedback on their own specific social media challenges. Now it is time to release some of it.

It is something that I facilitate at the end of my longer social media workshops for researchers, and it is a core component of the 2-day ‘Boost Your Research Career with Twitter, LinkedIn and alternative social media platforms’ workshop that I hold at the University of Copenhagen:

A feedback exercise where participants walk around the room in groups of two and respond to each other’s social media challenges and bottlenecks. Participants also email me their challenges between the two workshop days, so I have the chance to respond to them myself.

I realized that some of the issues and problems were solved by previous participants. So I would be doing everyone a favour by re-using the previous responses to the same problem.

The feedback session is one of the high points of the ‘Boost Your Research Career with Twitter, LinkedIn and alternative social media platforms’ at the University of Copenhagen.

A participant’s issue could be something specific like this:

‘I need 40 more people to sign up for an upcoming conference that I am organizing and need to find an expert to take part in a panel session. What is the best way to go about it?’

Or it could be a general problem like this:

‘I have a fear of sending things out in the open: I want things to be completely correct before I tweet or post.’

I write the issues at the top of a large A1 flipchart sheet of paper. As each group walks around the room, they have 3 minutes to discuss and formulate their response to the issue.

‘I need 40 more people to sign up for an upcoming conference that I am organizing and need to find an expert to take part in a panel session. What is the best way to go about it?’

When I ring a bell, the groups switch places and move on to the next question, where they both relate to the original issue and the first group’s response to it. There are five or six rounds.

The exercise also works at online meetings. Here the large piece of paper is replaced by a shared google doc, where participants (in breakout rooms) simultaneously update their solutions in the same fashion.

The thing is: After many feedback sessions, I came to realize that some of the issues were already solved by previous participants. So I would be doing everyone a favour by re-using others’ previous responses to the same problem. So I started doing this also.

Participants offer technical solutions to specific technical problems, and some of these solutions are too specific to be released. But participants also offer cognitive strategies and ways to keep up motivation. So it is a good thing if their strategies are used for workshop participants going forward.

I am now going to go one step further!

I release here a selected list of feedback problems, with the participants’ solutions in blue.  I have anonymised all the responses, as well as the references to specific institutions and events. If relevant I have added my own previous responses (from the time) in red.

THEME: Twitter and LinkedIn for recruitment, events and networking

  • How can I use Twitter/Linkedin to support the recruitment of students and research staff?
  • I need 40 more people for the forthcoming conference and expert panel session.
  • I want to promote my teams participation in a conference at the end of the year. The organisers, however, are slow to publish the material. How can I build up to it, and get the networking benefits?

Selected feedback from participants:

  • Make sure that posts and tweets are regular: basically just events and deadlines relating to the group

THEME: Developing a social media culture at an institution

  • My section or department does not have a policy or culture of social media – How do I get my colleagues/labmates to tweet?
  • I administer an institution’s account, but I lack inspiration and fear looking uninformed
  • I need to have a more proactive approach, but corona makes it a bit difficult to engage more vividly with the researchers
  • How do I get my colleagues to tweet, and to post more on LinkedIn?
  • In my research coordinator role, I lack the scientific knowledge to tweet and assess the value of someone’s tweets to retweet from the institutional account. How can I do it anyway the best I can?

Selected feedback from participants:

  • Focus on the Altmetrics tool.
  • Reach out to colleagues on how to better reach out to the target groups, and use my account as a good example!
  • Tag them in a tweet or post and ask them to retweet or share
  • Live tweeting
  • Post a tweet or thread about THEIR recent work (papers)
  • Inform them of the benefits, connections, ideas, conferences. Invite Mike 🙂 as speaker to a research group meeting to share the advantages from academic visibility to the group. Share this experience in section and group meetings to encourage others.
  • Do a rotating account with the other people in the group, so you do not feeling overburdened with the task
  • Delegate to researchers
  • Tag them / Hold a water cooler talk about how great it is and how many new project/job offers you got.
  • Mike: Set up a rotating Twitter takeover for your scientist colleagues. This will get researchers excited, and more followers! As for content native to the institution’s account: Setting up a LinkedIn search string would help you find original content to post on Twitter. Set up Tweetdeck and monitor for keywords

THEME: Creating engaging content

  • I am a first year PhD student, and I don’t think I have anything unique to contribute to the scientific community yet – what should I do?
  • I am an informatician and I spend my time sitting behind the computer, writing lines of code and making data visualizations – I do not consider my daily job tasks as “sharable”, any thoughts?

Selected feedback from participants:

  • Retweet other peoples stuff until you have more of our own – but have a plan for what is relevant to retweet
  • Leverage your own colleagues first (get a bubble then break out of it)
  • Create a hub of those who are known or important in the field and start from them
  • Look at interactions of colleagues and do retweets based on this
  • Ask for a simple summary of their work and tweet that!

THEME: Strategies for increasing engagement

  • How can my posts on LinkedIn get more attention?
  • How can I get more followers?
  • I would like a bigger follower group – I need to be better at selecting good and meaningful @ and # to my tweets. And settle on a good topic.
  • My tweets for Friday’s lectures are not getting enough traction. How do I get more likes, follows, and people turning up?
  • Finding groups and experts in the field of reasearch have proven difficult. Most of the ‘hotshots’ are either inactive or simply without accounts.

Selected feedback from participants:

  • 1) Follow people; 2) Comment in groups in LinkedIn; 3) post novel and topical stuff e.g. genetics;)
  • Keep up regular flow of posts
  • Be selective in the content you put out and who you follow
  • Use popular and relevant hashtags. Follow relevant people.
  • Retweet a field-relevant tweet and include a critical comment / open a discussion
  • Streamline a Twitter list,  and then make it public
  • Laymanise your content to widen your reach
  • Retweet with emojis 😉
  • Big time following of others, hopefully they follow back 🙂
  • Fill out bio, and have interesting content
  • Participate in conferences+ post about it but also the other participants research
  • Mike: Remind yourself that the purpose of your activity is not to ‘increase your follower count’, but to meet new people and develop your own thought 🙂
  • Mike: Try the Twitter Circles function

THEME: Finding content, and creating a backlog for scheduled social media posts

  • How can I identify relevant people to follow and content to tweet?
  • How do I find and build up a backlog of content to share, without seeming ‘behind the times’ to others?
  • I am an editor of a journal – How do I get automated email every time one of our papers is published online, so I can tweet it?
  • Content generated from our own programme is inadequate. How do I create enough content?
  • How do I trace (find) stories (content)?

Selected feedback from participants:

  • Search for tags, terms that you are interested in
  • Use the explore section and search relevant hashtags
  • Tweet content from general newspaper (BBC has good popular science segments)
  • Find and follow specific (scientific) journals
  • Mike: Follow the people who follow the Twitter account of your favourite conference

THEME: Time management and scheduling, a systematic approach to social media use

  • I enjoy networking on Twitter, but it consumes a lot of my time. Any tips for developing a schedule, saving time?
  • I tried a Twitter thread and it took me maybe 1 hour or more – I am not sure this is sustainable. If I transform this into other things, e.g. a blog post, or other SoMe content, I could reuse this 60min work for more purposes. Now my problem is to find this one hour each week to do it!
  • When I have a busy work life – there are no new tweets
  • How do I find the time to think about and generate content to tweet or post?
  • Tell me how I can better schedule the time to be active on social media!

Selected feedback from participants:

  • Select 15 minutes a day at a specific time for active engagement
  • Use scheduling on Tweetdeck, f.ex. to streamline stuff
  • Use procrastination time, coffee time
  • Put it in the calendar
  • Mike: Use Twitter lists and bookmarked LinkedIn searches as your ONLY entry point to your social media. Only do it at one set time of every day

THEME: Personal barriers

  • Fear of sending things out in the open, wants things to be completely correct before I send them out.
  • I am reticent in sharing my thoughts on social media, and in retweeting contents I do not find relevant – Is there still a point?
  • I am new to Twitter and am not good at fast and catchy messages – What should I do?
  • I have just begun my PhD and still feels to broad to share any research
  • I am too nervous to write / link things in public; I overthink my phrasing; don’t respond to people that comment or respond – Any solutions? How to change my behavior?
  • My mindset is that most of what I do, is not really going to be of interest to anybody else. What should I do?
  • I feel most of the tweets are to promote yourself. As an introvert, it is difficult to post something.
  • For me, it is as if nothing is important enough for me to take a minute of time away from my followers attention. Help me not think this!
  • I am still learning the new field and I do not feel certified enough being a voice of authority.
  • I find it hard to identify what I should post and what content should I write. I start to question myself and after spending too much time to polish the language, I end up not posting anything.
  • I don’t have anything unique to contribute to the scientific community yet – What should I do?

Selected feedback from participants:

  • Tweet your thing and see who interacts, then change/improve your style accordingly!
  • Mindset: Your regular day is no-one else’s regular day. So your thing might be more interesting to the them than you think.
  • Take a moment to notice what you like about other tweets. What you do is interesting to at least one other person (you) and definitely to others
  • Retweet just to find what you like. You may recognize it in your daily life later on.
  • Post picture of lab/fieldwork
  • Retweet posts from people you find interesting
  • Ask questions
  • Whenever you are researching something, you are alraedy an authority
  • You have narrow knowledge compared to experienced researchers, but very deep knowledge
  • Mike: Using a social media management system to schedule posts, takes the edge off this. Schedule, schedule, schedule! Practice also helps. Try something new! see what happens. You can always delete it! Don’t EVER feel obligated to post or tweet. Only do it when you are in the place for it.

THEME: Challenges of sharing research and data on social media

  • It’s hard to create an overview on relevant tweets as it easily drowns . I guess I have to create lists and use # ??
  • How to not share unpublished data that you pick up during a talk?
  • I don’t really have a network of people to share the key point of my project and I don’t know properly how to use the apps – but I am here for this 🙂
  • I want to let other people know what project I am working on and create constructive discussion. But I do not want to give too much the idea of the project away for others to take at this early stage.

Selected feedback from participants:

  • You can post about your hypotheses indirectly by asking questions based on the literature you read to make your hypothesis
  • Post ideas of methods and fieldwork, challenge these ideas? Broaden your perspective/network, people won’t know exactly what you are doing, and you will get feedback and new ideas
  • Find a ‘safe’ straightforward thing (that indirectly says something about your work) like an upcoming event, publiction, fieldworkk/lab situation
  • Post a current work/interest and ask a colleague in the same project for suggestions on Twitter/LinkedIn

THEME:  Promoting and positioning yourself as a scientist

  • I closed down my old account – How can I back the BEST of these followers on Twitter?

Selected feedback from participants:

  • Search for old Twitter handle and see who interacted with, and who retweeted it before – same as when celebraties close/delete their accounts
  • Mike: If we were into marketing, which we are not, you would list all the accounts that followed you before you closed your previous account, then automate ‘likes’ to their posts, making them aware of your present account (I know an app that can do that!). But don’t do this! Use your new-found freedom with few followers to your advantage, create a highly focussed feed and community.

THEME: Balancing social media as a tool versus a distraction

  • How can I avoid Twitter or LinkedIn being a distraction rather than a tool?
  • Information overload. On Twitter there is so much information out there. I feel like I cant keep up with the information coming my way.

Selected feedback from participants:

  • Give yourself a daily time limit
  • Be specific in the times I do Twitter and LinkedIn, like just give 30 min a day on the work schedule.
  • Still perceived as a extremely time consuming. Minimize tweeting and posting to a limited timespan could be a strategy of action
  • Mike: Use Twitter lists, hashtags, set up a social media management system so you only see interesting tweets and people. Bookmark a series of focussed LinkedIn search strings. Have it as your goal to NEVER look at the native Twitter or LinkedIn newsfeed 🙂 Use lists and search instead. Do SoMe work ONLY at beginning or end of day to avoid getting distracted in the ‘core’ working hours.

There is a more detailed course description of the ‘Boost Your Research Career with Twitter, LinkedIn and alternative social media platforms’ at the University of Copenhagen here.

Below is a short introductory video:

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

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Which scholars are surging ahead on the Danish social web?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

You can read about the methodology of it here.

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

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

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

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

Centrality

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

Pagerank

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

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

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

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

The 2022 TwiLi Index for Denmark

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

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

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

1 – (⇒) – Svend Brinkmann – AAU

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

2 – (⇑) –  Sahra Ahmed Koshin – UCPH

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

3 – (⇓) – Alf Rehn – SDU

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

4 – (⇓) – Alireza Dolatshahi-Pirouz – DTU

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

5 – (⇑) –  Bent Flyvbjerg – ITU

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

6 – (⇑) –  Christine Stabell Benn – SDU

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

7 – (⇓) – Lars Christensen – CBS

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

8 – (⇓) – Finn Tarp – UCPH

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

9 – (⇓) – James Rogers – SDU

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

10 – (⇓) – Peter Nedergaard – UCPH

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

11 – (⇓) – Diego F. Aranha – Aarhus

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

12 – (⇑) –  Roslyn Layton – AAU

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

13 – (⇑) –  Olivier Schmitt – SDU

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

14 – (⇓) – Flemming Besenbacher – Aarhus

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

15 – (⇑) –  Peter Krustrup – SDU

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

16 – (⇓) – Kristian Thorborg – UCPH

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

17 – (⇑) –  Morten Sodemann – SDU

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

18 – (⇓) – Ravinder Kaur – UCPH

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

19 – (⇑) –  Michael Bang Petersen – Aarhus

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

20 – (⇓) – Nicolai Foss – CBS

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

21 – (⇓) – Marlene Wind – UCPH

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

22 – (⇓) – Carsten Rahbek – UCPH

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

23 – (⇓) – Serge Belongie – UCPH

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

24 – (⇓) – Jens Svenning – Aarhus

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

25 – (⇑) –  Lars L. Andersen – NFA

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

26 – (⇑) –  Anja C. Andersen – UCPH

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

27 – (⇓) – Lene Tanggaard – AAU

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

28 – (⇓) – Brian Vad Mathiesen – AAU

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

29 – (⇑) –  Kresten Lindorff-Larsen – UCPH

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

30 – (⇓) – Martin Brynskov – Aarhus

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

31 – (⇓) – Henning Langberg – UCPH

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

32 – (⇓) – Christian Bueger – UCPH

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

33 – (⇑) –  Akos T. Kovacs – DTU

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

34 – (⇓) – Jesper Juul – KADK

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

35 – (⇑) –  Claes de Vreese – SDU

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

36 – (⇓) – Andreas Wieland – CBS

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

37 – (⇓) – Mikkel Flyverbom – CBS

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

38 – (⇑) –  Anton Pottegård – SDU

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

39 – (⇓) – Barbara Plank – ITU

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

40 – (⇑) –  Hanne Leth Andersen – RUC

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

41 – (⇓) – Rebecca Adler-Nissen – UCPH

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

42 – (⇓) – David Budtz Pedersen – AAU

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

43 – (⇓) – Thomas Ryberg – AAU

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

44 – (⇓) – Pernille Bærendtsen – CBS

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

45 – (⇓) – Katherine Richardson – UCPH

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

46 – (⇑) –  Paul Hünermund – CBS

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

47 – (⇓) – Sune Auken – UPCH

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

48 – (⇓) – Michael Svarer – Aarhus

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

49 – (⇑) –  Carl-Johan Dalgaard – UCPH

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

50 – (⇑) –  Jens Lundgren – UCPH

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

51 – (⇑) –  Somdeep Sen – RUC

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

52 – (⇓) – Kai Hockerts – CBS

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

53 – (⇑) –  Christina Gravert – UCPH

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

54 – (⇑) –  Bjarke Møller – CBS

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

55 – (⇓) – María Escudero Escribano – UCPH

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

56 – (⇑) –  Nikos Ntoumanis – SDU

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

57 – (⇓) – Stine Liv Johansen – Aarhus

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

58 – (⇓) – Rasmus Elling – UCPH

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

59 – (⇓) – Tara Ballav Adhikari – Aarhus

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

60 – (⇑) –  Rasmus Dahlberg – Forsvarsakademiet

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

61 – (⇑) –  Mathias Poulsen – Designskolen Kolding

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

62 – (⇓) – Pablo Iván Nikel – DTU

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

63 – (⇓) – Isabelle Augenstein – UCPH

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

64 – (⇓) – Mikkel Vedby Rasmussen – UCPH

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

65 – (⇓) – Rune Møller Stahl – CBS

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

66 – (⇓) – Mona Kanwal Sheikh – DIIS

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

67 – (⇓) –  Pedro Oliveira – CBS

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

68 – (⇑) –  Mads Albertsen – AAU

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

69 – (⇓) – Cristina Legido-Quigley – Steno

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

≈70* – (⇑) –  Emil Engelund Thybring – UCPH

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

70 – (⇓) –  Sebastian Risi – ITU

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

72 – (⇑) –  Jeremy Morris – Aarhus

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

73 – (⇑) –  Frederik Schaltz-Buchholzer – SDU

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

74 – (⇓) – Mickey Gjerris – UCPH

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

75 – (⇑) –  Luca Maria Aiello – ITU

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

76 – (⇓) – Veronika Cheplygina – ITU

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

77 – (⇓) – Andreas Lieberoth – Aarhus

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

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

78 – (⇑) – Anders Perner – UCPH

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

79 – (⇓) – Petar Popovski – AAU

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

80 – (⇓) – Carlos Henríquez-Olguin – UCPH

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

81 – (⇓) – Sune Lehmann – DTU

“A leading leader in unusual methods

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

82 – (⇓) – Peter Kurrild-Klitgaard – UCPH

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

83 – (⇓) – Didde Elnif – SDU

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

84 – (⇑) –  Rasmus Corlin Christensen – CBS

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

85 – (⇑) –  Claire Yorke – SDU

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

86 – (⇓) – Asmus Leth Olsen – UCPH

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

87 – (⇑) –  Christopher Røhl – DTU

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

88 – (⇓) – Ewa Roos – SDU

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

89 – (⇓) – Bo Abrahamsen – SDU

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

90 – (⇓) – Peter Dalsgaard – Aarhus

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

91 – (⇓) – Ole Sejer Iversen – Aarhus

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

92 – (⇓) – Stefano Ponte – CBS

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

93 – (⇓) – Ruth Mottram – DMI

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

🇪🇺 🇩🇰 🇬🇧

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

94 – (⇓) – Michael Linden-Vørnle – DTU

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

95 – (⇓) – Theresa Scavenius – AAU

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

96 – (⇑) –  Stefania Serafin – AAU

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

97 – (⇓) – Sjúrður Hammer – UFI

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

98 – (⇓) – Luke Patey – DIIS

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

99 – (⇓) – Timo Minssen – UCPH

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

100 – (⇓) – Afton Halloran – UCPH

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

101 – (⇓) – Marin Jovanovic – CBS

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

* = Data from September 2022

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Inspired by PhD student

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Quantity has a quality of its own

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

.. or a recent tweet that went viral:

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

Awareness of the costs of not co-operating

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

What about ‘working hours’?

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

Less restrictive

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

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

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

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

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

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