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In the era of Brexit and fake news, scientists need to embrace social media
Social media can be an intimidating place for academics as not all of them take to it like ducks to water. For many newcomers, a more approp


Nothing lasts forever: questions to ask yourself when choosing a new tool or technology for research
Academia has become increasingly reliant on third-party tools and technologies to carry out many of the processes throughout the research li


Altmetrics - what are they good for? - British Psychology Research Day - video of my talk
video of a talk I gave for The British Psychological Association on Altmetrics and how researchers can make use of them


Following the success of the learning technologist, is it time for a research equivalent?
With so many scholarly communications tools and technologies now available, how do academics decide which are most appropriate for their res


Disentangling the academic web: what might have been learnt from Discogs and IMDB
Academia can always learn a lot from the rest of the world when it comes to working with the web. The project 101 Innovations in Scholarly C


0 is the magic number: Why small numbers matter just as much as large ones when we talk about Altmet
0 is the magic number: Why small numbers matter just as much as large ones when we talk about altmetrics.


Jobs.ac.uk Talk - How to hack your research
Social media and digital tools are now a staple of many researcher practices and have brought new dimensions to publishing, finding and orga


When it comes to information overload, we’re like frogs in boiling water
To consider how being constantly connected through computers and mobile devices has encroached on our working lives, consider the experiment


Social media is a ticking time bomb for universities with an outdated web presence.
A substantial issue at hand in the higher education community is the tricky balancing act academics and their institutions face in managing
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