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Epidemiologist. Writer (Guardian, Observer etc). "Well known research trouble-maker". PhDing at @UoW Host of @senscipod Email gidmk.healthnerd@gmail.com he/him

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    1. Aliakbar Akbaritabar (Ali)‏ @Akbaritabar Feb 18

      Dear Tweeps! In 9 years, I have sent about 5,353 tweets! That makes for about <2 per day! So, if I unfollowed you when you are tweeting 100 times per day, please don't mind me doing so! Don't look at me, look at your Twitter activity 🙄pic.twitter.com/UzvYALFd6Z

      1 reply 0 retweets 6 likes
    2. Ilya Kashnitsky‏ @ikashnitsky Feb 18
      Replying to @Akbaritabar

      I'm close to your figure in half the time 🤔 Among twitter success metrics should be something like more followers than tweets Do you know some research on twittermetrics? I though of this a bit thinking over the altimetric scores (Sorry for the torrent of barely connected ideas)

      1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
    3. Andrey Lovakov‏ @lovakov Feb 18
      Replying to @ikashnitsky @Akbaritabar

      Here is an example of twittermetrics from the pasthttps://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13059-014-0424-0 …

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
    4. Ilya Kashnitsky‏ @ikashnitsky Feb 18
      Replying to @lovakov @Akbaritabar

      I've heard of it but never actually looked. Just glanced through now, and it seems such a pile of bs. Basically the author assumed that all the value of a researcher in a social platform is generated by their research. It's such a narrow idea

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
    5. Ilya Kashnitsky‏ @ikashnitsky Feb 18
      Replying to @ikashnitsky @lovakov @Akbaritabar

      For example. I saw boosts of my follower count when I: reported stuff from a conference, produced a cool dataviz, gave a big online course, wrote a resonant twitter peer-review. None of these bring citations directly

      1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
    6. Andrey Lovakov‏ @lovakov Feb 18
      Replying to @ikashnitsky @Akbaritabar

      I think the idea is that in an ideal situation the number of followers should correspond to the scientific authority of the researcher. If it is not the case, then it is bad and 'unfair' according to the author of the index.

      1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
    7. Ilya Kashnitsky‏ @ikashnitsky Feb 18
      Replying to @lovakov @Akbaritabar

      This is exactly the issue with the assumption – such an expected regularity assumes that publications are the *only* value that researchers create and thus constitute the *only* source of legit credit for them That's sooooo faaaaar from reality

      1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
    8. Ilya Kashnitsky‏ @ikashnitsky Feb 18
      Replying to @ikashnitsky @lovakov @Akbaritabar

      Let me give you several examples @CedScherer is followed by many who value his #TidyTuesday dataviz contributions @firefoxx66 was putting up amazing explanatory threads early on in the pandemic @GidMK is helping to keep sanity critically reviewing flawed influential studies

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    9. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Feb 18
      Replying to @ikashnitsky @lovakov and

      I always think the idea that researchers should have some ratio of followers/publications is a thorough misunderstanding of social media. Most of my followers are from my blog/writing/podcasting, which is related to my research but not actually part of it!

      1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
    10. James Heathers‏ @jamesheathers Feb 18
      Replying to @GidMK @ikashnitsky and

      The K-index was a silly joke, not supposed to be a real metric. Everyone threw rocks at it for a while, then it was quickly forgotten.

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      Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Feb 18
      Replying to @jamesheathers @ikashnitsky and

      Yeh, every once in a while someone decides it's important then all the PhD students with 100k Youtube subscribers point out how idiotic the whole idea is

      2:20 PM - 18 Feb 2021
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