I have, on multiple occasions, followed someone outside my discipline who shared an insight in their field that directly helped me dive deeper into my own work.
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To elaborate, my next book will have somewhere between three and five citations of sources I got from diving into rabbit holes that started on Twitter.
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re: 4: I think I overheat sometimes, too.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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I think that's good sorting. Begone, over-optimists!
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Yes to all 4. I was skeptical of twitter only joining a few months ago. I have learned & implemented new R code, found & read new papers, and discovered male scientists incredibly supportive of their female colleagues. The former help my science and the latter gives me hope.
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That’s great! And you found
@dataandme, so you are in good hands for R!
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The problem is it isn’t focused. Professionally I’ve learned a lot. But it drags me down rabbit holes and sucks my time on random tangents. So trade off.
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I found that it's worthwhile blocking updates from people that post a lot about controversial topics even if I like their views. Sometimes simply turning off retweets from them already helps a lot. Closes a lot of the rabbit holes I'd jump in.
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1.) No, not really 2) See (1). For example, most requests for a reference will be ignored unless you belong to a clique or a high degree node. Thus it's rare and also, always great when someone does help. 3) Yes 4) I've sought other tools to learn with.
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Note also that most of the people that respond did not evaporate due to a lack of utility to them.
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