It's disagreement among club members though. That said, I do think most people have the good intentions and a lot of great work is being done. Perhaps it just self-organises into a strange beast.
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I analyzed the numbers. The first link to a paper that starts such threads tend to be 10ks. The second group tends to be 1k ish. The rest of the discussion is relatively small I think. Lots of people get >500 views.
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About 500 is a lot though given the size of our field, no?
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Also to be clear... My point wasn't just that Twitter is something we need to think carefully about because of the pure number of who reads our tweets. My point is in my tweets, I think there's a specific thing going on and it affects the quality of scientific outputs.
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If you disagree that there is something going on (what i describe already) which manifests both on Twitter and in the literature and other places offline, that is fine. But I encounter it pretty much every week in various forms — monthly in the case of ahistorical articles.
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I just don't know what to do and it hurts to see people behave like they have no memory, if that makes sense.
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It does. How could I be more useful on Twitter?
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I am happy you asked and I wish I had a constructive take other than to say this: I really respect you listened to me and asked me respectfully a load of questions to help clarify my position to you. And I really am glad you agree it's an issue and I wish more were like you.

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The issue is, like I said, that on Twitter we (and let's face it mostly you and other big names, not really me) can shape thousands of people's impressions of the field and yes, even who and what people cite!
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If people doing PhDs see that neuro twitter went bonkers over "let's consider behaviour" they will — and I have seen it offline — genuinely state that it's a new perspective.
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But at least in this case you have an immediate discussion, albeit a chaotic one. I am more worried about people thinking that something is big and new because it is in journal X
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I learn a lot from those discussions. And they give the rebels a chance to get a word in even if the big journals don't.
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IMHO I'm rebelling right now.

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Yes. And you are totally getting the word out. Deservedly. But nature wouldn't have printed it ;)
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