A really good example that springs to mind is the case Brad is alluding to where last year (ish?) neuro Twitter went positively bonkers over an article saying "we need to think about behaviour not just neurons".
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Replying to @o_guest @dan_marinazzo and
Nothing wrong the article of course. But it's ahistorical to react like that as it implies it's a view never expressed previously or continuously and persistently by MANY.
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Replying to @o_guest @dan_marinazzo and
If the twitterverse comes up with useful insights without crediting the first person having that insight, is that so bad? I think of twitter more like face to face conversation and I most certainly do not always cite my sources in f2f.
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Replying to @KordingLab @dan_marinazzo and
No, but face-to-face doesn't have an audience of thousands. So when you speak face-to-face you have the pragmatics of you and the few people you're chatting with to deal with. On Twitter, 2k+ people will see, e.g., my tweets and have varying degrees on context collapse.
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Replying to @o_guest @dan_marinazzo and
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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Replying to @KordingLab @dan_marinazzo and
About 500 is a lot though given the size of our field, no?
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Replying to @o_guest @KordingLab and
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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Replying to @o_guest @KordingLab and
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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Replying to @o_guest @dan_marinazzo and
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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Replying to @o_guest @KordingLab
Can I just say I want to frame these last two tweets as a model of how open discourse could work on twitter.
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