Yesterday, the Postdoctoral Association at UAB hosted a seminar entitled, "Social Media for Scientists: How Facebook and LinkedIn can bolster your career". The talk, presented by Wade Kwon and David Sher - both experts in this area, was informative and convincingly made the point that social media is here to stay. We're at an advantage if we make use of these tools now.What surprised me was the small percentage of those in attendance that actually use social media networks such as Facebook, Twitter, etc. Most of the audience have never used these networks and, if so, rarely update their accounts. It made me wonder why scientists might shy away from these simplistic forms of communication.
The stereotypical phenotype of a scientist is an anti-social individual wearing a white coat who prefers to work isolated in a laboratory, mixing flasks of bubbling solutions that are oh-so-beautifully colored. But does this image really hold up today?
The stereotypical phenotype of a scientist is an anti-social individual wearing a white coat who prefers to work isolated in a laboratory, mixing flasks of bubbling solutions that are oh-so-beautifully colored. But does this image really hold up today?
