Day 129. Six tweeps a-tweeting

On the 6th day of Christmas, ScienceforLife gave to me:

• Six tweeps a-tweeting*;
• Five bulk gold rings;
• Four extinct birds;
• A 3D shape;
• Two Venus transits; and
• Planets that resemble a tree.

*I’ve written here and there about how twitter can play a role in the professional lives of scientists and communicators. Here’s a list of six tweeting science-types who’ve interested and/or influenced me during 2012 (not an exhaustive list, and order not important):

1. Rebecca Skloot
   Sample tweet: Science writing: how do you make complex issues accessible and readable? [link to article] #sciwri
2. Ashley Ng
   Sample tweet: Quite amazing @TIME: PHOTOS: Tiny beauties – Visions from under the microscope [link to article]
3. Kevin Zelnio
   Sample tweet: Giant Squid on Video?! [link to article] #DeepSN via @deepseanews
4. Bora Zivkovic
   Sample tweet: How does Wikipedia deal with a mass shooting? A frenzied start gives way to a few core editors [link to article]
5. Samantha Thomas
   Sample tweet: Hi everyone looking for #instagram alternatives. Logged into @EyeEm – really good. Very similar to Instagram.
6. Cameron Webb
   Sample tweet: Hearing is a vastly underrated sense: The Science and Art of Listening [link to article]

[photo thanks to katerha on flickr]

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