I will miss science Twitter. It’s hard to overstate the influence of the social network on science during the COVID-19 pandemic — and the pandemic’s influence on science Twitter. A rich community of ...

A bizarre saga of events played out on social media over the weekend, embroiling much of the close-knit world of scientists, academics, and researchers on Twitter. It started with accusations that ...

An anthropology professor, @Sciencing_Bi, posted on Twitter that she was Hopi, bisexual, and taught at Arizona State University. She said she grew up in Alabama and left “because of their oppression ...

It’s been a heck of a year, and for anyone who uses Twitter regularly, it’s all played out in a never-ending stream of nightmares, summed up in 180 (or sometimes 280) characters or less. The Trump ...

COVID-19 has thrown science and scientists into the spotlight. Some have accepted the challenge, amassing hundreds of thousands of followers and using the ongoing pandemic as a “teachable moment.” As ...

For peeking into the daily life of working scientists, there's nothing like Twitter. Science Twitter is home to passionate debates, clever quips and many — so many — fantastic images and GIFs. In 2017 ...

Twitter provides an important platform for science communicators, but many in the scientific community have expressed misgivings about remaining on the platform. When you purchase through links on our ...

Current Twitter CEO Elon Musk declared Wednesday that Twitter will promote "reasoned" skepticism of scientific data. "New Twitter policy is to follow the science, which necessarily includes reasoned ...

Question: What does slime mold have in common with hip-hop superstar MC Hammer? Answer: University of California, Berkeley, biologist Michael Eisen is a big fan of both. Which is why Eisen thought it ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The Twitter campaign was born out of frustration. It started when Melissa Marquez, a marine biologist, tweeted ...

A flashy jewel bug butt. Ian Jacobs via Flickr under CC BY-NC 2.0 Over 90 percent of all animal species are invertebrates, including jellyfish, clams, worms, squids, and insects. As an ode to the ...