Social media helps doctoral candidate reach out on research
Scientists on Twitter @ JacquelynGill 's starter list of scientists who are great Twitter communicators: @JohnHawks , John Haws, UW-Madison paleoanthropologist @GlobalEcoGuy , Jonathan Foley, University of Minnesota, global environmental scientist @DoctorZen , Zen Faulkes, University of Texas-Pan American, brains, behavior, and evolution @phylogenomics , Jonathan Eisen, University of California, Davis, evolutionary biologist @KateClancy , Kate Clancy, University of Illinois, biological anthropologist @highlyanne , Anne Jefferson, University of North Carolina—Charlotte, watershed hydrology @scicurious, a pseudonymous blogger and academic @JohnRHutchinson, John R. Hutchinson, Royal Veterinary College, evolutionary biomechanics @thirstygecko, Kevin Anchukaitis, Columbia University, paleoclimatologist @deepseadawn, Dawn Wright, Oregon State University, geography and oceanography For researchers, describing complex science to folks outside their discipline can be a tricky or even unpleasant experience. But it's not an experience everyone avoids. Jacquelyn Gill, a doctoral candidate in geography, has embraced talking about her work. Her research on changing climate and the extinction of big animals - think wooly mammoths) - during the last tens of thousands of years was published and has landed Gill in the New York Times and on platforms such as National Public Radio and the BBC. Gill defends her Ph.D. thesis Thursday, July 5, and on Aug. 1 starts a post doctoral fellowship at Brown University.
