Richard P Grant
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Communication breakdown
Twitter is dead. Long live … whatever comes next. Twitter actually died a few years back. It was around about the time when your timeline began to fill up with images. About the same time that The Algorithm started showing … Continue reading
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Tagged social media, twitter
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On peer review and trials by Twitter
(Edited to add: just three seconds after hitting ‘publish’ I saw that Girl, Interrupting, has a very fine post making some of the same points. Please read that, too.) Towards the end of last year, the day job ran an … Continue reading
Posted in F1000, Literature, Rants
Tagged f1000, literature, peer review, social media, twitter
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