10,000 #OpenScience Tweets
Open Science - March 20, 2014 in Media, Research, Tools
We have collected 10,000+ tweets using the #openscience hashtag on Twitter, and invite volunteers to help analyse the data. The twelve most-retweeted tweets are embedded below.
Happily, just over 4,600 accounts have participated in the Open Science community with its eponymous hashtag, in this span. The 10,000 tweets have accrued over ten weeks. Our own @openscience on Twitter has tweeted most, over 600 times at the hashtag, as well as having received the most retweets and @ mentions, over 8,000 in these 10,000.
We have modified the vis which came with the data via the satisfying TAGS effort shared by Martin Hawksey. We added looks at the numbers of mentions and of mentions per tweets for top tweeters, and rankings of top tweets for the past ten weeks to Martin’s default views. We will continue collecting tweets, but do note that in another month or so, we will reach Google Docs limits e.g. on numbers of cells. We will use additional sheets, so links to all data will have changed, just how depending on when you are reading this post. Ask us @openscience on Twitter.
Help wanted
More could be done; won’t you help? Leave a reply below or ping us @openscience on Twitter if you need edit access to the sheet itself but we would like to see data and analyses in other tools as well. Our work to this point is only to get something started.
Top #openscience tweets of the past ten weeks
“It’s a tragedy we had to add the word open to science.” – @edulix #openscience. image credit: http://t.co/dveVQZ29To pic.twitter.com/YbbQN4CHXc
— Open Science (@openscience) March 21, 2014
We’re excited to announce a NEW PLOS-wide data sharing policy. Public Access to Data http://t.co/N2nStH5BM6 #EveryONE #opendata #openscience
— PLOS ONE (@PLOSONE) February 24, 2014
+1 RT @AnushaNS: Everyone has a right to education and knowledge. RT @YourAnonNews: pic.twitter.com/b1G3iVA04P #OpenAccess #OpenScience #AaronSw
— Open Science (@openscience) January 12, 2014
“Code and data or it didn’t happen”, new motto for repro. research. From a discussion about #IPython and #OpenScience http://t.co/FlGGRIa9qX
— Fernando Perez (@fperez_org) January 30, 2014
cc #scholarAfrica: World scaled by documents in @webofscience: pic.twitter.com/X3t4vgPHq6 by @juancommander http://t.co/vrjxUASTe6 #openscience
— Open Science (@openscience) March 10, 2014
.@PLOS now requires that authors make all data publicly available immediately on publication: http://t.co/r5WLcSbbRA #openscience #opendata
— Randy Olson (@randal_olson) February 25, 2014
Why researchers need Twitter, a professional blog, and @ImpactStory http://t.co/IBtG2Gww5V by @ypriverol #sciox #altmetrics #openscience
— Open Science (@openscience) February 22, 2014
Do I know any women interested in #openscience who would be interested in applying to do Soapbox Science? http://t.co/0ByS2bsytq
— Michelle Brook (@MLBrook) January 27, 2014
We have a new blog at @plosblogs covering news, data, opinions and perspectives on #openaccess #opendata #openscience http://t.co/DKjYtubHZY
— CameronNeylon (@CameronNeylon) February 13, 2014
“You shouldn’t fear getting scooped, you should fear not being noticed” #openscience by @tracykteal @swcarpentry
— Morgan Tingley (@mwtingley) March 18, 2014
Canada closer to making publicly funded academic research freely available to all http://t.co/yGK0fetqQu #openaccess #openscience
— Open Science (@openscience) January 16, 2014
mhmm MT @cboshuizen: John von Neumann lamenting that people don’t read others’ code, in 1952 pic.twitter.com/d1tzlclin4 #openscience
— Open Science (@openscience) February 11, 2014
The above list is not dynamic. The data collected and displayed here, however are dynamic and refresh themselves hourly.
Not all tweets which are about Open Science include the #openscience hashtag. In a perfectly semantic world, they would and when they can, they really should. It has helped to form a community among the 4,600+ accounts participating in these ten weeks and many others in recent years. A couple reasons the hashtag might not be used in a relevant tweet include the character limit on tweets and lack of awareness of hashtags or of the term Open Science.
We take our organising and leadership role seriously at @openscience on Twitter, an account shared by many in the community. We have a simple policy that all our tweets should be related to Open Science. Even at our account, not all our tweets include the #openscience hashtag, particularly as we discuss related concerns such as Citizen Science or Open Access. An example tweet from the time frame considered here, related to Open Science but not hashtagged as such is below. In this case, the limit on tweet length and the topic led to including #openaccess, not #openscience:
Honor #AaronSwartz by making your own work #OpenAccess. Do it lawfully. Here’s how. http://t.co/taUAlxmDZQ via @petersuber #AaronSw
— Open Science (@openscience) January 11, 2014
The most retweeted, Open Science related tweet of all time, so far as we know, did not use the #openscience hashtag but was lovely. From the Lord of Dance and Prince of Swimwear:
Oh my absolute wow. What a development. And praise be to open science: code available to all, this is world changing. http://t.co/8XaH6a8stf
— Stephen Fry (@stephenfry) March 3, 2013