Abstract
Online social media tools can be some of the most rewarding and informative resources for scientists-IF you know how to use them.
Publication types
-
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
MeSH terms
-
Congresses as Topic
-
Humans
-
Laboratory Personnel
-
Social Media / statistics & numerical data*
-
Social Media / trends
-
Social Networking
-
Software
Grants and funding
Support for the authors to attend the Science Online conference and the Deep Sea News retreat was contributed by Science Online, Georgia Aquarium, and Coral Reef Alliance. HMB's travel was also supported by an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grant to Jonathan Eisen, and MCG by the Scripps Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation (NSF IGERT Grant No. 0333444). MCG is currently supported by the National Sea Grant College Program Dean John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship. HMB is supported by an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grant to J. Eisen at UC Davis. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.