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 ...

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 ...

Communicating information in the sciences, especially in a way that's fun and entertaining, is both a honed skill and a natural talent. These 40 people have managed to perfect that voice and now serve ...

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 ...

Good morning, I’m back! And I can barely believe all the news that happened while I was away. On vacation, my biggest concern was a broken milkshake machine at a highway McDonald’s. Why are they ...

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 ...

The Trump administration’s attempt to muzzle environmental messages on social media appears to be failing bigly. In the wake of the Badlands National Park Service’s Twitter account having its ...

University of Washington computer science professor emeritus Pedro Domingos. (UW Photo) The University of Washington computer science department denounced comments made online by a retired professor ...

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 ...