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Who are you addicted to on Twitter? Research watchdog edition.

July 29, 2013 By Susannah Fox 3 Comments

Each one of these people cuts through hype and makes me feel smarter:

  • Hilda Bastain – Editor & curator, PubMed Health. I’m addicted to her cartoons: Statistically funny. And I’m a new fan of her SciAm blog: Absolutely Maybe.
  • @Laikas – Medical librarian, scientist, mom, human. I’m addicted to posts like: “Medpedia, the Medical Wikipedia, is Dead. And we Missed its Funeral…“
  • Marya Zilberberg – Physician blogger, health services researcher. She doesn’t post often, but each one is a gem. Don’t take my word for it: read Laika’s review of Marya’s book, Between the Lines. Finding the Truth in Medical Literature.
  • Jordan Rau – writes for Kaiser Health News. I’m addicted to his dry and sometimes even wicked tweets and RTs.
  • Gary Schwitzer – Publisher, HealthNewsReview.org and Health News Watchdog blog. I’m addicted to his independence and truth-telling.
  • Ben Goldacre – Doctor, blogger, author. Another in the category of wicked, no-he-didn’t-yes-he-did tweets. I’m addicted to his nerd cheerleading.

Another one to watch: my Pew Research Center colleagues working on the Fact Tank blog. Every post is scrupulously reported.

Note: there are many more people I follow in this category, but this is a good start. Who would you add?

(Previous post in this new series: Parents.)

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Filed Under: key people, research issues, understanding statistics Tagged With: Twitter

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  1. Richard Davies says

    July 29, 2013 at 12:13 pm

    For my MorningBusinessMemo daily blog I read the papers and follow the wires. Here are some Twitter feeds I like:

    @Reuterspictures – amazing news photos from around the world.\

    @GuyKawasaki – former chief evangelist for Apple. He links to interesting ideas and sites

    @PeterGoldmark – international consultant on philanthropy and the environment.

    @BuzzMachine blogger and j-school prof Jeff Jarvis; author of Public Parts, What Would Google Do?

    @AdAge on marketing and advertising stories

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    • Susannah Fox says

      July 29, 2013 at 3:48 pm

      Great suggestions!

      I was thinking this morning about how much I value my self-created news ticker. I still have a dead-tree news object delivered to my house every morning to be quickly divided and distributed (comics & sports section being the most eagerly grabbed). I do appreciate the choices which have been made for me when I scan the front page. But I turn pretty quickly back to Twitter, my feed and my many lists. What’s news in *my* world? What do science bloggers have to say about this breakthrough I see in the paper? What are clinicians talking about this morning? What are my colleagues in the EU discussing? Etc.

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  2. Christy Collins says

    July 30, 2013 at 12:19 pm

    Alice Dreger @AliceDreger – posts on use of prenatal DEX and individuals with sex anatomy and gender differences + many other medical/research topics + parenting. Fierce advocate, irreverent, brave, articulate, inspiring.

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