Thread by @shannon47burns

I can confidently say that I wouldn't have my job as a professor without #AcademicTwitter.

The network of people sharing ideas and resources hugely shaped my research direction and pedagogy.

So before we say goodbye, I want to highlight the tweeps that changed how I think 1/

Math has never come easy to me, and I used to hate stats. But it *finally* clicked when @jonaslindeloev shared his blog about how everything in basic stats is just a linear model. Now I love teaching it! 2/ lindeloev.github.io/tests-as-linea…

Lots of folks also made online textbooks. My favorite is the team from @cogscimom and @CourseKata, for making a very intuitive and interactive book on introduction to Stats in R: coursekata.org

Danielle Navarro (no longer on Twitter) goes more in depth on the math and probability theory: learningstatisticswithr.com/lsr-0.6.pdf 4/

and I like the way @russpoldrack addresses issues like the importance of data visualization and reproducible science: statsthinking21.github.io/statsthinking2…

Not to mention the vast array of tips here and there for doing and teaching stats in R, such as this awesome thread on accessibility in coding:

https://twitter.com/LisaDeBruine/status/1442788710882361346

I Frakensteined together these resources into a collection of interactive Colab notebooks for the Psych Stats class I'm teaching this fall, and I absolutely would have been lost without them. shannonmburns.com/Psyc158/intro.…

I'm teaching a new Neuroimaging with fMRI course next spring, and again it has been Twitter people sharing their previous course materials that is saving me:

https://twitter.com/arokem/status/1509971566787919876

Also, there's a society for Teaching Psychology @TeachPsych ! Would have never known! They provide many great resources and class activities for teaching psychology: teachpsych.org/page-1603066

When it comes to mentoring, there have been several amazing twitter threads where many people come together to share ideas, such as this one on how to run lab meetings:

https://twitter.com/dsbarra/status/1586851224569118720

Or this one, for lab meetings specifically at a SLAC:

https://twitter.com/lisachalik/status/1474042761573715976

I can better advise students on next steps post-graduation after finding compilations of career resources like this:

https://twitter.com/APAEducation/status/1118520104650772480

Or on good MA psych programs that psych graduates can pursue:

https://twitter.com/LindaSkitka/status/1372685328302100487

Or clinical psych programs, which a lot of undergrads are interested in but I previously knew very little about:

https://twitter.com/cmbrandes/status/1483187289383702529

As well as tips for writing those applications. I've never been on the recruiting end of grad applications, so hearing others talk about what they're looking for helps me advise my undergrads:

https://twitter.com/romanfeiman/status/1585700225280528385

Also, twitter provided compilations of advice for recruiting and supporting minoritized students:

https://twitter.com/profcikara/status/1269799762523537414

For research, I can't even list all the tutorials and workshops and papers that have influenced what I think about and how I work, but I'd maybe learn a fraction of it without Twitter.

I want to thank people like @Eshjolly @jcheong0428 @dsquintana @natural_data @ContextMemLab @davidrfeinberg for making analysis tools and educational material for the community. Everyone in soc neuro / comp neuro should check out their websites!

People sharing their previous grant application materials has been so helpful:

https://twitter.com/BrianNosek/status/1583934071574392832

Twitter is also how I found out about open datasets, which is an important training tool at a small college like Pomona. This is one for naturalistic neuroimaging:

https://twitter.com/elneurozorro/status/1412893613860786178

And one on psych datasets more broadly:

https://twitter.com/shannon47burns/status/1580611004127289344

Speaking of twitter threads, there's been several times where I was very stuck on a lit review and I didn't know what keywords to search for, but a twitter friend could immediately swoop in with suggestions:

https://twitter.com/shannon47burns/status/1439000750168883203

I was using my retweets as bookmarks for these resources and my janky solution so far is to dump them into a google doc. If you want more random teaching/advising/coding links, my favorites are all here: docs.google.com/document/d/1t1…

That's all to say, I'm sad about what is happening to Twitter and the consequences on communities here. I'm worried about the next chapter of my career without this level of connection. But mostly I'm immensely grateful for everyone who contributed to #AcademicTwitter! Thank you!

Oh and let's not forget that without twitter we never would have known about the joys of @BrianNosek 's eternal holiday tree:

https://twitter.com/BrianNosek/status/1229601881858695170

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I imagine without Twitter the team at @threadreaderapp may struggle to continue hosting threads. But for now you can still make pdf's out of your favorite pdf and download them (with a paid account), so I've been doing that as well.