Week 6 Twitter Thursday

For this week, I looked at some of the researchers who worked on the main research article I found, and was only able to find one of them on Twitter after a while of searching. I began my search with the supplemental articles and was unable to find any of the researchers on Twitter for them. This wasn’t too surprising, as I imagine many published researchers just share their findings via books they publish rather than social media. But because “Corvids in Urban Environments: A Systematic Global Literature Review” had a lot more researchers working on that project, I was able to find a researcher’s account on Twitter (Szabolcs Lengyel), which is particularly interesting since it is international research, as they are from Hungary. Through his following, I was also able to find the BES Conservation which is a conservation group for ecology. I was also able to find another researcher, @/dillenseger_g, who is getting a PhD in shorebird ecology. 

As for my hashtags, I looked at #ornithology, #ecology, and #CorvidIntelligence as was suggested in this week’s assignment, but it was a bit difficult to find any recent news within that tag. I have found that the #ornithology tag proves to be the most helpful, despite being quite a broad search. 

For the blog update, I looked at the list of classmates’ website links and decided to look through Ashley Segat’s blog and commented on her "Research Overview and Research Articles” blog post. She was looking at two different research articles and determining whether or not they would be good fits to write about for her scicomm article. The first article she dissected was on wolves’ territories and how it affects the reproduction rates, whilst the second talked more about the connection between domesticated dogs and wolves. I enjoyed reading Ashley’s blog post, and thought it had some really fun takeaways about her process of searching for these articles using Google Scholar or trying to find information by using key words in her searches.