Twitter: More than Tweets for Undergraduate Student Researchers
ABSTRACT During the COVID-19 pandemic, biology educators were forced to think of ways to communicate with their students, engaging them in science and with the scientific community. For educators using course-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs), the challenge to have students perform re...
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| author | Nathan S. Reyna Christin Pruett Mike Morrison Jennifer Fowler Sumali Pandey Lori Hensley |
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| description | ABSTRACT During the COVID-19 pandemic, biology educators were forced to think of ways to communicate with their students, engaging them in science and with the scientific community. For educators using course-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs), the challenge to have students perform real science, analyze their work, and present their results to a larger scientific audience was difficult as the world moved online. Many instructors were able to adapt CUREs utilizing online data analysis and virtual meeting software for class discussions and synchronous learning. However, interaction with the larger scientific community, an integral component of making science relevant for students and allowing them to network with other young scientists and experts in their fields, was still missing. Even before COVID-19, a subset of students would travel to regional or national meetings to present their work, but most did not have these opportunities. With over 300 million active users, Twitter provided a unique platform for students to present their work to a large and varied audience. The Cell Biology Education Consortium hosted an innovative scientific poster session entirely on Twitter to engage undergraduate researchers with one another and with the much broader community. The format for posting on this popular social media platform challenged students to simplify their science and make their points using only a few words and slides. Nineteen institutions and over one hundred students participated in this event. Even though these practices emerged as a necessity during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Twitter presentation strategy shared in this paper can be used widely. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-f687f16fbddf4ca4b6deae729be1b9792022-12-22T02:09:13ZengAmerican Society for MicrobiologyJournal of Microbiology & Biology Education1935-78771935-78852022-04-0123110.1128/jmbe.00326-21Twitter: More than Tweets for Undergraduate Student ResearchersNathan S. Reyna0Christin Pruett1Mike Morrison2Jennifer Fowler3Sumali Pandey4Lori Hensley5Department of Biology, Ouachita Baptist University, Arkadelphia, Arkansas, USADepartment of Biology, Ouachita Baptist University, Arkadelphia, Arkansas, USADepartment of Work Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USAArkansas National Science Foundation Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR), Little Rock, Arkansas, USADepartment of Biosciences, Minnesota State University Moorhead, Moorhead, Minnesota, USADepartment of Biology, Jacksonville State University, Jacksonville, Alabama, USAABSTRACT During the COVID-19 pandemic, biology educators were forced to think of ways to communicate with their students, engaging them in science and with the scientific community. For educators using course-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs), the challenge to have students perform real science, analyze their work, and present their results to a larger scientific audience was difficult as the world moved online. Many instructors were able to adapt CUREs utilizing online data analysis and virtual meeting software for class discussions and synchronous learning. However, interaction with the larger scientific community, an integral component of making science relevant for students and allowing them to network with other young scientists and experts in their fields, was still missing. Even before COVID-19, a subset of students would travel to regional or national meetings to present their work, but most did not have these opportunities. With over 300 million active users, Twitter provided a unique platform for students to present their work to a large and varied audience. The Cell Biology Education Consortium hosted an innovative scientific poster session entirely on Twitter to engage undergraduate researchers with one another and with the much broader community. The format for posting on this popular social media platform challenged students to simplify their science and make their points using only a few words and slides. Nineteen institutions and over one hundred students participated in this event. Even though these practices emerged as a necessity during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Twitter presentation strategy shared in this paper can be used widely.https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/jmbe.00326-21TwitterCUREscience communicationposter presentationsCell Biology Education ConsortiumTwitter posters |
| spellingShingle | Nathan S. Reyna Christin Pruett Mike Morrison Jennifer Fowler Sumali Pandey Lori Hensley Twitter: More than Tweets for Undergraduate Student Researchers Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education CURE science communication poster presentations Cell Biology Education Consortium Twitter posters |
| title | Twitter: More than Tweets for Undergraduate Student Researchers |
| title_full | Twitter: More than Tweets for Undergraduate Student Researchers |
| title_fullStr | Twitter: More than Tweets for Undergraduate Student Researchers |
| title_full_unstemmed | Twitter: More than Tweets for Undergraduate Student Researchers |
| title_short | Twitter: More than Tweets for Undergraduate Student Researchers |
| title_sort | twitter more than tweets for undergraduate student researchers |
| topic | Twitter CURE science communication poster presentations Cell Biology Education Consortium Twitter posters |
| url | https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/jmbe.00326-21 |
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