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The Graduate Student Twitterverse: Part 2
The Thesis Whisperer Blog’s post, phdchat on Twitter, is a good introduction for getting started with Twitter, making the most out of its functions as an academic, specifically the live chat and using hastags. “A hashtag placed before a word, or string of words with no spaces, turns the piece of text into a special sort of ‘search link’; when you click on it your timeline changes to show all the tweets containing that hashtag. Hashtags can be used to make informal, adhoc chat channels.”
Here are some Hashtags:
#gradchat: commonly used as a general hashtag for graduate student discussions.
#highered: Popular hashtag covering general discussion about higher education.
#academia” As its name indicates this is a hashtag for anything related to the world of academia.
#PhDChat: This hashtag is for PHD students and professors and anyone else interested in the PhD life. This chat is weekly and is held every Wednesday.
#PhDAdvice: An asynchronous hashtag for curated discussions and conversations among PhD folks.
#PhDForum: For asynchronous discussions for anyone interested in PhD studies.
#ScholarSunday: If you are an academic, use #ScholarSunday hashtag to recommend some new Twitter users to your followers. You will also find what others have recommended for you to follow.
#AcWri: A hashtag used to generate discussions about academic writings.
#ecrchat (early career researcher)
#socphd (social sciences)
* 10 Must Have Academic Twitter Hashtags For Acadademics & PhD Students by the Librarian By Day Blog