A summary of the tweets generated at the 2015 Ecological Society of America meeting (#ESA100)
E.J. Rollinson
About this document
The code generating this document was originally developed by Francois Michonneau (fmic_ on Twitter) for the 2015 Evolution meeting and can be found here.
It has since been adapted for ICCB-ECCB 2015 by Joona Lehtomaki (jlehtoma on Twitter).
Thanks also to Emily Sessa (ebsessa on Twitter) for reproducing this code for the 2015 Botany meeting, bringing it to my attention.
Here, the code is adapted for the 2015 Ecological Society of America Meeting (ESA100) in Baltimore, MD, by Emily J. Rollinson (ejrollinson, prev. katteken, on Twitter).
Tweets using the hashtag #ESA100 were aggregated from Twitter using the R package twitteR and the Twitter API. The aggregated tweets are available on Figshare.
This document was generated using RMarkdown, and the source is available on GitHub.
This document (and associated code) is released under a CC0 licence.
Basic summary
Of the most recent 10k tweets tagged #ESA100 (As of 9:00 PM 8/15/2015):
| Description | n |
|---|---|
| Total of original tweets (no retweets): | 4396 |
| Number of users who tweeted: | 1993 |
| — ## The 5 most favorited tweets
Theoreticians: stop telling us not to be scared of your equations. I’m not. Explain them well, like I do my methods, then continue #ESA100
— jhpantel | 2015-08-12 | 93 retweets, 115 favorites.
One of the nicest things you can do at meetings is to acknowledge the students trying to catch your eye and introduce themselves. #ESA100
— JacquelynGill | 2015-08-11 | 49 retweets, 104 favorites.
Hi #ESA100, please favorite this if you are interested in finding a way to convince the society to give a budget line to support @ESA_SEEDS.
— hormiga | 2015-08-13 | 17 retweets, 83 favorites.
Idea for next year: a student Bingo card. I.e., “Ask a question,” “introduce yourself,” “go to a talk outside your discipline.” #esa100
— JacquelynGill | 2015-08-13 | 10 retweets, 45 favorites.
My take from #ESA100 so far: Ecology is actually a loose collection of disciplinary silos that barely communicate.
— tpoi | 2015-08-13 | 16 retweets, 33 favorites.
The 5 most retweeted tweets
Theoreticians: stop telling us not to be scared of your equations. I’m not. Explain them well, like I do my methods, then continue #ESA100
— jhpantel | 2015-08-12 | 93 retweets, 115 favorites.
One of the nicest things you can do at meetings is to acknowledge the students trying to catch your eye and introduce themselves. #ESA100
— JacquelynGill | 2015-08-11 | 49 retweets, 104 favorites.
Tenure track job in ecological modelling with @JaneElith & the rest of us at @qaecology https://t.co/44jCNxRBiZ #ESA100
— mickresearch | 2015-08-13 | 48 retweets, 12 favorites.
#ESA100 The world is big. Scientists are relatively small. Collaborate.
— cjlortie | 2015-08-12 | 33 retweets, 30 favorites.
This is what students see: fewer women speaking. Imagine gender equality for ESA 2016. #ESA100 @ESA_org #WomenInSTEM http://t.co/irs3QmStKD
— Laura_J_Martin | 2015-08-12 | 31 retweets, 15 favorites.
Top tweeters
All generated tweets (including retweets)
Only for original tweets (retweets excluded)
Most favorited/retweeted users
The figures below only include users who tweeted 5+ times, and don’t include retweets.
Number of favorites received by users
Number of retweets received by users
Mean numbers of favorites received
Mean numbers of retweets received
Word cloud
The top 100 words among the original tweets.
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