A summary of the tweets generated at the 2016 Ecological Society of America meeting (#ESA2016)
E.J. Rollinson
About this document
This document was produced by Emily J. Rollinson (ejrollinson on Twitter).
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.
I originally adapted this code for the 2015 Ecological Society of America Meeting (#ESA100) in Baltimore, MD, and have reproduced it here for the 2016 Ecological Society of America Meeting (#ESA2016) in Fort Lauderdale, FL.
Tweets using the hashtag #ESA2016 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 12k tweets tagged #ESA2016 (As of 4:30 PM 8/13/2016):
| Description | n |
|---|---|
| Total of original tweets (no retweets): | 6114 |
| Number of users who tweeted: | 2216 |
The 5 most favorited tweets
Beautiful poster design from @polesasunder (and good ecology, too) #ESA2016 https://t.co/C3tsr1wY94
— carlyziter | 2016-08-08 | 26 retweets, 85 favorites.
The best thing about #ESA2016 is the annual reminder that ecologists are Good People and genuinely fun to interact with (except reviewer 2).
— tpoi | 2016-08-10 | 25 retweets, 81 favorites.
If Charles Darwin can feel “very poorly and very stupid” and that “one lives only to make blunders,” then we can, too. - @labroides #ESA2016
— JacquelynGill | 2016-08-11 | 49 retweets, 67 favorites.
My #ESA2016 Ignite talk in a nutshell. https://t.co/EU2ihZDOMy
— tpoi | 2016-08-09 | 40 retweets, 59 favorites.
Question in session: how do you know that your undergrads are just not making data up? I say WTF? Maybe by building mutual trust? #ESA2016
— hormiga | 2016-08-10 | 14 retweets, 58 favorites.
The 5 most retweeted tweets
If Charles Darwin can feel “very poorly and very stupid” and that “one lives only to make blunders,” then we can, too. - @labroides #ESA2016
— JacquelynGill | 2016-08-11 | 49 retweets, 67 favorites.
We need to stop putting diversity in a box. #ESA2016 https://t.co/G4ww2XJDwq
— hormiga | 2016-08-10 | 48 retweets, 44 favorites.
My #ESA2016 Ignite talk in a nutshell. https://t.co/EU2ihZDOMy
— tpoi | 2016-08-09 | 40 retweets, 59 favorites.
In #Florida #climatechange is not a theory its happening right here, right now! https://t.co/5JUw2vU3do #ESA2016 https://t.co/i2CtVEsXK3
— Nature_Florida | 2016-08-07 | 39 retweets, 28 favorites.
Collecting for natural history museums is “a dying art worth saving and teaching”. #herbariums #ESA2016
— emgbotany | 2016-08-10 | 32 retweets, 51 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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