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Does Tweeting Improve Citations? One-Year Results From the TSSMN Prospective Randomized Trial

Posted on 2020/06/15 by Carl Robitaille

Does Tweeting Improve Citations? One-Year Results From the TSSMN Prospective Randomized Trial

An amazing *randomized trial* on Twitter+academia:

112 papers were randomly chosen to be shared on twitter by a group with ~58k followers or to not be shared. Papers that were tweeted accumulated 4x more citations compared to non-tweeted papers over 1yr.https://t.co/82doGP0kha pic.twitter.com/6qHECDQbtq
— Jason Sheltzer (@JSheltzer) June 15, 2020

David Baltimore on the Mysteries of Viruses

Posted on 2020/06/15 by Carl Robitaille

Cardano’s Resolution of the Cubic Equation

Posted on 2020/06/15 by Carl Robitaille

Hey everybody 📢📢📢 our first video with Manim!!!
On Cardano's Resolution of the Cubic Equation, an illustration of genuine mathematics elegance
Thanks to @3blue1brown for creating such a fascinating tool!!! 🙌🙌🙌https://t.co/Tcz0t1dBUx #math #algebra pic.twitter.com/tf2WMlXoDV
— Tungsteno (@74WTungsteno) January 31, 2020

The Poincaré map: studying the dynamics of a continuous orbit through the intersections with a transversal space

Posted on 2020/06/15 by Carl Robitaille

The Poincaré map: studying the dynamics of a continuous orbit through the intersections with a transversal spacehttps://t.co/mlEKlpMqiQ (from Chaos: A Mathematical Adventure)#math #science #iteachmath #mtbos #visualization #elearning #chaos pic.twitter.com/fONmJIqwoE
— Tungsteno (@74WTungsteno) June 12, 2020

How I Boarded a US NAVY NUCLEAR SUBMARINE in the Arctic (ICEX 2020)

Posted on 2020/06/14 by Carl Robitaille

A rare look at fireflies that blink in unison, in a forest without tourists

Posted on 2020/06/14 by Carl Robitaille

A rare look at fireflies that blink in unison, in a forest without tourists

For more about recent studies of fireflies in sync, see this thread from Orit Peleg: https://t.co/IVbheAK8l5
— Steven Strogatz (@stevenstrogatz) June 14, 2020

To make sure nobody shares a photo of you, put a GettyImages watermark on your face mask

Posted on 2020/06/14 by Carl Robitaille

To make sure nobody shares a photo of you, put a GettyImages® watermark on your face mask. pic.twitter.com/zSCkyic3LV
— Danielle Baskin (@djbaskin) June 14, 2020

Market volatility in 30 seconds (S&P 500)

Posted on 2020/06/14 by Carl Robitaille

Cool little animation shows last week's stock market volatility in 30 seconds (S&P 500). Source: https://t.co/CnZ01Ok215 pic.twitter.com/222MoSDX5K
— Simon Kuestenmacher (@simongerman600) June 14, 2020

Projection de Spilhaus. Quand les océans sont an centre du monde

Posted on 2020/06/14 by Carl Robitaille

Since we live on a planet of oceans it makes sense to create a projection centered around Antarctica to emphasize the role of the oceans. Of all map projections this one probably hurts my brain the most… pic.twitter.com/cVPnRQoPbV
— Simon Kuestenmacher (@simongerman600) September 15, 2018

Rhombic dodecahedron, made with six pyramids that form a cube, stuck to the faces of another cube

Posted on 2020/06/14 by Carl Robitaille

the rhombic dodecahedron- made with six pyramids that form a cube, stuck to the faces of another cube pic.twitter.com/oEiaVHjLQY
— Matt Henderson (@matthen2) June 14, 2020