After creating a Twitter account last week, everyday I check my feed, follow researchers and organizations involved in the field of animal science. I am currently following 109 Twitter accounts, when a week ago I was following 73 accounts. How did I increase my numbers? Let me reveal to you my formula. My numbers raise after checking and following accounts that researchers and organizations follow. Also, I skimmed over accounts suggested by Twitter and found a few accounts I believed were good sources of information concerning animal science. Moreover, this past week I began reading Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel by Carl Safina in which many scientists and other experts are mentioned for their discoveries concerning animal cognition, emotions, social groups, or communication. Thus I sought the opportunity to increase my feed with potential animal science research articles, videos, images or comments by following the numerous professionals quoted by Safina. The image below is a glimpse of the accounts I started following as a result of reading Safina’s book. Following Safina's references was also helpful in expanding my feed network because after looking at the accounts these scientists and researchers follow, I found more sources of information. For instance, after searching and following, Vicki Fishlock, resident scientist for the Amboseli Trust for Elephants, I found wildlife biologist Dr. Winnie Kiiru who studies elephants too and the organization Conservation Action which purpose is to protect endangered species.
I connected on Twitter with my peers from Writing 39C as well. This was crucial since we all can now have a more relevant feed since everyone will be sharing information about our theme, animal science. Not only that but I gained followers since my classmates also followed me back! Last but not least, in regards to tweets and retweets, I posted everyday! While my posts varied on research findings and the types of animal cruelty happening around the world, I would say most posts were mostly retweets of well-known researchers like Barbara J. King, and Marc Bekoff. If you wish to know more about my Twitter, I encourage you to follow me @DCSiquin!
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