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Account age
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📊 Post engagement
4
Avg engagement / post
2%
Engagement vs followers
Nov 2022
On Mastodon since
🔥 Top post: A lovely article in HBR on notes of appreciation: Positive atten · 18 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
1.3 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 11 text · 1 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
0.8×
Follows 249 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.
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My February project has been postponed, so I have some availability over the next few weeks for another client!
Get in touch if you're in science/tech & looking for an experienced #scicomm #freelancer to write your:
⭐️ Press releases
⭐️ Ma…
This is how 2023 has played out so far...
Slight sniffle
Flu-like illness
Chest infection
Bed
Pre-vaccine covid was a short walk in the park compared to this mother of all colds!
I woke up to frost and -6 temperatures this morning. I remember when seeing my breath as I scrape my icey windscreen was a normal part of my morning routine. It seems like a rare occurrence these days.
It's great to see a huge tranche of EU funding is going to support the EIT Knowledge and Innovation Communities for another 2-3 years.
#EUFUnding #innovation
🔗 https://sciencebusiness.net/news/eit-knowledge-and-innovation-communities-rece…
Every time I think about changing to a more generic Mastodon server, I take a peek at what's being posted elsewhere. It doesn't matter where I look, there are elements of mud slinging. It's prolific, and quite frankly, terrifying.
For the artists out there in toot land - take part in a research and innovation illustration contest...
Some great prizes up for grabs.
How do you view research and innovation in your country? (If you are in an African, Caribbean or Pacif…
The secret to leading #OrganisationalChange is #Empathy
⭐ Learn about your team's specific fears and acknowledge them openly.
⭐ Involve individuals at all levels of the organisation.
⭐ Openly tell people what to expect.
➡️ Transformation…
It's encouraging to see the threat of eroding #AcademicFreedom is getting the attention it deserves in the European Parliament, with the launch of a permanent forum that will debate new policies and laws to protect academics.
I hope this F…
Looking for a decent research dissemination plan?
I've just updated my resource on how to put one together, and added a helpful template for your action plan, so you can get your whole team involved.
#research #scicomm #academia
🔗 https://…
Transformational leaders are exceptional communicators, argues this article in HBR.
The piece outlines four communication strategies to help motivate and inspire your team:
1) Use short words to talk about hard things.
2) Choose sticky m…
I've just uncovered a rather grainy photo of my first ever sci-comm project, which I started at Kent Uni in 2004.
Looking for ways to write about science, I started a termly newsletter for Kent school children about research, written with …
I've just uncovered a rather grainy photo of my first ever sci-comm project, which I started at Kent Uni in 2004.
Looking for ways to write about science, I started a termly newsletter for Kent school children about research, written with …
🐘 Community & instance
Home server
scicomm.xyz
Their home server on the fediverse — the instance a creator picks signals the community they belong to.
On Mastodon since
Nov 2022
Joined in the Twitter-exodus wave of late 2022 — part of the migration that made Mastodon a real destination.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2022 — 3 years ago.
👁️Averages 4 views per post.
📤Posts about 1.3× per week.
🕵️ Fake follower check
Estimated80/100
Excellent
Credibility score
97%
Real
Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 97% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Strong engagement (~2.0% of followers engage each post) — an active, real audience.
- Established account (3+ years old).
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
I'm a science comms consultant and copywriter supporting scientists & research organisations to unlock the potential of their research through communications.
Trainee Executive Coach • CIPR Qualified and ex Microbiologist • Formerly Ox Uni Health Sciences, UKRI and British Sci Assoc • He/Him
Aside from what I do for work, my life's loves are wild walks, nature, dreaming, stories and poetry, Star Trek, my husband, and our dog. 🏳️🌈 🏴
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