An anthropology professor, @Sciencing_Bi, posted on Twitter that she was Hopi, bisexual, and taught at Arizona State University. She said she grew up in Alabama and left “because of their oppression ...

A flashy jewel bug butt. Ian Jacobs via Flickr under CC BY-NC 2.0 Over 90 percent of all animal species are invertebrates, including jellyfish, clams, worms, squids, and insects. As an ode to the ...

The most tweeted peer-reviewed articles published between 2010 and 2012, and the trends associated with their social media success, have been identified by Stefanie Haustein at the University of ...

Communicating information in the sciences, especially in a way that's fun and entertaining, is both a honed skill and a natural talent. These 40 people have managed to perfect that voice and now serve ...

COVID-19 has thrown science and scientists into the spotlight. Some have accepted the challenge, amassing hundreds of thousands of followers and using the ongoing pandemic as a “teachable moment.” As ...

Twitter provides an important platform for science communicators, but many in the scientific community have expressed misgivings about remaining on the platform. When you purchase through links on our ...

It’s been a heck of a year, and for anyone who uses Twitter regularly, it’s all played out in a never-ending stream of nightmares, summed up in 180 (or sometimes 280) characters or less. The Trump ...

It happened in the wee hours of the morning Friday on Twitter: A group of scientists started introducing themselves to science superstar Bill Nye with a brand new hashtag: #BillMeetScienceTwitter.

Question: What does slime mold have in common with hip-hop superstar MC Hammer? Answer: University of California, Berkeley, biologist Michael Eisen is a big fan of both. Which is why Eisen thought it ...