Top 10 hashtags for academics

If you are new to twitter, or even if you’ve been around a while, the wave of content can be overwhelming. To get the most out of twitter,

#altac, #postac Not alternative academia, but alternatives to academia. This hashtag is used by those

#AcademicHumor, #AcHum OK, so this one is a bit of self-promotion. We started tweeting some of our stuff with #AcHum, because writing ‘academic humor’ in full is a pain, and because ever since Webster removed a load of vowels from the English language it is hard to know whether it is best to write ‘humor’ or ‘humour’. #AcHum solves this problem!

#ScholarSunday Scholar Sunday is like #FollowFriday (usually shortened to #ff) for academics - use it to give a shout out to your favourite academics on twitter.

#ScholarSunday started as an alternative to the boring #FollowFriday - instead of just listing scholars’ IDs, we explain WHY we follow them.

— Dr Raul Pacheco-Vega (@raulpacheco) August 25, 2014

#highered

#PhDchat, #PhDforum

#PhDAdvice

#PhDisabled

#ECRchat As above, but targeted for early career researchers.

#AcWri, #GetYourManuscriptOut, #shutupandwrite