My Interviewees on Social Media

Social media is home to a proliferous amount of information and insight on people and what they do. Unfortunately, my cyber hunt for the dirt on my interviewees did not amount to much.


Dr. Anna Dornhaus had a profile on Facebook, (but it was private) Twitter, (which only had one tweet about how she couldn't figure out what Twitter is good for) and LinkedIn (which I couldn't figure out how to navigate so I didn't get much out of that). Needless to say, her social media presence/persona  was essentially nonexistent.


Dr. Rebecca Mosher had a Facebook account (which was also private) a LinkedIn account, and a Twitter account that was comparatively, but not incredibly, more active than Dr. Dornhaus's. She posts on Twitter mostly about her colleague's papers and things that pertain to epigenetics and evolutionary biology. There's a slightly greater feel of her voice and personality on Twitter, because she's able to throw in a little more about why things are important or what issues (gender representation in science, for a recent example) mean a lot to her. Her professional work is very impersonal and objective, while her Twitter self is a little more humanly and personal. For example, this tweet highlights her scientific interests as well as her care for friends and family. However, both her writing and her tweeting indicate her interest in genetics and evolutionary biology very clearly.