More academics will need to be on LinkedIn for that to happen, unfortunately. Most of them are still here (or the other place...)

Aww thank you Joel :)

Every professional development opportunity I’ve had in the past 2 years has been because of LinkedIn. Invited talks. Job offers. My business. This Nature publication. Everything.

My only regret is not using LinkedIn sooner. 4/

Enter Elon Musk. Academic Twitter, the platform I once loved, where I had nearly 20k followers, started to die. Not sure what to do, I copied my tweet threads on LinkedIn. Maybe someone would read them there?

The rest, as they say, is history. 3/

Because for most of my career, I hated LinkedIn. It seemed… fake? Self-promotional. A boring place for business bros and hustle culture.

Plus, academics were on Twitter, not LinkedIn. 2/