Social media tags for @IBIS_journal #ornithology conference attendees - up to 60% of attendees and 73% of poster presenters on social media and using/displaying their handles (100% Twitter) (#BOU2018)

I arrived too late this pm to #IOCposters as many people were taking them down 🙁 So survey will have to as below.

% of posters tagged at #ornithology events 2017/18
#BOU2018 = 72%
#BOU2017 = 38%
#AOSSCO17 = 12%
#IOCongress2018 = 7.5%
#EOU2017 = 7%
#NAOC2017 = 2.75%

72% of posters at #BOU2018 included the author's Twitter handle! I wonder how many at #AOS18AZ do? Can someone please add data to our ongoing survey of #ornithology and #ecology conferences, Thanks. See ...

The #BOUbuff bandana was in last week’s #BOU2018 #ECR goody bag - lets see photos of you sporting your BOU #birdwear #putabirdonit

Another fab #putabirdonit bit of #birdwear at #BOU2018 sported by @RhiannaRickett - flamingos!

Thoroughly knackered from #BOU2018 but very much enjoying @BBCTwo’s Simon Sharma #Civilisations on the Renaissance artists. I just get to Istanbul. Long overdue.

Back home from the very enjoyable #BOU2018 meeting @UniofNottingham. Thanks to @Bill_Sutherland for the invitation, @stevedudley_ and the other organisers, and all the great delegates for a most stimulating couple of days.

Action Plan for Migratory Landbirds in the African-Eurasi...

www.cms.int/en/document/action-plan-... #BOU2018 #ornithology

My thanks to my research colleagues @tomfinch89 @Nina_OHanlon @drredshank and my #TheTweetingBird colleagues @WildlifeBioGal @JERutter @RallidaeRule | #BOU2018 #ornithology #scicomm

#Altmetrics are already becoming more sophisticated and they will be increasingly used to monitor and asses different aspects of #scicomm and outreach. #Socialmedia will also be integrated more into #CitizenScience | #BOU2018 #ornithology

In just a few years since their launch, we’ve used @altmetric data to link the online attention of #ornithology articles to #citations | From rsos.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/4/11/171371 #BOU2018 #scicomm #altmetrics

The mean @altmetric attention score of #ornithology articles has increased as #altmetrics are better understood and researchers take to #socialmedia to promote their work | From rsos.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/4/11/171371 #BOU2018 #scicomm

Authors can really contribute to their own #Altmetrics. Here @numenini was responsible for 40% of the overall Twitter contribution to her own team’s paper. @IBIS_journal can be responsible for up to 95% of some #ornithology journals #socialmedia #altmetrics | #BOU2018

#BOU2018 #scicomm

All this online attention is also measurable. Providing a social share includes the URL to the online article, #altmetrics detect and measure it at the individual article level. Authors can also contribute to the attention and conversation around their own articles | #BOU2018

Twitter conferences also have are more global, more inclusive and with a vastly reduced carbon footprint (no travelling involved) and are low cost. Participants take part from whoever they are - office, home or train | #BOU2018 #scicomm

#SocialMedia is also dynamic. Twitter has become the platform of choice for #ornithology researchers and is the platform on which to run virtual conferences. These online events have a far greater take up and reach than traditional face-to-face events | #BOU2018 #scicomm

We can also monitor wider reach such as this analysis of the #ornithology tag for a six-week period at the end of 2017. The #ornithology tag is widely used and has a huge audience | #BOU2018 #scicomm

The BOU/@IBIS_journal’s #socialmedia following is 20x that of our actual society membership giving us a huge reach across the different social media platforms we use| #BOU2018 #ornithology #scicomm

So how did we get here so quickly? Well it was the change in how we consume research. Gone are the days when new research is consumed from print journals picked from an institute’s library new journal shelf | #BOU2018 #ornithology

And in 2017 our own paper linking #socialmedia mentions to the citations of #ornithology articles was published in @RSocPublishing #OpenScience rsos.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/4/11/171371 | #BOU2018 @tomfinch89 @Nina_OHanlon

In 2016, just two years after mainstream rolling out of #Altmetrics, the first paper linking #socialmedia mentions to #citations for #ecology papers was published | #BOU2018 #ornithology

And we continue to educate our #ornithology community about #altmetrics and the use of #socialmedia with ongoing articles on #theBOUblog | #BOU2018

From the outset BOU/@IBIS_journal was behind #altmetrics and instantly began educating our #ornithology community about them and how individuals could contribute to the online attention of their research articles | #BOU2018

#Altmetrics happened! @altmetric was rolled out globally and became mainstream in mid-2014 | #BOU2018

The rise in the take up of Twitter at BOU/@IBIS_journal #ornithology conferences mirrors the increase in @IBIS_journal’s own follower base. But what happened in 2014/15? | #BOU2018

#BOU2018 has the highest percentage of delegates on Twitter of any #ornithology conference - ever!

#TheTweetingBird its rise, relevance and impact in #ornithology
A look at the take up of #socialmedia by avian researchers and how online mentions now contribute to citations as measured by #altmetrics #BOU2018

See conclusions of interesting #BOU2018 @_biodiversity @LukeLPowell "NOW is the critical moment for conservation and sustainable agriculture in the Afrotropics". Also he is working with Institute of Tropical Agriculture on balancing biodiversity & economics. #ornithology

Amazing talk from @martinwikelski showing the incredible quality of movement data obtained from tagging birds and the kinds of insights that can be gained from them - from the influence of wind and smell on migration routes to predicting earthquakes. #BOU2018