{"id":9098,"date":"2017-02-04T13:38:39","date_gmt":"2017-02-04T18:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=9098"},"modified":"2017-02-04T13:38:39","modified_gmt":"2017-02-04T18:38:39","slug":"math-and-physics-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=9098","title":{"rendered":"Math and Physics Social Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the current situation, getting back to finding interesting news about math and\/or physics to think about seems like a good idea, but I&#8217;ve been having trouble coming up with such news.  Besides blogs, many of them listed on the right-hand margin of this one, I also follow some people on Twitter and on Google+.   There are quite a few well-known physicists on Twitter at this point.  On any given day you can learn something interesting from, for instance, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FrankWilczek\">Frank Wilczek<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/preskill\">John Preskill<\/a> (or see an <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/preskill\/status\/827622415135936512\">epic<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FrankWilczek\/status\/827624066882297856\">throwdown<\/a> between them).  <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure there are many other mathematicians and physicists on social media that I&#8217;m not aware of, and open here to hearing suggestions. Part of the problem is that I&#8217;m now so old I figure I don&#8217;t even know what social media sites are out there.  I hear there&#8217;s this thing called Facebook, but also that it&#8217;s now over as far as the younger generation is concerned.  So, if you have a suggestion about where to find high quality news about math or physics on social media, whether it&#8217;s on Twitter, Google+, Facebook, Live Journal, Instagram, Pinterest, Snapchat, Yik Yak, Grindr or something else I&#8217;ve never heard of, please let us all know in the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the current situation, getting back to finding interesting news about math and\/or physics to think about seems like a good idea, but I&#8217;ve been having trouble coming up with such news. Besides blogs, many of them listed on the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=9098\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9098"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9101,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9098\/revisions\/9101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}