Our newest recruit, Rachel Kettles, has been trying to find out how academic success equates to influence on the social media giant Twitter. She concludes that the only way to be a successful Tweeter is to fully embrace the medium; you can’t rely on your H-index! You can read about Rachel’s analysis, done for the IMI as part of her BBSRC funded professional internship for PhD students, here.
The Institute of Microbiology and Infection has launched its new website. Take a look at it here.