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work_szsdiu3a7jfaredsw6quajz7aa	JEMMA HOUGHTON	'Research sharing' using social media: online conferencing and the experience of #BSHSGlobalHist	2020	19	.pdf	application/pdf	8583	547	49	digital conference via Twitter, with the dual goals of improving outreach and engagement with international historians of science, and exploring methods of reducing the Over the past year, the British Society for the History of Science (BSHS) has made multiple forays into the facilitation of academic research sharing through digital media. BSHS Twitter conference was our first attempt at re-creating – or, in reality, experimenting with – an academic conference on a digital platform. While Twitter has often been used as a communications 'backchannel' at standard inperson conferences, the BSHS decided instead to use the social media platform as the . In response to the climate emergency, could more of our work – especially conferences, which carry a particularly heavy carbon footprint – be done digitally? Therefore we tweeted the papers for the BSHS Twitter conference own metrics, the reach (or 'impressions' as referred to by Twitter) on the day of the conference from the BSHS accounts tweeting the event was over 309,000.	./cache/work_szsdiu3a7jfaredsw6quajz7aa.pdf	./txt/work_szsdiu3a7jfaredsw6quajz7aa.txt