Opinion: Science Twitter needs a new home

Some prominent members of the science Twitter community have understandably dialled back their use or left the site altogether. Even if there are good conversations happening, they’ve become very hard to find. — Dreamstime/TNS

I will miss science Twitter.

It’s hard to overstate the influence of the social network on science during the Covid-19 pandemic — and the pandemic’s influence on science Twitter. A rich community of researchers and science journalists existed there before Covid-19, but seemed to expand exponentially during the early months of the pandemic.