Building on the success of rotating Twitter accounts like @realscientists, which I participated in last year, the CMS experiment has a new account: @CMSVoices. The idea is that it’s an account for talking to CMS members and hearing about their day-to-day work, in contrast with the official news from the @CMSexperiment account. Of course, you can already hear from many individual CMS physicists on Twitter (I’m normally @sethzenz), but the account gives you the chance to interact with a new person each month, and it might even help us get some new tweeters started! I also tried to explain things in more detail and start some more general discussions, for example:
Yes, it’s difficult to count the LHC experiments’ papers; we have so many authors, and it’s not easy to tell who did what. 4/6
— CMS Voices (@CMSvoices) October 13, 2015
And yes, there are other models than crediting everyone who built an experiment with the analyses done on its data… 5/6
— CMS Voices (@CMSvoices) October 13, 2015
But should we change how we give credit, simply to make quantifying our output easier? Is that the goal of science? What do you think? 6/6
— CMS Voices (@CMSvoices) October 13, 2015
There weren’t too many discussions or too many followers so far, but we’re just getting started, and I’m looking forward to others taking the account over and seeing what the do with it. The next holder of the CMSVoices account, starting in November, will be @matt_bellis. Please welcome him next week, and let us know if you have any questions or ideas!
