Over the past few years, Twitter has burgeoned as a freely available worldwide platform for rapid dissemination of published and unpublished research advances, an avenue to foster collaborations without traditional boundaries and a means to educate both scientific and lay audiences.
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Soragni, A., Maitra, A. Of scientists and tweets. Nat Rev Cancer 19, 479–480 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41568-019-0170-4
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