Interviews on The Social Academic
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Academic YouTubers Talk About Getting Started on YouTube
Susan Heavey, Franziska Sattler, Nichole Lewis, and Erika Romero join me for a featured interview about starting the Academic YouTubers community.
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Being on Video on Instagram with Tira Murray of The Female Academic Network
Tira Murray joins me live on YouTube to talk about starting her IGTV series interviewing women academics. Instagram is a great place to share videos.
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Alexandra Mihai Talks Teaching with Social Media
Alexandra Mihai, PhD joins me to talk about how to use social media in your teaching. Social media can be a great tool for learning. There are some things to…
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Live on The Social Academic YouTube Channel
Social media, collaboration, and networking are all topics from the 2020 YouTube live series.
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LinkedIn for Grad Students with Sammie Walker Herrera
LinkedIn is awesome for grad students. It’s a great way to manage your online presence and network. It’s important when job searching. Join me for this live conversation with Sammie…
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Aaron Shepard Talks NASA, Robots, and Starting Company Cogito
Aaron Shepard is a robotics intern at NASA Langley. This feature interview focuses on talking about your science on video. Learn about Aaron’s TEDx Talk and why he loves science…
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Jennifer Adams Talks Being an Instagram Influencer and PhD Life
PhD student Jennifer Adams @RunwayRedLA joins me to talk about what it’s like to be an Instagram influencer.
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Writer Steven Dunn Talks Facebook and Community
Novelist Steven Dunn joins me to talk about writing, Facebook, and being yourself online: “Facebook is my playtime.”
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Fear of Judgement on Social Media with Cheryl Lau
A YouTube Live with branding expert Cheryl Lau. We’re talking about how to overcome your fear of showing up online to share your work. We’re getting into the fear of…
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Dark Secrets of Academia and PhD Tips from Eleni Routoula
Dr. Eleni Routoula joins me live to talk about some of the dark secrets of academia. Eleni says “…I posted a tweet about academic supervisors and I got inspired to…
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How to Stop Procrastinating on Social Media with Life Coach Dr. Caitlin Faas
Life coach Caitlin Faas, PhD joins me to talk about why we procrastinate on social media. Do you use social media to put off your work? Are you spending too…
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Ruth C. White on YouTube and Being on TV
Ruth C. White, PhD joined YouTube with the goal of getting on TV. Her 1st YouTube video landed her on The Today Show, and she’s booked recurring TV spots since.…
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What Is Networking? With Career Coach Dr. Jennifer Polk
Join me and Jennifer Polk, PhD for a LIVE conversation about networking for academics. We’re going to be talking about how to network. Dr. Polk will share some common networking…
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Collaboration and Presentations with Dr. Echo Rivera
You know when you meet people online and know you should be friends? That’s what it was like for me and presentation expert, Dr. Echo Rivera. I’m an introvert, but…
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Brittany Trinh Talks STEM Website Design
In this interview I chat with scientist and STEM website designer Brittany Trinh. And this one’s on video! Dive into this chat about all things websites.
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Chris Cloney of GradBlogger Talks Turning his Blog into a Business
Chris Cloney, PhD of GradBlogger and DustSafetyScience joins me to talk about how his grad school research blog has grown into an independent research company. Then he answers your questions…
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A Chat with Jacklyn Lord of the Society for Scholarly Publishing
Jacklyn Lord manages marketing and communications for the Society for Scholarly Publishing. She loves pop culture and social media. We talk online identity in this interview and her advice for…
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EdD Candidate Andrew Paulsen Talks Teaching and Travel
Andrew Paulsen is a senior educational advisor and doctoral candidate who loves to travel. A doctoral candidate at Vanderbilt University, Andrew is making strides to change education in America. In…
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Melanie Bruce of The Leveraged PhD Talks Instagram
Melanie Bruce wears many hats as a marketing professor and as an entrepreneur with multiple businesses. In the final academic interview of 2019, we chat about why that balance works…
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Norman Eng Author of Teaching College Talks Self-Publishing
Norman Eng teaches educators to communicate with their audiences. We talk balancing teaching with being a business owner. And, how self-publishing can be a great option for academics. Check out…
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Journalist Lauren Smart Talks Social Media and Teaching
Lauren Smart is a journalist and professor of practice at Southern Methodist University. In this chat we talk about social media in and out of the classroom.
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Historian Walter D. Greason Talks Twitter and Community
Walter D. Greason, PhD is a historian, educator and urbanist prolific on social media. Learn how he uses Twitter and social media.
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Sophie Arthur of Soph Talks Science on Instagram
Sophie Arthur, is a science communicator interested in curiosity. Based in the United Kingdom, she runs the blog Soph Talks Science, winner of the 2018 UK Blog Awards.
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Meet the Social Academics, My Interview Guests of 2019
Meet the interview features of 2019: Leigh A. Hall, Greg Loring-Albright, Jazmine Benjamin, Echo Rivera, Daisy Shu, and Jessica Doble, Sophie Arthur, Walter D. Greason, Tomi Oluwasanmi, Lauren Smart, Norman…
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PhD Candidate Jessica Doble Talks Fanfiction and Social Media Management
PhD candidate Jessica Doble researches fanfiction and online communities in popular culture media. We chat about Instagram, Twitter, and having the feed you really want.
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Postdoc Daisy Shu Talks Science Communication on Instagram
I chat with Daisy Shu, a postdoc at Harvard’s Schepens Eye Research Institute. We talk about her journey to enjoying social media and the people who inspired her. Then, learn…
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PhD Student Jazmine Benjamin Talks Community on Twitter
I chat with Jazmine Benjamin, a Cellular and Molecular Biology PhD student at University of Alabama at Birmingham. She’s made great connections on social media. Learn about her research, and…
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Echo Rivera Talks Presentations and #DeathByPowerPoint
I chat with Dr. Echo Rivera, who helps academics and scientists communicate through presentations. We talk about using Twitter all day, jumping into conversations, and more.
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PhD Student Greg Loring-Albright Talks Crowdfunding on Social Media and Game Design
Greg-Loring Albright is a 2nd year Communications and Media PhD student at Drexel University. We talk about game design, Twitter, and social media life.
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Leigh A. Hall of Teaching Academia Talks About YouTube
Meet Leigh A. Hall, PhD, Professor of Adolescent Literature at the University of Wyoming in the 1st feature interview on The Social Academic blog.