Day 210 as a researcher... Dear diary: It has been 7 months since I immersed myself in the realm of academic research. During this time I have attended 5 courses, so far, about how to be a good researcher. The last one was about "social media for researchers" and it's one of the reasons why I'm here, writing a stupid post that probably no one will read. I don't blame you, I don't like reading either. Specially repetitive boring stuff. After a few horrendous Power Point presentations, I've been asked to share with you some of the things I have learnt, using this obsolete tool: Blogger. (I guess haven't discovered Medium yet). Here I go: 1. They have their own social media To feed their egos, they like using social media networks to share their stuff. They don't really care about what other people are sharing. The goal is to have as many publications as you can, lots of mentions and lots of reposts. These networks are Research Gate or most recently...