Having spent a long time doing my best to ignore Twitter, I recently decided to take the plunge and start following some feeds. Below is a list of the ones I have found interesting, so far (in no particular order).
Tim Harford - this is the one that got me on Twitter in the first place. He mentioned his Twitter feed in one of his books. It's good for getting an evidence-based understanding of the news.
David Spiegelhalter - great statistician. Does a lot of good work communicating statistics / risk to everyone. Pretty funny as well. Look up micromorts to get a flavour of what he does, http://understandinguncertainty.org/micromorts.
Tom Whipple - science journalist at The Times. Also pretty funny.
Evan Davis - has down quite a wide range of news-related things for the BBC (Today programme, Newsnight). Some similarities with Tim Harford in that he is an economist who understands numbers and how to interpret them. I quite enjoyed his General Election Leader Interviews recently and his 'Mind the Gap' documentary last year.
Tim Montgomerie - writes for The Times. If anyone can persuade you that it is possible to care for the poor and be conservative (politically), it's probably him.
Tim Keller - Christian author and pastor in New York. Has written a lot of persuasive books contrasting the Christian worldview with the secular worldview. I have got more out of his books than his tweets, but he does have quite a pithy way of summing things up which works well on Twitter.
Stat Fact - a good feed for little statistics tips and links. Quite wide-ranging, not just about the theory of statistics.
Oxford Mindfulness - this feed is for a research group that has developed mindfulness practices and measured their effects in a scientific way. The feed sometimes has links to radio or TV that is related to their work.
Pizza Artisan Oxford - another Oxford-based feed, but sadly for something that can only be enjoyed in Oxford...
Nature News&Comment - good for getting an idea of what is going on in the top tier of science.
edX - I have enjoyed doing some courses on edX and coursera. It's great how accessible these courses are, and how many of them there are. I have looked at Ancient Greek Heros, Statistical Analysis of fMRI data, and Learning how to Learn.
Gresham College - lots of public lectures from academics on an eclectic range of topics.
Tim Harford - this is the one that got me on Twitter in the first place. He mentioned his Twitter feed in one of his books. It's good for getting an evidence-based understanding of the news.
David Spiegelhalter - great statistician. Does a lot of good work communicating statistics / risk to everyone. Pretty funny as well. Look up micromorts to get a flavour of what he does, http://understandinguncertainty.org/micromorts.
Tom Whipple - science journalist at The Times. Also pretty funny.
Evan Davis - has down quite a wide range of news-related things for the BBC (Today programme, Newsnight). Some similarities with Tim Harford in that he is an economist who understands numbers and how to interpret them. I quite enjoyed his General Election Leader Interviews recently and his 'Mind the Gap' documentary last year.
Tim Montgomerie - writes for The Times. If anyone can persuade you that it is possible to care for the poor and be conservative (politically), it's probably him.
Tim Keller - Christian author and pastor in New York. Has written a lot of persuasive books contrasting the Christian worldview with the secular worldview. I have got more out of his books than his tweets, but he does have quite a pithy way of summing things up which works well on Twitter.
Stat Fact - a good feed for little statistics tips and links. Quite wide-ranging, not just about the theory of statistics.
Oxford Mindfulness - this feed is for a research group that has developed mindfulness practices and measured their effects in a scientific way. The feed sometimes has links to radio or TV that is related to their work.
Pizza Artisan Oxford - another Oxford-based feed, but sadly for something that can only be enjoyed in Oxford...
Nature News&Comment - good for getting an idea of what is going on in the top tier of science.
edX - I have enjoyed doing some courses on edX and coursera. It's great how accessible these courses are, and how many of them there are. I have looked at Ancient Greek Heros, Statistical Analysis of fMRI data, and Learning how to Learn.
Gresham College - lots of public lectures from academics on an eclectic range of topics.
