#psynom18 concluded nearly two weeks ago, and now that the Thanksgiving holiday is over, it is time for a brief report on some aspects of the annual meeting. We have already seen what our junior Psychonomes are up to. But there is more to cover: for example, the heroic work done by our volunteers who served as Twitternomes during the meeting and live-tweeted the meeting while also producing reports of selected talks.
Those reports of talks can now be found on the Society’s website, but they were also mailed out every morning during the meeting (Friday, Saturday, and Sunday) to the entire membership—this is the first time we have done this, and all the feedback to date suggests that this was a good idea and is something we should repeat at future meetings.
This is part of the team of Twitternomes, captured during our social hour:
The Psychonomic Society is grateful to the following volunteers for their services:
- Enes Avcu
- Michelle Rivers
- Jessica Nicosia
- Amber Gillenwaters
- Juan Pinto
- Alexis Payne
- Jennifer Blush
- Clair Hong
- Toshi Miyatsu
- Stephen Rhodes
- Yipei Lo
- Adam Barnas
- Rebecca Lawrence
- Kris Bowman
- Gia Macias
- Melissa Thye
Thank you all for your hard work. I look forward to seeing you again next year. In addition to writing reports of selected talks, the Twitternomes also used the hashtag #psynom18 to spread news of the meeting on Twitter. I obtained some statistical summaries using tweetbinder.
There have been 1,900 tweets under the hashtag #psynom18, around a thousand of which were retweets. This has reached a potential audience of nearly 900,000 people—of course, in reality it would have been fewer because not every follower will read any given tweet. Still, not a bad effort.
These were the most active tweeters:
Thanks to all of you for contributing to the discussion!
