Our approach to research is becoming increasingly social. Many researchers maintain a network of contacts on Facebook and Twitter, and use social networking to keep in touch with people relevant to their research.

Learn more about using Twitter for research.

Academic networking sites

With the increasing popularity of sites such as facebook, there are also some professional networking sites such as LinkedIn - for all professions - and academia.edu - for academia.

Here are some research-specific networking sites:

• socialsciencespace
• myexperiment
• researchgate
• nanohub
• methodspace