Monday, 20 October 2014

Academics are using emoji to explain their research

Academic papers are often long, tedious and impossible to read, as Steven Pinker pointed out last month. So researchers are trying to make themselves more accessible with going as far away from the norm as possible, posting 140-character descriptions of their work using emoji as descriptors, with the hashtag #emojiresearch.


We’ve compiled some of the latest ones (and the Chronicle of Higher Education has more).


Some of them are easy to interpret.


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