A new unit of academic publication on Twitter

Papers are the preferred medium for academic publishing in many fields. They are usually a few pages long and quite dense pieces of text with lots of compressed knowledge. We believe that it should be possible to share an academic result in different ways/forms and so we are going to run an experiment for a new smaller unit of publication with a maximum size of 3 tweets — we are calling it a QUARK (Quantum Unit of Academic Research or Knowledge). Here’s how it’s going to work:

1) Create a chain of 3 tweets + 1 tweet for the header (title & authors)
2) Send us the tweets via private message to @fermatslibrary
3) We will review them and publish some on our Twitter feed

A QUARK can contain original research results or review existing results in this format (it’s up to you 😊). The tweets can include:

• Code, links and you can convert LaTex to unicode (http://www.unicodeit.net/)
• 1 image per tweet as long as it doesn’t have large pieces of text (images can be graphs, small tables, diagrams etc)

In this first iteration of the experiment we are going to publish QUARKs in the fields of math, physics and computer science.

Here’s an example of a QUARK in the field of math:

Looking forward to read the first QUARKs!

Thanks!

Fermat’s Library Team