Today I experienced a new kind of connecting of study subjects on the internet. I have been following the Public Library of Science (PLOS) on Twitter. This tweet showed up on my Twitter page:
The article the tweet points to is about Number-Based Visual Generalisation in the Honeybee. The bees get a sugar solution reward for learning to differentiate from choices like these (Fig. S1 in the article):
So think about what is happening. The connection between the potential learner and the source is made by a tweet. New science published by the PLOS goes in a new, individualized, beeline directly to the student. Sweet.
