Meet the 26-Year-Old Behind Academic Twitter’s Most Popular Hashtags

By Steve Kolowich. It didn’t take much for Glen Wright to figure out that academics on Twitter are just like everyone else.
“#AcademicWithCats—let’s get it started people!” wrote Mr. Wright, a Paris-based researcher, from the account for his blog, Academia Obscura.
Many academics spend their days reading and purveying dense, largely humorless tomes, or buried in lab work or archives, and have a reputation as a serious tribe. Cats and Twitter, however, are great equalizers. Read more...