Our lab is growing! In our Three Questions series, we’re profiling each of our members and the amazing work they’re doing. Today’s post features Rukhsana Ahmed, an Associate Professor and Department Chair in the Department of Communication at the University at Albany, State University of New York.

*How did modern science communication begin? How has it evolved from one country to the next? What social, political, and economic forces inspired those changes? * Published this week by ANU Press, Communicating Science: A Global Perspective explores all of these questions and more.

Starting this week, ScholCommLab co-director Stefanie Haustein is publishing a series of guest posts on the Altmetric Blog about the role of Twitter in scholarly communication. Read on for a small taste of what to expect, and find the whole series at at altmetric.com/blog/. It’s almost been a decade since altmetrics and social media-based metrics were introduced.