In November I published an article in European Science Editing, the journal of the European Association of Science Editors (EASE) organisation, with the title ‘The role of social media in the research cycle’. The article is available in issue 4 of volume 41, for all EASE members to access online here. EASE make articles open access after six months, so this article will be freely available from May 2016. I will of course, repost links to it when the time comes. The arti