It may feel a challenge to limit a research proposal to a few sides of A4, but researchers on Twitter have been using the hashtag to describe their work using just 140 characters.

The idea came from @realscientists, and soon #mysci began trending in London, with thousands of scientists sharing their research; from zoology to computational mathematics and everything in between.

I thought of a little activity: why not try to explain your research in a 1 tweet summary? Pls share with !

— realscientists (@realscientists)

Here are 10 of the best research summaries so far...

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I stare at pink birds to see if flamingos have best friends, or preferred dance partners, or if they just all stand on 1 leg together

— Paul Rose (@pauledwardrose)

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I study numbers and probabilities. With the best applications. My numbers are beautiful. Other people's p-values are tiny. Sad!!

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— Casper Albers (@CaAl)

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I mess with ants, play with robots, and poke slime molds to understand cooperation, swarm intelligence and collective stupidity

— Simon Garnier (@sjmgarnier)

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I study ways in which astronomy data can be repurposed to search for intelligent life, + how scientists should behave if we find ET

— Duncan Forgan (@dh4gan)

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I study the chemistry of Scotch Whisky using NMR and FTICR MS.

— Will (@Popher)

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I'm studying how street lights affect birds, including black swans. I get pooped on lots.
(photo by Teresa, one of my volunteers)

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— Anne Aulsebrook (@AnneAulsebrook)

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I study how the brain enables us to communicate with each other by measuring how neurons (in mice) react to hearing mouse love songs!

— Catherine Perrodin (@c_perrodin)

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I make bugs cold. You could make bugs cold too.

— Heath MacMillan (@heathmacmillan)

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Wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey, stuff.

— David Gozzard (@DRG_physics)

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I use GPS telemetry and genetic data to study animal movement so we can better design wildlife corridors and road crossing structures

— Kathy Zeller (@kzeller)

You can follow the #MySci hashtag .Ìý