Editing Contact and partnerships (section)

== What's likely to work ==

* Contacts via social media used to disseminate the work, relatively soon after a post: if I blog about a paper and you comment on my blog post, I'm very likely to see it.
* Email to the 'corresponding author' -- researchers often put their real email addresses and other contact information right on their paper and are generally delighted to hear from someone who has read their work. But don't be offended if you don't hear back; it's unlikely to be personal. There's always the risk of being caught by spam filters or buried under various deadlines. Often even quite high-ranking academics read all their own mail, and yours might be mixed with all kinds of other matters. During quarters when on leave or under a particularly heavy load, mail might get neglected for weeks or months.
* Responses to the researcher reaching out (perhaps a naive mailing list post or forum comment). We try to follow the rules of the communities we contact, but we don't always get it right. If we're trying our best, and you're trying your best, we're all more likely to connect in a productive way.