“…Existing studies focusing on social media in connection with science-related topics have explored communicative networks in relation to various scientific issues [Büchi, 2017], and how various stakeholders make use of social media, for instance, government organizations [Dalrymple, Young and Tully, 2016], academics [Mewburn and Thomson, 2013], and environmental movements [Hestres, 2014;Hutchins, 2016]. Studies have concentrated heavily on the platform Twitter, examples being the role of Twitter in shaping the climate debate [Auer, Zhang and Lee, 2014;Kirilenko and Stepchenkova, 2014], creating open forums as well as echo chambers for climate discussion [Williams et al, 2015], framing IPCC assessment reports [O'Neill et al, 2015], issues pertaining to genetic modification [Wang and Guo, 2018] and nanotechnology [Veltri, 2012]. To a large extent, however, Twitter is associated with elite discourse, and a recent study [Hargittai, Füchslin and Schäfer, 2018], identified Facebook as significantly more attractive for non-specialists when engaging with scientific issues.…”