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Our #ResNetSLT workshop on 12th May attracted a packed room of approximately 60 delegates from many different countries. The show of hands indicated a high number of student SLTs ( #SLT2B ) in the audience, together with educators, clinical practitioners and researchers. Please click here to access a copy of the presentation slides that include links for other relevant resources and recommendations for many names to follow on Twitter. We briefly explained how the #ResNetSLT Twitter journal club runs, and that a German version has been launched. We heard about plans for a new journal club on Twitter between Netherlands and Sweden, and #ResNetSLT offered some advice and assistance based on our experience over the past two years. It was great to hear that SLT students and practitioners are increasingly using Twitter in many languages to share research and professional discussions – as well as other social media platforms. For anyone interested in getting started on Twitter for the first

Thank you to Chiara Vivaldi ( @VivaldiC ) for producing the latest ResNetSLT blog post. As a full-time speech and language therapy student I know there are a million and one things to stay on top of (and I'm doing the undergraduate course, I can't imagine what it's like for Masters students!) So why would you want to add getting involved in research to the list? In my case, one reason I have chosen speech and language therapy as a career is the possibility of combining clinical and academic practice, of placing yourself at the exciting and complicated juncture where academic research meets clinical practice. I've been involved in two research projects so far, which have each required only a relatively little of my time. On the practical side, being involved has honed my assessment scoring skills (never a bad skill to practice), and given me a sense of the logistics of running a research project. The research academics have always been more than willing to answer any que