I've been thinking about that. I'm less talented with 140 characters than some of the other participants on this list, but perhaps something like these would work:
As a student, Louis Pasteur got a mediocre grade in chemistry and failed an entrance exam. Later in life, he invented a vaccine for rabies.
"Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world." -- Louis Pasteur
Did you know that this microbiologist created the first vaccines for anthrax and rabies?
Pine
On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 3:04 PM, Joe Sutherland jsutherland@wikimedia.org wrote:
Sure! Do you have any potential text for social media?
Joe
On 11 September 2015 at 03:10, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
To balance out the alleged favoritism shown by Ed's featured article being posted to the socials, may I propose posting to the socials one of my successful FP nominations when it becomes POTD?
Https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:POTD/2015-09-28
Pine
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