> We did our research and contacted Associate professors and Principal investigators on LI Academics typically don't use LinkedIn much (I assume this is what y

> We did our research and contacted Associate professors and Principal investigators on LI Academics typically don't use LinkedIn much (I assume this is what you mean by LI); if you want to reach them through social media then Twitter is probably a better bet. However, rather than contacting individual researchers, you might find it more effective to try contacting people in Research Services/Research Support teams, whose role includes helping academics with things like costing grant proposals.