dangillmor,
@dangillmor@mastodon.social avatar

As scientists pull back on, or drop entirely, their Twitter presence, a lot of them are coming here.

Welcome them, follow them!

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02554-0

#science @scientists

lordmatt,
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@dangillmor this is exactly the good news I needed to see today

simon_brooke,
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@dangillmor is there an account anywhere on the #fediverse that's posting real time output from #neutrino detectors?

JostMigenda,

@simon_brooke None that I know of, unfortunately. (I currently run @SNEWS and @HyperKamiokande manually; but for SNEWS at least, I should look into writing a bot to share real-time alerts …)

vik,
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@dangillmor Another couple of weeks and #Mastodon will be up to 14 million users...

mpax,
@mpax@mastodon.social avatar

@dangillmor That X keeps making me think someone put porn on my phone.

andresmh,
@andresmh@hci.social avatar

@dangillmor btw, here is a list of academics in the field of human-computer interaction 👌 https://directory.hci.social/

wjmaggos,
@wjmaggos@liberal.city avatar

@dangillmor

is there a list or hashtag like there are for journalists?

jbowen,
@jbowen@mast.hpc.social avatar

@wjmaggos @dangillmor I hope so! I've been trying to rebuild my birdsite "subcommunities"

_ohcoco_,
@_ohcoco_@mastodon.social avatar

@wjmaggos @dangillmor What I've done is go to: https://fediscience.org/public/local and also https://fediscience.org/public and just looked at who's posting, find interesting people, and follow them. I wasn't able to access an instance Directory (some instances allow this), but this is working for me so far! I just check in periodically, and then I try to remember to put them all on my science list.

scottspeaking,

@wjmaggos @dangillmor If #Mastodon had a better #search function, we could more easily find people. But alas we must often rely on #hashtags and #luck.

kimschulz,
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@wjmaggos @dangillmor there is one for journalists?

nicemicro,
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@wjmaggos @dangillmor people use the "science" hashtag, so that might be a good start.

DToher,

@wjmaggos @dangillmor science is overly broad for a useful common hashtag.
think about specific fields and start from there.
For example, #scicomm for science communication may be a useful starting point; specific servers (If interested in mathematics, looking at the mathstodon.xyz) may be of interest for inspiration.
Generally if you have an interest in a topic, try out a few informed guesses at a hashtag to search, then see what are common tags in those posts and start following those.

_ohcoco_,
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@wjmaggos @dangillmor This caught my eye today, and they have a few more lists on their feed :o)

#science
#sciencemastodon

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