#Introduction
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A quick #introduction - hello, #newsjunkie here, #journo for life, with the ever excellent BBC World Service. Keeping an eye on most news, breaking or moving.
At the end of the first day here have already managed to mess up my account by changing servers and lost all the excellent people i have followed 🙃 quite the learning curve
I've had an account for 3 years (but I've only really been using it since last week), so here goes a new #introduction: I'm Bruno, I'm head of the stats department of the Ministry of Higher education and Research in 🇱🇺 (department that only contains myself, so I'm the head and the body so to speak). I've been doing stats/econometrics/data science however it's called for 10 years +. I have a blog and youtube channel (check my profile) where I discuss stats and #RStats
I like reading #introduction posts even from those I know, so here's mine:
I'm a researcher at the French CNRS. I study the applied practices of economists in the past 70 years or so, across fields (macro, urban, public, welfare etc), topics, methods & policy advice
I think that it is very important for economists & public at large to understand the history of their concepts, tools & models, so I try to post relevant research, archival nuggets & thread some stories
found a lot of historians through hashtags, so follow-up #introduction
I'm currently wrapping-up a series of research projects on the history of #macroeconomics (in #centralbanks, on heterogeneity, tractability, computation)
I'm now turning to #microeconomics (history of taxation & welfare across fields is my angle for the next year)
I am a software engineer from Sydney 🇦🇺 working on backend systems as well as iOS and macOS apps. I like working with #swift, including server-side, and am dabbling occasionally with #elm.
Away from my computer, I enjoy family time, like to get around on two wheels, and play in the sand 🏐.
I'm Katie, 30, she/they, civil servant irl but when I'm online I''d rather be talking about #fandom. I'm also knowledgeable about #ADHD#autism and animal handling of various pets.
Recently into #criticalrole#GenshinImpact#manga#anime#vtuber#bl#gl and romance overall. Fair warning, if you consider yourself an "anti" or pick fights over queer labels it's probably best to move on. Don't like, don't read, tag your stuff, etc.
#introduction Hello! I am Tardy, I've been here for a while but haven't done a proper one. You may know me as Mr. Vird or Toady though. I am Tardy @ AO3 for writing & fivegrandcardinals @ tumblr with links to what I like or do. (Including artwork, I'm trying to get back into.)
I love #TalesOf but my favorites are Phantasia, Eternia, Symphonia, Legendia, & Abyss. I also play other JRPGs, and occasionally talk about other media (mostly film, comics, manga, & books) that I consumed.
Time for an #introduction post I guess. Checking this out after a suggestion from someone on Twitter. I'm a help desk analyst starting out my IT career later in life. Trying to get into infosec, preferably the blue team side. I don't expect to make a ton of content, mostly just here to learn and absorb.
I like to keep an open mind for other people's perspectives, because, IMO, only then you can truly learn something new and form connections with each other. However, I do have strong opinions on certain topics.
Bin Softwareentwickler im Bereich Hausautomatisierung/Smarthome/KNX, eher ausschließlich mit #ModernCpp unterwegs. Aber nicht nur neue Projekte (mit C++20) sondern auch #LegacyCode aus einem anderen Jahrzehnt.
So I’m told an #introduction is par for the course in these parts? Hey all, I’m into #writing and #fandom in that order. Mostly #fanfiction tbh. Currently an #SI!OC fic in the #Naruto fandom called #FireAway is getting most of my time, but I’ve published a lot of #Shenny for the #tbbt fandom as well-you can find my offerings on #ao3 and #FFNet. I also have a #Ko-fi if you enjoy my fanfics and would like to tip at Ko-Fi.com/muaaimoi. I’m also doing #nanowrimo because why not-lovely to be here💕
#Introduction
Hi, I'm new here to Mastodon. I didn't do much on social media until the pandemic, and now I'm kind of hooked. I was active on Twitter, but given the new owner's plans it's time to transition elsewhere.
I like sailing, kayaking, day hiking, and a good lager. Until about three years ago, I was active in skiing and beer league hockey.
My social media interests include humor, current affairs, politics (especially the upcoming election), history, art, cinema, and technology.
Poor timing to post this right before switching servers so here's a re-post of my introduction:
I think it's time for a #introduction. I'm Jay and I'm stoked to interact with the online #science community now that it's migrating off the bird site.
I'm an evolutionary biologist who studies interactions between Datura #plants and the #herbivores that feed on them. My work focuses on how plants and #insects shape each others evolutionary trajectories.
#introduction I've had this account since 2017, but I have to thank the Muskrat for pushing so many people over here, whom I'd like to keep following, for me to finally also spend some time here.
I'm hoping to see lots of discussions of homotopy type theory and related matters.
I'm retired, a bit early due to covid-19 and the desire to protect myself and especially my older partner. We are both still doing what we can to avoid catching this insidious virus even once.
Most of my life I've been apolitical, but while coming from various perspectives over the years I've always been intuitively anti-capitalist and highly critical of the US. I tended generally toward progressive, unconventional, and counter-culture in most contexts but lacked any solid political consciousness or analysis. I was a worker all my life, most of it in the natural food industry (which I felt relatively good about), mostly at retail level. I never wanted to be anyone's boss so I was never a manager and never climbed the corporate ladder. In the later years I was fortunate to have a position that was not involved with sales but rather with protecting and informing customers (internal auditing for weights & measures compliance) which I also felt relatively good about but it certainly wasn't lucrative, lol.
I only became seriously concerned with politics during Bernie Sanders' first presidential campaign when I got a fleeting glimpse of supposed possibility for real change. I began to explore socialist thought and thought of myself as a demsoc. I was focused on electoral reform at the time, thinking that was the problem. I shared info with friends, family and co-workers about various projects to reform electoral politics and I started an account on Twitter (@RD4Democracy, now deleted) in 2017 to have someplace to direct them to for more info and updates.
Fortunately there I found some very helpful voices along with all the noise, but I didn't immediately understand how to differentiate between it all so I was still following some garbage accounts for a while. Nevertheless my political thought evolved rapidly and I found myself following more and more anarchists and starting to understand anarchist thought. I realized I needed to better understand private property and learned about that. I read Graeber's "Debt" and got an understanding of money. I did some research to better understand what capital is and developed an idea of it as a sort of "god" or artificial intelligence with capitalism as its religion.
One of the helpful voices I want to specifically appreciate and recommend is @HeavenlyPossum. With the help of HP and others I was able to successfully navigate the crossroads that many self-described socialists never seem to reach at all and where too many others take the wrong fork into the tankie world.
The pandemic and then the Russian invasion of Ukraine were extremely clarifying events that helped me finally see the nature of that fork in the road, as well as shining an intense light on all the shit accounts I was following and providing an opportunity for others I followed to show or decide their true colors. It has been very sad sometimes while very illuminating.
And now here we are. I felt it important to participate in a non-corporate, decentralized and open source social project like this and the timing seemed significant. Let's see what we can do.
As an #introduction to me, and my #physics career, I highly recommend this article in @PhysicsWorld
with an interview reflecting on particle physics #careers, using mine as an example
With the influx of new mastodon users, here's an #introduction so that people can find me!
I am a #planetary scientist working at the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (#IPGP) in Paris, France. My research involves using the #gravity field, #topography, and #MagneticField of the planets to decipher their internal structure and evolution. Most of my work has been with the #Moon and #Mars, but I also dabble with #Mercury, #Venus, and sometimes the #asteroids and icy satellites of #Jupiter.
Now I must post another #introduction for myself, hello everybody! 👋
My name's Jonah, and I've been a Mastodon user and instance admin since 2019. I just switched from my old personal instance to https://neat.computer, a new service I started this weekend which hosts a bunch of neat/federated things!