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Edward MarcotteRichard, with the increasing migration of science Twitter to sites like Mastodon, what are the prospects for adding a Mastodon sharing option, and more importantly, adding Mastodon to Altmetric article metrics in bioRxiv and medrXiv? For obvious reasons, supporting science dissemination by sustainable, non-commercial social media sources seems more important than ever.
Monika Wolkerscould not agree more... only reason why i did not fully swap to Mastodon yet
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Marc Robinson-Rechavi@richardsever @edward_marcotte A (the?) problem is that Mastodon doesn't allow discovery of URLs https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/19992
Interesting, thanks. It sounds like a sharing option could still be an option right away, but Mastodon needs the ability to either search URLs or allow DOIs in hashtags.
Personally, I find the lack of free text searches painful (even if others argue that it's a feature not a bug) and would love to see any of these options added.
Le Néandertal se sent las, las@edward_marcotte @richardsever on the other hand, metrics are bad for science.
Funny enough, I don't use Altmetric for the actual metrics, but for the ability to follow links between scientists and articles.
Iddo Friedberg 💔🎗𐤅𐤉𐤃𐤏@edward_marcotte @richardsever
Hashtagging the unique part of the DOI should work? Then pressing the Mastodon button on biorxiv can toot the preprint title with the unique hashtag & a link back to the article.
That definitely feels like a reasonable solution. (I'm sure people on Mastodon longer than me must have already put some thought into this.)
Richard Sever@iddux @edward_marcotte yeah - this has been discussed a few times here and some sort of #tinydoiwithoutpunctuation was my suggestion
jordan@richardsever @iddux @edward_marcotte There are also plenty of papers without DOIs (few-year-old arXiv preprints come to mind as a major one)...
Perhaps an inline automated rewrite of paper URLs to something like an OpenAlex ID? (Not sure of the status of that project, but it's been an awesome everypaper-identifier for my projects in the past!)
@richardsever @iddux @edward_marcotte Got it — lost in the tangle of toot UI! (I'm personally a bioRxiv'er way more than an arxiver so I'm glad we'll get the cool features first 😍)
admin@edward_marcotte @richardsever we would be interested in making an API endpoint to index posts with DOIs (or links that can resolve to DOIs and other PIDs) to support this without doing full -instance indexing. plz be in touch, we'd love to be a seed point for experimenting with ethical academia on the fediverse
Andrei Kucharavy@admin @edward_marcotte @richardsever you would need to have a tag to anchor the dois to, just per how Mastodon works - at least right now.
jonny (good kind)@andrei_chiffa @admin @edward_marcotte @richardsever (using personal account)
yes I have prototyped an external parser for dereferencing shortlinks on masto and also just have been tinkering around with a fork that does a lot of the UI you would need to do to implement it in browser ( https://wiki.neuromatch.io/Mastodon/Mathjax ) so I think it would be maybe a months work?
yes I have prototyped an external parser for dereferencing shortlinks on masto and also just have been tinkering around with a fork that does a lot of the UI you would need to do to implement it in browser ( https://wiki.neuromatch.io/Mastodon/Mathjax ) so I think it would be maybe a months work?
ArayaNeuroLab🇨🇦🧠@edward_marcotte @richardsever this would be awesome 😎
Andy Fraser@edward_marcotte @richardsever is there a potential to apply to NIH/NLM to fund developments of mastodon to specifically build tools and networks for science? For me The Other Site was fantastic for finding and exploring preprints - the tweetorials alone were gold.