Mastodawn

Björn Brembs Feb 21, 2023

Many scholars are leaving Twitter for #Mastodon, a public, decentralized alternative, impervious to private take-over:

https://www.science.org/content/article/musk-reshapes-twitter-academics-ponder-taking-flight

Scholarly organizations are already supporting this migration:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00486-3

and

There are analogous solutions for another public good in private hands: journals. There are even levers the scholarly community could pull to incentivize an analogous migration:

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5526634

What are we waiting for?

As Musk reshapes Twitter, academics ponder taking flight

Many researchers are setting up profiles on social media site Mastodon

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Kate Nyhan is changing servers Feb 22, 2023

#medlibs I have shared the academia-moves-to-mastodon links curated by @brembs, above, with the (surprisingly large) communications team at the school where I'm liaison librarian. Maybe you should too ;)

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Rhyothemis

@kdnyhan @brembs

I've started a list of STEM & medical instances:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hZz1FB2HP-nqXNHigaiExFWvWTkMJ-TwYJa8W3Pdh-Q/edit?usp=sharing

and another for hashtags:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Alc8MlwDCziS6Z-CFij5A6A1MKQtGYTeO--xfW1vl6A/edit?usp=sharing

STEM & Medical Mastodon Instances

servers instance,description,users (1,000),posts (1,000),admin name,admin handle,email,additional info <a href="http://fediscience.org/">FediScience.org</a>,research scientists w/ publications,5.34,60.8,Frank Sonntag,@FrankSonntag SciComm.xyz,science communicators & enthusiasts, scientists,1.28,...

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