BenedicteCallanAug 16, 2023
Scientists are moving from X-itter. Almost half have opened accounts with Mastodon, the highest of all the other social networking sites according to a Nature survey.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02554-0
Thousands of scientists are cutting back on Twitter, seeding angst and uncertainty

A Nature survey reveals scientists’ reasons for leaving the social-media platform now known as X, and what they are doing to build and maintain a sense of community.

Show threadTom Levenson

@BeneCal Not a scientist, but science adjacent, and I'm in this group.

I keep a Twitter acct., mostly so that I keep control of my name on that platform. But I spend asymptotically close to zero time on that collapsing cesspool.

Aug 16, 2023 at 4:03pmWeb