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.
Of note:
“The most popular alternative social-media site that respondents mentioned opening accounts with was the free, open-source software platform Mastodon.”
And that’s how I met u wonderful folks😁
#science #stem #scicomm
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.

@absolutspacegrl It would be interesting to see scientists not just “being here” but building something beyond that.

Running servers, connecting up wikis, blogs, publishing, etc.

Science is great, but it is best shared imho.

(Not implying that nobody is, because I am real good at missing stuff:))