Dan GillmorAs scientists pull back on, or drop entirely, their Twitter presence, a lot of them are coming here.
Welcome them, follow them!
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02554-0
#science @scientists
william.maggosis there a list or hashtag like there are for journalists?
Jason Bowen 🇺🇦@wjmaggos @dangillmor I hope so! I've been trying to rebuild my birdsite "subcommunities"
Scott, present & accounted for
🅺🅸🅼 🆂🅲🅷🆄🅻🆉:~$ ▓@wjmaggos @dangillmor there is one for journalists?
NiceMicro@wjmaggos @dangillmor people use the "science" hashtag, so that might be a good start.
Dee Toher@wjmaggos @dangillmor science is overly broad for a useful common hashtag.
think about specific fields and start from there.
For example, #scicomm for science communication may be a useful starting point; specific servers (If interested in mathematics, looking at the mathstodon.xyz) may be of interest for inspiration.
Generally if you have an interest in a topic, try out a few informed guesses at a hashtag to search, then see what are common tags in those posts and start following those.
think about specific fields and start from there.
For example, #scicomm for science communication may be a useful starting point; specific servers (If interested in mathematics, looking at the mathstodon.xyz) may be of interest for inspiration.
Generally if you have an interest in a topic, try out a few informed guesses at a hashtag to search, then see what are common tags in those posts and start following those.
Kelley Graham
Funk_Funky@dangillmor is there a good hashtag or a good hub user to find the science nerds? I haven’t found too many myself yet.
@dangillmor honestly, as a scientist myself, I never understood the appeal of Twitter for "popularizing research work".
I mean, journals offer you to tweet your paper when it gets published, but what respectable scientist gets their references from Twitter?
You are searching for papers on Google Scholar or some other specialized engine, when you need to underpin your hypothesis on others' work.
Kylee@nicemicro @dangillmor True, but “popularizing” doesn’t really mean reaching other scientists. Laypeople can and do get invested in science through social media sometimes, and I think that’s a good thing. Granted I make a living at #SciComm aimed mostly at general audiences :)
@jinian Yeah, but like 99% of scientific publications are in some very niche field, which is only of interest for people who already work in the field or an adjacent field.
Most research is an incremental improvement on an infinitesimally small part of human knowledge.
@nicemicro Sure, which is why popularization takes skill. Most things can be contextualized enough to get someone interested in the field, though of course not at the most precise level of understanding
@jinian yeah, that's why I have no faith in the usefulness of tweets for "popularizing" one's research work. You just can't do all the contextualization required in so many characters.
honkhonk@dangillmor Anyone on ML, Data Science, Optimisation fields to follow here?
M8_d@dangillmor Scientists were all shutdown and forced leave on G+, did you or anybody say anything? hh
Cavyherd
JL Roberson@dangillmor Interesting how what's left of the bird looks bound and gagged
M. Pax@dangillmor That X keeps making me think someone put porn on my phone.
Incident Creator ❎@dangillmor Another couple of weeks and #Mastodon will be up to 14 million users...
@vik @dangillmor According the fediverse.observer, the entire fediverse is only almost at 12M, Masto is almost at 9M, but fediverse with active accounts are only 4M. I'm thinking the 14M is total people who have every signed up to a masto account including the ones who later deleted it.
PJ "Vote Green" Coffey
Invincible_Fall in me
Simon Brooke@dangillmor is there an account anywhere on the #fediverse that's posting real time output from #neutrino detectors?
@dangillmor write it, if it's not there. https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2018/08/easy-guide-to-building-mastodon-bots/
Easy guide to building Mastodon bots
Twitter is dead! Long live Mastodon! I've written lots of 'bots for Twitter - and been part of their developer outreach programme. Lots of us have politely requested improvements to the bot experience on Twitter, but to no avail. So, today I'm going to show you how to quickly and easily write your first Mastodon-bot. Bots In Spaaaaaaace Step 1 - you need to set up a new account for your bot. …
Jost Migenda@simon_brooke None that I know of, unfortunately. (I currently run @SNEWS and @HyperKamiokande manually; but for SNEWS at least, I should look into writing a bot to share real-time alerts …)
(((Baslow)))@dangillmor
If "the scientific community" wants to
it can *build* platforms, out of open source components, that could be far better tailored to fit its needs than anything currently on offer.
Science has traditionally advanced by building its own tools and its own networks.
That this does not seem to be happening now
strikes me as a depressing illustration of the learned helplessness
to which capitalism has reduced us all.
David Blanchflower BSc@dangillmor I've been here since last November. Still on Twitter but doing doings here too.
Yet Water Was 
Brad Barrish@dangillmor how do we find them tho? That continues to be an especially frustrating thing on Mastodon.
CCR Feline Research Center@dangillmor Happy to be here! #science
Matt 🔶 (LordMatt)@dangillmor this is exactly the good news I needed to see today