Ruth MottramOct 4, 2023
I am in the process of writing a new very brief "how to" intro to using mastodon as a scientist.
This blog by @liztai is a brilliant why to switching the way we engage with others online..
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https://elizabethtai.com/2023/07/02/posse-and-pesos-better-ways-to-publish-content/
POSSE and PESOS: Better ways to publish content

When I wrote this today, #TwitterDown was trending on Mastodon. Here’s another lesson why using platforms like Twitter and Substack as your content home is a bad idea. Publish your content th…

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@Ruth_Mottram @liztai In the same vein (though now out-of-date for that platform) https://mathvalues.squarespace.com/masterblog/lights-camera-brainstorm-doing-science-in-full-view-in-a-global-pandemic
MAA Blog: Science in Public — MATH VALUES

Keith Devlin discusses the challenges and merits of doing science in full public view during a global pandemic.

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Show threadRuth MottramOct 4, 2023
@KeithDevlin @liztai great post! It's a good question though what would happen today? Would people still cluster on twitter for those kind of debates? Would they even come here? I don't know. #Climatetwitter seems to still be a little bit alive there, some action on bsky and a bit here. It's fragmented and we rarely get the rich conversations going we had a few years ago (the rot had set in well before Musk for climate IMO)