Oliver BrendelFeb 1
From a recent post looking for PhD theses databases across Europe, I got lots of boosts (thanks) but only returns from very few European countries. So I wonder : how many active scientists (lets say having published one peer-reviewed paper in the last five years) are on mastodon from the different EU countries ?
Pools only have 10 choices, so more countries are in the next post 🙂
please boost mainly on servers with a science theme
And if I have missed any hashtags that are followed by many scientists, please add
#AcademicChatter #academic #academics #AcademicFedi #EUscience #EUresearch
#Researcher
Austria
7.6%
Belgium
8.8%
Bulgaria
1.2%
Croatia
0.6%
Cyprus
0.6%
Czech Republic
2.9%
Denmark
4.7%
Estonia
1.2%
Finland
22.2%
France
50.3%
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Show threadOliver BrendelFeb 4
150 responses right now to my survey of EU scientists on Mastodon. ⬆️ thats already great and thanks for boosting, but there must be more.
It still runs for 3 days
Any hashtags, networks etc I have missed to bring more scientists in ? Perhaps some country specific hashtags and networks ?
Please reply and add hashtags
Thanks
#AcademicChatter
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Show threadBabette KnauerFeb 5
@sandradejong @olibrendel Last year, we conducted research on academic staff engagement on Mastodon. Maybe you'll find some data in there useful? Summary: https://zenodo.org/records/15582840; quantitative analysis incl. demographics: https://zenodo.org/records/15583529. Good luck with the survey!
PROJECT SUMMARY: Exploring Academic Staff Engagement on Mastodon

This research project explores the role of Mastodon in academic communication. Sparked by a shift away from X/Twitter due to concerns over misinformation and harassment, Mastodon has become a growing space for scholarly exchange. Despite this trend, little is known about how academics engage with the platform.  We conducted this study to understand academic staff's perceptions, motivations, usage patterns, and the platform’s potential benefits and challenges. The project employed a mixed-methods approach, resulting in a three-part study comprising (1) a literature review, (2) a quantitative survey, and (3) qualitative interviews. In this project summary, we briefly present the main results.

Zenodo
Show threadOliver BrendelFeb 5
@sandradejong @babetteknauer great, thanks a lot for sharing ! I'll have a look. It's probably less biased than my survey here 😁
Show threadOliver BrendelFeb 9
@babetteknauer @sandradejong Very interesting data-set. If I understand correctly, your survey concerns academic staff who followed the " University of Groningen Library's Mastodon account"; so the 275 respondents who marked "Europe" can be anywhere in Europe, not only in the Netherlands ?
Show threadBabette KnauerFeb 9
@olibrendel @sandradejong The survey was shared through our account, i.e. with our followers, but it was also reshared a lot. Respondents are thus not necessarily our followers, so their location most likely extends the Netherlands, we didn't collect country-specific information. See also chapter "Survey distribution and sampling" in the quantitative analysis part.