Epidemiologist and keen member of the #EpiVerse.
Interested in #Epidemiology, #Causalinference, #MetaScience, #Academia, #Neurodiversity, #SocialJustice, #Diversity
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I'll be talking about some economics-of-science modeling work I've done on when and why scientists are reluctant to undertake high-risk, high-return research.
My abstract is below. The first of the two models was published last year at https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2111615118 . The second is very much a work in progress.
The collapse of Twitter is a system breakdown. Mastodon and the fediverse represent something different: _system change_. From for-profit "Big Tech" to nonprofit, open source, community-owned public spaces.
System change is always harder than you think. It always incurs short-term costs, with hoped for long-term benefits.
The next few weeks will be really tough for the fediverse. Stick around, vibe with it, and you just might help us put a huge part of the web back in community hands. <3
I'm just guessing here, but it sounds like it would feed the neoliberal competitive agenda, not the prosocial socialist intention of the platform. Academics, on the whole, are too invested in work as identity for that. 
Plus it's not fun. Plus who wants their employer controlling their toots. 
(One main reason I'm not On Here™ to be academic. That's incidental.)If you work in research, you’ve probably never met another researcher who doesn’t fear failure or feel the sting of rejection. You’ve just met a lot of people who prefer not to talk about it. Vocalizing our fears and struggles is a powerful first step toward overcoming them.
#mentoring #mastodon #academia #phdlife #phdchat #success #MentalHealthMatters
@chrischirp I think we'll see a steady trickling in over the next couple months. News agencies don't move that quickly, and until just recently Mastodon was tiny. I'm already seeing individual journalists that I recognized coming over, but I expect official agencies will take longer.
There's also BTW bots that mirror Twitter content. I've not tried setting one up, but I imagine you could set one up for any account.
So should this group of scientists on Mastodon be the #EpiVerse instead of #epitwitter ?
Somehow #EpiVerse sounds a lot like a Firefly reference or show jargon, for some reason.
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