It's #LGBTQSTEMday, and there's a bunch of new or new-to-Mastodon faces in my feed, so:

I'm Jeremy Yoder! I'm a #gay evolutionary biologist studying #coevolution, especially in #mutualism. I also helped launch the #QueerInSTEM project, which surveyed #LGBTQ scientists to understand our career experiences.

Our most recent paper found that #queer scientists who don't feel safe to disclose their identities at work publish fewer papers—a concrete cost of the closet
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0263728

Bird apocalypse tip:

With over 10k new users per hour, many Mastondon instances are crushed and sluggish.

I recommend skipping mobile apps and using the Mastodon web ui. It works great in both desktop and mobile browsers.

Along the very top of the screen, if you look carefully, you will see a very thin blue PROGRESS BAR there. Let that complete it's journey to the right-hand edge of the screen...it will disappear.

It's trying to tell you to wait for a load. WAIT.

Some of the journals with Mastodon accounts:

Science
@sciencemagazine
Nature
@nature
PNAS
@PNASNews
PNAS Nexus
@PNASNexus
Physics
@physics_magazine
eLife
@eLife

and a mirror of the arXiv physics.optics feed
@j824h_arXiv_physics_optics

#optics #photonics

I keep getting surprised by #Mastodon. I hadn't actually appreciated that #fediscience has a public livestream so you can see what is going on within the instance without being on the server

#OpenScience

https://fediscience.org/public

#womeninscience
Women scientists maybe you thought were men

Maud Menten (Michaelis–Menten equation)
Yvonne Barr (Epstein-Barr virus)
Marilyn Kozak (Kozak consensus sequence)
Tsuneko Okazaki (Okazaki fragments - with her husband Reiji)
Helen Quinn (Peccei–Quinn theory)
Phyllis Nicolson (Crank–Nicolson method)
Hilde Mangold (Spemann-Mangold organizer)
Laura P. Bautz (Bautz–Morgan classification )
Katharine B. Blodgett (Langmuir–Blodgett (LB) film)
Martha Chase (Hershey–Chase experiments)