Discussion hier dans les couloirs du ministère
- Tu ne penses pas qu'on devrait reconsidérer la présence de tous nos comptes institutionnels sur Twitter depuis son rachat par Musk ?
- Pour migrer sur Mastodon ?
- Ben oui. En plus on a déjà une instance
- Mouais, trop confidentiel. On en reparlera quand le compte @lelibreedu aura plus d'abonnés sur Mastodon que sur X

La valeur ne se mesure pas au nombre d'abonné·e·s, encore moins ici, mais… chiche !

Relais apprécié donc ;)

#LeLibreEduChallenge

the number of ppl perhaps rightly mourning the decay of academic twitter as one of the only ways to share, find and talk about research seems like it points directly to the fundamental hollowness of the current journal system as a means of uh sharing, finding, and talking about research.

our for-profit system of communication is so hostile to the way we want to work that we became dependent on a different, also very hostile informational chokepoint.

I think it is a pretty normal idea to want to try to rebuild our communication systems ourselves, in common. whatever that looks like. I get why that's weird or boring or scary to ppl I just think it would be fun and good to do.

This week, I went over to Bluesky and asked people who'd left Mastodon why they left, and lots of people told me. I grabbed the replies and crunched them and wrote up a summary. I think it's really interesting and often kind of wrenching.

https://erinkissane.com/mastodon-is-easy-and-fun-except-when-it-isnt

#meta

Question: When more individual remain in a patch, than disperse away from a patch, you might say the population is philopatric. What word would you use to describe the opposite scenario: more individuals leaving a patch than remaining in a patch? miseopatric? anti-philopatric? something else?

My goal is to have two words to distinguish between positive subdominant eigenvalues (philopatric) and negative subdominant eigenvalues (??) of a dispersal matrix/operator.

Please retoot.

If anyone fancy a side project in relation to this server, they could start Evolutionary-Biologists-of-Mastodon and Ecologists-of-Mastodon pages where people can add themselves for discoverability.

https://nathanlesage.github.io/academics-on-mastodon/

Get in touch if it's something you'd be interested in, I think I could help in the setup but can't really maintain yet another thing.