TLDR: Mastodon is very white, male, status quo, global north, and designed in a way to limit its potential for use in social movements.

Mastodon feels very different from Twitter, deliberately. It is truly like Live Journal. It is about people who are happy with their social circle and who think of virality and discoverability as a problem. They just want to communicate with the people they know, and limit other things. Ironically, it is more like a private gathering than a public space.

#Introduction (2nd try)

Hi all,

I am an #economist at @epi in Washington. I focus on economic #policy, especially in the #labor market. Previously I've worked at @ceprdc and WCEG. I received a PhD in #economics from #LSE in 1993.

I'm interested in the causes and consquences of wage and income inequality in the US.

I'm also interested in international comparisons of labor market institutions and outcomes.

I'm still getting up to speed here, but I'm feeling pretty good about the future.

I love that everyone is basically wandering around Mastodon right now wearing their weirdest hashtags and trying to find their people.

"Are you #Apiarist ?"
"No, sorry, I'm #ArduinoMusic ."

#ArduinoMusic turns around.

"ANYBODY INTO BEES?"

A hand goes up in the back of the crowd.

"NICE."

Dear Everyone:

Multilevel models, random intercept/effects models, hierarchical models, and mixed models are all the same thing. Any differentiation of them is nominalism.

Also, growth models are just special cases of the above. Or a special case of structural equation models, but since all regression methods are special cases of structural equation models, that's not so exciting.

If you disagree, you can try to prove me wrong. But I doubt you can.

Sincerely,
Me

#sociodon

#introduction

I am a sociologist studying gender, work, and family issues. I am currently working on an NSF funded project examining changes in the gendered division of labor in families during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.

Looking to connect with sociologists and other work-family scholars.

I post about research, fatherhood, politics, and sports.