Britt DK Gratreak 🖖 @Britt@qoto.org

Like ninety percent of the #introduction posts I read I’m like “ This person is a huge nerd.” Which I mean in the best, most loving, most complimentary way. My people 😍

When I first signed up at mastodon I had no idea what the different instances were, how I would choose one over another or what difference any of it made. When you signed up, which is closest to your experience of choosing a server/instance to use?

Very quick intro before I have the spoons for a longer one! I’m part of the #Twittermigration and doing my best to learn about and respect the culture/etiquette here. I promise I’m not *all* doom and gloom, but I do use SM primarily for connecting with others in the Covid cautious community. I will put a CW on nearly all of my posts, but not sure how to approach reblogs. (Let me know if there’s a good way to be respectful about this.) I’d absolutely love to make new friends here, but please don’t follow me if you don’t ever want to see anything “serious.” 🧡✌🏼🧡

Are you attending Society for #neuroscience next week?

Come to SFN Banter!

A whole bar with open air space has been reserved by ✨two great trainees✨ who singlehandedly corralled the financial support 💰💰 of many great scientific vendors.

#sfnbanter22 will be at Sidebar (536 Market Street) on Monday 11/14 during #SfN2022 starting at 9pm!

Now more than ever, we got a lot to Banter about!
🧠 moving to Mastodon
🧠 staying on Twits
🧠 starting our own social media site MarbleBurying dot com

#introduction
Hi all,
I am an assistant professor in #neuroscience at Georgetown University. My lab studies the cells and circuits that degenerate in Parkinson's Disease.
Check out our #SfN2022 posters in the Saturday Basal Ganglia session (session #55)

I want to echo what other Mastodon admins are saying: please report any harassment or violative messages you're seeing. Unlike the birdsite, your local admin will likely react quickly -- and you'll make the instance better for everyone, not just yourself.

So... please don't just ignore! Let us know if there's a problem.

⚠️ Daily reminder to have a scroll through #introduction and spend some time welcoming our new community members.

Social media is just that - social. They’ve made the first move by putting themselves out there. So I challenge everyone to take a moment to say hi or follow. You might just make someone’s day 🤗

New paper in Nature Comms suggests that targeting soluble p-tau may be more effective during early stages of #Alzheimers disease rather than clearing #tau tangles present later in #dementia. This is because early cognitive decline most associated with CSF soluble p-tau.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-34129-4

Solubility seems to be the topic of the month. Boosting soluble beta-amyloid has been suggested as one of the reasons why #lecanemab might have worked where other #amyloid agents had failed.

Thinking fondly of a Twitter friend who was told by a colleague that she wasn’t a serious academic bc she wore mascara on her lower lashes. Mascara usage does not define one’s academic integrity — as if I had to say it. It’s also the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard.

With the #neurosciencemigration gaining momentum, I'm curious how everyone joining from Twitter is thinking about using the two platforms in the near future?

Twitter was really useful for finding people to write about. I’d often stumble across incredible stories of discovery, innovation and leadership. I hope #ScienceMastodon can be the same. If you come across extraordinary, inspirational #WomenInSTEM / researchers from other historically excluded groups, please let me know! #TwitterMigration

I’m quite impressed by (a) how helpful existing users of Mastodon have been for all of us noobs trying to learn a new system, and (b) by the deep and widely-held sense of a Fediverse culture (the fact that there’s a “we” that uses content warnings more liberally, alt text more frequently, etc) - it’s complete with a sense of place, ethics, identity. It’s fascinating, and makes me glad to have had the good fortune to stumble into it.

Next step: Have our universities setup their own Mastodon instances for their researchers. Mastodon is free software but someone will have to pay the bill for the servers.

Hey all, giving this a try! I'm a recently minted cognitive psychology PhD looking to get into data science. My academic interests are broad, but most prominently include categorization, recognition, and formal modelling of mental processes. I learn languages for fun, and probably play too much D&D in my spare time. Don't be a stranger! #intro #newtooter