Chloe Girard, PhD @Chl0e_Girard@qoto.org

Another design consideration re: Mastodon is that it works well for ephemeral asynchronous communications, but for many reasons should not be counted on as an archival resource. Media attachments are periodically purged and may not be available after a week, or a month, etc. While some servers may try to preserve content forever, this may be costly and unsustainable. Creators, researchers should treat this as an ephemeral resource and make provisions for self-archiving anything important.

When I wrote this piece about the #twittermigration of #sciencetwitter last week, #Mastodon had gained 100,000 users since Musk’s purchase of Twitter.
When I updated it a few days ago, it was half a million.
Now, @Gargron just announced that there are 1 million more users.
The speed and scale of this is remarkable and I know that countless people worked hard to manage it. Thank you!

https://www.science.org/content/article/musk-reshapes-twitter-academics-ponder-taking-flight

We are looking for Group Leader (and Senior Group Leader) applicants for the 4DCP research area at Janelia Research Campus. For the GL positions, late-stage PhD students will also be considered. This is a great opportunity - I can answer questions here (or email me). Apply by November 22nd. More information is here: https://4dcpjanelia.org/

Lately, when a grad student tells me their lab environment is toxic or unsafe and they need to leave, most of the time it’s not because the advisor was directly aggressive to the student. It’s the advisor failing to properly deal with exclusionary behavior committed by others in the lab.

That leadership failure indicates to the student that they are not wanted and the lab environment is unsafe. In many cases the faculty mentor prides themself on being an ally.
#mentorship