Christian Wilms @ChrisWilms23@qoto.org
Learning skiff sailor, former cell watcher, endless dinghy builder, dabbling woodworker, budding star gazer.
Joined Nov 2022
@charlottekl @Polypompholyx Utilising the sunlight for heating in winter but keeping it out in summer is surprisingly straightforward as well. Either by shading the higher standing sun (low tech) or by coating the windows to reflect the IR light at certain angles (higher tech, but I first saw this in windows installed in 1981).
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@jesswade I cannot look at the "now" picture without thinking "Purkinje Cell". 🫢
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A reminder of why we are trying to make a new and improved science community here on Mastodon.
Generally that may be true in some countries (Germany for example differs there), but the president of the USA swears an oath to "preserve, protect, and defend" the constitution. Breaking that oath would be perjury, no?
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"We're living through a cost of lying crisis"
From the current Private Eye
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a 2-gram 3-photon microscope! featuring tiny little silicon photomultipliers, and syncing photon counting to the room light flicker
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A postdoc position is available with Kazoo Kitamura at the University of Yamanashi in Japan. I can 100% say that it would be great to work with Kazuo, he would be a great postdoc advisor.
http://nphys-lab.yamanashi.ac.jp/hiring/
@giorgiogilestro @MatteoCarandini Another point to consider is that the underlying (design)philosophy of Mastodon is different. "Increasing visibility" does not appear to be a core aim. Twitter et al. need it as a central part of their business model, as it is the best way to draw people in. Mastodon isn't a business and doesn't have that need.
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This seems like a step improvement in 2-photon microscopy
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.11.06.515343v1
Spencer has a nice thread on it on Twitter (I don't think he's on Mastodon yet?): https://mobile.twitter.com/Labrigger/status/1589471340356333568
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Okay this might be a long post 
One thing that I realised is making #twittermigration harder for people to switch is because the whole concept can feel daunting & overwhelming for non-tech savvy people.
With Twitter to them it was straight forward and easy to find topics they enjoy but with mastodon its a bit different.
So if you’re new to mastodon or you want to introduce someone to mastodon here are some tips, useful sites & tools:
Tips:
- Choosing a home instance isn’t as importance as it seems, don’t overthink it. Yes moderation rules & policies may differ but they all have one thing in common: Be a decent human. You always have the option to migrate your account to a new instance.
- Toots (or posts if you think toots are cringe
) are what we call micro-blogging instead of tweets - You’re supposed to “boost” AKA “reblog” toots that you like.Since Mastodon does not have an algorithm that surfaces toots that have been liked a lot, boosting is the best way to help spread stuff that you like, and to show appreciation. (credit to @orsvarn for this comment)
- Another way to fill your timeline with content you enjoy is to: Find other people with similar interests, follow them, favourite their posts, boost their posts, use hashtags. rinse, repeat. (credit to @garry)
- If you ever feel yourself getting sucked into arguments on the #Fediverse, you might want to take advantage of the instance mute/block feature!
Instances tend to foster a culture, so if you find people from a specific site tend to be bothering you, muting/blocking that instance will keep other members of that community from bothering you as well. - Finally do not share private/sensitive information via DMs on Mastodon. Direct Messages are not E2E. Keep it in mind
Useful tools & resources:
Twitodon - Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon
FediFinder- Similar to Twitodon
Fedi Tips - an informal, unofficial guide for non-technical people who want to use Mastodon and the wider Fediverse
Fedi Directory - A human-curated small selection of accounts to spice up your timeline.
Trunk -Trunk allows you to mass-follow a bunch of people in order to get started with Mastodon or any other platform on the Fediverse
Fediverse.info -growing list of people and topics can help you discover mutual interests with people around the world
Mobile Apps:
Metatext for iOS 
Tusky for Android 
Lastly if you are interested in setting up your own instance you can learn via https://learnfoss.org/ its completely free and its made by the wonderful @stux
I apologize for the long post lol, just hope this helps anyones transition over 
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A brief thread on what will probably become the first pinch point as Mastodon grows and more "important people" start to use it. It won't be harassment (though there will be that too).
Rather, it will be authentication. But there are ways to solve this problem that are true to the Fediverse spirit. /1
@clathrin There is not substitute ;-)
@clathrin Helvetica or Arial?
Learning skiff sailor, former cell watcher, endless dinghy builder, dabbling woodworker, budding star gazer.
Joined Nov 2022
