Ellis Crawford @EllisCrawford@qoto.org

Here’s my latest caricature… 🎨 #Saturday #TwitterMigration #Caricature

"A group of #EU policy professionals is trying to coordinate an exit from #Twitter."

"They're moving to #Mastodon."

"One new group hosted on Mastodon servers — dubbed "eupolicy.social" — aims to provide a “friendly and respectful discussion space for people working in the field of EU policy.”"

Hat tip to @Steeph for the link

https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-twitterati-plot-escape-plan-amid-elon-musk-twitter-takeover/

Hello!

After a few days figuring out Mastodon with the help of the folks at QOTO, I will formally introduce myself in order to pin this in my profile :)

My name is Abde and I am a computer scientist. My main domain is #NumericalCalculus and #ParallelComputing. I am currently a PhD student at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (#belgium) and working on porting numerical solvers for simulations on the GPU using #CUDA. You may find my first paper here: https://etna.math.kent.edu/vol.55.2022/pp687-705.dir/pp687-705.pdf

Other research interests are #complexity #computability #graphtheory #geometry #discretemath

I also work as a #VirtualReality developer. My current professional interests are #simulations #numericalcalculus #geometry. We also contribute in several #opensource projects. Most of my work is done in #Unity3D, so feel free to ask any questions!

As a hobby I do some #gamedev and also #musicproduction. I will share some snippets of what I do here, but for now I am focusing in crafting my art by producing #housemusic in #bitwig.

Please enjoy! I am not the most active but I am looking to build my Mastodon network, so feel free to follow and I will follow back :)

#introduction #mastodon #newcomer #developer #music #programming

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/to-fight-misinformation-we-need-to-teach-that-science-is-dynamic/ articles like this express why I'm uncomfortable with much of library led information literacy. It seems to me there isn't enough emphasis on the processes and uncertainty of doing science and a lot more focus on looking out for signals like "peer review", "Predatory journal" without proper nuance

#introduction

I'm an #epidemiologist and Associate Professor at Toronto Metropolitan University researching the prevention of #foodborne, #waterborne, and #zoonotic diseases. My group uses #mixedmethods, #epidemiology and #knowledgesynthesis methods.

Currently on sabbatical learning applied #bayesian stats 🤓📚

#Introduction
I’m a cognitive neuroscientist with interests in visual attention, training, and individual differences. I use #psychophysics, #eeg, and #eyetracking, and I’m starting to work with #radiology and medical images. I’m also into #openscience and #metaresearch.

I’m a senior lecturer at UWE in Bristol, but I live in Wales and am originally from the US. I’m a socialist and intersectional feminist. I love #cats (especially mine) and #baseball (especially the Seattle #Mariners).

Did you know that the first scientist to show that changes in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere could affect the Earth’s temperature was a woman?

In 1856!

Eunice Foote broke scientific ground that remains more relevant than ever but history overlooked her.

https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/pt.6.4.20210823a/full/

#globalwarming #womeninscience #ScienceMastodon

Science Magazine reports on the stampede: "As Musk reshapes Twitter, academics ponder taking flight. Many researchers are setting up profiles on social media site Mastodon."
https://www.science.org/content/article/musk-reshapes-twitter-academics-ponder-taking-flight
https://www.reddit.com/r/Open_Science/comments/yn38bt/science_magazine_reports_on_the_stampede_as_musk/

Ironically (?) the journalists identifies the researchers by their Twitter handle and their Twitter follower count. Revolutions are confusing. 😎

The excitement of first dinner (the wet-food dinner) on a #Caturday afternoon. Soon Stella, who otherwise yields to Merlin in all things, will finish first, move over to push his head out of his bowl, and proceed to wolf down his. Merlin will step back, look a bit wistful, and go off to clean his face... Fortunately, he prefers the dry food dinner!

Some more about me:

-Associate Professor of History
-From NJ
-Author/editor of 5 books
-Working on a book about Black women at Columbia before 1954
-Write poetry (amateur)
-Griever (lost parents 2 weeks apart in 2020)
-Aunt to 2 nieces 1 nephew (3 great nephews, 2 great nieces)
-Youngest of 6

Ok let's take this thing for a spin..

So, I wrote a book chapter recently! Disproportionately excited bc I'm private sector, so publishing anything is not like, a thing for me. Working on that.

Anyway, in it I talk about how to usefully examine climate risk as a decision-maker for a high-impact hazard with big error bars:

🌀 Hurricane 🌀

As a part of this book, with many wicked smart folks: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-08568-0

Conclusions? Read on... 🧵

I'm seeing more memes here. That means this platform is tending towards a stable state.

I read this elsewhere: If trusted news outlets would start offering #Mastodon instances to their staff, that would bring some sort of verification and visibility. Think social.nytimes.com, social.heise.de etc. I'd love to read more from trusted journalists on the #fediverse and this could greatly help. (Again, not my idea but couldn't find the original author.) Boosts for visibility would be great. Reminder: Favorites don't help as on this other platform.

My biggest tip for new fedi users is that when people say there's no recommendation algorithm here, they mean it. You really have to work to find things you enjoy, your timeline's not gonna curate itself. Follow lots of people to grow your network and find new people through their boosted posts. Then feel free to unfollow or even block anything you don't vibe with. This is your online space and you can do whatever you want with it.