Ellis Crawford @EllisCrawford@qoto.org

#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.

For those that don't know me, hi! I'm Rachel and I'm a science teacher, specialising in Chemistry 🧪 I recently got married to my favourite person and gained myself a second surname ❤️

Prior to teaching I worked in Sales of portable Chemical, Biological and Radiation detection/identification equipment ☢️⚗️☣️🧫

I studied Chemistry at the University of Sussex, and I graduated from my PhD in Synthetic Organic/Medicinal Chemistry (Uni. Southampton) in 2019 👩‍🔬

I love all things science, animals and nature, and can usually be found in the evenings cuddling my cats, snake or gecko (whilst most probably watching the US Office repeatedly 😂) 🐈‍⬛🐈🦎🐍🍁🍂🌳

Today I learned something about boustrophedon, a way of writing that alternates in the direction of writing line by line. It was a common way of writing in ancient Greece. Not only was the direction of writing flexible in early epigraphic use, the alignment of the individual letters was not yet universally defined. The town charter of Gortys - one of the oldest European statutes - is bustrophedic carved on the wall of the Odeion in the ancient city of Gortys in Crete.

Hello #scicomm people!

I’m a medicinal chemist at the Institute of Cancer Research in London, so my day job is designing and making new chemicals with the hope of coming up with new medicines to treat cancer patients. I also teach in this topic at UCL.

I work as part of teams with scientists across disciplines, so looking forward to meeting a broad range of people on here!

#introduction #chemistry #medchem #drugdiscovery #cancer

Ok, #TwitterMigration folks, I see a lot of people asking, "How do I find people on other servers on #Mastodon or the #fediverse.

Well, here's my #Feditip of how I went from 1 person alone on robot.rodeo to having almost 2,000 interesting people to follow in about 8 months...

A thread... 1/x

finally, another platform to post tuna pictures

Good morning! Time for a proper #introduction.
I'm Anne. I'm a #geoscience professor who studies #hydrology and #geomorphology, especially how cities & #climatechange alter the way #water and #sediment moves. I care a lot about #mentoring students & #ECR, #publicengagement, #scicomm, and #JEDI.

I'm also a mom to 3, dog lover, & hiker. And I take often selfies in front of water. This is not a selfie though.

#Mastodon #feditips

Flowchart describing the visibility of a public toot per use case.

#Violet is elite level when it comes to cozy.

Hello, @Mastodon 👋 A quick #intro

I'm a #science and #technology journalist and an editor at MIT Technology Review, where I commission articles from writers, journalists, and experts. I covered #chips for a few years and have a special interest, in #physics, #materials, #space, and the intersection of technology and society.

Among other things, you'll see me post about our print magazine every couple of months. The latest issue just came out https://www.technologyreview.com/magazines/the-mortality-issue/