apinae @apinae@qoto.org

Mastodon habits I'm trying to lock in, rather than revert to my Twitter habits:

1) use CWs liberally
2) when threading, set first post to "public" and the rest to "not listed"
3) don't forget the description text when posting images (had to work on that in Twitter too)
4) throw in hashtags like it was Tumblr or Instagram when you want to reach beyond your followers
5) pin and visit hashtags to find more people
6) boost a lot

Just FYI, with the number of followers I have, compared with the huge influx of new users, my feed is EXTREMELY busy.

I am trying very hard to answer every single one of you who message me to chat or ask questions, and please, keep it coming because I love hearing from everyone. But with how fast my feed moves sometimes a few messages slip past me without me seeing or responding.

Please everyone, if I dont respond to you please feel free to give me a gentle reminder and I will, it isnt intention, just hard to keep track of nearly 30K followers.

RT @CORDIS_EU: #Endometriosis ♀️: it currently takes a staggering 9 years to diagnose it 😳 – a real obstacle course.

Hopefully, a novel #diagnostic solution could enable early detection, using a non-invasive procedure, improving endometriosis management:

➡️ https://cordis.europa.eu/article/id/435613-faster-easier-diagnoses-for-endometriosis-sufferers?pk_campaign=tw

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/CORDIS_EU/status/1511705034366533637

@Caitlin_Stewart 2017, cancer driver mutations in deep infiltrating endometriosis (which is benign) https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa1614814

2018, clonal expansion of mutations in ovarian lesions https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211124718311276

2021 paper on both stromal and epithelial mutations https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/path.5778

2022 paper on shared mutations across lesions https://www.fertstert.org/article/S0015-0282(22)00339-9/fulltext

As someone with Stage 4 cancer, I was really struck by this quote at the beginning of Mukherjee's "The Emperor of All Maladies:"

"Illness is the night-side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use only the good passport, sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place." -- Susan Sontag

@apinae We do accept donations, but I have donated more than enough with well over 10,000$ in our bank account from my own pocket. So we have enough money to operate for years right now.

If you really want to give back thinking of non-financial ways (even just been a contributing member of the community) helps far more than money.

I was not very mindful in setting up and growing a presence on Mastodon - looking to find a way to better understand the culture that was present before me and participate in it, versus colonizing it.

Important reading: https://www.hughrundle.net/home-invasion/

@freemo A timeline

National Association of Science Writer's Diversity Reporting Grant provides up to $1,500 to pursue a science, environment, or health-related story that elevates the perspectives of marginalized communities. The grants are open to *ANY* freelance reporter.

Deadline: 11:59 p.m. (eastern) on November 15.

More info here: https://www.nasw.org/2022DiversityReportingGrants

#scicomm #ScienceWriting #ScienceJournalism #Journalism

@layeredstrange There are also Peertube instances in the Fediverse for those who do not want to give traffic to commercial video hosting sites. peertube.fediverse.observer/

This is probably obvious to many, but one way I've been building my feed in the #fediverse outside of my #instance is specifically exploring other instances that are thematically interesting; for the most part, if you go to [instance name]/explore you can browse an instance similarly to how #local works.