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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.

Hello, #histodons! Welcome to my attempt at an #introduction...

I'm an #18c specialist, focusing on the history of the senses, history of color, and the history of France.

I love anything quirky, scandalous, unexpected, or over the top.

Since leaving academia, I've branched out with my writing interests, and I have a book on #bluejeans coming out in January.

I'm also a #ghostwriter. At the moment, I #amreading anything written by Flaubert.

Just a reminder about Mastodon.

Try not to directly upload videos here.
You have to remember that these videos have to be stored on the server that you're hosted on.

This would also eat up on available bandwidth, storage and memory resources of said servers and slow them down. Which would force server hosts to upgrade at a substantial cost.

Suggested idea...

Upload to YouTube, Vimeo or other video streaming services and share the link to the video here instead.

Some Mastodon thoughts, for bird-site expats (which include myself). I'm aggregating these from posts I've boosted before, so little of this is my own brain.

- There's no algorithm here. That means favoriting/liking doesn't do anything except communicate approval to the OP and others (which is still nice!).

- No algorithm means boosting ("retweeting") is the true method to increase a post's visibility. Do that more than you did on birdsite.

- There's no post-quoting here, and that's by design. Look at quote-tweets on the birdsite; it's a feature primarily used for toxicity.

- There's no direct word-search here either; that means you want to use hashtags to make posts more searchable. This is also intended, since word-searching posts was often used to harass/stalk on the birdsite and elsewhere, so that was left by the wayside here. This also means hashtags are much more a thing here than any of the algorithm-powered sites.

- It's encouraged to put in text descriptions when you post images; a lot of Mastodon users use screen-readers due to various disabilities, and getting an image description read out loud helps them immensely.

- Speaking of screen-readers: using capitalization in your hashtags allows the screen-readers to read them more easily, especially if you're smashing multiple words together. #rockmusic = unreadable. #RockMusic = readable.

- The best way to make threads is to make set your first post as public, but "unlist" all of your replies. This prevents your whole thread from clogging up feeds.

- Content Warnings should be used more liberally here. If you haven't gotten the impression yet, much of Mastodon was built and populated by marginalized groups who were harassed/bullied off of other platforms. This is the culture they built, to respect each other's mental health. It's not a rule, but it's well-appreciated.

- Consider chipping a few bucks towards whomever runs the server you're on; the strain is real, and most server admins were likely paying out of pocket before so don't have an existing donation base. The growth here has been extremely fast, and that means money's needed.

- DMs are just posts with privacy settings. So if you @ someone in a DM, you pull them into the thread. That could be embarrassing.

- Also, no, DMs aren't end-to-end encrypted, but they aren't on Twitter either. Don't use either if you want true privacy.

- Including your Mastodon handle in your birdsite profile will help people find you here; there's a tool (pruvisto.org/debirdify/ is one of them that's used) people can use to pull Mastodon handles from Twitter profile.

- Use the blocking and reporting features liberally, if needed. This should go without saying, but they work, and work well!

- If there's an entire Mastodon server you don't want to hear from, you can block the whole thing too.

- Preferences -> Appearance -> "Slow Mode": this can make larger "Local" feeds and any "Federated" feed much more readable.

I'll reply with some more as I see them, or reply here too. I've only been here 4 days but I'm loving it so far.

I’m seeing long-time Mastodon folks asking people to please PLEASE use CW on posts about political topics and then I’m seeing almost no one actually do that. It’s so important to keep up with the culture of this space that was established long before many of us got here. Just use the CW!!

Not one but THREE timelines to watch on here, ya gotta love it man!!! 🤓🙌

#Twexit #MastodonN00bs

Fine tune your content and target and carefully carve your threads for presenting your work online.

It takes time and committment to build and maintain an online professional reputation, no matter which is the platform you chose.
This is a possible way to transform the internet towards what was stated in the Berlin Declaration: a functional medium for distributing knowledge (3/3)🟨

Real life interactions, among the other things, are a way to filter out scientific outputs, in order to avoid unnecessary reading and discover fresh, original ones. Tracing the impact of these interactions was possible only via citations, losing the trace of what brought authors to that mention.

DOIs and article level metrics are a way to quantitatively reconstruct a complete trace of impact. This applies to every published output! (2/3)

Social media could be thought as tools for disrupting prestige, position and geography based barriers for scientific conversations.

A few weeks ago, right before the mastodon wave, I summarized my takes on this in a tutorial for About Open on how to unleash the power of online tools for professional purposes in an open science environment.

Throughout the text I stressed the concept that every attempt to disseminate scientific outputs online is, above all, a scientific communication task. (1/3) 🧵
#openaccess #scicomm #altmetrics

I am looking for two PhD students. Two very diverse PhDs, but both in the same project on inflammatory bowel disease.

The first will focus on real-world data, artificial intelligence and FAIR data infrastructure --> https://www.academictransfer.com/en/319737/phd-in-data-science-focusing-on-federated-learning-applied-to-healthcare-at-the-clinical-data-science-group/

The second will focus on both qualitative and quantitative research on clinical implementation of AI, clinical decision support or decision aids --> https://www.academictransfer.com/en/319734/phd-candidate-on-real-world-data-focusing-on-the-bridge-between-technology-and-medicine/

#AI #IBD #healthcare #FAIR #artificialintelligence #vacancy #PhD

You know about #OpenScience, but how about #OpenEducation? And what *is* #OpenEducation?
Last week the #SpecialInterestGroup s at #UniUtrecht joined forces to talk about the role of #OpenEducation in #CommunityEngagedLearning, #Interdisciplinarity, #Co-creation, #ChallengeBasedLearning, and #Sustainability in education

Here's my #introductions hashtags

#Philippines
#Physics
#Chronobiology
#ScientificCulture
#Environment
#FoodSecurity
#NationalIndustrialization
#PublicUtilities
#MassLine

TIP OF THE DAY

If your instance server is having a hard time right now, don't freak out.

You do not need to change servers. Mastodon is getting a huge influx of new users and they are all working tirelessly to add capacity. If you are otherwise happy with your instance, trust that they will get things working smoothly. Give them some time to sort things out.

We're all in this together. It's our social network. Be patient. What we are building is amazing.

#mastodonmigration #twittermigration

In Europe, October 2022 was by far the warmest ever recorded, beating the previous record by over 0.5⁰C!
https://climate.copernicus.eu/surface-air-temperature-october-2022

See link for nice curated lists of academics on Mastodon, with subjects ranging from Astrophysics to History to Law to Medieval History to Neuroscience.

Thank you to @hendrikerz and @perspektivbrocken for maintaining it.

https://github.com/nathanlesage/academics-on-mastodon

Are you an #earlyCareerAcademic looking for the next step in your career? Why not join us in Bergen, Norway as a tenure-track associate professor in #visualization or #visualDataScience with promotion to full professor after successful evaluation? I have the same position, so let me know if you have any questions!

Applications are due by the end of the month! #academicJob #facultyPosition #academicJobs #ResearchJobs
Learn more here: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/229271/tenure-track-associate-professor-in-informatics-visualization-visual-data-science