apinae @apinae@qoto.org

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Let’s try this again. Where you at #fediverse? Boosts welcome so we can get the best sample size.

Fun Mastodon accounts to follow

https://www.howtogeek.com/847422/new-to-mastodon-here-are-10-fun-accounts-to-follow/

Hi hello #introduction time

I'm Ian, an #environmental scientist based in #Minneapolis, #Minnesota, USA! They/them please, he/him is fine if we're close. I have a Master's in #geoscience from UW-Madison and I currently work in environmental consulting. I've written a thesis that will never be published and I will never go into academia, but I love #geomorphology and soil chemistry, and I've dabbled in archaeology and wetland reclamation.

Here you can expect pictures of my cat, griping about water quality and pollution, adventures in home cooking, Dungeons & Dragons spitballing, MN leftist politics, and lukewarm takes on video games. I was the first in my family to get an M.S., I make a mean chana masala, and at least one friend has referred to me as a he/him lesbian. I've crocheted a couple of dice bags and it made my hands hurt.

I don't intend to use this website as a professional place--but feel free to follow if we share interests. Love and solidarity always.

#ttrpg #dnd #geology #duluth #minneapolis #minnesota #madison #homecooking #cats #soilscience #nonbinary

📣Call for Applicants:
Research Officer/Postdoctoral Fellow with Feast New Zealand
Prof Joanne Hort has a 3-year research position open for application in association with an industry partner in Combining implicit and explicit measures of emotional response to better predict food choice. Closing date: 8th December 2022. Please contact j.hort@massey.ac.nz who is happy to discuss the position with you before you apply.

https://lnkd.in/e7vuQGBp
#neuroscience
#postdoc #jobs #jobsearch
#psychology

On Friday at 9am Sydney time (Thursday night or evening for people in Europe and the US), I am going to present my research on "Network inference via process motifs in linear stochastic processes" in the SNAC seminar (where SNAC stands for #Systems #Neuroscience and #Complexity).

You can join the seminar here: https://www.world-wide.org/seminar/8859/ #selfpromotion

Having been here since 2016, I can tell you there is definitely no such thing as a consensus on usage of content warnings on the fediverse. It's a decentralized network that doesn't belong to any one party, so by definition there is no single culture on it. Different corners have different expectations and customs.

@tinker I feel like watching the local feed is like walking a convention floor and bumping into cool people doing neat things

Decided to look at network stats again. There are 1M more people using #Mastodon today than there were on October 27.

TIP! If you don't want to see something on your #timeline, you can click #settings on the web app, then #Filters and Add new filter.
Enter the Keyword, where you want to filter it from and ADD NEW FILTER.
Hey presto, gone!
For instance, I was annoyed at seeing so many #Tweets copied on my timeline so I added a #filter for '@ RT'. Now I don't see those cross platform tweets in #toots but I can still see other content from that account!
Thanks to @steveumstead for showing me! #MastodonTips

By way of #introduction, I am professor of #DigitalHumanities at the University of #Lausanne (#UNIL), #Switzerland.

I studied #ComputationalLinguistics and did a PhD in #ComputerScience on #ELearning. But these days my main research interest is #theory, #methodology and #epistemology of digital humanities.

Current research project (funded by @snsf_ch): Towards Computational Historiographical Modeling: Corpora and Concepts (http://dynalabs.de/mxp/research/2021-snsf)

Germany has just announced that it will withdraw from the Energy Charter Treaty! This is huge! 🥳
#ExitECT

Has anyone read #TheClimateBook from @gretathunberg yet? Opinions?
#ClimateChange #ClimateJustice

"Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations ... beauty, growth, progress – all result from the union of the unlike. Concord, as much as discord, requires the presence of at least two different notes. The brotherhood of man is an ideal based on learning to delight in our essential differences, as well as learning to recognize our similarities." –Gene Roddenberry, Inside Star Trek, 1968

blocking and muting people who make you feel bad — no matter if malice is involved — is self care!

I thought I’d start out here with how I arrived. But first, I want to thank @freemo for hosting this instance. I was not really looking to exit the twit as I had trimmed my follows down to some very useful feeds. But, once I noticed Mastodon due the mass exodus in the last weeks, it intrigued me. It sounded like a cross between bbs and the Well; all of which I enjoyed in the past. Once I understood I needed to find an instance, the hunt was on. After looking at many instances, uptimes, user numbers and reading many admins dispositions towards free speech in their instance, I settled on qoto.org. I was happy to see @freemo’s statement on free speech coupled with “but don’t be racist, sexist, hateful, and don’t harass people”. At the same time encouraging users to be adults and block what they don’t want in their feeds and providing directions to block lists for the more sensitive amongst us. Hit all the right buttons for me. I’m looking forward to learning about Mastodon and meeting new people. Oh yeah, and I like the character limits too!

Musk claiming that a lot more people are engaging on Twitter is like me claiming that a lot more people are stopping by to look at my new house after I set it on fire.