Arindam Basu @arinbasu@qoto.org

@DrK

It makes me really happy to hear that. Me and many others here have committed a lot of effort to try to have a community mature enough to talk and not fight, to be respectful and decent without the need for much if any censorship (there is always the occasional bad actor, but its rare).

Myself and im sure my fellow long-time qoto members all appreciate very much hearing that you feel safe and at home here, and most important, you are happy to be here.

@arinbasu @SteveZissou

@arinbasu

I am obviously biased but I think we have hands down one of the best servers on the fediverse. Drama is very rare here and when someone comes who does tend to start it they never last long. Amazing for an instance which doesnt limit the topics we are allowed to talk about and generally encourages free speech (hate speech not being free speech).

Its the first time I've ever seen a social media community actually work and get a long. I love it here.

@SteveZissou

@arinbasu wow, it's <em>true!</em>

A reminder for anyone new to mastodon who might not be happy with some of the racist and bad actors out there on other servers... Just import the fediblock list to your personal blocks and you will be safe from the vast majority of bad actors.

The QOTO server gives you 65535 characters per toot, which makes around 36 standard printing pages

An #introduction to eLife's new Mastodon page!

We're an #OpenAccess not-for-profit journal that publishes and reviews #research in the life and biomedical sciences.

We want to improve the way research is practised and shared in part by working with early-career researchers #ECR and supporting #OpenSource technology.

We also just announced our new publishing model that we hope will tackle an overreliance on journal titles and publishing decisions as quality measures for science and scientists.

#twittermigration #mastodonmigration

To help with finding users to Follow, here are three curated lists:

The Walt List (Walt Shaub’s list of prolific posters — mostly US politics) >>> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1rNfUosPSiMwRbUAbnI3h-7D9grP6ULgS/edit#gid=1301725065

Notable Twitter users on the Fediverse >>> https://fedified.com/

Large list of journalists on Mastodon >>> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13No4yxY-oFrN8PigC2jBWXreFCHWwVRTftwP6HcREtA/htmlview?resourcekey=undefined&pru=AAABhH2W2zA*V1PG7hJSTbifNCcDu40zLA#gid=1320898902

Mastodon Migration User List Link >>> https://medium.com/@mastodonmigration/sharing-advice-and-assisting-with-the-great-mastodon-migration-53c1a286b805#f5af

It’s interesting that the biggest communication challenge facing Mastodon communities is explaining that it’s basically a protocol and a network of independent, interconnected servers, which is what the Web, e-mail, even DNS and most of the fundamental services we use on the internet are, and always were.
It just illustrates just how much ‘Big Tech’ proprietary social media platforms swallowed up and walled off, if it’s now difficult to explain what the internet actually is!

No physician who tries to put someone down for their disability should be held on a pedestal. Thank you to the good people of Pennsylvania.

It’s funny, many of the “what you need to know about Mastodon” or “how to learn about the fediverse” pieces are focused on the technology and the implementation, when the hardest thing for people to understand about this context, if they’re used to traditional social media & tech, is that here we have an expectation of _consent_. Consent if you want to be included in a conversation, consent about being amplified, consent in the form of CWs on topics that you want to manage, etc. That’s it! 🎯

লে অফের আসল কারণ, কোনো শিল্পেই, ব্যবসা বাঁচানো নয়। লিখলেন প্রতীক #twitter #byjus

https://nagorik.net/opinion/rethinkin-layoffs-amid-darkness-of-twitter-byjus/

New #preprint from our lab:

kegg_pull: a Software Package for the RESTful Access and Pulling from The Kyoto Encyclopedia of Gene and Genomes

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.11.03.515120v1.full

Staff scientist Eric Huckvale's first project has been to write a new #python 📦 to query KEGG's REST API (prelude to other work we want to do w/ KEGG data).

Other stuff we found didn't provide the options we wanted, so you all get to benefit too!

#bioinformatics #metabolomics

One really big tip: the search bar on your Mastodon dashboard can be used to pull in remote things. People do this for two use-cases:

You can copy and paste any URL to a post on the fediverse, and throw it into your search bar. Your server will pull it in and focus on it, so that you can interact with it.
Every user has what is called a “handle”, which looks a bit like an email address. The format is user@domain.tld. In my case, my handle is sean@social.deadsuperhero.com. Every profile has this thing on it - you can throw that into your search bar, and it will pull up my profile. It’s a very easy way to follow people. In the few edge cases where it fails to load, you can pull in a post instead, then click on their avatar to load the profile manually.