Arindam Basu @arinbasu@qoto.org
- Orcid Profile
- https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2326-2292
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- https://pixelfed.social/i/web/profile/424715601356972526
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Professor, Epidemiologist. Doctor (ENT specialist). Professor of Epidemiology and Environmental Health at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand.
Interests: lego MOCs, wood carving, mountain biking, tramping.
Joined Apr 2022
Qoto.org specific post for journal clubs
##How to set up a journal club in qoto.org
* If you set up a home in qoto.oorg, you will see on the right hand bar an item named 'Circles'.
* You can add your 'follower' handles in the *circle*
* This becomes your private **group** within Mastodon client where you can share links, images, status updates.
Anything you post to the circle will stay within the circle. Suppose you want to set up a journal club and circulate the full text of the paper there. Then set up the themed and focused discussion within that circle.
Want to give it a try?
#academic #discussion #journal
## Why Mastodon or indeed any client on #fediverse wins
* Imagine being able to follow your friend's Facebook account from your twitter client and read all posts. You cannot do on twitter but you can do something similar on Mastodon.
* So get accounts on other servers such as #pixelfed instances which is federated Instagram, and you can see and share here, that is, you will not _need_ to visit that site to view the posts
* Get an account on a #peertube instance, and you can use it as YouTube
*#Funkwhale is your Spotify replacement free, open, federates everywhere.
... And you can start anywhere, set up an account anywhere and pull in content from everywhere.
You can do likewise for 'pushing' content everywhere and interact with everyone.
Magic, right?
This is what #web was meant to be, no walled gardens.
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Join the #EduTooter list via Google Forms. Add yourself to https://tinyurl.com/joinedutooters and then add people who fill out the form you want to follow to your Mastodon account. #TwitterMigration #EduTooter #Education #EdTech #Librarians #Teachers #HigherEducation #Professor #GoogleEdu
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@abbie yeah of course, please feel free! I also have my intro slides with the networking rules in them here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/jov2yxnhikhlzeh/Pizza%20intro.pptx?dl=0
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🌌 New themed servers in #Fedi network (3/3):
• https://techspace.social - for techies and tech-curious people
• https://techhub.social - for passionate technologists
• https://k8s.social - for #Kubernetes, container and #cloud native enthusiasts
• https://urbanists.social - for people who like #bikes, transit, and walkable #cities
• https://bikejam.social - for bike and pedestrian #infrastructure
• https://bahn.social - for #rail enthusiasts
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The tools people are using to find the Mastodon/Fediverse handles of their Twitter friends.
The first two are similar, they search for Mastodon handles in profiles (with false positives). The third one lets you specify an account, encouraging repeat visits to see if friends have added theirs.
1. Debirdifier
https://pruvisto.org/debirdify/
2. Fedifinder
https://fedifinder.glitch.me
3. Twitodon
https://twitodon.com
Use at own risk (data scraping possible). Revoke access after use.
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Time for an #Introduction! I'm a Professor of Psychology at NDSU. I'm broadly interested in #VisionScience, esp. #FaceRecognition and #Texture. I'm very interested in #STEMEd and science outreach, esp. hands-on demos and observation.
I tend to post about cool research, Indie #Comics, #Chess, #VisualArt and #Illusions. Always happy to talk about any of these topics and excited to meet folks here!
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Somebody help me make/connect a blog to my website and I’ll post the literal dozens of lists of academic job interview questions I have (because of course I took notes and made lists) and some various #AltAc advice I’ve been collecting. I’m feeling like doing light work today
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Researchers in digital technologies, law, policy and society in the Fediverse/Mastodon, fill in the form to add your handle to the spreadsheet, and consult the results to see if there are people you'd like to follow! (Inspired by @konrad's effort to gather historians)
Form: https://forms.office.com/r/mPLptbqccP
(I tried to host the form on my NextCloud server in federated spirit, but forms there don't support sharing results live yet).
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It's Friday and version 1.2 of "The many branches of the Fediverse" is published. Thanks everyone for your interest and engagement.
There is a changelog at the bottom of the post with more info, and you are welcome to download hi-res PNG and PDF versions of the diagram.
Do feel free to use this visual in any way you like, in your presentations, publish in your own spaces, etceteras. I'm just glad if you find it useful.
If you want to see the image, expand
Several years ago, I wrote this piece titled, "A complete Sloth’s Guide to Mastodon, Part I: get your feet wet"
https://medium.com/@arinbasu/a-complete-sloths-guide-to-mastodon-9cda44e1f288
Mastodon has advanced a lot since then, but the basic principles are still pretty much the same.
You may find it useful.
(This was the old Mastodon, :-) )
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KEEP IN MIND! #Mastodon doesn't work like #Twitter!
Have you just made the #Twexit or the #TwitterMigration?
Favorites ⭐ - they're not "likes". They don't "elevate" posts, they just the poster know you liked their post.
Boosts 🔁 - these push someone's post into your friends feeds (and help discovery).
So if you ⭐ my posts, that's great (and I love you too)!
But if you 🔁 posts, then more people see them!
OH! - #Hashtags are how you search!
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Hey all,
First time finding out about the fediverse and the multitude of associated spaces! Thanks for having me, looking forward to finding out how to use this properly, and then hopefully convince others to leave the antisocial networks when I've got a better grasp on it!
#introduction
First time finding out about the fediverse and the multitude of associated spaces! Thanks for having me, looking forward to finding out how to use this properly, and then hopefully convince others to leave the antisocial networks when I've got a better grasp on it!
#introduction
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I'm writing an article about this glorious, weird weekend on Mastodon during the nascent Twitter exodus.
My theory is that Mastodon's shortcomings are the very reason it's working. We're having to help each other find our way. No one is boss, and the kinda crappy experience brings us all to the same level as co-newbies (not to belittle those who have been on Mastodon for years).
Are you feeling the same? I'd love to hear your opinions. #NZTwits #twittermigration #introduction #mastodon
Excellent summary from @jeffjarvis
https://buzzmachine.com/2022/11/05/hope-for-a-post-musk-net/
A good summary focused mostly on #mastodon. Good to see popular academics and thought leaders across the #fediverse. Post-twitter world.
#TIL, For those in #stem or #research or #academia, https://qoto.org is the best option for finding an anchor in the #fediverse; @freemo has created an ecosystem where one can maintain codes, talk about work and life, and discuss -- a library and a water cooler all in one place.
Just amazing.
And instead of 500 characters, you can post stuff over 65K characters, plus add images and in markdown.
This is good, crazy good if you ask me!
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@arinbasu yes exactly and that is what the intent was, to create an ecosystem of free, opensource (and ideally federated) apps that can work together to enable STEM professionals to collaborate on open projects.
gitlab acts as a source repository
funkwhale acts as a way to do podcasts
peertube is a replacement for youtube for posting videos and media
discourse acts as mailing lists for projects (I can setup sub forums for any specialized projects)
Stuff like that. Where possible i tried to use projects based on ActivityPub so they are on the fediverse. For example you can follow a peertube account from your main QOTO account here. That way when someone posts a video on the peertube account it will show as a post here in your home timeline. So everything (where possible) all talks to eachother.
@freemo
can you please explain a little more how we can write in \(LaTex\) here in qoto.org? Can we write greek characters and they will show up?
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📣 For fellow Mastodon rookies - I understand that ‘favouriting’ things doesn’t amplify them to your followers in the way that ‘liking’ would have on Twitter
So if you want to share something, you need to ‘boost’ it
Trying to get my head round a different threshold for sharing things on here!
- Orcid Profile
- https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2326-2292
- Images (pixelfed)
- https://pixelfed.social/i/web/profile/424715601356972526
- Join me in Matrix Chat
- https://matrix.to/#/@arinbasu:qoto.org
Professor, Epidemiologist. Doctor (ENT specialist). Professor of Epidemiology and Environmental Health at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand.
Interests: lego MOCs, wood carving, mountain biking, tramping.
Joined Apr 2022
