Andrew Kennard @askennard@qoto.org

@AnhHLe2702 Ironically, it appears we’re slow at migrating!

Where are my #cytoskeleton, #cellmigration, #actin folks on Mastodon? 😭 So far I only see the bioinformatics and neuroscience folks on here.

I had to put some #Ichthyosporea movies here !

Hello everyone !

(A mastodon-only thread)

1. I just finished reading a delightful Journal of Political Economy paper by Ely, Frankel, and Kamenica about how people enjoy the revelation of information for its own sake.

Either way you learn who wins in the end, but a blowout baseball game is boring whereas the first game of the 2022 World Series was exciting and then some.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/677350

The Fediverse will change now. I think the days of all the Extremely On Here folks being at least vaguely aware of each others’ existence have come to an end.

One thing that must not change is that this space centers trans people. Disabled people. Neurodivergent people.

Say it with me: there will be no Eternal September here. The newcomers, as participants in the culture, will have a say in how the culture evolves moving forward. But on this point, they must adjust to our existing norms.

Not so sure about Qoto's open door policy. I've barely been on here and my replies already have some pretty vile hate speech.

Are there mechanisms for people to share block lists on Mastodon?

Is there an automated way to hold instance operators accountable for behavior on their server? E.g. boot this person or have your whole instance blocked?

Some more about me:

-Associate Professor of History
-From NJ
-Author/editor of 5 books
-Working on a book about Black women at Columbia before 1954
-Write poetry (amateur)
-Griever (lost parents 2 weeks apart in 2020)
-Aunt to 2 nieces 1 nephew (3 great nephews, 2 great nieces)
-Youngest of 6

Great piece by @ct_bergstrom et al on combatting misinformation by teaching the public how the process of science works. That it’s not a set of facts, but a dynamic process that orbits the truth, getting closer and closer. Any one paper or group might be wrong, but if many people across time and institutions, consistently see the same thing, it’s probably right.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/to-fight-misinformation-we-need-to-teach-that-science-is-dynamic/

Okay, using Mastodon's "advanced web interface" is giving me serious TweetDeck vibes. A very good thing.

Did you know that Wales is home to the most castles per square mile of any country in Europe?

Here’s another! Welcome to Llansteffan Castle. 👍

#landscape #landscapephotography #seascape #history #historical #castle #ruins #architecture #autumn #fall #wales #southwales #uk #britain #nature #travel #geology

@AnnFinkbeiner tricked me into producing bullets for her - https://www.lastwordonnothing.com/2022/11/02/conversation-with-science-writers-about-whatever-this-is-whether-it-matters/ on science journalism and our moronic purgatory

Time for my #introduction!

Hello, Mastodon! My name is Alan Johnson. I have a deep interest in many topics, including tech, management, business, politics, music, history, econ, education, etc. I expect I'll probably use Mastodon in a similar way as I use Twitter -- a place to put thoughts from my very scattered brain out into the world, so that I can learn from the feedback I get. Hopefully I occasionally inspire people with some of my better thoughts, too.

My current profession is running the Data department for an insurance company, and I'm more broadly interested in tech strategy.

The fact that there's even a culture of #introductions here is pretty cool, and different from Twitter.

finally, a therapist i can trust

Throwback to my first paper for my first contribution to #ScienceMastodon

We worked on the dynamics of vesicle reshaping and scission under osmotic shocks, including bursting and developing inner compartments.

Find it here: https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2021/sm/d0sm02012e

#throwbackthursday #firstpaper #softmatter

@askennard Solidego (aka goldenrod) seed head, photographed yesterday in one of the few remaining patches of prairie near me

#introduction post! My name is Sonia Roberts (she/her) and I'm a postdoc at Northeastern University developing knitted sensors that could be used to make soft, fully knitted robots. My PhD work was on legged robots running around in the desert -- and if you've ever gone on a beach run, you know why that's hard. I have also done some science and technology policy work. I like to learn about what's going on in other fields so I try to follow a lot of academics in different areas!

@lightweight @explorergrace @pablo @weka @robert_p_king I've got a science paper somewhere that poses the same question, and then puzzles over why evolution has overlooked one possible mechanism. Many bacteria and protists scoot about in water by using ATP (the currency of cell energy) to move their flagella (hairs). It's not clear (at least not to the authors of this paper) why a stationary bacteria having its flagella moved by the water couldn't run this pathway in reverse and make itself ATP.

Great to see a #ScienceMastodon #biophysics community self-assembling! For the occasion, I learned to build my first bot for this budding community: @bioRxiv_biophys will toot #bioRxiv biophysics posts.