Mike Agg has moved @countingquoll@qoto.org

"It’s not one thing that makes women leave. It’s death by a thousand cuts." Why are women so underrepresented in Maths and related fields, brilliant article by Prof Hannah Fry ⬇️ #genderequality #womeninstem #womenwhocode #womeninscience

https://inews.co.uk/opinion/hannah-fry-few-women-maths-sexism-1963135

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The thing about Twitter is that it really lacks a lot of the features you'd expect from a true Mastodon replacement.

For example, there's no way to edit your toots (which they, confusingly call "tweets"—let's face it, it's a bit of a silly name that's difficult to take seriously).

"Tweets" can't be covered by a content warning. There's no way to let the poster know you like their tweet without also sharing it, and no bookmark feature.

There's no way to set up your own instance, and you're basically stuck on a single instance of Twitter. That means there's no community moderators you can reach out to to quickly resolve issues. Also, you can't de-federate instances with a lot of problematic content.

It also doesn't Integrate with other fediverse platforms, and I couldn't find the option to turn the ads off.

Really, Twitter has made a good start, but it will need to add a lot of additional features before it gets to the point where it becomes a true Mastodon replacement for most users.

#twitter #mastodon #twittermigration

Wow. This needs to be read by everyone who joined Mastodon in the last week: https://www.hughrundle.net/home-invasion/

France will soon enforce a law that requires every car park with 80+ parking spaces to have solar panels installed.

This could produce up to 11GW of clean energy, or the equivalent of the power produced by ten nuclear reactors.

https://www.publicsenat.fr/article/parlementaire/l-obligation-de-pose-de-panneaux-photovoltaiques-sur-les-grands-parkings

#Introduction:
I am a climate scientist with interests in better understanding historical changes in climate and extreme weather. Also think about future climate-related risks, among other topics: http://www.edhawkins.org

One key approach in this research is using citizen science to recover millions of lost weather observations, such as: http://www.WeatherRescue.org

I dabble in climate dataviz too, including the Climate Stripes: http://www.ShowYourStripes.info

Tip: The Tusky app is superb for using Mastodon if like me you use android phone. Boost away so othes can see tip too. 😊👌 #Newbie #tips #introduction #IrishMastadon #Mastodon

One thing that was super common on Mastodon / Fediverse prior to this mass migration was adding image descriptions to help be accessible to our many blind and partially sighted users here. Many people won't boost posts without them.
Please consider adding alt text to your images when you can.

I keep hearing that #Mastodon is not likely to replace #Twitter. To that I say: so what?
I've been contributing to the #Linux desktop for the last 15 years not because it's likely to replace #Windows, but because providing people with free desktop is the right thing to do.
I use and support Mastodon not because it's likely to replace Twitter, but because it's a social network done right.

The smaller scale of Mastodon is interesting

It puts me in mind of a 2010 column I wrote for Wired about "the virtue of obscurity": https://www.wired.com/2010/01/st-thompson-obscurity/

Back then, Twitter was still new. A "big" followership was like 4,000 people. A huuuuuge celebrity like Oprah had 1.5 million

I kept hearing from people in the middle of the pack, who slipped from "a few hundred mostly friends" to "10,000 strangers/randos"

They didn't always like it

Five best book recommendations on the #neuroscience of consciousness: https://fivebooks.com/category/philosophy/philosophy-of-mind/ +p

Did you know that the first scientist to show that changes in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere could affect the Earth’s temperature was a woman?

In 1856!

Eunice Foote broke scientific ground that remains more relevant than ever but history overlooked her.

https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/pt.6.4.20210823a/full/

#globalwarming #womeninscience #ScienceMastodon

Huge if true

This morning I posted on Twitter some thoughts about how seriously we should regard the dismantling of that site. I’m re-posting my thoughts here in what I hope will be a thread (if those exist here!).

Ok, Mastadon is officially a lot more awesome than I had realised. There's a federated server for everyone who's really into bitcoin, and, yes, it is full of people who are as awful as you can imagine. But, with one click, you can block the entire domain! 12.8k thousand crypto weirdos filtered out in a click. Amazing.

Ladies and gentlemen, @GreatDismal is in the building.