Sundar @digital_carver@qoto.org

Like many autistics, I occasionally go nonverbal. This may be because I have too many thoughts in my head and they get jammed on their way to my mouth. Sometimes it's because talking seems exhausting, or because it takes me long enough to sort my responses that my answers seem "too late."

The odd thing is, I can communicate by text just fine in those times. There's a connection between my brain and my hands that skips all that.

I want to learn sign language.

#ActuallyAutistic #Autism

#silentSunday

Our ancestors were not stupid, part the nth. Humans have always liked tasty food with a fair amount of variety, and we've been finding ways to make it tastier and more varied for a very long time. Link to open-access journal article in the story.

https://phys.org/news/2022-11-real-paleo-diet-archaeological-evidence.html

#paleontology #archaeology

Which Countries Act to Protect the Climate?

No country is on track to limit global warming to 1.5°C, hence no nation was awarded the classification of “very high”.

Denmark, Sweden, Chile, Morocco, India were the countries faring the best in the “high” category.

https://www.statista.com/chart/28816/climate-change-performance-index/#:~:text=Climate%20Change,-by%20Katharina%20Buchholz&text=Keeping%20this%20in%20mind%2C%20Denmark,followed%20by%20Morocco%20and%20India

#Sustainability #ESG #ClimateAction

Just your irregular/occasional reminder that I maintain a list of #ScientificWriting #Writing resources here: https://scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/writing-resources/. Always happy to have folks leave their favourite additions in the Replies.

For #SandwichSunday, have a flow diagram illustrating mindfulness meditation.

With sleep my body prefers one of two patterns:

1. Wake up at dawn, spend whole day awake, get exhausted by night, crash, loop. In this regime, I find myself not feeling rested after sleep for days.

2. Wake up when I wake up, often feeling well rested. Work as long as energy is above a threshold, switch context or nap if energy dips. Eat when hungry, sleep when sleepy, loop. In this chaos, I'm creative, productive and content. I take more breaks without guilt… but working with others is hard.

Hello #Mastodon! I guess we'd better add an #Introduction!

Founded in 1935, the aims of the Prehistoric Society are to:

• Encourage & support high-quality research
• Foster skills & expertise needed to investigate #prehistory
• Disseminate #knowledge about our prehistoric past
• Raise awareness of value of #human prehistory
• Speak out for #prehistoric #heritage
• We produce a journal & newsletters, organise #events (many FREE & online) & give out #grants

#Archaeology #PrehistoricSociety

I always chuckle when I see reminders to new users (here and elsewhere) that liking doesn’t boost visibility and they have to boost.

I know that Twitter worked that way, but I’ll be honest, I never clicked that heart thinking about discoverability. If I click ❤ or ⭐ it’s because I want to tell you I liked your post.

Social media doesn’t always have to be about “reach”, you know?

If you enjoy someone's post on #Mastodon go ahead and click the star. If someone tells you that's meaningless because there's no #algorithm, ignore them. Sure, boost the post too if you want others to also see the post, but don't think telling someone you like what they posted is somehow unimportant. In real life I don't tell someone, "good job," or "well said," or "I love that," for the sake of some algorithm, I do it because I'm human and they are too. It's fundamental to being truly social.

I assume you’re mostly here from Twitter and know this but I’m not a paid or professional writer so if you’re feeling charitable you can help support me here! I can’t yet support myself with writing so I rely on kind strangers to pay the bills. ✨ https://patreon.com/amy_a

Want to help redesign one of the most popular and widely-used tools for researchers?

Zotero is hiring a designer: https://www.zotero.org/jobs/ui_designer

Would do it if I could. Ideal for someone else who has great UX / product design chops.

As you're considering the other new Twitter alternatives, ask yourself if you really want to go to another corporate entity that could end up being just as bad as Twitter and Facebook. Algorithmic sites, by design, reward hate and outrage. You're jumping into another fire.

We have a rare and fleeting chance to build something different right now.

I'm choosing to spend my time trying to make this place succeed — helping new users and saving my best content for here.

Trying to work out the difference between https://a.gup.pe/ and hashtags

Being #ActuallyAutistic in our society means that we have experienced profound trauma in our lives. For many, that trauma is still present. We ignore it and try to work thru it, but it's there in our bodies & minds. We need to emphasize the need for trauma work in our community.

#Autistic #neurodivergent #Trauma #AutisticAdults #Autism #neurodiversity

Me getting ready to go to a medical conference key in my field: ok, I’m more or less ready to talk to the experts, should be fine (deep breath)

Me getting ready to go to my sons’ school career fair: oh dear, I’m having a massive freak out moment, I know whatever they ask me I’ll say the wrong thing

Don’t underestimate teenagers, they’re very intelligent. But I’ll be fine 😀

"Imposter syndrome? Lack of confidence? Toxoplasma can help!"
Well, at least if you're a wolf.

Communications #Biology study by Meyer et al. shows that #wolves infected with Toxoplasma gondii were bolder and a whopping 46 times more likely to be pack leaders.🐺

https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-022-04122-0

#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!