Jason R. Patton @earthjay@qoto.org

Mastodon tips (brief)

1. Server choice - tricky
2. Add a pic and bio
3. I prefer 'Advanced web interface'
4. And the 'Light' theme
5. Listen to long-time users
6. Tip your server admins
7. Hashtags pretty important
8. Put Alt text on pics
9. Use Content Warning if in doubt
10. Pin introduction post
11. Do some boosting
12. Follow interesting people
13. Hashtags can be followed too
14. DMs not secure
15. Be respectful
16. Thank you, people who run this

#mastodon #tips #MastodonTips #tootorial

Community 'best practices' for new users: https://mastodon.art/@Curator/107659920433345739

Finding your way around Mastodon: https://mastodon.art/@Curator/102567092349817529

Using image descriptions: https://mastodon.art/@Curator/109279035107793247

Guidance on Hashtag use: https://mastodon.art/@Curator/108220154510678618

Guidance on Content Warnings: https://mastodon.art/@Curator/108210154799184771

Guidance on NSFW art: https://mastodon.art/@Curator/108198371357765032

What is Mastodon and the Fediverse? https://mastodon.art/@Curator/108204086992828865

Other creative instances: https://mastodon.art/@Curator/109330935262775703

Happy exploding whale day to those that celebrate. H/t @JLKavanaugh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ax7kENH-A7s

Maybe you haven't heard of Shiveluch on the Kamchatka Peninsula in Far Eastern Russia, but it is one of the most explosive and active volcanoes on the planet. In today's post you can check out some excellent satellite images by Planet that show the results of some recent dome collapses and explosions from this Russian volcano.

https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/the-most-active-volcano-youve-likely-dont-know

@lithospheric oooh I’ll play along with this one 😅

Here’s a little one from northern Alabama.

My #introduction: Hi everyone, my name is Jack, and I am a #geoscience #PhD student at The University of Queensland, #Australia. In my PhD research, I seek to explain why "weird" #volcanoes exist in East Asia and Indonesia. To do so, I (1) analyse the composition of rocks erupted at these volcanoes to determine how they formed and (2) use earthquakes to model the structure of the upper 660 km of Earth. I am passionate about all aspects of #science and am excited to learn from everyone else here!

Starting the new season of #TheCrownNetflix. I’m so excited. No spoilers!

This is a helpful overview of why the search feature is intentionally limited

https://midrange.tedium.co/issues/how-mastodon-search-works/

And it links to this thoughtful blog post on why the influx of new people on Mastodon has been so jarring to the community already here

https://www.hughrundle.net/home-invasion/

Who can see your toots? Whose toots can you see? Found this clarifying graphic at https://axbom.com/mastodon-tips/

The best way to increase everyone's feed diversity is to go follow interesting accounts on other instances :)

Lads this site depends on retoots not likes. So don't be stingy on the sharing of other people's posts - especially new folks just arrived & looking for new pals 😊 We all need to get into a sharing headspace 🥰

Time for an #introduction!

I'm Gareth, a Professor of #Geophysics at the University of California, Riverside.

I use #InSAR, #GNSS and #seismology to study #earthquakes, crustal deformation and the behavior of faults. I am Chair Elect of the EarthScope Consortium board, and one of the founders of the #DiamondOpenAccess journal Seismica.

Originally British, I moved to California because there are lots of earthquakes here! And now I get to respond to them when they occur! I love my job!

Hello world! I am a #seismology Postdoc at #BrownUniversity and soon-to-be Assistant Prof at #SyracuseUniversity. I'm interested in how continents break apart to form new oceans and how today's ocean basins continue to evolve.

I use ground vibrations to image Earth's #crust and upper #mantle. Specifically, I measure anisotropy and attenuation of seismic waves to understand deformation and roles of melt/volatiles in Earth's interior.

#introduction #EarthScience #geophysics #seismologist #geo

As fun as it is to watch the world burn and YOLO about what happened to #twitter, here's a pretty important perspective from MIT Tech Review:

Twitter’s potential collapse could wipe out vast records of recent human history

https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/11/11/1063162/twitters-imminent-collapse-could-wipe-out-vast-records-of-recent-human-history/

This is an ancient beach but it’s no longer at sea level!
The red arrows show the shore platform cut by wave action into mudstone (grey); its overlain by beach sands (orange-brown) and loess (grey-brown). I studied these shore platforms, at the southern Hikurangi subduction margin in NZ, to work out how old they are; this one is ~100k yrs old but others nearby are ~125k yrs old and ~220 m in elevation! That’s an uplift rate of 1.7 mm/yr! What did this? Earthquakes! Lots and lots of #earthquakes!