Jason R. Patton @earthjay@qoto.org

This site makes me feel guilty about the fact I didn’t let mastodons on the Ark.

Here is how to choose a #Mastodon #instance:

Go to https://debirdify.pruvisto.org/

Click [authenticate]

Click [search followers]

You will see the Most Relevant Instances. Avoid those with Mastodon in their name. They tend to be slow because of too many new users.

Thanks, @debirdify@twitter.com!

Meet Eugen Rotchko (@Gargron), founder of @Mastodon, who just got a profile in TIME magazine. I encourage you to really read the entire excellent interview, bc not only will you learn more about the ethos behind Mastodon, but you can also hear what it’s like for an intelligent human being to talk about social media.

“Thousands Have Joined Mastodon Since Twitter Changed Hands. Its Founder Has a Vision for Democratizing Social Media.”

https://time.com/6229230/mastodon-eugen-rochko-interview/

A graphic I put together showing the Himalayan orogeny.

#geology #geography #geographyteacher #platetectonics

Hi everyone! I am a postdoc based in Pittsburgh interested in #climatechange #ecology, #forests, and #phenology.

My current postdoc research uses #roots collected from #Trillium #herbarium specimens to quantify changes in #AMF community composition across the past 120 years in eastern North America.

Other past and current research focuses on shifts in #temperate #plants phenology in response to warming springs.

More information on my website at https://benrlee.com

#introduction

As a #ScreenReader user, I find #hashtags at the end of a post to be suboptimal. As I'm unable to visually scan, I don't know that you haven't written anything after the hashtags, and hence have to choose between: listening to them anyway, or being okay with potentially missing content. When written inline within the flow of your text, this problem doesn't occur. #accessibility #a11y

Gotta remember to keep this handy. I'm always getting my eras and epochs and things mixed up.
#DeepTime #fossils #prehistory

@albinokid Great to see you here!!! Let’s make this the best place for #startrek fans to connect!

If you have downloaded your Twitter data recently, or are thinking of downloading it, here is a guide to downloading & viewing the data. Requires you to have active Twitter but it offers some ways to purview your data so that you can share some of the best with your followers here. Not the best solution, but a quick way to get started

There are also some better tools to convert your Twitter data to a more readable format from @timhutton

https://www.idownloadblog.com/2018/01/12/how-to-download-view-entire-twitter-history/

https://github.com/timhutton/twitter-archive-parser

Chukchi Sea #seaice extent is slowly increasing but still far below median. Extent is fifth lowest since 1978 for November 19 in NSIDC data but the very mild weather pattern is ending so the rate of ice growth will increase the coming week. Bering Sea ice is near average along the Alaska coast but below normal on the Russian coast. #akwx #Arctic @Climatologist49 @ZLabe

Will you affirm the words? 🧡

Nov. 20, 1933: A M7.3 earthquake struck offshore Baffin Island, #Canada.
This is the largest known #earthquake along the passive margin (east/north coasts) of #NorthAmerica and the largest (known) earthquake north of the Arctic Circle.
More information: https://seismescanada.rncan.gc.ca/historic-historique/events/19331120-en.php
https://seismescanada.rncan.gc.ca/historic-historique/events/ABent2002baffinbay1933.pdf

New Chronostratigraphic Chart from the International Commission on Stratigraphy:
https://stratigraphy.org/news/143

A few years ago I made this flow chart of which Mastodon posts end up in which timelines!

So, you can see how each instance will have a different local timeline, and even a slightly different federated timeline - and you can see why the federated timeline moves so much faster than the local one, too.

This is why it's important to boost good posts and use hashtags - the fediverse is fragmented and harder to search by nature.

[ #mastodon #meta #tootorial #howto #mastopedia #mastotip ]

There's a bit of a storm happening around the criteria for joining http://fediscience.org - the Mastodon instance for scientists, on which I'm hosted.

It's been noted that the requirement to be a publishing scientist (who has published in the past 5 years) will exclude many junior scientists, retired sciences, and those who have maybe switched to teaching.

I agree with these concerns and wonder if the criteria can be changed to be more inclusive?

Cc https://fediscience.org/@FrankSonntag

Through the burning of fossil fuels, humans have released more carbon into the atmosphere than is contained in all of the plants currently living on Earth.

More than half of this has occurred since 1990.

We are transforming the Earth and the atmosphere on a truly massive scale.

Reforestation, and other natural solutions, will never match the scale of the problem without substantial emissions reductions.

#ClimateChange #FossilFuels #Carbon #CarbonDioxide

Focal Mechanisms Explained: What are those “beach balls”? by
IRIS Earthquake Science
https://youtu.be/MomVOkyDdLo