Gregory @gregory@qoto.org

It's much cheaper and easier than you think to start your own server on here.

If you use "managed hosting", it means the hosting company does all the techy stuff like installation, upgrades and maintenance.

The cheapest Mastodon server through managed hosting costs around 8 US dollars a month.

I've done a website all about using managed hosting at:

➡️ https://growyourown.services

...and here's a long article about making your own Mastodon server:

➡️ https://growyourown.services/making-your-own-mastodon-server-in-10-steps

#Mastodon #Fediverse

The rules for vis.social have changed to not allow any AI-generated images... but I'm literally writing an academic paper right now about AI applications to VIS (including ethical implications), and a rule like this prevents even sharing this kind of research. This seems like a pretty... abrupt and sweeping decision? @kristinHenry @darth_mall is there a place for public conversation on the server to discuss rule changes like this? #dataVis #visSocial #dataViz

https://vis.social/about/more

Love this new community paper in @PLOSBiology "The benefits of contributing to the citizen science platform iNaturalist as an identifier" https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001843

#iNaturalist #CommunityScience #CitizenScience HT @npariente

Hello #Fosstodon, from your friendly neighborhood #OpenSource #GeographicInformationSystem

#OSGeo

Please boost this post if you see it! It will help my new Mastodon server federate with other servers to get us all connected. Thanks! #fediverse #mastodon

I have a variety of #tutorials posted on my website (https://peter-stewart.github.io/posts/) on a variety of topics, including a series on classic ecological #models in #Stan and #RStats, an #occupancy model which handles spatial autocorrelation using a #GaussianProcess, and a variety of useful Windows batch files for dealing with #CameraTrap images.

Here is a quick #thread 🧵 with links to the individual posts:

1/n

#BayesianStatistics #Ecology

This woman, who has done a great deal of good in her life, deserves better than this. She has been a wonderful activist for equal rights as well as science and deserves some support.

I rarely share go fund me pages, but this one seems worth sharing.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/shields-up-nichelle-nichols

⛵ Help climate scientists by transcribing weather data from old ships' logs

https://boingboing.net/2019/07/10/old-weather-is-good-weather.html

#climate #weather #science #OpenData #CitizenScience

🐦 RT: @juliesquid@twitter.com

So heartened by the responses to this piece, and thankful for the people and communities making #opensource and science welcoming. Super motivated and focused on kindness in 2020 #rstats #openscience #opendata

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/open-software-means-kinder-science/

📊 An #R package for #visualization and #analysis of confirmed international #COVID19 case counts, based on Johns Hokpins data.

#rstats #science #opendata #openscience #covid19

https://github.com/rOpenStats/COVID19