Heidi Stenner @hstenner@qoto.org

Hi everyone! I’m Keiko, a #RemoteSensing 🛰scientist with carbon policy background. I’m passionate about making science useful, especially making human impacts on the planet visible and accountable 🌎.

I currently work as Director of Science Applications at #ClimateEngine. I’ve also been writing #EarthEngine coding tips for the last few years.

Based in the Bay Area 🌁, moved from Edinburgh, Scotland 🏰about a year ago, originally from Japan 🏯.

Looking forward to interacting with you all!

#introduction
Hi I'm Kelly - #climate scientist, #paleoclimate nerd turned #disaster researcher. I spend my days working on #catastrophe models for Liberty Mutual #insurance, thinking through hazards both natural - #earthquake #wildfire #hurricane #flood #tornado #volcano occasionally #meteor (?) and unnatural #cyber #casualty

Understanding how climate change will impact our biggest natural hazards is my jam.

As you might imagine, I am super fun at parties.

#ScienceMastodon

We are looking to hire a Project Coordinator to work with our Applied Climate program @umclasp. Our Applied Climate Program trains student to work at the intersection between climate science and climate solutions.

The Program Coordinator will help build and manage relationships with practitioners and community partners as part of our growing portfolio in climate solutions.

https://careers.umich.edu/job_detail/226222/project-coordinator

Hey there. I am a PhD student exploring how galaxies are connected with the large-scale structure of the universe and what that reveals about dark energy. I enjoy figuring out how to condense information- whether it be for galaxy statics, outreach, or decorating science bakes

Okay this might be a long post

One thing that I realised is making #twittermigration harder for people to switch is because the whole concept can feel daunting & overwhelming for non-tech savvy people.

With Twitter to them it was straight forward and easy to find topics they enjoy but with mastodon its a bit different.
So if you're new to mastodon or you want to introduce someone to mastodon here are some tips, useful sites & tools:
### Tips:
- Choosing a home instance isn't as importance as it seems, don't overthink it. Yes moderation rules & policies may differ but they all have one thing in common: Be a decent human. You **always** have the option to migrate your account to a new instance.
- Toots (or posts if you think toots are cringe ) are what we call micro-blogging instead of tweets
- You’re supposed to "boost" AKA "reblog" toots that you like.Since Mastodon does not have an algorithm that surfaces toots that have been liked a lot, boosting is the best way to help spread stuff that you like, and to show appreciation. (credit to @orsvarn for this comment)
- Another way to fill your timeline with content you enjoy is to: Find other people with similar interests, follow them, favourite their posts, boost their posts, use hashtags. rinse, repeat. (credit to @garry)
- If you ever feel yourself getting sucked into arguments on the #Fediverse, you might want to take advantage of the instance mute/block feature!
Instances tend to foster a culture, so if you find people from a specific site tend to be bothering you, muting/blocking that instance will keep other members of that community from bothering you as well.
- Finally do not share private/sensitive information via DMs on Mastodon. Direct Messages are not E2E. **Keep it in mind**

### Useful tools & resources:
[Twitodon](https://twitodon.com/) - Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon
[FediFinder](https://fedifinder.glitch.me/)- Similar to Twitodon
[Fedi Tips](https://fedi.tips/) - an informal, unofficial guide for non-technical people who want to use Mastodon and the wider Fediverse
[Fedi Directory](https://fedi.directory) - A human-curated small selection of accounts to spice up your timeline.
[Trunk](https://communitywiki.org/trunk) -Trunk allows you to mass-follow a bunch of people in order to get started with Mastodon or any other platform on the Fediverse
[Fediverse.info](https://fediverse.info/explore/people) -growing list of people and topics can help you discover mutual interests with people around the world
**Mobile Apps:**
[Metatext for iOS ](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/metatext/id1523996615)
[Tusky for Android ](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.keylesspalace.tusky&hl=en&gl=USt)

Lastly if you are interested in setting up your own instance you can learn via https://learnfoss.org/ its completely free and its made by the wonderful @stux

I apologize for the long post lol, just hope this helps anyones transition over

Intro post: I'm a professor of #Biology at the #UniversityOfWashington. My training is in #EvolutionaryBiology, #BehavioralEcology, #PopulationGenetics, and #Epidemiology. I did lots of work in #Bibliometrics and #NetworkTheory. I teach #DataLiteracy. These days I spend a lot of time thinking about the spread of #Misinformation, the #ScienceOfScience, and #PhilosophyOfScience. I do a lot of #BirdPhotography and love #ravens, #crows, and all #corvids.

For your trouble, here's a perfect crow.

So, an #introduction? Still confused, but my interests are #earthquakes #paleoseismology #archeology #volcanos #seismology #astrophysics #kindness

How to migrate from one Mastodon server to another without losing followers:

1. Sign up on new server
2. On NEW server: Go to Account -> Moving FROM another account
3. Enter old account's handle
4. On OLD server: Go to Account -> Moving TO another account
5. Enter new account's handle and submit

#YoMigroaMastodon

Please put your #Mastodon username in your #twitter profile.

Then people can use https://fedifinder.glitch.me/ to scan everyone they follow in twitter to find you!