Heidi Stenner @hstenner@qoto.org

The fact that sea-level rise will exceed meters sooner or later (the more greenhouse gaq emissions, the sooner) is raising important issues for today: what is the perspective for coastal communities, small islands nations, the coastal cultural heritage, etc.?

1) Recent paper thread:
'Stop going around in circles: Towards a reconceptualisation of #DRM phases', with Ksenia Chmutina
and Dewald van Niekerk, in DPM. Time to move the discussion forwards....

https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/DPM-03-2021-0071/full/html

How does #ClimateChange affect #disasters? Some #science summaries:
(a) https://doi.org/10.1007/s13753-015-0046-5
(b) https://doi.org/10.1007/s13753-015-0038-5
(c) https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-016-2294-0

#DisastersAreNotNatural #NoNaturalDisasters (so we avoid the phrases #NaturalDisaster #NaturalDisasters) #vulnerability #resilience #SendaiFramework #Switch2Sendai #SFDRR #DRR #DisasterRisk #DisasterRiskReduction #disaster #cop27 #cop27egypt

Have just realised that #academics can use @ORCID_Org to
#verify themselves.

Just include your full mastodon link (like this: https://mas.to/@marekmcgann) in the "Websites and Social Links" section in ORCID, then include link to your ORCID record in your Mastodon profile.

Hurray for distributed digital identities!

To make sure that the word #bird does not get too bad a connotation on this site, I feel like it's my duty to show how beautiful and amazing these animals can be.
Here an atlantic puffin in northern Norway.
Ornithology is a long way from trace metal geochemistry, but #BirdWatching is what got me really excited about the environment and wanting to figure out how nature works as a kid and that lead me to where I am now.
#nature #photography

Magnitude 5.6 #earthquake in #Nepal 30 minutes ago (2022-11-08Z20:27) Signal (Pn, Sn, Lg) at station KN.KKN (Kakani, Nepal, at a distance of about 400 km) Data obtained free and in near real-time from IRIS.
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000incn/executive

Some Mastodon thoughts, for bird-site expats (which include myself). I'm aggregating these from posts I've boosted before, so little of this is my own brain.

- There's no algorithm here. That means favoriting/liking doesn't do anything except communicate approval to the OP and others (which is still nice!).

- No algorithm means boosting ("retweeting") is the true method to increase a post's visibility. Do that more than you did on birdsite.

- There's no post-quoting here, and that's by design. Look at quote-tweets on the birdsite; it's a feature primarily used for toxicity.

- There's no direct word-search here either; that means you want to use hashtags to make posts more searchable. This is also intended, since word-searching posts was often used to harass/stalk on the birdsite and elsewhere, so that was left by the wayside here. This also means hashtags are much more a thing here than any of the algorithm-powered sites.

- It's encouraged to put in text descriptions when you post images; a lot of Mastodon users use screen-readers due to various disabilities, and getting an image description read out loud helps them immensely.

- Speaking of screen-readers: using capitalization in your hashtags allows the screen-readers to read them more easily, especially if you're smashing multiple words together. #rockmusic = unreadable. #RockMusic = readable.

- The best way to make threads is to make set your first post as public, but "unlist" all of your replies. This prevents your whole thread from clogging up feeds.

- Content Warnings should be used more liberally here. If you haven't gotten the impression yet, much of Mastodon was built and populated by marginalized groups who were harassed/bullied off of other platforms. This is the culture they built, to respect each other's mental health. It's not a rule, but it's well-appreciated.

- Consider chipping a few bucks towards whomever runs the server you're on; the strain is real, and most server admins were likely paying out of pocket before so don't have an existing donation base. The growth here has been extremely fast, and that means money's needed.

- DMs are just posts with privacy settings. So if you @ someone in a DM, you pull them into the thread. That could be embarrassing.

- Also, no, DMs aren't end-to-end encrypted, but they aren't on Twitter either. Don't use either if you want true privacy.

- Including your Mastodon handle in your birdsite profile will help people find you here; there's a tool (pruvisto.org/debirdify/ is one of them that's used) people can use to pull Mastodon handles from Twitter profile.

- Use the blocking and reporting features liberally, if needed. This should go without saying, but they work, and work well!

- If there's an entire Mastodon server you don't want to hear from, you can block the whole thing too.

- Preferences -> Appearance -> "Slow Mode": this can make larger "Local" feeds and any "Federated" feed much more readable.

I'll reply with some more as I see them, or reply here too. I've only been here 4 days but I'm loving it so far.

Saw this in a nearby post office and it reminded me of all the poor Mastodon admins this week ...

#EarthquakeReport for the M 7.6 (likely) subduction zone #Earthquake in #Mexico on 19 Sept 2022 #TootToot #toot

catching up on reports that happened after my website went down

generated 0.6-1.7m wave height #Tsunami
probably triggered landslides/induced liquefaction

report (and higher resolution figures) here:
https://earthjay.com/?p=10472

I've seen a few folks mention the importance of tags on mastadon, is it possible to follow tags?

All,

I've gotten a small team together and we have started development on the Mastodon server for the disability community.

I am in the process of outlining some additional roles we will need to fill to make this succeed, and will put out a solicitation for that at a later date.

I am also making an outline for the information database we want to build, and will likely recruit people (or solicit information) for various pieces of it.

“A study recently published in Animal Behavior suggests that bumblebees, when given the chance, like to fool around with toys.”

https://www.npr.org/2022/11/05/1134355887/bumblebees-can-play-does-it-mean-they-have-feelings-study-says-yes

#science #bees

This list of #journalists on Mastodon has absolutely taken on a life of its own. 🔥

It's now grown to over 540 journalists and shows no signs of stopping. I do quality control and check it every day to clean up.

Journalitsts on Mastodon Form to Sign Up:
https://forms.gle/dw5gzkA11uxXiGTy5

Current full list:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13No4yxY-oFrN8PigC2jBWXreFCHWwVRTftwP6HcREtA/edit?resourcekey=undefined#gid=1320898902

Looking to follow more plant science folks who aren't primarily doing molecular biology. Old school botany, pomology, horticulture, anyone? #PlantScience #Botany #Pomology #Biology #ScienceMastodon

Hello Mastodon art people! I’m Julia, an illustrator and naturalist from Germany. I’ve quit all social media a few years ago because addictive algorithms, ads, infinite scrolling and tracking surveillance were killing my creativity.
Mastodon is likely the last social media experiment I’ll try. Here are some birds for you, because although I’ve left Twitter, I love drawing birds.
#introduction
#MastoArt #art #illustration #birds #watercolor #TraditionalArt

We will hold "Toward a comprehensive understanding of slow earthquakes" in #EGU2023 https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU23/session/47074

We welcome various talks about slow earthquakes.
#slowearthquake #seismology

#EarthquakeReport for M 6.9 #Earthquake in Taiwan on 18 September 2022

there was lots of damage and some casualties :-(

landslides and liquefaction models show that there was a high likelihood for these.

https://earthjay.com/?p=10450

damage information
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Taitung_earthquakes

i am filling in some #EarthquakeReport #Toots as I just got my website back up and running after almost two months of arduous work (steep learning curve getting web services set up on a robust server)

Mastodon is really having a moment in mainstream news coverage. CNN, BBC, TIME, etc.

The influx of users will continue at an alarming rate. Remember to be welcoming, and kind, and positive, and helpful.

This isn't just an opportunity to improve the idea of social media, it's an opportunity to shine a wonderful light on #opensource.