Heidi Stenner @hstenner@qoto.org

I will start with a quick #Introduction

I am Eleonora, I have a background in #archaeology and #DigitalHumanities. I am now working as Head of Digital Scholarship at Southampton Uni library.

I am focusing on the digital shift and sustainable shift within digital applied to #heritage and #culturalheritage collections. I work a lot with #communities around #co-creation and I am interested in #ethics, #interopeability (FAIR) of our #data.

*Amazing* sunset tonight… My camera was having trouble with the dynamic range. This picture *almost* does it justice 😊

Newbie question...I'm starting to use lists (what a GREAT tool!) and want to know if posts from people I follow will be in BOTH the home column and the designated list column, or JUST show up in the designated list. Wow, that was harder to phrase than I had anticipated, thanks for sticking with me!

Lost and found: how two dead giant bees on eBay sparked the hunt to find one alive.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/nov/10/lost-and-found-indonesian-giant-bee-feared-extinct-ebay-aoe

Since I'm feeling bloggy tonight, and nobody asked, here are some email lists I'm on and enjoy receiving.

1. [Artisanal Sudoku](https://artisanalsudoku.substack.com) - James Sinclair creates really, really good variant sudoku puzzles, and you get three every Monday for free, or five plus access to a growing archive for $5/month. Well worth the price, in my opinion.
2. [Sudoku Clover](https://www.patreon.com/sudokuclover/about) - Clover publishes monthly, and is also worth $5/month in my opinion. Plus, I've enjoyed her puzzles for so long on Discord for free.
3. [Letters from an American](https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com) - Everyone's favorite historian-turned-substack-queen, Heather Cox Richardson. Her daily emails teach me things.
4. [BIG by Matt Stoller](https://mattstoller.substack.com) - You should read the book Goliath by Matt Stoller, and then *also* subscribe to his weekly newsletter with a hyper-focus on anti-monopoly issues.
5. [Slow Boring](https://www.slowboring.com) - Matt Yglesias can be polarizing at times, but I find his newsletter thoughtful even when I disagree with his conclusions, as does one of my brothers who is theoretically on the other side of every issue from me politically. That seems to say something. MattY hyper-focuses on everything eventually.
6. [Garbage Day](https://www.garbageday.email) - Ryan Brodericks writes three times a week (or four, for $5/month) to remind us all that the internet is fun, actually. Brilliant observer of the online scene.
7. [Today in Tabs](https://www.todayintabs.com) - The internet in super-compressed form, Rusty Foster packs many, many links into his newsletter four days a week.

I subscribe to many more than this, but this seems like enough, and provides more than one #newsletter in each of three categories: #sudoku, #politics, and the #internet.

#blog

If you download your Twitter archive it arrives wrapped as a static HTML page, which is not very useful for doing anything with, and worse: it requires the original account to be still active to do useful things like enlarge the images since they use t.co links.

So here's a Python script to convert a Twitter archive to markdown or other formats: https://github.com/timhutton/twitter-archive-parser

Now you can archive your tweets in any way you want.

Amazing chart on the growth of Mastodon.

Graphic by @estebanmoro

Kicking off my #visualization thread! This is an interactive web toy I made to demonstrate the "photon sphere" around spinning black holes. You can play with it here: https://duetosymmetry.com/tool/kerr-circular-photon-orbits/

Are you looking for a postdoc, assistant professor, or other position in evolutionary biology? Check out our Jobs board for current openings: http://bit.ly/SSEJobBoard

Hi! I am Michelle, a researcher and interaction designer, with a special interest in Multispecies Design.

Over the last decade I worked with different entities - including cats, dogs, ants, penguins, and forests - in participatory and digital technology projects to create multispecies proposals for living more sustainably.

I recently co-led the design of a digital gardening and open-data platform: https://atlas.smartforests.net/

Publications: https://michellewesterlaken.com/publications/

#sts #hci #design #research

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?