Jeff Dean (the Biochemist) @jeffdean@qoto.org

Please don't use #Fedified! 🙏

This is what it says about itself:

"(Fedified) is *the* way to make sure that you're following the account managed by the same person you used to follow on Twitter."

It wants to be a central authority. This is dangerous, and opposite to what the Fediverse stands for.

People become dependent on a central authority, then it gets bought out by billionaires.

You can already verify your account on here without using any centralised lists:

https://fedi.tips/how-to-use-mastodon-and-the-fediverse-advanced-tips/#HowDoIVerifyMyAccount

I know many of us are balancing a ‘bonus’ social media account during this time of uncertainty, but I see a lot of professors following friends, colleagues, familiar faces on new accounts. I hope folks take the time to follow (back) #EarlyCareerResearchers, for whom the #networking is critical. The diversity of voices, perspectives, & experiences is what makes these communities effective & successful. I hope this continues. #FollowBack (every day) #ECRs

Report it!

While you can always block users (and instances) for yourself, Reporting lets your admins take instance wide actions! You can report any post from any user to flag it for your mods and admins (and optionally, the mods and admins the account belongs to)

Using Report helps them keep your instance free of bad actors and gross instances. #fediTips

Cleaning a 3.6 meter #telescope mirror to prepare for re-coating

All,

The moment has finally arrived! 🥳

@McCullohMD
@stevendavis , and I have been hard at work for the past week putting together a Mastodon instance so that we can create a backup disability and chronic illness community.

It can be found here:

disabled.social

For now, we have set up a terms of service, privacy policy, rules and best practices.

I have plans to set up a Twitter space to go through each of these with the disability community directly to add/subtract/reword things.

"Democrats don't need Georgia" is a short-sighted take, considering that if the GOP flipped one Dem-held Senate seat in 2024, the Georgia seat could serve as a firewall protecting their majority for another two years.

Hey #epigenetics folks, let’s connect at @epigenetics 😁

cc @PSarkies

Please boost for visibility 😃

We are recruiting lecturers in a wide range of topics in Biology including developmental/stem cell biology, #mechanobiology and single cell #omics approaches-come and join us! Deadline: 19th December 2022
More details here: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/CUV141/lecturer

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Hello new people! 👋

I run a human-curated directory of interesting accounts to follow on here:

➡️ https://fedi.directory

Do you have an account that posts a lot about a particular topic? Would you like to be listed in the directory?

If so, reply or @ me or send me a DM and let me know!

(The site only went live a few days ago so some topics are less populated than others, but this is why I am working on expanding it!)

Boosts appreciated

#Fediverse #Mastodon

I wanted to advertise a postdoc position in beautiful Norwich, that is for 3+2 years.
We are looking for a bioinformatician, or someone who wants to become one. In the post we will investigate gut metagenomes using 3rd gen sequencing, deep learning, to investigate pan genomes and microbial adaptation, mostly using human gut time series of various host ailments.

Please retoot or send to interested parties, thanks!
https://www.earlham.ac.uk/vacancy/postdoctoral-research-scientist-bioinformatics-hildebrand?utm_campaign=Oktopost-Vacancy%3A+Postdoctoral+Research+Scientist+%28Bioinformatics%29&utm_content=Oktopost-004p8kfdl68ecc6&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

Just joined and testing this new platform, time for an #introduction!

We are a #biochemistry and #structuralbiology laboratory based in #Pavia, #Italy.

#wemakeproteins and are fascinated by the #extracellular space: we study how #collagen contributes to the assembly of the #ECM and we perform #drugdiscovery studies on #enzymes of collagen #biosynthesis, plus we investigate various #ligand - #receptor #interactions leading to #signaling in humans and in insects.

Always open to #collaboration.

Check our website and help us grow: http://fornerislab.unipv.it/armenise_lab/

@kefir Follows and followers... then Domain subscribes... on the left menu (under Follows and subscriptions). Put in some domains (eg mastodon.me.uk or mastodon.ie) and choose either a List of the Home timeline. You will get the federated (public) timeline from the servers you add in the list or Home timeline. qoto.org is running modified Mastodon server software - the standard software doesn't have this useful feature.

@jeffdean
Try this. Copied from Sharon Bairden
To help make connections: name 5-7 things that interest you but aren't in your profile, as tags so they are searchable. Then boost this post or repeat its instructions so others know to do the same.
#politics#Therestispolitics #economics #news #thenewagents #currentaffairs #heritageRailways #crimefiction #history

We're looking for academics/PhD students who've recently migrated from Twitter to Mastodon, are currently doing so, considering it, or who don't intend to. We're interested in finding out about people’s opinions on migration & the differences between Twitter & Mastodon. If you wish to take part in our online focus group, please complete our initial survey https://lancasteruni.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_enXPA3rLdSdJsCG, which also includes further information about the research. Please boost! 🔁