Ken Miller @kendmiller@qoto.org

Twitter's new screamingly antitrust-violating policy against linking to or providing your username on any other social media platform (including Mastodon). Illegal, but I doubt the Biden administration will challenge them. (And if they did, it would be a years-long legal battle, tho perhaps DOJ could win an early injunction.)

It's a good thing musk wasn't born in the United States. He'd be running for president, and he could out-trump trump

@lorenzo @NicoleCRust @Neurograce @TPVogels
I just saw someone suggest a "toot suite". That's pretty good too.

@NicoleCRust Musk turns out to be trump lite. I used Twitter both for neuroscience and for politics and culture as well as some other communities. Science seems to be moving over here, though far from completely, but the rest hasn't shown a lot of movement - some left pundits but not so many. So I'm still reading things over there. Musk is disgusting but so far a lot of the good parts of Twitter are intact, and it's info that's still hard to find elsewhere. I guess by providing eyeballs I'm helping him get advertising money. If there was an organized movement to quit i imagine I'd join, that's where the sum of many individuals adds up. But absent that my contribution to his awfulness just seems too infinitesimal to lead me to quit the useful parts. So far, anyhow.

@pfau Maybe we should call it a mastopiece?
as in
"Someday, everything is gonna be different
When I toot my mastopiece"
(dodges rotten tomatoes)

@EdwardVessel also using tusky on Android, and i think using metatext on iOS, you just click the name and click follow.

A few weeks ago I had a conversation on twitter with Florian Engert about whether activity plays a role in normal neural development, that some of you may have seen. Florian doesn't seem to be on mastodon. I just (after gap of several weeks) made what I think is a last response to Florian. Some of you might be no longer monitoring twitter yet be interested in this, so I thought I'd point to it here: https://twitter.com/kendmil/status/1596282808997216259
#neuroscience #development

@neuralengine @macaskillaf @NicoleCRust metatext is supposed to be the best iOS app. I use tusky on Android and it's excellent. Using web browser, use the advanced interface (select in settings), it's much better, and allows you to pin a column of a hashtag (or hashtags) like#neuroscience

@teixi @tyrell_turing @PessoaBrain @NicoleCRust @kordinglab

The only problem with #NeuroTopic is you can't search on it (without knowing in advance what topic to search for). Twitter would show you things that got lots of likes from people you follow, so you would be alerted to it. Mastodon doesn't change what you see based on likes. So either people can boost them, and hope you are looking at the part of your timeline the boost appears in; or we need some hashtag you can regularly search for (or maybe there are more efficient ways to monitor a hashtag?).

Could maybe combine them #NeuroThread #NeuroTopic
and then could search for #NeuroThread? I was just afraid that only a single hashtag to search on would be used too often and so it wouldn't end up being a very informative signal. But maybe having more than 1 is too complex and simplicity wins over informativeness?

@PessoaBrain @NicoleCRust @kordinglab
@tyrell_turing Was thinking about the same thing. Two possible answers occur to me.

One is, instead of or in addition to liking, boost -- if you think a thread is an interesting discussion, boost one of the posts, which will alert others to it.

The other is, we could come up with a hashtag, or hierarchy of hashtags, to be applied with discretion. For example, maybe, #neurothread when you think it is part of an interesting discussion others should know about. But has to be applied sparingly -- if applied to everything it loses value as a signal. So maybe a hierarchy? Say, #neurothread1, #neurothread2, ... #neurothread5, where 1 is no big deal but you think people might find it interesting, and 5 is this is probably the hot discussion of the -- month? year? Or 3 levels, or 2, or ...

I dunno if any of this is workable. Requires (1) consensus on the hashtag signals and (2) application with discretion by *everyone*.

Mastadon mind, can we come up with something workable?

@chriscarpenter @raineer @adamdavidson
what do you use to have mastodon posts crosspost to twitter?

@SussilloDavid p.s. a follow button that you just click and they're followed. Not one you click to get a link you have to copy and then paste and then ...

@SussilloDavid I ran into this using a web browser. But using the app tusky on Android i just click on a person's name and they come up with a follow button. I've seen people say this is the best app for Android and Metatext is the best for IOS.

@neuroecology there seem to be various cross-posters, here is one: https://crossposter.masto.donte.com.br/
I'm not sure how it will really work given that often on twitter you're replying to an ongoing conversation ... I haven't tried it but post if you get to know it ...

@markgbaxter @neurobongo @kristinmbranson
In a similar situation, someone who knew how set up an outlook server. Although forwarding from the uni server was forbidden, the outlook server could import the mail and forward it. So you could have it forwarded to gmail and do everything there.

With #NeuroscienceMigration happening, two resources I've found:
(1) twitodon.com: register with them to link your twitter and mastodon accounts. Then it will find (and output an importable .csv of) the mastodon addresses of all of your twitter follows that have registered with them. The more of us that register, the better it works.
(2) https://fedifinder.glitch.me/: put your mastodon address in your twitter bio. Then fedifinder will find all your twitter follows (or followers, or lists) who have put their mastodon address in their twitter bio, and output a .csv of them as above.
(To import the csv: edit profile -> import and export -> import, and be sure that 'merge' is clicked.)

@trinsec Thank you!

Basic question from a mastodon newbie: using mastodon in my browser (qoto.org), everytime I get a message or a notification it makes a sound. I want to see my notifications but how do I turn off the sound? Thanks.

#Introduction. I'm a theoretical neuroscientist at Columbia University. Primary focus on cerebral cortical circuits, both mature function and activity-dependent development (a form of learning). More general interest in intelligence & learning, e.g. neuro/AI interface, as well as long-term goal of understanding how cortex computes and analyzes and represents and learns. Also passionate about politics, and will post about that too -- coming from a belief in justice, freedom, everyone having a right to a secure and decent life and opportunities to develop and advance themselves, and in true democracy -- one person one voice, not one dollar one voice.