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A lot of people I follow over there are wondering what's good to join here, as they think this is a very yt space.

If anyone you know is looking for an Instance to join that's a guaranteed safe space, this is one:

blacktwitter.io/about

@JohannaMellis @histodons It's really noticeable to me today -- I just checked my Twitter feed, and it is almost exclusively tweets from Black or non-male people. To me, this is the reason I need to be checking both sites and cross-posting. It didn't take long for a significant fraction of White & Asian scientists I followed to move over here (I think it happened like yesterday??), so I hope we can all be in one place again. Until then, I will be in both! Not helping that my crossposting software isn't working...

In response to legitimate critiques about academia’s #whiteflight to Mastodon, how are we reflecting on our decision to jump here or add this platform to our repertoire?

Ie #histodons @histodons @histodons - which is a great list - was largely white the last time I checked.

Cishet white people have the least to lose when resisting M*sk and fascism in general. How do we keep supporting more minoritized folks?

@Riedl Any known cases of an AI LLM intentionally telling a witty joke? Like this steampunk cat is pretty cute and funny, but I don't know if the AI did that on purpose.

@trinsec @rugk Thanks, I'm aware, that's how I had been doing things. For some, it may be a bit more of a pain to copy-paste, and this could be more usable? But to each their own! Just another option.

I installed this Firefox add-on to make clicking the "Follow" button on external servers slightly less of a pain. You need to set your handle in the preferences. I also checked the no-pop-up option. You still need to click a couple extra times compared to following from your own server (Are you sure? something like that). Works for me. Thanks @rugk !
Images below show screen caps of the preferences and changed dialog.
QT: chaos.social/@rugk/10381087117

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You get annoyed by having to enter your #Mastodon handle each time you want to follow/interact with someone on a "foreign" page? I got that too, bu...

@luke_phys interesting! As a computer scientist, I do sanity checks constantly. Curious about an example of how you do this in theoretical physics.

I love doing the absolute simplest sanity checks when doing physics. If what you're doing doesn't pass those checks, it's wrong. Sometimes doing these checks leads to some deep intuition which you didn't have before. #TheoreticalPhysics #Science

#introduction

I’m Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, a theoretical physicist and feminist theorist with research specialties on dark matter, neutron stars, and Black feminist science, technology, and society studies. I’m a columnist for New Scientist and also author of an award-winning book The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred.

I can be found here and @chanda, and I am Vulcan at heart 🖖🏽

Interests: #BlackMastodon #startrek #Astrodon #anarchism #BLACKandSTEM

Hi all! Here is my #Introduction:
I am an assistant professor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. I work on deep generative modeling, deep learning and probabilistic modeling for image processing, life sciences, and engineering.

Drop me a message to talk about #generativeai #deepgenerativemodeling #deeplearning #machinelearning

Time for an . Nervous systems — yours, mine, those of mice, fish, and insects and worms — are made up of populations of different kinds of neurons that communicate with one another. Current electron microscopy generates millimeter-scale volumes with the morphology and synaptic connectivity of up to 10^5 neurons. As a scientist at the Allen Institute, I am mapping out the cell types and connectivity rules found in cortex and building computational tools to help others do the same.

@albertcardona @kendmiller @markgbaxter @neurobongo ya it's been a slow process of them trying to control many things. I draw the line at Microsoft Teams.

Hello folks, are there people here doing :python: and 🤖 for ? Comment below, I wanna follow more such people! 😀

#Introduction
Hi, I'm Lucas, a Belgian researcher at Google Brain in the beautiful Zürich. On twitter, I'm known as @giffmana.

I don't think Elon taking over Twitter is the end of the world, but I do like @sirbayes "JMLR moment" take of what's happening and wish to support it.

I post a mix of paper summary threads, hot takes, and shitposts; my main goals are to be entertaining and informative, in that order.

Cheers! 🍻

I never did an official #introduction when I came over to Mastodon!

👋 Hi I’m Chelsea, I have a PhD in Computational and Data Science and am an NTT prof teaching mostly Data Science and Computer Science but if I had to put myself in a box I’d call myself a Statistician🧮

I do a lot of SciComm through memes, pedagogical materials, TikToks, and jokes. My goal is to teach stats rigorously WITHOUT gatekeeping🥰

#DataScience #statistics #scicomm

Mastodon growing pains... switched servers and my #introduction is gone, so let me try again, this time with hashtags!

My #cognitiveneuroscience lab studies #learning, #memory, and #sleep using empirical as well as #computationalmodeling approaches.

(Did I do it right?)

My optimism about Mastodon has been oscillating at high amplitude and frequency, but my fingers are tightly crossed that we will be able to rebuild our science community here!

I am an associate professor at the Gatsby Computation Neuroscience Unit and Sainsbury Wellcome Centre at UCL and visiting scientist at .

I think we're pretty amazing learners and my goal is to unravel the computational principles governing learning in artificial and biological systems. I'm broadly interested in the theory of deep learning and applications to neuroscience and psychology.

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