Peter Gordon @pgordon@qoto.org
Materials chemist • CU Nanofab • mostly ALD • big fan of art, nature, astrostuff • everything is beautiful and nothing hurts
Hey #ChemiVerse
Nature Chemistry is recruiting for a full-time editor!
The ideal candidate will have expertise in chemical biology or biological chemistry.
Closing date for applications: 12th December
Locations: London, Berlin, New York, Shanghai
#Editorial #Publishing #Chemistry #Jobs #ScienceJobs #ChemJobs
Boosts appreciated!
Twitter might be going down. @beatty is trying to preserve the Science Twitter Graph.
Go to https://opencheck.is/scitwitter, provide your Twitter handle and your @ORCID_Org ID - that's it!
Just for fun, I visualized the network: http://leonlotter.de/twittergraph/graph.html
When I ran the code a few minutes ago, we had already around 600 nodes and 5000 edges in the network!
#Science # Twitter #TwitterMigration #network #graph #networkscience #scicomm #datavis
@cognition @neuro @phdstudents
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@pruvisto @Luca I've made a quick how-to for importing followers using debirdify.com
It's nice how #PeerTube videos are embedded! Great integration.
See this toot:
https://mstdn.science/@corneliusroemer/109309294133602144
(From a 2018 tweet of mine):
November 7th is the birthday of both Lise Meitner and Marie Curie. Of the 14 chemical elements named after real people (not mythological figures), only 2 are named after women: meitnerium and curium (the latter of which is in honour of both Marie & her husband).
#WomenInScience #Chemistry #Physics #ChemiVerse #OnThisDay #Curie #Meitner #PeriodicTable
Okay this might be a long post 
One thing that I realised is making #twittermigration harder for people to switch is because the whole concept can feel daunting & overwhelming for non-tech savvy people.
With Twitter to them it was straight forward and easy to find topics they enjoy but with mastodon its a bit different.
So if you’re new to mastodon or you want to introduce someone to mastodon here are some tips, useful sites & tools:
Tips:
- Choosing a home instance isn’t as importance as it seems, don’t overthink it. Yes moderation rules & policies may differ but they all have one thing in common: Be a decent human. You always have the option to migrate your account to a new instance.
- Toots (or posts if you think toots are cringe
) are what we call micro-blogging instead of tweets - You’re supposed to “boost” AKA “reblog” toots that you like.Since Mastodon does not have an algorithm that surfaces toots that have been liked a lot, boosting is the best way to help spread stuff that you like, and to show appreciation. (credit to @orsvarn for this comment)
- Another way to fill your timeline with content you enjoy is to: Find other people with similar interests, follow them, favourite their posts, boost their posts, use hashtags. rinse, repeat. (credit to @garry)
- If you ever feel yourself getting sucked into arguments on the #Fediverse, you might want to take advantage of the instance mute/block feature!
Instances tend to foster a culture, so if you find people from a specific site tend to be bothering you, muting/blocking that instance will keep other members of that community from bothering you as well. - Finally do not share private/sensitive information via DMs on Mastodon. Direct Messages are not E2E. Keep it in mind
Useful tools & resources:
Twitodon - Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon
FediFinder- Similar to Twitodon
Fedi Tips - an informal, unofficial guide for non-technical people who want to use Mastodon and the wider Fediverse
Fedi Directory - A human-curated small selection of accounts to spice up your timeline.
Trunk -Trunk allows you to mass-follow a bunch of people in order to get started with Mastodon or any other platform on the Fediverse
Fediverse.info -growing list of people and topics can help you discover mutual interests with people around the world
Mobile Apps:
Metatext for iOS 
Tusky for Android 
Lastly if you are interested in setting up your own instance you can learn via https://learnfoss.org/ its completely free and its made by the wonderful @stux
I apologize for the long post lol, just hope this helps anyones transition over 
Are you new to Mastodon?
Do you need some help? A simple guide to how Mastodon works?
Check out my website, it answers lots and lots of questions you might have:
It's written in non-technical language, and aimed at a general audience. If you're new here and feeling a bit lost, this is the site for you!
(There are also tips for advanced users in a separate section of the site.)
If you can't find the answers you want from the site, @ or message me 🙂
A simple way to find your Twitter friends on Mastodon :
1- type “Mastodon” into the Twitter search bar
2- click the 3 dots to the right of the search bar with "people you follow" in the Search filters
3- Scroll through tweets from people you follow who have mentioned Mastodon
Materials chemist • CU Nanofab • mostly ALD • big fan of art, nature, astrostuff • everything is beautiful and nothing hurts
