M.G. Solis @spectralsoul@qoto.org

The four stages of Mastodon user:
* what’s a Mastodon
* I feel lost and alone how does this work
* oh wow this is actually pretty cool
* I’m an instance admin now

This is a recreation of a Twitter thread of my response to someone who said re: scientists moving to Mastodon: "Leaving the global community to enter a silo makes no sense."

I think this represents a common misconception about Mastodon! The entire point of federated social media is that it isn't a silo. On Twitter you are in a Twitter silo. On a Mastodon instance you can interact with anyone on ANY instance.

[thread continues :) ]

@gregeganSF - I may actually have versions of those 2 missing pictures; it's hard to be sure!

Quick #introduction!

I'm a researcher working on problems to do with deep learning and proteins at Microsoft Research New England. You'll see me post about interesting papers, pictures of food, and whatever else I'm interested in at the moment.

The resplendent quetzal (Pharomachrus mocinno) is a small bird found in Central America. Males grow ostentatious tail feathers during mating season, that can reach up to one meter in length. Quetzal birds were considered sacred by the Aztecs and Incas, serving as a template for gods like Quetzalcoatl.
Or in short: They are very pretty to look at
Photography by 'Mario Wong'.
#nature #biology #photography #zoology #birds #ecology #quetzal

I haven't done an #introduction so I guess I should introduce myself.

My name is Tom, I'm a #Data and #Cloud platform engineer at #NASA JPL and I've been slaving away there for the past 6 1/2 years.

I also enjoy educating, open science/data and #opensource software in my spare time.

I'm also #autistic to add to the entertainment.

I'm a #neuroscientist in Singapore using #zebrafish to understand appetite control and gut-brain signaling pathways. Check out my lab at www.carolineweelab.com. My other hobbies are hanging out with my two cats, rock climbing, and swimming, but the former is to me wayyy more fun than the latter two New to this app and still rather confused, but happy to try out something new!

Hi all,

Software developer, Linux user, and keyboard geek here.

I just signed up and I'm trying out Mastodon.

Just looking to see how it goes.

Luke

hey what do you think are the most important papers ever written about twitter?

I am thinking about this because someone on tiktok told me I should actually help humanity instead of using my doctorate to write papers about twitter.

How long before he is calling them toots?

@mraharrison

Final thought:
If you are talking about classical mathematics, "proof by contradiction is unambiguous".
But if you are talking about constructive mathematics, it is potentially ambiguous, because, unfortunately, not everybody adopts the conventions of references (9.1) and (9.2) above. Which I quite like, but, on the other hand, there are two proof techniques that involve reaching a contradiction. They are different in constructive logic, but they amount the same in classical logic.
10/10

Biden’s Twitter page is being fact checked by Musk’s engineers.