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I normally put my Twitter @ on my posters at conferences so I can connect with people I meet, or if someone wants to get in touch about my poster later they have an easy, relatively informal way to do so instead of email. Is anyone else considering putting their Mastodon handle on their conference posters?

As I do some last-minute work on my poster for Society for Neuroscience next week, I'm considering putting this with my email address. How about y'all?




Are you thinking of switching servers?

I moved from .social (great, but enormous!) to the friendly waters of .ie (highly recommended, people here are lovely). If you've just set up an account, though, it can feel mystifying.

I wish I'd found this *enormously* useful post by @djnavarro first. See this part on migrating to a new instance:

blog.djnavarro.net/posts/2022-

Torymus sp. chalcid wasp today at the Cambridge Botanic Garden, UK. Despite the large ovipositor, this tiny metallic green parasitoid wasp does not present any danger to its untimely perch, AKA my finger.
inaturalist.org/observations/1

Real time. Hi I'm Dani, a medical lab scientist. I've been on the net since the '80s, so this isn't my first rodeo. :blobcatfingerguns:

If you don't know what we do, we make doctors look smart. We do all the blood and body fluid testing — , , , , , etc. We are the jack of all lab trades.

In my previous life I was in . I love all kinds of , , , , about games and media, , and . My guilty pleasure is .

Damn. I wrote hear instead of here. Where's the edit button?

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@DaveFernig Yes. Don't really need that right now, though they've been useful on Twitter once in a while. I assume nothing here is encrypted, except for the transport layer :)

Now I just have to find out how to send direct toots to someone (not DMs). Lot's of fun hear, like polysaccharides, without which we wouldn't exist.

In case you wonder what I do: I run a small last-mile Internet operation in rural Eastern Poland (no, that's not me in the picture, that's our technician)

Academics, I am BEGGING YOU when you move on to a new uni please for the love of god leave a forwarding email!

Y'all all moving to a new uni every 5 seconds and your old email just dies. It's probably cleansing, like when a force quit closes 500 tabs, but I'm a tab! Please I want to talk to youuuuuu.

@whynot Guess I'll get used to it. Found the person, followed.

@whynot I'm blind. Couldn't find the search box :) Thanks.

Not gonna give up after half an hour here, but how do I follow people on other servers? [no, I didn't RTFM]

@nerkowiec@mastodon.social Będzie ciekawie. Nowy świat. Nie zniszczmy pierwotnych mieszkańców.

Wetlands, where I live, two years ago. Now they're drying quickly.

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