What's the community of Research Software Engineers on Mastodon?
I know of HPC stuff at hpc.social, but haven't seen as much about RSE more specifically. I know of @us_rse @de_rse and @nordic_rse (someday), but it's not very organized yet. Any directory of follows? Also, what are relevant tags you all use: #RSE and #RSEng are split, #SciComp, #HPC ? #ResearchSoftware #OpenScience #ResearchData ?
@rkdarst @us_rse @de_rse @nordic_rse Great question and I have been wondering the same thing. Need to raise with SocRSE (UK) to get a mastodon account since they have a lot of followers in the community and that move in itself might bring a lot of people over here.
I have seen Guppe groups used for this sort of thing https://a.gup.pe I just created one called @researchsoftware Any toot you do that mentions that name will go out to everyone who follows that account. Kind of like an email distribution list.
There is also https://fedi.directory for finding lists of people to follow. We could inquire about getting an Research Software Engineering topic created on there.
@mattasdata @rkdarst @us_rse @de_rse @nordic_rse @researchsoftware
Hi @mattasdata and all others. There is a SocRSE (UK) Mastodon account coming in the next few days. I will make an announcement on Slack and let people know when it will be available.
thanks for the information, and good to hear this is finally happening 🙂
@mattasdata I'll do it over the weekend.
@mattasdata @rkdarst @us_rse @de_rse @nordic_rse @researchsoftware
I like the idea of "groups" that one can follow. Kind of like a curated hashtag. I'm following @researchsoftware now. I also ran into https://chirp.social/ recently, but haven't created anything there yet.