“The loss of science on #Twitter is a contemporary mass extinction event”, says Professor Edward #Holmes, who recently was awarded the prestigious Croonian Medal by the Royal Society. He has also deleted his Twitter account recently. “Twitter used to be THE place where you shared ideas, data, preprints and papers. Now it’s a post-Apocalyptic hell hole.” #scicomm
https://bylinetimes.com/2024/01/16/elon-musks-war-against-science-evidence-and-objective-truth/
Elon Musk's War Against Science, Evidence and Objective Truth – Byline Times
Scientists are abandoning Elon Musk's Twitter amid a "mass extinction event" on the social media network, says Philipp Markolin.Philipp Markolin (Byline Times)
Ben Royce 🇺🇸🇺🇦 Don't Boo: Vote
in reply to Carlo Gubitosa :nonviolenza: • • •people here on #mastodon also still on #twitter:
i understand it is large and full of content
it is also a nazi bar
you know it
you *have* to leave it
not because some asshole like me on mastodon is preaching to you
but because you know, in your heart, it simply is not good for you
leave
mori_au 🇦🇺
in reply to Carlo Gubitosa :nonviolenza: • • •j_bertolotti
in reply to mori_au 🇦🇺 • • •As a rule, universities don't understand social media. They have a Xwitter account because everyone does (did), but they have no idea how to use it. Explaining them Mastodon is a lost battle.
@gubi
Petra van Cronenburg
in reply to j_bertolotti • • •@j_bertolotti @mori_au More and more #universities (especially European ones) join Mastodon with their own instance. I recently saw a list of universities/research #institutes but can't refind it. One of the most active is the @uniinnsbruck https://www.uibk.ac.at/en/newsroom/2024/mastodon-for-all-university-employees/ The Helmholtz Association is on @helmholtz The universities of the Netherlands: https://www.surf.nl/en/mastodon-pilot-for-research-and-education
And here a list of #academics (it's sign-in, so we have more than on the list): https://github.com/nathanlesage/academics-on-mastodon
GitHub - nathanlesage/academics-on-mastodon: A list of various lists consisting of academics on Mastodon
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