#scitwitter — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #scitwitter, aggregated by home.social.
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Going to try to recapture some of the old magic that was #MedTwitter and #SciTwitter back in the day!
I'm Adam, an internal medicine physician, historian, author, and artificial intelligence researcher. I study how people and machines make decisions together. Great to meet everyone!
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#SciTwitter is dead, all hail #Bluesky #SciSky! Here are the stats for my Twitter (red) and Bluesky (blue) followers in the last 3.5 months.
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I guess it is not just #scitwitter that is moving to #bluesky:
https://www.wired.com/story/taylor-swift-fans-leaving-x-following-trumps-election/
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so #twitter #x looks like it killed its app on the mac. Is it time to pull the plug. I’ve shifted over there for a few weeks, since there has been much more scientific interaction there than here. But don't know how this is going to resolve. Any thoughts? #scitwitter
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A confession: I made an account on #bluesky a couple of weeks ago.
tl;dr it's not as good as #Mastodon.
I'm fully committed to the #fediverse and don’t like the idea of bluesky; but I made an account because I missed a bunch of #SciTwitter people who didn’t come over to Mastodon.
My (entirely subjective) thoughts:
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@PessoaBrain Indeed I have noticed that many of former #scitwitter seem to be attracted by Bluesky.. do you think they’ll stay there? What do you think they prefer there over Mastodon?
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CW: Long-ish post comparing twitter and Mastodon
Looking back at my tweets (while deleting them), I have to say there was definitely a different atmosphere there, at least on #SciTwitter, that I miss a bit on #Mastodon. Hard to say exactly what but I’ll try to formulate some aspects below.
I guess the main goal is that replicating these would improve the experience here? Let me know what you think or if you think of any other tweaks that would improve the Mastodon experience!
things seem more smooth on Twitter, technically speaking. For example the scrolling on Twitter is somehow much smoother than on Mastodon. Probably speed but also something else, the way it stops at the right time or keeps scrolling or something?
even visually, the tweets are more compact, so you can see more of them in the same space which helps with parsing more content.
I spent a lot of my time there (twitter) looking back for old tweets and reposting them in a new convo (in a useful way). This is practically impossible to do on Masto without search, hopefully the new search will help with that!
definitely, we used quote tweets a lot and 90% of the time for good things. It is really missing on here.
a lot more “self-promotion” -type posts, which were actually nice to see
a lot more “congratulation”- type posts (of course, following the self-promotion posts), also really nice to see
the threads just look good, ideal size, easy to scroll (again), nice that you can answer to each one separately and it is clear what you are answering to, unlike on Masto (for now).
answers were not spared, and we knew they’d boost the original tweet, so you’d be happy, grateful to get answers.
I was originally against having an algorithm here to show posts (other than the current chronological one), but I am starting to really miss the choice to have it. I know people are working on this on our instance at least and that’s great 😁
people maybe had a higher resistance threshold to criticism, and maybe because answers boost your tweet anyway, you would be more encouraged to engage with all answers. On Twitter you would rarely be left without an answer. On here it seems much more common (even if it’s not a criticism). Sometimes I even wonder if people are properly notified that they got answers to their posts. 🤔
Conclusion: The general impression is that on there (twitter), everything encouraged you to tweet, interact, engage because it was good for the original poster and good for you, and what you were saying was filtered anyway and would not invade others’ timelines. On Masto, there is always a tension before posting. Like a “Is it worth it?” Not exactly sure where it comes from but probably having an algorithm option will help with that, the challenge being to do that without turning Mastodon in the same addictive machine that #Twitter was.
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The abstract submission deadline for the annuual meeting of the German Zoological Society #DZG in #Kassel has been extended to July 15, 2023!
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@Pjobphd @AstroKatie @hollie I would be interested to know what people find hard - because the generic complaint I hear is "it's too hard", but I've never heard any specifics (although I've not gone looking, tbh).
I think it's unfortunate, but not unexpected, that Musk broke the ability of people to transfer to Mastodon with their friends (as far as that was possible) which I think made my transfer easier - because I auto populated my follow list with several of the people I already followed...
My question here though is that #scitwitter took time to build because Twitter took time to build, but I suspect that with a following -- as a group moving to another platform -- for scitwitter folks is feasible because y'all can say "We're now moving over here" -- and if enough folks say they're moving, then people who are actually engaged will follow.
So I do question the idea that it will take years to transfer and build back up a following.
I'd also say that it's *very* clear that Twitter has become a firehouse of disinformation and from that perspective there's real urgency to getting people off the platform. By remaining there I think that people are doing a disservice to the people they're helping to inform as they're exposing them to more disinformation.
It's pretty clear that a lot of following on Twitter is very low quality without actual engagement, and I, like many, have found that because the people I follow or who follow me are actually interested in the stuff witter about then I get way more engagement on here than I ever got on the bird site.
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10 years. This feels like both yesterday and a lifetime ago. #scitwitter
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NIH grant-writing #scitwitter what is your response as a reviewer to an approach section that collects the methods at the end of each aim instead of integrating them with design? Why do think it should be one way or the other.
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It's like, kind of noisy trying to keep up with all of you.
#scitwitter #mathtwitter #academictwitter -
Followed a bunch of my #scitwitter friends that I found on @BWJones account. Hope they find me #science #scicomm
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An important and transformative milestone for #SciTwitter and #MedTwitter to appreciate as well
RT @Teela
A statue honoring Henrietta Lacks whose cells resulted in countless medical breakthroughs will be built in her birthplace Roanoke #Virginia
The statue replaces Gen Robert E Lee
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@xtaldave ORCID and Wikidata are ok - so it is best to make links there #scimastodon #scitwitter
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my https://fedifinder.glitch.me/ went from 23 to 73 in 2 days - it's amazing to see the #TwitterMigration to the #Fediverse / Mastodon , hope many if not most folks make the effort and be patient to get #scitwitter and #MedTwitter on there. #biofab #biofabrication #biomanfacturing
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@clathrin @StearnsLab It’s not about judging but the arguments that ‘as long as we continue to make it good here, there will always be #scitwitter’ echoes in a vacuum with all terrible things brewing on the platform- against science, truth, inclusion… it creates an illusion of an ivory tower (perhaps fitting for academics), protected from the sea of offal & awful that now :twitter: is awash with…
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@STCmicrobeblog Indeed, I'm trying to put interesting posts at Mastodon and not Twitter these days... I didn't expect that poll to fill all of #SciTwitter 's bandwidth all weekend!
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@jebyrnes I think you hit the nail on the head with a lot of your pros/cons! I'm glad most of #SciTwitter seems to have migrated en masse over to here. As we all learn and get comfortable here, it'll start to feel more like home. <3
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CW: Dumb bird site joke
I know just the thing to make all of us #SciTwitter immigrants feel right at home here!
I have an extremely important question for the group. I’m listed as the second first co-author on…
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Hey, even if it's really not the end of Twitter, why not let everyone know how we feel. Here's my #ScienceTwitter #SciTwitter Mt Rushmore: @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected]
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Where is #SciTwitter I am lonely and I have cool results I want to share
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“Mastodon is, at least for the moment, the hot ticket.” #scitwitter #twittermigration
https://www.technologynetworks.com/tn/articles/should-scitwitter-migrate-elsewhere-367346
