Britt DK Gratreak 🖖 @Britt@social.cleverlibre.org

If you are also joining the #twitterMigration then you may want to download a copy of your twitter data (go to “Settings” → “Your Account” → “Download an archive of your data”). As a data point, it took three days for my archive to appear. I don’t know if it will take longer as lots of people do this.

"Even if academic Twitter ends up largely moving to Mastodon, the big question is whether the general public will move there, too, allowing scientists to communicate with more than just each other. “When I tweet, I’m talking to my neighbor and the person in the grocery store and the teenager who is thinking about studying science in college,” Fiesler says. “That’s the beauty of scientists on social media.”

https://www.science.org/content/article/musk-reshapes-twitter-academics-ponder-taking-flight

Paxlovid reduces risk of Long Covid (preprint)

Nirmatrelvir and the Risk of Post-Acute Sequelae of COVID-19 | medRxiv

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.11.03.22281783v1

For some reason during this exodus, at least as far as QOTO is concerned, I've noticed a very large portion of people coming in are women scientists. Sadly women seem to be a minority representation in STEM, so seeing this makes me happy as I think women bring a lot to STEM communities.

That said, I am left curious why... what about this exodus has more women in STEM migrating than usual.. Is musk in some way seen as more abrasive to women than he is to men?