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

I want to echo what other Mastodon admins are saying: please report any harassment or violative messages you're seeing. Unlike the birdsite, your local admin will likely react quickly -- and you'll make the instance better for everyone, not just yourself.

So... please don't just ignore! Let us know if there's a problem.

⚠️ Daily reminder to have a scroll through #introduction and spend some time welcoming our new community members.

Social media is just that - social. They’ve made the first move by putting themselves out there. So I challenge everyone to take a moment to say hi or follow. You might just make someone’s day 🤗

New paper in Nature Comms suggests that targeting soluble p-tau may be more effective during early stages of #Alzheimers disease rather than clearing #tau tangles present later in #dementia. This is because early cognitive decline most associated with CSF soluble p-tau.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-34129-4

Solubility seems to be the topic of the month. Boosting soluble beta-amyloid has been suggested as one of the reasons why #lecanemab might have worked where other #amyloid agents had failed.

Thinking fondly of a Twitter friend who was told by a colleague that she wasn’t a serious academic bc she wore mascara on her lower lashes. Mascara usage does not define one’s academic integrity — as if I had to say it. It’s also the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard.

With the #neurosciencemigration gaining momentum, I'm curious how everyone joining from Twitter is thinking about using the two platforms in the near future?

Twitter was really useful for finding people to write about. I’d often stumble across incredible stories of discovery, innovation and leadership. I hope #ScienceMastodon can be the same. If you come across extraordinary, inspirational #WomenInSTEM / researchers from other historically excluded groups, please let me know! #TwitterMigration

I’m quite impressed by (a) how helpful existing users of Mastodon have been for all of us noobs trying to learn a new system, and (b) by the deep and widely-held sense of a Fediverse culture (the fact that there’s a “we” that uses content warnings more liberally, alt text more frequently, etc) - it’s complete with a sense of place, ethics, identity. It’s fascinating, and makes me glad to have had the good fortune to stumble into it.

Next step: Have our universities setup their own Mastodon instances for their researchers. Mastodon is free software but someone will have to pay the bill for the servers.

Hey all, giving this a try! I'm a recently minted cognitive psychology PhD looking to get into data science. My academic interests are broad, but most prominently include categorization, recognition, and formal modelling of mental processes. I learn languages for fun, and probably play too much D&D in my spare time. Don't be a stranger! #intro #newtooter

#introduction time!
I am a social systems biologist.
I study how evolution created social life.
I study ant colonies as a model for development.
I study the evolution and impact of socially transferred materials.
I lead the Lab of Social Fluids at University of Fribourg.
I am also the founder of The Catalyst, a science entertainment collective.
I am passionate about scicomm, gender equality, and making academia a better place.

@DrRoo I am so sorry. We will make this a better place for all.

Hey, I'm feeling a bit lost here, but coming from Twitter, where I followed the Covid science and data, Zero-Covid people, mask-wearers and the #actuallyautistic hashtag. #longcovid #covidisnotover #wearamask

Hi all! I've been using the handle toorsdenote for YEARS, but if I'm leaving Twitter I might as well mix things up with my username as well!

Pandion is the genus of the osprey. Toorsdenote aside, almost all my handles over the years have been birds of prey, so it seemed fitting. :)

I'm concerned the honeymoon period is already over as I've had to block and report 3 accounts this morning for unprovoked attacks. 1 "gender critic" aka transphobe, because I'm a trans inclusive feminist and 2 for sexual harrassment.

I wish so much this would be a kinder, inclusive place. I know a social media utopia doesn't exist but damn, I'd hoped the good vibes would've lasted longer 😔

Anyway, I wish everyone a lovely day, filled kindness and inclusion.

#trolls #GoodMorning #BeKind

This is kind of an odd thing to post but I really want to emphasise how important it is to have political content behind a CW tag, and not boost posts that don’t adhere to that convention. Same thing applies with images and alt text. For those of us who have moved over from twitter I think it’s important that we pay attention to this. Mastodon isn’t twitter and we should really try to think carefully about how we interact here

Time for an #introduction. Nervous systems — yours, mine, those of mice, fish, and insects and worms — are made up of populations of different kinds of neurons that communicate with one another. Current electron microscopy generates millimeter-scale volumes with the morphology and synaptic connectivity of up to 10^5 neurons. As a scientist at the Allen Institute, I am mapping out the cell types and connectivity rules found in cortex and building computational tools to help others do the same.

After 1 week on #Mastodon, the biggest difference I notice compared to #Twitter is the way each network makes me feel.

Twitter:
Open, scroll…
“Why are people so horrible to each other?”

Mastodon:
Open, scroll…
“Wow! There are so many interesting people in the world! I want to know more of them.”

I sense being here is changing my perspective of social media. #TwitterMigration

The collapse of Twitter is a system breakdown. Mastodon and the fediverse represent something different: _system change_. From for-profit "Big Tech" to nonprofit, open source, community-owned public spaces.

System change is always harder than you think. It always incurs short-term costs, with hoped for long-term benefits.

The next few weeks will be really tough for the fediverse. Stick around, vibe with it, and you just might help us put a huge part of the web back in community hands. <3

Question: Lots of people are putting screenshots / pics in their Toots, but I can’t see them? I can see the writing, but not the pic?

I click on them, still can’t see them?

I have ‘Hide media marked as sensitive’ ticked
And ‘Always expand posts with content warnings’ Unticked.

So why can’t I see all these pics?
Apologies for the basic level of this question!
#NewHere