Clif @Clif@social.cleverlibre.org

#introduction
Hi! I'm the Director of Communications at ORCID. If you're in research, you may know of us: we uniquely identify & connect researchers & innovators to their affiliations and contributions across disciplines, borders, and time.

I have a long history in #SciComms. When I'm not doing that, I'm working on my first novel or planning my next concert adventure.

I love ORCID's values of Openness, Trust, and Inclusivity. I'm also keen on kindness & collegiality which is why I'm here. 😀

After yesterday's kick off Ocean:ICE meeting, I had the long and rewarding but alas rare experience of after meeting chats with 2 senior PIs in the project who are also #WomenInSTEM. In fact this may be the first time ever that has happened. Lots of interesting science and we compared experiences that seem all too common in all our careers, I genuinely believe there are (good) changes coming to how academia works though.

#noxp

Re-posting from new account: had this published a few months ago:
https://networkcultures.org/tactical-media-room/2022/07/26/fighting-disinformation-were-solving-the-wrong-problems/

> Instead of trying to legislate mis/disinformation away, we should instead be looking closely at how is it possible that it spreads so fast. We should be finding ways to fix the media funding crisis; and we should be making sure that future generations receive the mental tools that would allow them to cut through biases, hoaxes, rhetorical tricks, and logical fallacies weaponized to wage information wars.

To supplement my last toot of 800,000 years of CO2 data, here's a graph of the past 2000 years for CO2, methane, and nitrous oxide (all greenhouse gases, measured in parts per million) again showing the effect of human activities driving up the concentrations. These are the gases driving #climate change.

It would be truly hilarious if everyone here who can afford it signed up to support #Mastodon for $9/month (which is what you pay when you do $10/mo annually.)

I won’t pay Elon to monetize my content and show me adds while he lets Nazis harass us.

But for no ads in a place where Nazis actually get booted? That’s a bargain. https://Patreon.com/mastodon

One of my favorite images taken with the Curiosity Rover's NavCams. Taken on Sol 3324 as the rover made it's way through Maria Gordon Notch.

NASA/JPL-Caltech/Kevin M. Gill

#mars #science #space #NASA

Republicans have a compelling partisan interest in securing Elon Musk’s control of a leading communications hub for journalists, and have responded companies pausing their ads on Twitter by threatening the firms with political retribution. https://www.mediamatters.org/twitter/gops-corrupt-bargain-elon-musk

Hi, this is Greta. You are welcome to follow me here, if you prefer planet earth to planet mars.

It's true!

RT @adamdavidson

I have Mastodon on one tab and twitter on the next.

I am truly a different person when I go from one to the other.

I become angry, sarcastic on twitter.

Calmer, more open, constructive here.

Amazing.

The Dutch National Coordinator for Security and Counterterrorism warns of extremists using conspiracy theories to undermine trust in the democratic rule of law. https://nos.nl/artikel/2451478-nctv-waarschuwt-voor-complotextremisten

Learning to recognize the traits of conspiratorial thinking makes people more resilient to this kind of misinformation. You can learn more about it in 'The Conspiracy Theory Handbook', by Stephan Lewandowsky & John Cook
➡️http://sks.to/conspiracy

#inoculationtheory #misinformation

Okay this might be a long post

One thing that I realised is making #twittermigration harder for people to switch is because the whole concept can feel daunting & overwhelming for non-tech savvy people.

With Twitter to them it was straight forward and easy to find topics they enjoy but with mastodon its a bit different.
So if you're new to mastodon or you want to introduce someone to mastodon here are some tips, useful sites & tools:
### Tips:
- Choosing a home instance isn't as importance as it seems, don't overthink it. Yes moderation rules & policies may differ but they all have one thing in common: Be a decent human. You **always** have the option to migrate your account to a new instance.
- Toots (or posts if you think toots are cringe ) are what we call micro-blogging instead of tweets
- You’re supposed to "boost" AKA "reblog" toots that you like.Since Mastodon does not have an algorithm that surfaces toots that have been liked a lot, boosting is the best way to help spread stuff that you like, and to show appreciation. (credit to @orsvarn for this comment)
- Another way to fill your timeline with content you enjoy is to: Find other people with similar interests, follow them, favourite their posts, boost their posts, use hashtags. rinse, repeat. (credit to @garry)
- If you ever feel yourself getting sucked into arguments on the #Fediverse, you might want to take advantage of the instance mute/block feature!
Instances tend to foster a culture, so if you find people from a specific site tend to be bothering you, muting/blocking that instance will keep other members of that community from bothering you as well.
- Finally do not share private/sensitive information via DMs on Mastodon. Direct Messages are not E2E. **Keep it in mind**

### Useful tools & resources:
[Twitodon](https://twitodon.com/) - Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon
[FediFinder](https://fedifinder.glitch.me/)- Similar to Twitodon
[Fedi Tips](https://fedi.tips/) - an informal, unofficial guide for non-technical people who want to use Mastodon and the wider Fediverse
[Fedi Directory](https://fedi.directory) - A human-curated small selection of accounts to spice up your timeline.
[Trunk](https://communitywiki.org/trunk) -Trunk allows you to mass-follow a bunch of people in order to get started with Mastodon or any other platform on the Fediverse
[Fediverse.info](https://fediverse.info/explore/people) -growing list of people and topics can help you discover mutual interests with people around the world
**Mobile Apps:**
[Metatext for iOS ](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/metatext/id1523996615)
[Tusky for Android ](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.keylesspalace.tusky&hl=en&gl=USt)

Lastly if you are interested in setting up your own instance you can learn via https://learnfoss.org/ its completely free and its made by the wonderful @stux

I apologize for the long post lol, just hope this helps anyones transition over

In recent years, we became too comfortable letting #Twitter define journalism & media. Algorithms often dictated the narratives we collectively paid attention to.

Absurd trends were covered by news outlets & ballooned into major stories while we missed so much real substance. And the quick takes of uninformed politicians & bad actors were forced upon anyone participating in the network.

It was bad for democracy. The #Mastodon model makes me hopeful we can do better. #twittermigration

When I first joined Twitter, it took me several tries and some effort to understand how to use and enjoy it. Mastodon will be the same for most. It certainly was for me.

The thing that makes Mastodon a great place is the people. Part of the reason is that it's been a refuge for people marginalized by society and networks like Twitter.

Try to observe and respect the norms, which include respecting each other, using CW, and adding media descriptions to be a good #a11y.

💙

#TwitterMigration

@albinokid

Tip 1: Use hashtags. There's no algorithm to suggest followers or shove posts into your feed in the hopes you follow someone.

Tip 2: Boost (re-post) toots liberally. *You* are the algorithm.

Tip 3: Use CW (content warnings / content wrappers) to discuss politics, the meta.

Tip 4: To create "threads", make the first post public and each reply "unlisted" to prevent clogging up your instance's feed.

Tip 5: Provide text descriptions, even just basic ones, when attaching photos or media.

Tip 6: Use the "report" features for moderating trolls so your admins can take action.