DecaturNature @DecaturNature@social.cleverlibre.org

#ObliqueStrategies is Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt's deck of 100+ cards, each with a sentence of gnomic advice. They inspired Roxy Music, David Bowie, Talking Heads and Devo. My favorite? "Be the first person to not do something that no one else has ever not done before."

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Interesting question to @Tuliodna@twitter.com at #VGE22 -- "what will happen with #SARSCoV2 after the world cup?"

With people coming together from all over the world, what might this mean for cases, variant spread, even new variants?
Indeed, worth keeping close surveillance on!

Great talk by @LemeyLab@twitter.com at #VGE22 touching on the need for better understanding of #RSV.
Q&A highlighted how critical it is to have data analyses & sources that allow others to build upon them easily & openly - an ecosystem @nextstrain@twitter.com is proud to be part of!

THIS ➡️ is the smartest discussion you'll find about @Mastodon, the Fediverse, Activity Hub, decentralized social networks, and the future of content moderation.

1. Podcast by @lawfare out today: "Decentralized Social Media and the Great #Twitter Exodus" (https://www.lawfareblog.com/lawfare-podcast-decentralized-social-media-and-great-twitter-exodus)

2. Paper titled "Moderating the #Fediverse: Content Moderation on Distributed Social Media" (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4213674)

Let's talk!

@arozenshtein @klonick @benjaminwittes @RosenzweigP @qjurecic @DavidPriess @jentaub

Gentes que seguís nuestro trabajo a través de twitter, vénganse a Mastodon.

#RedesLibres

We've all been waiting for it, and here it is: A search function that will yield results from all Mastodon instances: https://fedsearch.io/?q=%22European+Space+Agency%22 \o/

Via @bewitchedmind

Empathy in nonhumans.

Caroline Driscoll and I are doing experimental work on the evolution of empathy in rats.

I never tire of telling people that in his 1890 pamphlet "Anarchist morality" Peter Kropotkin (he of "Mutual Aid" fame) suggested nonhumans displayed empathy.

What spurred him to write his 1890 pamphlet was Kropotkin's reading of Adam's Smith's 1759 book, "The Theory of Moral Sentiments."

Yay, congrats @suryamattu and @mynameisfiber for the launch of the Digital Witness Lab! "an innovative research laboratory where engineers will design software and hardware tools to track the inner workings of social media platforms" 🙌🏽 https://citp.princeton.edu/citp-launches-the-digital-witness-lab-to-help-journalists-track-bad-actors-on-platforms/ #journalism #OSINT

A bit overdue on my #introduction. I'm Heidy! Currently Engineering Director at Trail of Bits working on ML Assurance & Safety. I specialize in safety-critical systems specifically nuclear plants, UAVs, autonomous vehicles, and any complex safety systems really!

By training I'm a Software Safety Engineer with a Formal Verification PhD.

I'm a huge bouldering and outdoors enthusiast and climb within the V8/V9 range 🧗🏽‍♀️

Read this thread and then uninstall the native Twitter app and remove any sort of location permissions when requested (or use Firefox since its privacy angles are more in favor of people). https://twitter.com/stevekrenzel/status/1589700721121058817, archived for simpler reading at https://archive.ph/EKLCB (https://jacky.wtf/2022/11/fp3M)

Ballistic ejecta are solid (called blocks) or more fluid (called bombs) rock that is shot out of a #volcano at high-speed. There is a myth that you can just watch where they are going and dodge them, but the reality is that there is often far too many to dodge. These can be quite small, or the size of a fridge-sized refrigerator.

Bonus points if you get the reference.

Photo: Cerro Negro by Robert Citron 1968, from here: https://volcano.si.edu/gallery/ShowImage.cfm?photo=GVP-04122
#eruption #volcanology #geoscience #hazards

Hey, so, we've hit 1,028,362 monthly active users across the network today. 1,124 new Mastodon servers since Oct 27, and 489,003 new users. That's pretty cool.

With all the dopamine I get back from quitting the birb site, I managed to publish two blog posts in a week:

1. How I plan to change my usage of social media

https://popagandhi.com/2022-11-goodbye-twitter/

2. How I moved to a country I know is terrible but am here anyway

https://popagandhi.com/2022-11-america/

We just published this guide at WIRED this morning, for those wanting to build your follow list from your Twitter. #TwitteMigration https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-find-twitter-friends-on-mastodon/

Rather amused at progressive pundits / academics who despair at Mastodon's federated (& open source) network, who are finding out for the first time that all social change is also infrastructural change. Yep, one must leave the "platform" to upend platform capitalism

Wanna get an RSS feed of my timeline?

https://infosec.exchange/users/ScottMortimer.rss

Wanna get an RSS feed of your timeline?

https://{your.instance}/users/{your.username}.rss

suggestion: hashtags are important here. please use “Camel Case” so screen readers understand what the words are and can pronounce them properly. example:

#DogsOfMastodon not #dogsofmastodon

make sense??

Hi all, brand new here, but excited to see what's going on! I'm an ecologist and conservation scientist at the University of York. I'm expecting to share occasional thoughts about conservation, hopefully more often supplemented with gratuitous picture of birds - here's a sleepy African Scops Owl to start with.

#Introduction