DecaturNature @DecaturNature@social.cleverlibre.org

Article: How to think like an aerosol scientist this holiday season to stay healthy
(listen/read #accessibility)

By John Daley & Paolo Zialcita
Ft. Professor Jose-Luis Jiminez @jljcolorado
Nov 16/22, CPR News
#SARSCoV #COVIDisAirborne #IAQ #COVID19 #pandemic #flu #RSV #CO2 #PublicHealth #BringBackMasks #ChooseARespirator
https://www.cpr.org/2022/11/16/colorado-covid-flu-rsv-indoor-air-quality/

@Decaturish It's great to see Decaturish on Mastodon. Welcome!
#Atlanta #Journalism #DecaturGA #Decatur #Georgia #GeorgiaUSA

I didn’t like irc due to toxicity & harassment so I left, despite having & making tons of friends there.
I didn’t like Facebook, especially the racism, so I stopped posting there.
I have posted a couple hundred posts on Instagram, thirst traps & cat pics & food mostly.
I never liked Twitter either, but reporters would use it to find me & it served to help get my expertise out in the news.
I tried posting a family holiday meal toot here hashtagged with Thanksgiving & was immediately informed by someone who doesn’t even follow me & isn’t on the same mastodon instance that I should have put a CW on it in case my food pics upset a vegetarian. I deleted it.
Honestly I don’t know if I’ll ever post that much anywhere ever again. I don’t have time.
It seems immediately tone-policey here. And block-splainey. At least that’s been my experience so far. Honeys, I know how to block & mute. I’m likely much older than you & have deep lived experience in being harassed online from the very first places one could be harassed online. Please don’t give me unsolicited advice. Ever.
It’s just as well. I’m very tired & I don’t see the point of posting in a brand new place for misogyny to find me, harass me, then pile more well-meaning or ill-meaning explainers-of-how-the-Internet-works Reply Guys into my mentions.
I’ll post whatever the fuck I want, where I want, & I’m not obligated to respond to anything.
If you need to reach me for my work, email info@Lutasecurity.com & if you’re a member of the press, press@Lutasecurity.com is where I will always direct you, even if you have my Signal number.
Why?
Because I’m a CEO & a mom & I do not have time to route & schedule your requests. Boundaries are healthy & I’m happy to remind anyone of mine.
Happy Sunday & may your boundaries be respected by all.

Hi all, I'm a freelance science journalist covering life sciences and tech, bylines
@Time, @nytimes, @nature, @Smithsonian, @NatGeo, @Wired. Just starting to figure out Mastodon, I'm also at https://mas.to/@Sandeepr

Maybe you all know this already but twitter allowed academics who are otherwise marginalised by white, male hieracrchies to enjoy reach and visibility. (Yes, I count myself as a beneficiary here).

For many who have 'odd' names that don't get cited as much, or people who cannot travel to present talks easily, or are not invited as often or speak in unfamiliar accents, it was a chance to let their work and message speak for itself.

We'll need to reclaim that possibility for everyone. #Academic

Mostly in order to practice the Mastodon interface, I'm going to reproduce one of my posts from the now-defunct Google+ service (on probability paradoxes, first posted Sep 11, 2014) as a thread here. 🧵

We've closed up our Twitter account. A platform whose owner uses it to bait violent anti-democratic conspiracy theories and engage in overt anti-semitism is not a place compatible with our mission to inform, create accountability, and improve democracy.

From the garden

Handsome friend on my neighborhood stroll.

The GOP’s Dangerous Lies About “Grooming” https://www.damemagazine.com/2022/04/11/the-gops-dangerous-lies-about-grooming/

Them: Faving posts on Mastodon is useless, only the OP sees it.

Me, when a post gets faved: awwww, little internet hug ✨

On Twitter, some people are warning that Mastodon server/instance admins can read your DMs. As if this would somehow be worse than Musk and Zuckerberg reading your messages.

More importantly: if Twitter & Facebook have taught us anything, it's that you shouldn't use a *public* social media platform for exchanging *private* messages.

That's what Signal is for.

Tomorrow at 7:15 AM ET, Orion will fly about 80 miles above the surface of the moon. You can tune in here: https://www.nasa.gov/nasalive #space #science #nasa #artemis

Texas Observer did it right.

Set up their own instance for staff: not just accounts on other instances.

Welcome to the Fedi:
@TexasObserver

https://texasobserver.social/public/local

Alex Stamos, the director of the Stanford Internet Observatory, said it was “odd” that Mr. Musk, who has spent months complaining about Twitter’s problem with bot accounts, would use a Twitter poll in which bots could be voting to decide the issue and then assume that the result “reflects some kind of legitimate ‘voice of the people.’”
“It is definitely possible for small groups to create large numbers of accounts to manipulate features like polls,” he added. #Twitter https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/19/technology/trump-twitter-musk.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Mastodon Day

Friday November 18, 2022 - An Incredible Day In Internet History

You were here.

It started with the Twitter lockout. 10,000 new users an hour. Almost a quarter million migrated to Mastodon in one day. The servers struggled. Remarkably, admins all over the world built up capacity in real time. New users were patient. The system held.

It's running better now. There will be more hard days ahead, but people powered social media has arrived.

#twittermigration #NewUsers #Welcome

Fired from the bird site? Or another company? Wikimedia is hiring! Come work on the last best place on the internet.

https://wikimediafoundation.org/about/jobs/#section-1

When I came over to #mastodon and introduced myself a few weeks ago, a couple of people I didn’t know made me feel very welcome.

To anyone who has just arrived— it’s gonna be ok. We have blankets, hot chocolate, furry animals, and a crackling fire. Make yourself at home.