apinae @apinae@social.cleverlibre.org

In Europe, October 2022 was by far the warmest ever recorded, beating the previous record by over 0.5⁰C!
https://climate.copernicus.eu/surface-air-temperature-october-2022

See link for nice curated lists of academics on Mastodon, with subjects ranging from Astrophysics to History to Law to Medieval History to Neuroscience.

Thank you to @hendrikerz and @perspektivbrocken for maintaining it.

https://github.com/nathanlesage/academics-on-mastodon

Are you an #earlyCareerAcademic looking for the next step in your career? Why not join us in Bergen, Norway as a tenure-track associate professor in #visualization or #visualDataScience with promotion to full professor after successful evaluation? I have the same position, so let me know if you have any questions!

Applications are due by the end of the month! #academicJob #facultyPosition #academicJobs #ResearchJobs
Learn more here: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/229271/tenure-track-associate-professor-in-informatics-visualization-visual-data-science

8bucks.org is available. Wouldn't that be a fun Mastodon server!? #twittermigration

Reminder to #journalists that I built Storywrangler while I was #dataVisualization artist-in-residence at the University of Vermont's Computational Story Lab and it provides ngram timeseries from the #Twitter firehose (10% sample), more than 100bn tweets

Here's "mastodon" frequency this year 🤯 https://storywrangling.org/ngrams?ngrams=mastodon

Paper: https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/sciadv.abe6534

#journalism #socialScience #mastodon #metafedi

The call for PhDs is now open at the #EuropeanUniversityInstitute #EUI in Florence, Italy (4 yrs funding, exchanges, plus generous on-demand research & conference grants; I archived in 8 states). These funded PhDs (c.120 total) are across 4 departments #History (mine), #SocialScience & #PoliticalScience (SPS), #Law, & #Economics. I highly recommend applying &/or sharing! Happy to answer questions & advise.

Deadline: 31 January

https://www.eui.eu/en/services/academic-service/doctoral-programme

(I took this in an off-site supervision)

@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.

Seriously though, fedi was *built* by furries, trans and queer folk, disabled neurodivergent people.

This is *the reason* the culture here is what it is. Why CWs are a thing. Why image descriptions are a thing. Why privacy matters here. Why moderation tools not only exist, but are usable — and used.

If you had joined and asked yourself "wow, how come this place is so chill and kinda… nice?" — that's thanks to all the nice people from communities some people call "weird".

So #KeepFediWeird.