Steve Hammett @bitflips@social.cleverlibre.org

Do watch this to the end

#Qatar #LGBTQ #football #worldcup

The #edutooter community is starting to grow #TwitterMigration started a little while back but I should think the number joining up today will soar.
Trying to grow my follow list to make my feed more varied. If you’re interested in #education #politics #culture #history #philosophy #art #Eduresearch #phdlife #satire #retrotech #music give me a follow and I’ll follow back #followbackfriday

Many thanks to people like @freemo who manage servers in their own time, using their own resources.

The collapse of Twitter for (basically) self-inflicted reasons makes a strong case for building online infrastructure structured as a non-profit or public utility.

People rely on these platforms for public information, use them for democratic debate and many invest their livelihoods in them.

These platforms are too important to public safety, peoples’ livelihoods and democracy to leave in the hands of eccentric billionaires or the whims of stock markets.

Before twitter dies, you should all listen to Shostakovich
https://youtu.be/nHxFBnCU-ZU

Am I wrong to be faintly depressed by the BBC's current "Most Read" top 5?

Austerity is around the corner. Communities that are still reeling from the last decade of cuts will suffer most.

We don't have to accept it though. Get on streets. Get angry. We need to tell the government categorically that #EnoughIsEnough

RT @mlenorma@twitter.activitypub.actor

Solidarité avec nos collègues des universités britanniques qui seront en grève les 24, 25 et 30 novembre pour la défense de leurs emplois, leurs salaires et leurs retraites. #ucuRISING https://twitter.com/ucu/status/1590009636455075840

This great article in #Tribune pulls no punches about the utterly shambolic management of Birkbeck.

The staff cuts are totally shocking and must be resisted as hard as possible, lest every uni thinks they can get away with it... #UCUrising

https://tribunemag.co.uk/2022/11/birkbeck-university-of-london-140-job-cuts-university-managament

A few years ago I made this flow chart of which Mastodon posts end up in which timelines!

So, you can see how each instance will have a different local timeline, and even a slightly different federated timeline - and you can see why the federated timeline moves so much faster than the local one, too.

This is why it's important to boost good posts and use hashtags - the fediverse is fragmented and harder to search by nature.

[ #mastodon #meta #tootorial #howto #mastopedia #mastotip ]

Did you know?

Bumblebees used to be called Humblebees?

Back in Darwin's day and up to the early 20th century, they were mostly referred to as Humblebees due to the fact that they hummed while flying! But the lesser used named of Bumblebee existed on the fringes.

At some point between the two World Wars, there was a shift and Bumblebee became more popular and Humblebee was consigned to history.

This entry by A.W. Stelfox in the Irish Naturalist' Journal in 1921 still used the old name.

Not a bad view for morning run

Salut salut 👋
je débarque du discord recherche & cie, je découvre mastodon par la même occasion!

Dans la vie je suis post-doc en maths appli au Québec, je travaille sur l'estimation d'erreur pour les méthodes éléments finis avec un petit faible pour le domaine relativement émergent des EDP fractionnaires.

Sinon à part ça je suis fan de jds, je fais de l'escalade, j'aime la rando et je suis papa de 3 poilus (deux lapins et un chat)!

PS. merci à @celliern pour l'instance 👍

I will miss the #borscht that our guests from #Ukraine️ made us. Very happy that they are quickly settling into their new home though #HomesForUkraine 🇺🇦

Hello there smiley mitochondrion! #CellBiology #ElectronMicroscopy

The Fediverse has its own video platform called @peertube.

You can follow PeerTube accounts from Mastodon, for example try following craftykat@diode.zone

You can watch and interact with the videos entirely within Mastodon, or on PeerTube itself.

Here's an example of a PeerTube server:

➡️ https://fedi.video

If you see an account you like, you can copy and paste its account address into Mastodon to follow it there. When new videos are published, they will appear in your Mastodon timeline.

#introduction I’m a Royal Society research fellow at UCL where my lab uses computational biology to study how mutations cause disease, with a special interest in #aging and #cancer!

Our research covers multiple scales- how mutations change proteins to trigger disease, how genes coordinate to control cell behaviour, and how cells compete and interact in the tissue to cause disease! Check out my lab website for more info https://www.hall-lab.com/ #sciencemastodon

Royal Holloway Students' Union has launched a Preferendum to determine their stance on the current UCU industrial action. RH staff - please share!
RH students - please vote!
https://www.su.rhul.ac.uk/ucudispute/preferendum/