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

UK politics 

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 twitter.com/ucu/status/1590009

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

tribunemag.co.uk/2022/11/birkb

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.

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 🇺🇦

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:

➡️ 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 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!
su.rhul.ac.uk/ucudispute/prefe

In my opinion, criticisms of mastodon being unusable by the general public are over blown.

A reminder for anyone new to mastodon who might not be happy with some of the racist and bad actors out there on other servers... Just import the fediblock list to your personal blocks and you will be safe from the vast majority of bad actors.

𝑺𝑻𝑶𝑹𝑴⛈️  
I took all the domains from https://fediblock.neocities.org/ block list and put it in a csv file that can be imported so you can block all hateful ...

Hello #ScienceMastodon ! I just made the Twitodon transition so a bit of #introduction: I'm a PhD Student interested in #DevelopmentalBiology, #Embryology and sometimes #StemCells and #Transcription. Looking forward to less promoted posts and more #AcademicToots.

I'm a behavioral working in . I use a combination of psychological, neuroscientific, and traditional market tools to better understand behavior. Board member for and (), I'm busy trying to make sure the science is right in industry research.

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