Ian Kenway @iankenway@social.cleverlibre.org

Seems the exodus from twitter is accelerating rather than slowing down. Last 24 hours has been the largest influx so far!

#introduction I’m a Prof at the Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging (CCNi), UofG, Scotland, studying human memory. My lab uses a range of tools, including behaviour, EEG/MEG, fMRI and intracranial (single unit + LFP) EEG recordings, trying to understand how the human brain reconstructs past experiences from memory, and how our memories change over time and when we repeatedly remember something.

@freemo I’m here because of, I was never very active on Twitter but I can’t continue to be the source of this fool’s ad revenue. https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/04/elon-musk-twitter-layoffs/amp/

#introduction Hello! I am an Associate Professor in Management and Project Management. I am interested in #complexsystems #systemsthinking #complexadaptivesystems #sensemaking #criticalrealism #qualitativeresearch #methodology and #management #projectmanagement #entrepreneurship #noise #decisionmaking #conflictresolution #negotiation I have two book chapters with #springer numerous others with #igi a tutorial on #netbeans #java and a tutorial on #contentanalysis in a research methodology book. I teach Principles of Management, Project Management, Contemporary Issues in Management, Managing Complex Projects, Applied Research Methods, Qualitative Techniques, and Critical Review of Literature.

For some reason during this exodus, at least as far as QOTO is concerned, I've noticed a very large portion of people coming in are women scientists. Sadly women seem to be a minority representation in STEM, so seeing this makes me happy as I think women bring a lot to STEM communities.

That said, I am left curious why... what about this exodus has more women in STEM migrating than usual.. Is musk in some way seen as more abrasive to women than he is to men?

I haven't done an #introduction so I guess I should introduce myself.

My name is Tom, I'm a #Data and #Cloud platform engineer at #NASA JPL and I've been slaving away there for the past 6 1/2 years.

I also enjoy educating, open science/data and #opensource software in my spare time.

I'm also #autistic to add to the entertainment.

Guess it’s time for an #introduction post! I’ve Dave, I’m a programmer, and I’ve been working remotely since before covid. I enjoy running & cycling to keep myself sane. I’m an assistant coach at Swansea Harriers, but my results show that I’m not very fast myself!

Signed up to Mastodon a while ago, but didn’t really use it. The whole Twitter thing has got me interested in it again, so I’ve switched to a smaller server and am already starting to see lots of interesting people to follow here.

#introduction
I'm Denzil. I'm Cornish, exiled in Canada (not my fault) involved in the #independence movement & preserving #language & #culture, and #traditions of #Cornwall (also Wales) Not Welsh but keen! I make things: string #puppets #papercrafts #fibrearts #art. I like to research #history. I am on my #union executive. I collect #toys, #playingcards #musical #instruments #boardgames #ephemera. I play & arrange #folkmusic. I do #magic (prestidigitation.) I work. I am for the marginalised.

I have long been a decentralisation skeptic, but after 24 hours on a Welsh mastodon server my mind is changed. It is truly great to have the Local feed for people here and also the Federated feed for the wider world. My partner is on a gamedev server and doesn't find the Local feed as useful, so perhaps it's really a strength of locality to the physical world.

Given how toots are distributed, if there's a specific community you most want to interact with and discover, it seems like a good idea to join an instance focused on that community.

Toots from people you follow appear in your Home timeline.

Toots from others on your instance appear in your Local timeline, making them easier to discover.

Toots from people followed by others on your instance appear in your Federated timeline.

The Local and Federated timelines are very instance-focused.

@being
A warm welcome!
I am sure you will find some cool sisters on here.

Your post is already great!
You can boost your own post too.
Also, be sure to add hashtags and describe your interests/concerns in your profile.

What about asking for/ using # hastags relating to black women?

Did you come from Twitter? If so, perhaps you could try using similar hashtags that you used on there🤔

Just my own opinion. Any other tips from anyone?

Some people had mistakenly thought that Mastodon’s local timelines were obsolete. Now that we’ve seen the limits on how high you can scale a single instance, it’s obvious that the future of the fediverse is a large number of small communities talking to each other, not a small handful of giant single points of failure.

Keep Mastodon weird. Get to know your neighbors, and help build your local community.

Hi all! Over from Twitter, like so many others, so #introduction?
I’m #Welsh, work doing #comms for a university research institute, live in #Yorkshire, and love #books, #writing and #design. I also have young kids though, so have no time to do any of those things.
Looking forward to seeing how this plays out, it already feels a lot friendlier over here!

An old but good one from George Monbiot https://www.monbiot.com/2008/12/30/the-open-veins-of-wales/ #indywales #wales

#introduction Hi, 54 year old Welsh transwoman from Gwynedd now living in Chester. Ex temporal anthropologist and cartographer, now publisher of tabletop roleplaying games.
S'mae!

Hi everyone 👋🏻, I'm a statistics postdoc based in Copenhagen 🇩🇰 at the Center for the Molecular Prediction of Inflammatory Bowel Disease https://predictibd.dk/

#DataScience #Statistics #ScienceMastodon #Interdisciplinary #IBD #Epidemiology 🧬

My #introduction: I am a #philosopher working at the University of Sussex and Brighton and Sussex Medical School in the #UK.

My research focuses on topics on #health and #medicine across #epistemology, #moralphilosophy, and #politicalphilosophy.

Interests includes: #planetaryhealth, #environmentaljustice, #healthdata, #indigenousphilosophy, #sustainability, #climatechange, #scicom, #liberty, #property, #historyofscience.

Twitter has become more and more like a type of outrage engine. In Mastodon there are no quote tweets, the oxygen of the pile-on. The metrics of reshares/likes are also dampened so that they are not prominent at all beneath a post in your feed. It’s a very different place. And I like it.

To introduce myself... I'm Antoni, I'm in Denbighshire. I've worked on this project since 2014. It's not my job, but I do devote a lot of time to it (ask my family, they'll confirm that!)
If you have Belgian ancestors who were in north Wales 100+ years ago, I may know a little about them. Please ask! Or please tell me about them...