Ian Kenway @iankenway@social.cleverlibre.org

@anniemo71 I try to buy #books independent sellers when I see them. Unfortunately none near me. Otherwise direct if I can or from Blackwell's.
I do have an excess of books* so donate to charity shops and secondhand bookstores. I also gave some animation books to the library as they were having a animation workshop in the summer. Sold a few via eBay.

*Yeh, I know, seems unlikely, but have been collecting for some time and my interests have changed.

Hey all, glad I am able to join this community! Born and lived in the hills of mid-Wales most of my life, now living in Frankfurt, Germany. Known of Mastodon for a while but finally made the #twittermigation leap since my timeline there gets less of interest. I’m working with cloud native technologies as my day job, hobby by writing apps with Swift and general smart home hackery in my evenings. Looking forward to building my network here :-) #introduction

Ok, let's start with the #introduction :)

I am Vanessa, a Chilean researcher working in France for about 4 years. I work in data visualization, mainly (but not only) with geo-temporal data. I'm also interested in #ecology, #feminism, #philosophy, #art, #science in general, #writing and #books.

One of the nicest things about Mastodon so far is having a very scientific and academia focused feed where I can discover and follow those working in fields where I don't have a background.

It is wonderful for seeing the diversity of research and being inspired by the works of others.

Hello all you new people! Now feels more than ever like the time to finally ditch the bird site, and free ourselves from big business oversight of our social media platforms.

There's a short but steepish learning curve to getting the hang of Mastodon, but once you have, you'll quickly see its advantages.

3 feeds (following, local and "federated") instead of 1 (plus notifications of course) helps break down echo chamber barriers. We're also (generally) more civil over here ☺️

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