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GeoffSteambuff 💛💙

@jeffdean
Try this. Copied from Sharon Bairden
To help make connections: name 5-7 things that interest you but aren't in your profile, as tags so they are searchable. Then boost this post or repeat its instructions so others know to do the same.
#politics#Therestispolitics #economics #news #thenewagents #currentaffairs #heritageRailways #crimefiction #history

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Jeff Dean (the Biochemist)

Mastodon is is the 5th or 6th social media platform I've engaged with in a serious fashion, but it's been awhile since I had to start a profile from scratch. In the process I have relearned the one constant truth of all social media -- until you have accumulated at least 300-400 connections, the flow of information is going to seem skewed and limited, and you are going to wonder whether it is worth your time and effort.

Thus, echoing what others have said, you need to do more than just set up a profile and lurk, thinking an algorithm will direct information your way. You need to peruse the "Following" and "Follower" lists of people whose contributions you find interesting, then connect. Start with your local server and its Group and Profile directories (much easier to do from the web instance). Look for people you have followed on other platforms, and then look through their connections. The distributed nature of the fediverse (the so-called siloes that seem to cause a lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth from people still clinging to twitter) can make it a bit more difficult to find and connect to people quickly, but patience will be rewarded. Take the time to dip into other people's timelines, and connect to those that maintain interesting and active feeds. You will quickly notice a perception of increased 'quality' in your newsfeed once you have a few hundred links.

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Jeff Dean (the Biochemist) boosted
Mariniceforo

We're looking for academics/PhD students who've recently migrated from Twitter to Mastodon, are currently doing so, considering it, or who don't intend to. We're interested in finding out about people’s opinions on migration & the differences between Twitter & Mastodon. If you wish to take part in our online focus group, please complete our initial survey lancasteruni.eu.qualtrics.com/, which also includes further information about the research. Please boost! 🔁

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Eric Topol

Whole genome sequencing is now being performed in 83 children's hospitals in the US and Canada for sick newborns. While so much attention has been on the lowering of cost, [sample -> sequence-> output] can take as little as 3 hours. What about adults?erictopol.substack.com/p/clini

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Dr. Sara Thomasy (she/hers)

Efficiency: Funding for two 5-week rotations in fall quarter available. Direct admission to labs also an option on mutual agreement by mentor and trainee. @GGIPstudents gets you into labs quickly so you can begin work on your . Average time to degree is 4.5 years.

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Jeff Dean (the Biochemist)

This news release from is a couple of weeks old and feels dated to me after having previously posted it over on the Avian site, but seems like a good idea to post here as part of my introduction to a new network.

news.uga.edu/dean-selected-to-

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Jürgen "jkr" Kraus

A Gary Larson especially for

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flug

More photos, along the as it winds through the .

This set is in , one at the station.  ​ ​ 3/?

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Jeff Dean (the Biochemist)

That Sunday morning sunbeam feels good. Mmmm...

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Jeff Dean (the Biochemist)

One of my favorite surprises living in a house surrounded by mature native hardwoods. These oyster mushrooms sprouted from the trunk of an oak I left lying after it fell and clipped the house on Halloween 2015. I will miss this.

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Clive Thompson

I built this tool a year ago but I feel like Mastodon folks would like it

The "Weird Old Book Finder"

Type in a search query, and it'll find one randomly-chosen public-domain book that matches the query -- and present it for immediate reading: weird-old-book-finder.glitch.m

Why only one book? To prevent the paradox of choice! Just *start readin'*

Can't promise every book will be weird, but most are

A longer essay on how/why I developed it: debugger.medium.com/a-search-e

This was a search for "mastodon"

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MartinDotNet

Two things I'm learning about #mastodon after using it pretty constantly

1. Use hashtags... all of them
There's no algorithm, people discover through hashtags

2. Follow people
This is the only way you get content, without it, you're always looking at the hashtags

3. Boost people's toots
This helps people discover other people organically

4. The default/official mastodon app doesn't have local timeline
If you're on a smaller instance, load up the website and checkout the local timeline

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Phil Brailey-Jones (he/him)

RT @SheriffLab@twitter.com

TWO TT positions in biology at UMass Dartmouth! Come join a fantastic department, a progressive university, and live in an amazing area about an hour south of Boston and minutes from the beach. Faculty Positions in Marine Biology and Integrative Biology g.co/kgs/nZ6kne

🐦🔗: twitter.com/SheriffLab/status/

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Jeff Dean (the Biochemist)

@dudervision I think you might find this article interesting.
uxdesign.cc/mastodon-is-antivi

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Khoa Vu

This is such a succinct piece that explains exactly why some people really like mastodon and some really don't.

uxdesign.cc/mastodon-is-antivi

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Prof Beth Clare

Calling #genetics people. Faculty post a York University in Toronto. Great department. Send me a message if you want information. academicwork.ca/jobs/assistant. molecular, cellular, and/or #EvolutionaryGenetics #genetics or #Genomics feel free to retoot to spread it further.

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David Bau

Multiple openings for both tenure-track and teaching faculty at Northeastern in Computer Science (Boston as well as London, Bay Area, other locations). I am finding it is a great place to be new faculty (ask me). #jobs #teaching

khoury.northeastern.edu/inform

khoury.northeastern.edu/inform

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Shephallmassive

Young people that want to train in the medical or veterinary professions but don’t get the crazily high grades or jump through the hoops to get into medicine in the UK -look at studying in Europe -life is too short to be put off by bad policy..#NeedMoreMedicalPeople

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Thiago Carvalho

This one is for everyone nostalgic for old school metabolic maps

"We studied the genetic architecture of the human plasma metabolome using 913 metabolites assayed in 19,994 individuals and identified 2,599 variant–metabolite associations (P < 1.25 × 10−11) within 330 genomic regions, with rare variants (minor allele frequency ≤ 1%) explaining 9.4% of associations."

nature.com/articles/s41591-022

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malena

it’s impossible to photograph enormous #trees casually, but we try

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