kwitschas @kwitschas@social.cleverlibre.org

You cannot run an arbitrary search on Mastodon — in plain English: you cannot search for a specific expression in toots

Why? It's because allowing it would open the gate of harassment. It's not a bug, it's a conscious design decision.

How to find content then? Use hashtags instead! Including in your own toots — to make them easily discoverable. You can also browse the local and federated timelines.

#HowToMast

Hello folks, are there people here doing #python and #deeplearning 🤖 for #biology? Comment below, I wanna follow more such people! 😀

It's really quite exciting starting up on Mastodon.
Rather like opening a door in a wall and suddenly finding you are in a party with some old friends and lots of new interesting people.
As one who was an early adopter of Twitter, it also is very reminiscent of the old days when I first realised how useful social media could be for meeting new people and learning new stuff.

Some advise for new peeps on Mastodon:

The people you're following would generally *love* to follow you back IF you:
* Post an #Introduction toot and pin it
* Fill out your profile's bio
* Put in a profile picture

Whenever I get a follow request and there's no profile pic, no bio, no intro, and no toots posted yet in general, I don't follow back, because I don't know anything about that person. It's like being introduced to a person wearing a bag over their head. ;)

#Boost please :D

medRxiv is here on Mastodon @medrxivpreprint 😀

since #mastodon is growing insanely, there are going to be lots of increased costs to run it. I want that growth to be successful, but without the burden falling on just a few generous souls (as usual).

so I've just signed up to make a regular payment to help. if you like, you can do the same here: https://www.patreon.com/mastodon

Amazing vacancy for a group leader post at the Max Planck in Germany https://www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/1568190/2022-11-02-lip-research-scientist

Mastodon will update to 4.0 soon! Here are the most exciting new features (in addition to fixes & changes):

- ability to follow hashtags
- ability to filter by language
- ability to translate posts
- ability to post HEIC files (i.e. your iPhone’s native photo format)
- define user roles (big deal for admins)
- define sign-up process on your Instance (admins again)

See all changes here: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.0.0rc1

Thanks, @Gargron and @Mastodon Team. #Mastodon4

A simple way to find your Twitter friends on Mastodon :

1- type “Mastodon” into the Twitter search bar

2- click the 3 dots to the right of the search bar with "people you follow" in the Search filters

3- Scroll through tweets from people you follow who have mentioned Mastodon

For those of us who came from Twitter: here, clicking "favorite" is different from clicking "like" in Twitter. It just tells the writer "yeah, nice", without enhancing visibility. The only way to enhance visibility is to "boost" (basically, retweet). I suspect all this will change (different clients will have different algorithms, etc) but for now this is how it is...

If you’re a UK-based early career woman scientist who would benefit from £15k to accelerate your independent career, the L’Oréal For Women in Science award is for you!
More info here: https://www.forwomeninscience.com/challenge/show/58
Apply by 02/12. I’m happy to discuss your application and be your cheerleader. #WomenInSTEM

Postdoc position "Visual brain prosthesis" at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Amsterdam, deadline November 25 https://vacatures.knaw.nl/job/Amsterdam-Postdoc-Visual-brain-prosthesis-at-the-Netherlands-Institute-for-Neuroscience/847171555/ Ultimate aim: create a visual cortical prosthesis to restore a rudimentary form of vision for the blind.

Mastodon Lists:

As in twitter, lists can be created of a subset of those you follow (a difference from twitter is that you must follow the person to include them in a list). Very useful feature when you just want to see the toots from a certain grouping.

It's not very intuitive to create a list - this helpful post gives details on how to do it:

https://discourse.joinmastodon.org/t/user-lists-feature/921/2

For everyone who has recently joined Mastodon

An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon
https://fedi.tips

How to Mastodon - The New Social Media
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrsiej2dpBY

10 Quick Mastodon Tips
https://axbom.com/mastodon-tips/

A futuristic guide to Mastodon for 2021
https://wordsmith.social/elilla/a-futuristic-mastodon-introduction-for-2021

An Increasingly Less Brief Guide to Mastodon
https://github.com/joyeusenoelle/Guide

So let's see how this site does. 😃

I am looking for two PhD students to study the evolution of hot rocky exoplanets at the Kapteyn Astronomical Institute of the University of Groningen, The Netherlands, with a focus on magma ocean interiors and atmospheres. 🌍🌋🔭 Application deadline is 1st December. Details at: https://formingworlds.space/post/phd-positions-october-2022. Please boost. 🙂

Here's an updated #introduction to include useful hashtags!

As of Monday 7 November I'm associate editorial director at #PLOS. Was previously editor-in-chief at Cell Reports.

A starter list of my scientific interests: #biology #neuroscience #evolution #genomics #genetics #cellbiology #developmentalbiology #cognitiveneuroscience #cytoskeleton #neurodegeneration

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Science people! 👩‍🔬 👨‍🔬

There are some curated lists of scientists to follow on Mastodon here:

➡️ https://github.com/nathanlesage/academics-on-mastodon

(Originally shared by @kcarruthers but reposted so that I can pin the link on my account)

My first toot.

I'm eligible to apply for a diversity supplement for my NIH grant (https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-21-071.html). If you fall into an underrepresented group, are interested in building computational/ML methods for genomics, and are looking for a postdoc next year, get in touch! (note: in computing, women are underrepresented!) Please boost

@cfiesler

“But Masrodon isn’t Twitter. You can’t create the same kind of community.”

Ummm yeah. That’s the point! ☺️
#TwitterMigration #Mastodon

From where I sit, #ScienceMastodon seems to be thriving. Meeting interesting new folks on & off the #fediscience server.