Martin Ruskov @mapto@social.cleverlibre.org

Scientists are moving from X-itter. Almost half have opened accounts with Mastodon, the highest of all the other social networking sites according to a Nature survey.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02554-0

Yes, watching a video on #gunsafety made children more cautious when they discovered a gun.

It’s a simple but effective method to help decrease the increasing and heartbreaking statistics of gun-related deaths in the U.S.

https://theconversation.com/a-1-minute-gun-safety-video-helped-preteen-children-be-more-careful-around-real-guns-new-research-207404

This is someting I wish I'd realized a lot sooner in life.

Beyond melting ice caps: Why climate change is a security issue https://www.euractiv.com/section/defence-and-security/opinion/beyond-melting-ice-caps-why-climate-change-is-a-security-issue/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Found an incredibly useful app for finding people to follow on Mastodon. It crawls your social graph then finds the people who your followers follow the most that you don't follow.

https://followgraph.vercel.app/

@interfluidity @b0rk I found this to be particularly important:
"A lot of people are on smaller servers, so when they’re participating in a conversation, they can’t see all the replies to the post.

This means that replies can get pretty repetitive because people literally cannot see each other’s replies. This is especially annoying for posts that are popular or controversial, because the person who made the post has to keep reading similar replies over and over again by people who think they’re making the point for the first time.

To get around this (as a reader), you can click “open link to post” or something in your Mastodon client, which will open up the page on the poster’s server where you can read all of the replies. It’s pretty annoying though."

“Notes on using a single-person Mastodon server” by @b0rk https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/08/11/some-notes-on-mastodon/

// lots of good observations/information about mastodon and the fediverse

law trumps physics, sometimes. storing and streaming digital works is so much cheaper in real resource terms than maintaining a library of DVDs you phyically ship. and yet. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/13/business/media/internet-archive-emergency-lending-library.html?unlocked_article_code=SHhC1zCbybhNFFee1y2yE7uXqng9k_IfnWuZkvknItNyMGa8BjDb1bXtRT0vokzjJaZZ4n4b5tyDwKHX_OKblh5-fgx1H7U_y940V0RgncogyolvY7rx8-IY95ySMtAVyUXnSCINtoXVM-oHLsNncfS2VAmgWe5FGNQlJzFNLs7K-66gISBTvh364RoH3jmjvdf704Eoq-qNuSQEBshAMCUANLHBkCI9sJKVgDaiOsJwhoCfC2QXb5Kj7uwSQN78xBz6_V4R-HISPaCICnwsD-nwEhWDA0cxHLsC6PWPeRa_hhNetXGpM0wml5p0AqvzzAZ8idCCbUc-qcV9IuZ04aw92MN5ogprGrzF4bSZcBdsGFka7hzM13MxzQ&smid=url-share via @carlmalamud

What if the rise of ChatGPT wasn't just an opportunity to talk to our students about academic integrity, but to talk about the nature of knowledge, skill, and why they're pursuing education in the first place?

@jeffgreene @edutooters @psychology

Replies will appear in the Home timeline on Mastodon if:

- The reply mentions you

OR

- You wrote the reply

OR

- The reply mentions someone you follow

OR

- Someone you follow is replying to themselves to create a thread

Other replies will not be shown in Home, but they may be visible to you in other places such as profiles or threads, if the replies are using a visibility setting that includes you.

More info about post visibility settings on Mastodon at https://fedi.tips/who-can-see-my-posts-in-mastodon-how-do-i-send-dms-in-mastodon/