I'm teaching a workshop for PhD students next week about using social media to for #scicomm. I'm going to add a slide on Mastodon - what advice would you offer for early-career scientists sharing their work on here? What do you think are the pros and cons of using Mastodon for science communication?
I think we are in early days on science communication but so far I haver fonnd Mastodon similar to Science Forums in that we can have good, intellectual conversation on a variety of topics.
I think what is important is perhaps people are open minded, are able to both challenge and accept challenges to thinking, provide evidence for arguments and we keep it friendly and civilised.
I don't think cancel culture has or will have a place here people will agree / disagree with a topic and viewpoint, accept that.
