There's a bit of a storm happening around the criteria for joining http://fediscience.org - the Mastodon instance for scientists, on which I'm hosted.
It's been noted that the requirement to be a publishing scientist (who has published in the past 5 years) will exclude many junior scientists, retired sciences, and those who have maybe switched to teaching.
I agree with these concerns and wonder if the criteria can be changed to be more inclusive?
@pwgtennant more old white guys gate-keeping knowledge, access, and opportunity with academic dog whistles.
@hikenwoodwork I'm not going to make inferences about the age or ethnicity of the server hosts. Unless you mean me! I do think it would be good to make things more open if possible.
@pwgtennant not you but sure sounds like SSDD from those calling themselves senior scientists.
