2y ago

Thousands of scientists are cutting back on Twitter, seeding angst and uncertainty

www.nature.com

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/1522825

Archived version: https://archive.ph/AGdRE
Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20230816144902/https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02554-0

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Mastodon is a good alternative.
- The search limitations on Mastodon are unfortunately a major issue in science / research orbits.
  
  What kind of limitations? Not that I'm a developer for mastodon or anything, but I'm just curious since the article only mentioned searching by hashtags.
- Who would you recommend following in this space?
  
  I would recommend following tags of the topics you are interested in and you will quickly find interesting people to follow.
  
  I mean everyone is different and it depends on your interests. But with Mastodon you can search for and follow hashtags like accounts, then explore users who post with those hashtags.
  
  What are you interested in? :)
They move fast. Only 8 months after the obvious.
- Scientists are not fast at abandoning established ways of communication. I mean they still publish the same way as a century ago, its just now digital too. It took a whole friggin' pandemic for life science researchers to embrace the concept of pre-prints. 8 months to move from twitter sounds almost fast.
- Thanks, Elon. This is why we can't have good science.
- In STEM fields communication with others is key in improving your research. It is not easily to rebuild these “links”. Since Twitter was the biggest hen in the henhouse, it was a forgone conclusion.

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