“Thousands of scientists are cutting back on Twitter, seeding angst and uncertainty.” And Mastodon was the most common destination if they opened…
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Science Communication How Is Science Twitter’s “Mastodon Migration” Panning Out?
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Science Communication Some Things I Like About the Expanding Wikipedia Universe
About a week ago, I created an English Wikipedia page for a woman who had an extraordinary life, and left a phenomenal…
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Science Communication Substack Versus WordPress Newsletter: First Impressions and Migration Tips
It’s been a relief to migrate my newsletter away from Substack. I’d started on Substack because it was so easy. It was…
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Science Communication 17 Studies Plus Advertising Data Map Out Twitter’s Decline
I rarely look at Twitter these days, but it’s obvious people are having extremely different experiences there. I see some people talking…
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Science Communication Mastodon’s Growth, and Communities Branching
It’s coming up to 6 months since Musk took over Twitter, sending many of us over to Mastodon. “Scalloped growth” is what…
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Science Communication Philosophy, Scientific Literacy… and Flattery
These days I find the literature on improving critical thinking and scientific literacy kind of depressing. The many overlapping and diverging concepts…
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Science Communication Could There Be Some Viable Challengers to Google Scholar on the Horizon?
In 2019, I wrote a pair of posts about the risks of our reliance on Google Scholar (GS), and search engine alternatives…
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Science Communication Quote Tweeting: Over 30 Studies Dispel Some Myths
The first myth to dispense with: That there’s almost no research on quote tweets! I added to this misconception with my December…
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Science Communication Some Shortcuts to Giving Mastodon a Try
We’ve been conditioned by a super-slick glide path to getting hooked into commercial social media. So facing the comparative complexity of Mastodon…
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Science Communication Mastodon Growth Numbers Might Not Mean What You Think They Mean
Mastodon’s growth in the last month has been extraordinarily fast – but just how fast? Did the number of users jump up…
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Science Communication Reflecting on Twitter, White Flight, & “Quote Tweet” Tensions at Mastodon
Why can’t we “quote boost” at Mastodon, the way we can “quote tweet” at Twitter? That might sound like an innocuous question…
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Science Communication Mapping the Mastodon Migration: Is It a One-Way Trip or an Each-Way Bet for Science Twitter?
Like many people, I opened a Mastodon account on the weekend the Musk era began on Twitter. This post picks up from…