“Thousands of scientists are cutting back on Twitter, seeding angst and uncertainty.” And Mastodon was the most common destination if they opened…

About a week ago, I created an English Wikipedia page for a woman who had an extraordinary life, and left a phenomenal…

It’s been a relief to migrate my newsletter away from Substack. I’d started on Substack because it was so easy. It was…

I rarely look at Twitter these days, but it’s obvious people are having extremely different experiences there. I see some people talking…

It’s coming up to 6 months since Musk took over Twitter, sending many of us over to Mastodon. “Scalloped growth” is what…

These days I find the literature on improving critical thinking and scientific literacy kind of depressing. The many overlapping and diverging concepts…

In 2019, I wrote a pair of posts about the risks of our reliance on Google Scholar (GS), and search engine alternatives…

The first myth to dispense with: That there’s almost no research on quote tweets! I added to this misconception with my December…

We’ve been conditioned by a super-slick glide path to getting hooked into commercial social media. So facing the comparative complexity of Mastodon…

Mastodon’s growth in the last month has been extraordinarily fast – but just how fast? Did the number of users jump up…

Why can’t we “quote boost” at Mastodon, the way we can “quote tweet” at Twitter? That might sound like an innocuous question…

Like many people, I opened a Mastodon account on the weekend the Musk era began on Twitter. This post picks up from…