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

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…

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

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…

The field of research on communication interventions is heavily littered with studies that are too small, too indirect, and too riddled with…

Remember the Kardashian index? That was Neil Hall’s 2014 tongue-in-cheek(ish) dig at science Twitter and “Science Kardashians” – scientists with a high…

Update 2021: I wrote this post back in the Gamergate-affected Twitter era. While the issues here about degrees of separation are still…