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#SciTwitter is dead, all hail #Bluesky #SciSky! Here are the stats for my Twitter (red) and Bluesky (blue) followers in the last 3.5 months.

A question for my feed: I was recently asked to review a manuscript. It was a software paper related to my expertise so I have the requisite skills, however, I’m not an academic anymore. How do we in industry fit into peer-review? Is this just a matter of pref? #scitwitter

I guess it is not just #scitwitter that is moving to #bluesky:

https://www.wired.com/story/taylor-swift-fans-leaving-x-following-trumps-election/

so #twitter #x looks like it killed its app on the mac. Is it time to pull the plug. I’ve shifted over there for a few weeks, since there has been much more scientific interaction there than here. But don't know how this is going to resolve. Any thoughts? #scitwitter

One Scientist Neglected His Grant Reports. Now U.S. Agencies Are Withholding Grants for an Entire University. https://www.chronicle.com/article/one-scientist-didnt-turn-in-his-grant-reports-now-federal-agencies-are-withholding-grants-for-an-entire-university #nih #research #scitwitter

Some great tips on writing NIH grants in this PNAS piece. https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2315735121 #grants #nih #scitwitter #research

A confession: I made an account on #bluesky a couple of weeks ago.

tl;dr it's not as good as #Mastodon.

I'm fully committed to the #fediverse and don’t like the idea of bluesky; but I made an account because I missed a bunch of #SciTwitter people who didn’t come over to Mastodon.

My (entirely subjective) thoughts:

screenshot of my first message on bluesky where I said that my home is on mastodon. I am pasting this here as a defence against the fediverse purity test people!

@PessoaBrain Indeed I have noticed that many of former #scitwitter seem to be attracted by Bluesky.. do you think they’ll stay there? What do you think they prefer there over Mastodon?

Thanks #elonmusk : #SciTwitter in numbers 👇

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02554-0

The abstract submission deadline for the annuual meeting of the German Zoological Society #DZG in #Kassel has been extended to July 15, 2023!

https://dzg-meeting.de/en/startseite/

#Phdchat #zoology #scitwitter #conference

📢New post on the Node - Developing news

Recent #SciTwitter discussions include: it definitely matters who does science, and there is a mental health crisis gripping science.

Also check out the latest #devbio #preprint highlights on
@preLights

https://thenode.biologists.com/developing-news-june23/

@Pjobphd @AstroKatie @hollie I would be interested to know what people find hard - because the generic complaint I hear is "it's too hard", but I've never heard any specifics (although I've not gone looking, tbh).

I think it's unfortunate, but not unexpected, that Musk broke the ability of people to transfer to Mastodon with their friends (as far as that was possible) which I think made my transfer easier - because I auto populated my follow list with several of the people I already followed...

My question here though is that #scitwitter took time to build because Twitter took time to build, but I suspect that with a following -- as a group moving to another platform -- for scitwitter folks is feasible because y'all can say "We're now moving over here" -- and if enough folks say they're moving, then people who are actually engaged will follow.

So I do question the idea that it will take years to transfer and build back up a following.

I'd also say that it's *very* clear that Twitter has become a firehouse of disinformation and from that perspective there's real urgency to getting people off the platform. By remaining there I think that people are doing a disservice to the people they're helping to inform as they're exposing them to more disinformation.

It's pretty clear that a lot of following on Twitter is very low quality without actual engagement, and I, like many, have found that because the people I follow or who follow me are actually interested in the stuff witter about then I get way more engagement on here than I ever got on the bird site.

10 years. This feels like both yesterday and a lifetime ago. #scitwitter

Seems we're back to the regular "academics fighting about the same things" schedule in #SciTwitter.
This week it was about peer review in my feed (someone ranting about Prism also but whatevs).
Can't wait for "R vs Python vs Stata" week

In this 1000 word assay I argue that...

NIH grant-writing #scitwitter what is your response as a reviewer to an approach section that collects the methods at the end of each aim instead of integrating them with design? Why do think it should be one way or the other.