A Nature survey reveals scientists’ reasons for leaving the social-media platform now known as X, and what they are doing to build and maintain a sense of community.
      • BrikoX@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
        111·
        1 year ago

        I would recommend following tags of the topics you are interested in and you will quickly find interesting people to follow.

        • Data's Cat Spot@startrek.websiteEnglish
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          1 year ago

          Is there a way to find the most used tags?

          Sometimes I’ll start to tag something, and a billion different variations show up, so I don’t know which to use.

      • mitchell@lemmy.caEnglish
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        1 year ago

        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.

    • RBG@discuss.tchncs.de
      11·
      1 year ago

      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.

    • Sinister [none/use name, comrade/them]@hexbear.netBEnglish
      31·
      1 year ago

      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.