🚀1 year since we left #X / #Twitter

Our move to #Mastodon wasn't just a platform switch. It was a leap into #OpenScience in action.

We found a chance to align our communication w/ our values: transparent, meaningful, dialogue-driven.

Read about our journey, impact, challenges, and lessons:

🔗rug.nl/library/open-access/blo…

💜Thanks, 🦣-community, for this wonderful experience. We learn a lot here.

👋We hope to encourage other academic institutions to join.

#AcademicMastodon #SciComm #DigitalMigration

“The loss of science on #Twitter is a contemporary mass extinction event”, says Professor Edward #Holmes, who recently was awarded the prestigious Croonian Medal by the Royal Society. He has also deleted his Twitter account recently. “Twitter used to be THE place where you shared ideas, data, preprints and papers. Now it’s a post-Apocalyptic hell hole.” #scicomm

bylinetimes.com/2024/01/16/elo…

Elon Musk's War Against Science, Evidence and Objective Truth – Byline Times

Scientists are abandoning Elon Musk's Twitter amid a "mass extinction event" on the social media network, says Philipp Markolin.

^{Philipp Markolin (Byline Times)}