Adam Becker @freelanceastro@octodon.social
Freelance astrophysicist. Writing a book about why quantum physics is hard. #scicomm, #openscience. http://freelanceastro.com
@vexedmuddler Yup, about to fix that.
My last toot notwithstanding, this place is only going to survive if we have enough toots about things *other* than Mastodon. Making this up: maybe we should be shooting for a ratio of 10:1 or better for non-Mastodon/Mastodon toots?
If this is the Federation, then maybe we should be calling birdsite "the Dominion." #ds9 #startrek #NerdularNerdence
Nice article on Bohm's pilot-wave #quantum theory from Anil Ananthaswamy in New Scientist (paywalled, unfortunately): https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23431200-200-realitys-comeback-the-hidden-network-that-controls-what-we-see/
#Exoplanets, #astrophysics, #relativity, and more: here's the full list of animated science videos I did with BBC Earth. (Sadly, due to internal reorg at the BBC, it's unlikely we'll be doing more.)
http://freelanceastrophysicist.com/2017/04/bbc-animations/
https://octodon.social/media/BGey_9a4H9pEYFiwPRQ
A new effort to make scientific citation data more available: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/04/now-free-citation-data-14-million-papers-and-more-might-come
Excellent #dataviz on a crucial subject. Systemic racism kills. http://www.tampabay.com/projects/2017/investigations/florida-police-shootings/if-youre-black/
The real value add of Mastodon is giving everyone an excuse to finally put something on all the weird domains they've been squatting
What's everything made of? The Standard Model of particle physics in all its bewildering complexity, in my latest video with BBC Earth. http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20170404-the-physics-that-tells-us-what-the-universe-is-made-of https://octodon.social/media/AwCakWOFQSZrEz4u9Kg
Ten chapters written, two to go! #booklife :book:
@ryan "bespoke"
the great thing about open source is that instead of screaming into the void and then receiving bad features you never asked for, everything is broken but you shrug it off because no one has any money anyways
@ryan Yeah, but nobody can join you on it. And something's up with your CSS.
@Sammysnack Holy crap, yeah. Didn't even think to search for something that big.
It's actually really awesome that Mastodon attracted a shitload of users who largely aren't aware that the underlying GNUSocial platform is old.
You know why?
Because it means we can do this over and over.
Every time someone releases a new implementation with different-looking chrome on top, it can go through its own marketing and media cycle and garner new users. *And the network effect will be cumulative.*
@ryan Welcome! Are you running your own instance?
Surreal to search a relatively common hashtag and find that *nobody* has used it anywhere in the federated timeline (e.g. #science, #physics, #scicomm, #openaccess). Feels like going back in time.
