Anyone now claiming that no one uses the Fediverse, clearly has no clue as to what they are talking about.

There is a large academic presence on Mastodon alone, and Mastodon is just part of the wider Fediverse. The first list below [1] is an excellent resource, there is also Trunk, which also lists by interest / topic.

1. Academics on Mastodon
2. Mastodon Trunk
3. Mastodon Starter Packs

Join Links

• Join Mastodon
  • Mastodon,social
  • Mastodon.online

Tags

#Academia,#Mastodon,#Fediverse,

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There has been a major announcement by the main developer of Mastodon. In essence, the founder, Eugen Rochko has made the decision that he should not be making all the decisions and has transferred key assets to a non-profit entity. You can read more below.

This is an excellent move, as Eugen does not want to be the next Elon Musk or Mark Zuckerberg.

• The people should own the town square.
• ArsTechnica have also produced a write-up of what has happened.

I have put some links below so if you want to join. Don't forget you can download all your data easily and import this in to a different instance, should you decide to move elsewhere later.

Please be sure to read each instance information and choose one that aligns with your interests and or values.

Join Links

• Join Mastodon
  • Mastodon,social
  • Mastodon.online

Tags

#Academia,#Mastodon,#Fediverse,

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Further to the recent webinar, on the topic of writing I found a related podcast from The Struggling Scientists. Please see link below. Hope this is helpful as it is always useful to have a range of views on this topic.

Writing

• Overleaf
  • Overleaf documentation
  • Writefull
• LaTeX Project
  • Learn LaTeX
  • LaTeX Forum
  • CTAN
  • TeX Live
  • Detexify
  • MathJax
  • Jabref
  • CiteDrive
  • Blog post – citation manager for Overleaf

Tags

#Academia,#Writing

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Overleaf are presenting their introductory Webinars in August and September.

• Webinar Schedule

If you are new to Overleaf then these are really useful to learn about the features from Beginner to Advanced.

• Overleaf
• LaTeX Project
• CTAN
• Detexify
• LaTeX Forum

#LaTeX,#Overleaf,#typesetting,#cloud,#Webinar,#Introduction,#Intermediate,#Advanced,#writing,#professional,#science, #academia.

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