I really appreciate the community I have found on #fosstodon but, if I'm honest, I think my career is likely to be negatively impacted by choosing #Mastodon as my only social media.
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I really appreciate the community I have found on #fosstodon but, if I'm honest, I think my career is likely to be negatively impacted by choosing #Mastodon as my only social media. I've seen a few posts about how people are getting much more engagement here than they used to on Twitter. I really value the exchanges I have here but my research community is largely not here... #AcademicChatter
This was made obvious to me today as I logged on X for research purposes and saw this:
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Ulrike Hahnreplied to Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 last edited by
@ElenLeFoll the majority of academics was never on Twitter in the first place. I don't doubt that it was helpful to some people, but I suspect you are over-estimating its general relevance to academic careers
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Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪replied to Ulrike Hahn last edited by
@UlrikeHahn I guess it depends on the (sub)discipline. I made a lot of professional connections via Twitter. I attended a #linguistics conference in July and several people mentioned that they knew me from Twitter and that we had interacted there (even though this is now ages ago). Having just logged in today, I can see that many colleagues are still active there, though I have heard that quite a few have migrated to bluesky.