mastodon 4.5.7Assistant professor of the archaeology of the Middle East at the University of Copenhagen. I use data science and ecological modelling to investigate prehistoric agriculture in West Asia.
Also https://archaeo.social admin, #Rstats developer. I usually post in English; nogle gange også på dansk.
Something we would really like to have at https://archaeo.social, but haven't been able to find the time for, is a bot that welcomes new users, gives them tips on how to populate their feed, encourages them to make an #introduction post, then automatically boosts it.
Otherwise unfortunately we see that, on a small instance like ours, most new users never get past that initial empty feed.
If anybody wants to take this on, it'd be much appreciated!
‘AltMetric’-style services, which track citations to academic papers outside of academic literature—so in the news, social media, etc.—have been quick to incorporate #BlueSky posts, but I’ve yet to see one that includes the #fediverse
I can see that (real) decentralisation makes it harder to find citations to papers in the Fediverse, but it ought to be possible.
Is there anybody out there working on some sort of FediMetric service?
And less than 10 km away from these floating flower beds the city of Copenhagen is burying 275 hectares of a precarious coastal ecosystem in imported soil to build apartment blocks and a motorway bypass.
Not sure that's a net positive for the birds and the bees.
