𝕤𝕟𝕠𝕨𝕓𝕖𝕒𝕣 @logarithmic_function@scholar.social

Me giving relationship advice: have you considered dumping him?

Me giving academic advice: have you considered not attaching your sense of self-worth and emotional fulfillment to these uncaring, bureaucratic institutions?

weird small-scale phenomenon:
gifs of the Enterprise-D crew fighting cgi hot dogs.

Chamomile, but pronounced like anomaly.

Me: i follow too many people, i can't keep up with my home timeline!

Also me: *follows more people*

I hope you will have a wonderful year, that you'll dream dangerously and outrageously, that you'll make something that didn't exist before you made it, that you will be loved and that you will be liked, and that you will have people to love and to like in return. And, most importantly (because I think there should be more kindness and more wisdom in the world right now), that you will, when you need to be, be wise, and that you will always be kind.
--Neil Gaiman, 2008
http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2008/12/another-year.html

The biggest threats to the Fediverse:

1. Mastodon dot social might just decide to never close registrations

2. Facebook/Twitter might build ActivityPub support into their product (does your instance have a policy against federating with them?)

3. New government regulations ostensibly designed to curb Facebook's excesses might contain requirements for social media services that can only be met by very well-funded mega-corporations

Since you've all already made the trek to join Mastodon, consider these more ethical, privacy-friendly alternatives to other social media, web browsers, etc.

https://switching.social/

just because white people couldn't do it doesn't mean it was aliens

SO SO DAMN ACCURATE.

#introduction
Hi everyone! I'm a college senior about to graduate with a BS in biology and hoping to get a PhD in entomology or ecology after that! I'm also minoring in environmental studies and possibly biostatistics. This past fall I worked as a TA for an insect biology course. Eventually I would like to be a research scientist or professor working towards invertebrate conservation. I'm also interested in most other areas of natural history, as well as libsoc politics and political ecology.