Seeing my biggest platform destroyed, then watching many younger women in SciComm have *their* biggest platforms destroyed is weighing on me. I’ve rebuilt here. I know they can rebuild too. Having our delicate careers subject to billionaire whims has me wishing for a stability I don’t think exists.
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we are so fvcked
If the opportunity to share knowledge and make a career is there, then why would anyone want to shame them?
Science education content is incredible on TikTok. The fact it's now going to lose the US cohort is incredibly sad.
It has been planned.
Twitter, you needed ragebait.
Tik Tok; fun little dances mixed in with your message
YT, long form video with a catchy image.
Not every business/communicator can *be* all those things.
Back circa ‘95 I was in the basement of NY hospital and my office buddies were working on CUseeme, a crazy idea to do something called video conferencing with doctors over the internet. Turn turn turn.
But seriously. Consider using #PascalCase or #camalCase when using hashtags, URLs, and the like. It helps for accessibility.
To me the sad and stupid part is we’ve lost the ability to intelligently respond. We needed broader laws protecting everyone’s privacy, not selective enforcement because of who the beneficiary was/is.
That data is used to design targeted propaganda powerful enough to sway an election.
We’ve lost the ability to respond in any coherent way to real problems. The collapse of a reality based info ecosystem is part of why.
Now we got used to free news via #socialmedia, but we forgot:
There ain't no such thing like free lunch...
(In EU we did)
+ didn't a lot more people pay for newspapers and magazine?
People might expect places like this to be bigger but no.
I also felt like...I could be more authentic there. People were much more forgiving, and MUCH more willing to find JOY in things.
https://www.coursera.org/articles/unique-identifier
The fact that my stalker can see EVERYTHING I post here means I have to limit what I post in a way I didn't in other places, where I had him blocked.
And it reaches different audiences too, maybe some who get inspired.
TikTok restoring services in US after Trump pledge https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjde3p0rnjgo
You have the cephalopod knowledge.
You can make it better.
*a swarm of squids start assembling a new platform*
I'm probably too old to learn to code, right?
Where you can, it's always good to have a diverse range of dissemination channels, with social as just one component of that.
We are fortunate, as on OER we can re-publish into education and other #sci-comm channels around the world, really boosts reach and engagement.
My key take away was always anticipate change and look for the next thing before you need it.
None of this stops the suckiness.
Those people have now been abandoned and the powers that did it get to pretend they only stopped something frivolous.
I can’t help but think about how female-dominated Tik Tok was and can’t help but think that that was a factor.
I don't do well with the video format so I'm hoping a lot of those historian folks will come here and stay even if another video platform arises.