I’m an emergency physician & dean of @yalesph.bsky.social. Trying this out after a year on Threads.
(Do we do intros here?)
Looking to find…
* healthcare/public health
* scientists (& science writers)
* discussions of great books
* #gunviolence prevention
* higher ed
* RI & CT
* humanity 💕
(Do we do intros here?)
Looking to find…
* healthcare/public health
* scientists (& science writers)
* discussions of great books
* #gunviolence prevention
* higher ed
* RI & CT
* humanity 💕
Comments
How do you like Threads?
I'm thinking FB for groups & family networks,
IG & TikTok to hear GenZ more
Threads,
Spoutible, to support Bouzy
Mastodon, interesting but complicated to use
https://go.bsky.app/HQAQiK9
I haven't spent much time on Threads. It seems harder to interact.
I still read Twitter daily by looking at my curated lists for med info updates. Many of the COVID/ Long COVID folks are still there.
Here is my general-purpose starter pack. It's current events, science, art, and a few other things.
I am perhaps the world's worst hashtag user. I mostly read what people say in real time and post whenever.
Med papers?
Feeds are a good way to find content of interest, since there's not really an algorithm determining what you'll see (other than what people you follow post).
The great thing about bluesky is you can make targeted feeds for different topics and because their different feeds the less common ones don't get lost in the noise
I am partial to the Evolutionary Biology one for the actual science, though the similarly named Evolutionary Biologists 🧪 one is more snark-based.
LOTS of big readers on here. My brother from another @jshoffstall.bsky.social sent me a book for HIS bday recently. He knows pretty much everything also. Also his wife @theotterqueen.bsky.social is 💯
So much of Twitter, for me, was the intellectual discussion and connection … I haven’t found that at Threads yet.
Looking forward to growing a new community here.
Nice to see you here.
A tip I just learned is in the Discover feed, if you click on the 3 dots on the right side of a post you can select: Show More like this, or Show less.
I hope you enjoy your time here.
Also if someone quote posts you and you don't like it, you can de-link your post from theirs, which again decrease harassment.
I welcome other tips too. The lack of an algorithm is lovely but will take some getting used to.
The "Discover" feed is a decent replacement for how the old twitter algorithm worked.
https://go.bsky.app/EgMQxe9
Use the Feed menu to search for topics that interest you, most Feed headers will say what their hashtag-keyword-emoji triggers happen to be
When you get comfy enough, you can move onto creating Lists and Feeds yourself (even if they're for personal use only!)
Feeds are an orderly way of gathering thematically related posts. To see what you posted and post to a feed, you need to 1) "Follow" the Feed and 2) Use a corresponding emoji or hashtag.
here:
https://bsky.app/profile/rabbitholer.bsky.social/feed/aaabygc4ng36o
Any tips on figuring out the “right” hashtag while writing a post?
Using all the emojis for all the different feeds crossposts.
(But how do you remember which emojis to use?!)
use the life preserver 🛟 emoji to reach the public health feed;
medsky=🩺
episky=epidemiology feed;
health policy (self described);
🧭=Bioethics;
🧪=science
Other suggestions;
"Science for policy" is a separate feed.
Idsky is a feed for infectious disease
policysky is general policy feed
Hope that helps. 👍🏼
Pin it to read it at top of app. My feeds ⬇️
(I welcome recs for ppl to follow)
@rmcarpiano.bsky.social
I'm just a fat dood from the UK who likes chatting.
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:f4smwm7mukkx6m2j2f2gn6lm/feed/aaais4fggnnbm
Hope you have a good experience developing your community here ✨✨✨🤗
The Indie Sage team are all on https://bsky.social too
https://bossett.io/science-feed/
(Yes we do)