🐞 PhD 🪲Professor 🪰 Insect ecologist @UNBC 🐝 "E pur si muove” 🦋 Views expressed here are my own, but feel free to agree.🐜
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“Goodnight America” (@MikoMarks)
I’ve been less active here on purpose lately, and now I’m done.
You can find me at 🟦. Just search my first name. There’s a good community building up over there.
In the meantime, have a listen:
youtu.be/alxYdiaE58g?si=521p…
I can see arguments for this. But, respectfully:
1. As real content leaves, the “enshittification” here will accelerate. Eventually the trolls will just be trolling each other.
2. The algorithm stifles most good content here. My somewhat smaller audience at 🟦 is more engaged.
I believe the scientific community abandoning Twitter is a mistake. I understand this is not a place for much good faith dialogue, but it’s a highly used public platform and leaving it to armies of paid disinformation actors, frauds, and armies of trolls to fill in information space is not strategic. The alternative platforms might be nice for internal discussions on niche issues, but they are not compelling as highly viewed sources.
I mean, honestly... why are you sticking around here when there's a great alternative.
xitter.cf/bluesky/status/1861126…
Dezene Huber 🌻 retweeted
On National Bison Day, we celebrate this majestic symbol of strength and resilience. The bison represents our rich American heritage and is one of the greatest conservation success stories of all time.
Photo by Jacob W. Frank / NPS
ALT A furry brown bison with its curved horns, with snow on its face after feeding.
Dezene Huber 🌻 retweeted
54% of US adults cannot read at a 6th grade level.
The US today proves that you can have mass functional illiteracy and still have a successful - even thriving - economy.
But what you can't have with mass functional illiteracy is a successful democracy.
thenationalliteracyinstitute….
Also, my @SFUalumni regalia came in handy!
Had fun participating in (and winning!) the @UNBC #Halloween costume contest -- group category -- today. :)
ALT Costume duo depicting Vermeer's "Girl with a pearl earring"
Had fun participating in (and winning!) the @UNBC #Halloween costume contest -- group category -- today. :)
ALT Costume duo depicting Vermeer's "Girl with a pearl earring"
Dezene Huber 🌻 retweeted
Freddie Freeman is the first Canadian National Team player in history to win World Series MVP 🇨🇦
Dezene Huber 🌻 retweeted
Interviewer: “How do you explain this gap in your resume?”
Me: “I was trying to connect with eduroam”
Dezene Huber 🌻 retweeted
#Breaking: Bird flu found in a pig in U.S. for the first time, raising concerns about potential risks to humans trib.al/aRULU7H
Twitter still has informational utility, but depending on what happens in a week, it could go from bad to worse.
I'm trying to spend more (useful) time elsewhere ⛅️ and less here. 🧵
bsky.app/profile/dezene.bsky…
And check out @KHayhoe's ⛅️ profile for a whole bunch of great climate science starter packs:
bsky.app/profile/katharineha…
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