Mastodon over Mammon: towards publicly owned scholarly knowledge [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2023 Twitter is in turmoil and the scholarly community on the platform is once again starting to migrate. As with the early internet, scholarly organizations are at the forefront of developing and implementing a decentralized alternative to Twitter, Mastodon.
Björn Brembs +4 more
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Charles Willson Peale’s The Exhumation of the Mastodon and the Great Chain of Being: The Interaction of Religion, Science, and Art in Early-Federal America [PDF]
Text Matters, 2015 Although primarily known as a portrait painter, Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827) also possessed a profound interest in natural history. Indeed, Peale eventually founded the first natural history museum in the United States, and, during the end of the ...
Bryan J. Zygmont
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Drivers of social influence in the Twitter migration to Mastodon [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2023 The migration of Twitter users to Mastodon following Elon Musk’s acquisition presents a unique opportunity to study collective behavior and gain insights into the drivers of coordinated behavior in online media.
Lucio La Cava +2 more
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Mastodon footprints found to be water erosion in the Quebrada de Chalán (Licto, Ecuador) [version 2; peer review: 2 approved, 1 not approved] [PDF]
F1000Research, 2023 The Chalan ravine is a deep bed creek that runs through Licto (Ecuador). It has been known since the 19th century for the abundance of paleontological remains of Pleiostocene fauna and megafauna in its profiles, where entire remains of mastodons were ...
Mauro Jiménez +6 more
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Re-evaluation of mastodon material from Oregon and Washington, USA, Alberta, Canada, and Hidalgo and Jalisco, Mexico [PDF]
PeerJThe presence of at least two contemporaneous Pleistocene mastodon taxa in North America (Mammut americanum and M. pacificus) invites re-examination of specimens at the geographic margins of each species in order to determine range boundaries, overlaps ...
Alton C. Dooley Jr +8 more
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Turbulence at Twitter with leadership change: implications for health research and science communication [PDF]
Exploration of Digital Health Technologies, 2023 Twitter has been an invaluable social media platform for scientists to share research and host discourse among academics and the public. The change of ownership at Twitter has changed how scientists interact with the platform and has led some to worry ...
Ronan Lordan, Hari Prasad Devkota
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A Peer-Reviewed Journal About, 2023 In recent years, a large body of work has analyzed the cultural and social ramifications of data-driven digital environments that currently structure digital practice. However, the position of the user has scarcely been developed in this field.
Shusha Niederberger
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Understanding the growth of the Fediverse through the lens of Mastodon
Applied Network Science, 2021 Open-source, Decentralized Online Social Networks (DOSNs) are emerging as alternatives to the popular yet centralized and profit-driven platforms like Facebook or Twitter.
Lucio La Cava +2 more
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Understanding the social in a digital age [PDF]
, 2020 Datafication, algorithms, social media and their various assemblages enable massive connective processes, enriching personal interaction and amplifying the scope and scale of public networks.
Benjamin R +9 more
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The easternmost occurrence of Mammut pacificus (Proboscidea: Mammutidae), based on a partial skull from eastern Montana, USA [PDF]
PeerJ, 2020 Mammut pacificus is a recently described species of mastodon from the Pleistocene of California and Idaho. We report the easternmost occurrence of this taxon based upon the palate with right and left M3 of an adult male from the Irvingtonian of eastern ...
Andrew T. McDonald +3 more
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