We sought to understand how #academics utilize #Mastodon for professional and scholarly purposes.
Our #research examined scholars' motivations, usage patterns, perceived benefits, and challenges through a mixed-methods approach.

➡️Literature review
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15583267

➡️Quantitative survey
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15583528

➡️Qualitative interviews
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15583745

#AcademicMastodon#ScholarlyComms#OpenScience#DigitalScholarship#SocialMediaResearch

🌱 Grow commons. Want to help free #academia from corporate #enshittification?

Note the call for action in the previous post. Delightful #OpenScience is looking for dedicated gardeners (maintainers) who work with such tools themself and thus able to bring the necessary quality and rigour that is required for the #scientific process.

Boosts are appreciated.

Please open an issue if you can offer help:

https://codeberg.org/teaserbot-labs/delightful-open-science

@bonfire @scifed

#science #academics #research

Preprint: Why #Academics Are Leaving Twitter for #Bluesky (via #arXiv) https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24801 @bsky.app #socialmedia

Academics leaving Twitter to go to Bluesky while despising all the Mastodon initiatives, feels a bit like someone saying: "I will boycott the Nature group because it's a very bad for-profit organization that has its own political and economic agenda that doesn't match the one Science should be promoting. Therefore, I will move all my future papers to Elsevier from now on and completely ignore all the non-profit journals that exist" #twitterMigration#blueSky#Mastodon#socialMedia #academics