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Scientists say X has lost its professional edge and Bluesky is taking its place
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#82It would be nice if scientists started being just scientists again instead of activists. Hopefully being cloistered on bluesky will bring the old vibes back
What do you mean? Activism is an essential part of science but maybe I’m misunderstanding your use of “activist.”
> Activism is an essential part of science
How so? It seems obvious that you can do science (that is: attempt to advance the understanding of how the natural world works) without being an activist for any cause.
Re: Scientists say X has lost its professional edge and Bluesky is taking its place
#83Earlier quoted context omitted.
Scientists are allowed to have opinions outside of their work and share them.
It is 100% allowed, I just don't think it's really helpful or beneficial for them or society Especially when they try to lean on their status as scientists in order to try and have their opinions be more influential. The cdc for example saying it's ok to disregard their previous guidance in order to protest for black lives matter is one of these credibility damaging moments that is hard to undo.
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#84I'm rather reminded of the ads from the early 20th century for "More doctors smoke Camels than any other cigarette!" [1] [1] - https://tobacco.stanford.edu/cigarettes/doctors-smoking/more...
In what sense?
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#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
It’s basically impossible to make a career as a scientist these days without constantly promoting yourself and your work unfortunately. It’s very tiring and makes it difficult to focus on science. This is one of the reasons I changed careers.
That's bad, too, but true in many professions I think. But I think what the GP means is let's do science, let's not do hot-political-topics-as-science.
> but true in many professions I think.
That's true, but the other professions don't tend to be associated with (or clearly vindicate) the “above-the-crowd/holier-than-thou” attitude – and I say that as an ex-scientist, for the same reason (among others) as the poster above.
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#87Re: Scientists say X has lost its professional edge and Bluesky is taking its place
#88If only Bluesky could be as decentralised as the Fediverse [0] Trading one corporate overlord for another is not the smartest play. [0] https://arewedecentralizedyet.online/
Opening an account on Mastodon was a pain even for me, a long-time Internet user and a nerd. I'm confronted with a choice of servers, but if I love cheese and golf, do I open my account on the cheese server or the golf server? What will be the disadvantages of choosing one over the other? Instant blocker right in the sign up process that made me actually give up several times. If it was like that for me, imagine how…
How is it a pain when you can just skip the server selection process and use mastodon.social like pretty much everyone else?
Re: Scientists say X has lost its professional edge and Bluesky is taking its place
#89I wonder why they didn't move to Tumblr instead. It has more features.
Re: Scientists say X has lost its professional edge and Bluesky is taking its place
#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
Opening an account on Mastodon was a pain even for me, a long-time Internet user and a nerd. I'm confronted with a choice of servers, but if I love cheese and golf, do I open my account on the cheese server or the golf server? What will be the disadvantages of choosing one over the other? Instant blocker right in the sign up process that made me actually give up several times. If it was like that for me, imagine how…
How is it a pain when you can just skip the server selection process and use mastodon.social like pretty much everyone else?
Doesn't pretty much everyone using the same instance pretty much defeat the point?