@whereisyvette.bsky.social That. Is. MAGNIFICENT!
@whereisyvette.bsky.social That. Is. MAGNIFICENT!
@benjaminpope.bsky.social We tried to get the word “rainbows” printed in rainbow colours in MNRAS. We got a very curt “please do not do that” in response from the copy editor.
@epidbydesign.bsky.social I’ve tried for a few conferences to get below 50 words on a poster. I’m getting close….
@catieslaughts.bsky.social I was in a swimming club and regularly came in dead last. I didn’t mind because I loved swimming! One time I beat one other “golden” student and they had a full blown melt down in the pool next to me.
Because I beat them. Just the once.
That indicent put me off student sports for good.
@mattkenworthy.bsky.social They said they’ll post the talks on youtube, but maybe putting them on zenodo would be a longer term solution?
@mattkenworthy.bsky.social I think it’s a great shame: I miss the Golden Age of scicom media. We’re now retreating back into our groups and the fun side of open and online discovery is mostly gone. But so it goes: this too shall pass, the kids are alright. Enough grumbling, I’m off to yell at some clouds! /fin
@mattkenworthy.bsky.social But we lost that critical mass - for the latest Spirit of Lyot, there are ZERO posts on the talks from the conference, or at least none that I can see. When I was looking around, I did see a lot of people posting, but only on Slack and Discord in their closed group silos. /7
@mattkenworthy.bsky.social Then in 2017 twitter went to 280 characters and it started to work for conferences. We had a golden age of really great astroconference coverage. And then in 2022 it all collapsed, and the majority of astronomers on twitter scattered to the winds, some landing here in bluesky, some in mastodon. /6
@mattkenworthy.bsky.social Then twitter with the 140 character limit occurred, and I hated it - everyone started posting summaries that were almost identical, since you could only write one pithy sentence. Not much variety… but in 2017 twitter went to 280 characters and it began to work for conferences. /5