Okay, I hope I did this right. @carrideen and I asked our #ASECS director if we could create a Mastodon group before #ASECS23, so if you follow @ASECS and then tag it in posts, it should automatically boost your post to all group followers. Try it/share.

#ASECS2023 #ASECSonMastodon @shandyist @h_d_hudson @nushpowell @biblioscholar @mazdam @drreznicek @AngelaH @sifutweety @LVTroost @jengolight @Jen @RebeccaShapiro @SethRudy @quixotical @david_diamond @JackLynch00 @ODSECS @LisaMaruca

I know at least some of the #ASECSonMastodon folks follow me here: let me do a brief thread about the state of our conferences:

I just came back from a fine SCSECS conference in College Station, and what I'm seeing is a markedly smaller group, with some grad students, fewer faculty members and very few early career people.

Anecdotally, I'm hearing about a similar demographic split in attendance at #ASECS. Are others seeing this? And is it time to start rethinking 18c conferences?

@danhon Most academic units have been outsourcing or delegating their communications for so long you'll find departments like mine, with pages that haven't been updated for a year. Then there are the professional orgs, like ASECS, that rely on FB or Twitter because of the limits of listservs or email.

The predatory behavior of the platforms is going to make that outsourcing/delegating impossible.

#where'sASECS? #ASECSonMastodon?