So, it's been a while since I did an #Introduction #ConnectionList #TwitterMigration post where, I find interesting people for you to follow on #Mastodon, and use my reach to more closely connect the #Fediverse :fediverse:

@ANUResearch is the official Mastodon account of #ANU Research (I think, it all looks very legit, but I don't know the person behind the account) #research #university 🇦🇺

@drwaus is the new official account for Digital Rights Watch in Australia (h/t to all the good work Sam @floreani is doing in this space - don't forget to catch her #keynote at @pyconau@fosstodon.org later this month!)

@AoIR is the official Association of #Internet #Researchers account. Read more at https://aoir.org/about 🇺🇸

Professor @nilsph1 works in #knowledge organisation and information retrieval #IR at the Department of Archive, Library and Information Studies at #Oslo Metropolitan University @oslomet :flag-no:

@fionatribe is an #anthropologist, workplace #strategist and #ethnographer who works in #architecture and #OrgDesign 🇦🇺

@dcm is Dimitri Coelho Mollo, an Assistant #Professor in the Philosophy of #AI at #Umeå University :flag-se:

@anders is a #Communication strategist for #AI #Sweden :flag-se:

@rachaelvdm is a #MetaData #librarian #GLAM interested in #nature #art #history 🇳🇱 🇦🇺

@bentarnoff is a technical #writer, who recently wrote a brilliant piece on Joseph #Weizenbaum for The Guardian. You should read it. 🇺🇸

@observablehq is the official account of the #dataviz platform, based on #D3js from @mbostock

That's all for today, don't forget to share your own #ConnectionList, particularly as we say #RIPTwitter ❤️

"#Dayaks DO NOT want their lands turned to #palmoil.

1. They depend on #rainforests for #food and #weaving.

2. They don’t want their roaming area disturbed
3. They don’t want to lose their land." ~ Story by Dr Setia Budhi, Dayak #Ethnographer in #Borneo #Indonesia #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Indigenous #Boycott4Wildlife https://palmoildetectives.com/2022/11/02/eyewitness-story-by-dr-setia-budhi-the-last-village/ via @palmoildetectives

Anybody coming up with Mastodon #data #analytic tools...

For instance:
Get a user's comparative toots-replies-boosts stats?
Do something similar for all members of a particular instance?
Who's writing?
Where are all of the boosts for a message coming from?

I'm about as far from a "quant" or coder as you can get, but curious about ways to imagine and describe this new collective community.

#anthropologist #ethnographer #virtualcommunity #justcurious #retiredjournalist

@apreshill @juliasilge @jeremy_data @ttorres @milesmcbain i work with an #ethnographer from time to time and that pairing is just the best! qual+quant gets you some amazing results

I already did an #introduction, but not officially. I am an American living in BC as a professor of #sociology. I am a theorist, by trade, and #ethnographer by necessity, and a photographer when no one is looking. My interests center a classic sociological question: how does the structure/culture of a place shape behavior &, how can these things be changed.

I study adolescent #suicide, suicide clusters, helpseeking, etc. I also study religious & political #evolution. And, etiquette, baseball,