Good morning Fediverse AU! A warm welcome back to the #highered and #academia #folx, many of whom returned to work today.

Sending you all a virtual ☕ ❤️

If you're coming back to Fediverse AU after the break, please note I've upgraded Mastodon to 4.0.2 and you will notice:

👉 Toots are now 1500 chars instead of the previous 500

👉 You can now edit your Toots

👉 There are some changes under the hood, like #Prometheus and #Grafana monitoring - happy to show you if you're interested but they're "techie" tools that help me have better observability on the platform

👉 The Theme is still a bit wonky, I couldn't fix that during the upgrade.

Any glitches, please let me know, and best wishes for getting 2023 off to a cracking start 🎉

@jack please add "#middleaged #folks
#folx #moms #dads #people who love the #lines and #lessclutter and the #hope and #optimism but haven't had the energy to get there - and who also like other styles" ;)

Good evening #folx, and welcome to today's edition of Kathy's #connectionlist #connection #introduction, where I curate a collection of interesting people and surface them - to connect us all more richly and deeply on the #Fediverse.

@pbone is a Mozillian and I'll be forever grateful to him and the Aussie team who made me so welcome as a part-timer. Thank you, Paul! 🇦🇺

@venessap is another #Geelong lady and she's also a #PhD candidate and she's a #moderation and #governance specialist 🇦🇺

@judy2k is class all the way down! Jk, jk, but that is one of my favourite presentations of his. You can catch it here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpV3tel0xtQ 🇦🇺
#python #pythonista

I met @gavintapp through the #opendata and #govhack communities - and he's into #data 🇦🇺

@rana is new to #Mastodon and I'd like everyone to say hello and make her feel welcome, please. Welcome, Rana! 👋

@pdcawley has a mighty fine #beard and they are a #folk singer #folksinging. They are also into #bread and #breadmaking. This means they have enough points to become an honorary Melbourne / Naarm person. There's a points system :-) 🇬🇧

@kimberlee is a Professor of #law in #Sydney and a long-time friend of the Aussie #opensource community 🇦🇺

@joncruz is amazing and if you've ever used #Inkscape you have Jon to thank. Thank you so much, Jon! Hope you're well! 🇺🇸

That's all for tonight, but I'll do a list every day until ... well until we don't need to 👋

Good evening, #folx of #Mastodon! It's time for my nightly #connectionlist #connection #introduction post, aimed at helping find others to follow based on interests.

@Takoyaki is Kat, and she's a senior #UX #researcher. She's an #a11y and did her Honours work in this space. She's one of my favourite people in the world. She speaks 日本語 and is based in #Australia 🇦🇺 🇯🇵

@baden is an #artist and Senior Lecturer #academic at ANU in #Canberra. He also does work in the #digitalhumanities space 🇦🇺

Professor @dr_oli_jones is an analytical and #environmental #chemist at #RMIT in #Naarm / #Melbourne and he is passionate about the #environment. He is into #Rstats 🇦🇺

Vincent Hetru @vincenthetru is based in #France 🇫🇷 and is into #deeplearning and #entrepreneurship.

@letykemp is into #datascience, #data #ethics and #AI #AIsafety.

@Elkeschwarz is Reader in #politicaltheory at Queen Mary University in #London. #Ethics #Technology #AI #Drones (oh Elke, you should connect with @DrCatherineBall and @ZenaAssaad if not already). 🇬🇧

That's all for tonight, but I will continue one of these each day.

#TwitterMigration

Okay #folx, and early edition of my daily #connectionlist #connections #introduction - where I'm shouting out people to help people connect around shared interests.

@jrf_nl is based in der #Nederlands #Dutch and is a #php dev who I met through #phpwomen 🇳🇱

@cameronpat consults on #statistics at #unimelb and is based in #Naarm/#Melbourne in #Australia 🇦🇺

@janeadams is a #CS and #dataviz researcher at #Northwestern #PhD. She has an interest in #XAI and #genomics. She's also an #artist :flag-us:

Professor @florasalim is at #UNSW in #Sydney and researches #responsibleAI #AI and #ML. She like #coffee (me too, Flora!) ☕ 🇦🇺

@ewenmcneill is in #Aotearoa 🇳🇿 and they are into #IT and #linux stuff. Kia ora, Ewen!

@GreatDismal is one of my favourite authors of all time, and I've just finished reading Agency for the fourth time. He shows me the futures I both want and want to avoid (jackpot!). Because the #future is already here, it's just not evenly distributed 🇨🇦 #author #writer #scifi #sciencefiction #cyberpunk