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Up today in my scientific writing course (among other topics): abstracts and titles. This is one of the few places I get to highlight my own original research - what impact to funny titles have on readership/citation? (See https://www.facetsjournal.com/doi/10.1139/facets-2022-0079)

13 views Up today in my scientific writing course (among other topics): abstracts and titles. This is one of the few places I get to highlight my own original research - what impact to funny titles have on readership/citation? (See https://www.facetsjournal.com/doi/10.1139/facets-2022-0079)

Half a day into the latest offering of my 1-week intensive scientific-writing course - this time for a group of mostly wildlife/landscape ecology grad students at Texas A&M University, Kingsville. They will learn about writing; I will learn (I hope) a bit about ocelots and Caspian terns!
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10 views Half a day into the latest offering of my 1-week intensive scientific-writing course - this time for a group of mostly wildlife/landscape ecology grad students at Texas A&M University, Kingsville. They will learn about writing; I will learn (I hope) a bit about ocelots and Caspian terns! 1/2

6 views Day 2 of the course today! My titles slides frequently feature (inflict on students) lame visual puns. This one is up after lunch...

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Avg engagement / post

0.4%

Engagement vs followers

Nov 2022

On Mastodon since

🔥 Top post: Up today in my scientific writing course (among other topics): a · 13 likes + reposts

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Posting cadence

6.1 / week

Posts several times a week.

Content mix

Mostly text

Recent: 8 text · 4 image · 0 video.

Follower / following

1.4×

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🔥 Top post Up today in my scientific writing course (among other topics): abstracts and titles. This is one of the few places I get to highlight my own original research - what impact to funny titles have on readership/citation? (See https://www.facetsjournal.com/doi/10.1139/facets-2022-0… ★ 13

Paper accepted! "No evidence that female body size or fecundity mediate male choice or reproductive isolation in a sympatric native-invasive pair of longhorn beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae)", coming soon in Canadian Entomologist. (Yep, … ★ 7 So I'm reading this novel, and it's bad in many of the ways I'd expect careless AI-reliance to make something bad. I even checked the copyright date... 2008. There was human slop before there was AI slop! ★ 1 In which I vent about the foolishness we display when we say "Our budgets have been cut? We'll just have to do more with less". That's a losing strategy, every time. Why do we teach toddlers, but not governments, that choices have consequ… ★ 9

Day 2 of the course today! My titles slides frequently feature (inflict on students) lame visual puns. This one is up after lunch... ★ 6 I'm not there in person (waves hands at politics) but so far so good with the tech. Crossing my fingers the Zoom gods treat us well🤣 I can, by the way, teach this course where YOU are. Details: https://scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/w… ★ 3

Half a day into the latest offering of my 1-week intensive scientific-writing course - this time for a group of mostly wildlife/landscape ecology grad students at Texas A&M University, Kingsville. They will learn about writing; I will lear… ★ 10 "Listen to a random forest" is a really inviting prompt, unless of course you're a stats nerd and you think for a moment "why would I want to LISTEN to a random forest regression?" But once I got past that, this is lovely. https://www.tre… ★ 4 I like a good Latin name, and "Zupaysaurus" is definitely that. The fact that it's attached to a cool dinosaur is a bonus! https://scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2026/07/21/wonderful-latin-names-zupaysaurus-rougierei/ On a dinosaur with the absolutely wonderful name Zupaysaurus! https://scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2026/07/21/wonderful-latin-names-zupaysaurus-rougierei/

Barra MacNeils! Also, it's lovely that all you lovely people are not poking fun at me for apparently adoring the word "lovely"🤣

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fediscience.org

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Nov 2022

Joined in the Twitter-exodus wave of late 2022 — part of the migration that made Mastodon a real destination.

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🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2022 — 3 years ago.

👁️Averages 7 views per post.

📤Posts about 6.1× per week.

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Estimated

75/100

Good Credibility score

92%

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Est. 92% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
Engagement (~0.4% of followers engage each post) is around typical for Mastodon.
Verified account.
Established account (3+ years old).

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About

Evolutionary ecologist, entomologist, and Boggle aficionado. Author: The Scientist's Guide to Writing; Charles Darwin's Barnacle & David Bowie's Spider. He/him. #ScientificWriting #Ecology #Evolution #Entomology #fedi22

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